| The Matches – Sick Little Suicide Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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correct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Za3zIgNDro |
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| The Matches – Sick Little Suicide Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| Here are the Matches themselves talking about this song and where it came from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Za3zIgNDro | |
| Lucky Boys Confusion – 40/80 Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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from Stubhy: "This song reminds me of Joe - before the band officially started he used to pick me up regularly from my parents house in his busted up Cadillac to hang out. We used to just drive around, look for parties and talk - he turned me on to Parliament cigarettes (before they were cool) and Bob Dylan (he was already cool). We were the best of friends then. I miss those times more than any others that we shared. Just two book obsessed punks that didn't have a clue what they were doing with their lives but didn't give a quarter of a fuck what anyone thought. Joe was never very involved in the songwriting - he was always the guy that just knew what needed to be added to make a good song great. However, "40/80" was different - I shouldn't even have to mention the frantically beautiful solo he added but he was also responsible for the best line in the song. Honestly, looking back, I think he just got sick of hearing Adam and I fumble over what the third line in the chorus should be and yelled, "Just say, "Imposing their ancient values"!!" It was funny how his ideas came out so eloquently when he got annoyed. We should've annoyed him more. - Kaustubh" |
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| Lucky Boys Confusion – Medicine And Gasoline Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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According to Jason from the band: "This song brings me back to Redondo Beach, CA where we recorded most of the 'Commitment' album with producer - Miguel. I loved it out there, but I remember being in this state of mind where I wasn't super confident about my playing or the parts that was coming up. While tracking bass the studio (Total Access), Miguel had a great way of making me challenge myself and feel really good about what I was doing in the end. This 'Live & Acoustic' recording adds an entirely different element to this song in my opinion. I remember us really taking a lot of time to strip this song down, rework it and try to make it compete with that MTV "Unplugged" vibe that we all grew up on. Plus doing the show at Beat Kitchen always makes a show feel like you're a bit more in touch with a crowd than you would at some of the larger venues that we have played at. " -Jason Schultejann |
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| Lucky Boys Confusion – Insomniac Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Ryan said this about this song: "We were all Nirvana fans, but in our high-school days, Stubhy and I bonded over all things Cobain-related. One of the first time's I ever saw him (I had heard of him, but not actually seen him), he was strolling through the halls of our school - stoned as all hell with sunglasses on - wearing a bright-pink (and clearly homemade) t-shirt that said "I'd Rather Be Dead Than Cool" (from Nirvana's "Stay Away") in big, black letters. Ironically, he was already pretty much the coolest kid in high school, so if anything, this sort-of grunge-era posturing just made his myth loom even larger. Anyway, "Insomniac" reminds me of something off of "Incesticide" and I dig it quite a bit... - Ryan" |
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| Lucky Boys Confusion – Rolling Rock Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Posted by Adam on the official LBC website on Oct 17, 2017: "Written in high school and titled after the six green bottles we so carelessly left out after rehearsal one afternoon. This was part of the seven or eight tunes we wrote that first summer while getting together in my parents basement everyday. The Plain White T's later recorded this song. I hear they went on to do other things - Adam" |
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| Lucky Boys Confusion – Fred Astaire Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Stubhy posted this about this song on the Lucky Boys website on Oct 16, 2017: "It was a crisp, beautiful day during the late summer/early fall of 1997 and my brother, Saarang, was driving Adam and I in his van to Signal Sound Source in Chicago where we were recording what would later end up being the “What Gets Me High EP” (the 4 song tape) with the original versions of “40/80”, “Back Then…”, “What Gets Me High” and “Dumb Pop Song”. Saarang, was nice enough to drive us unlicensed fools and was lending his vocals – if you listen to “Growing Out Of It” you can hear him flick his lighter a few times and say, “Here, let me light that for you!” right before “What Gets Me High”. Earlier that week, Adam and I had gotten together for a writing session and he had shown me a chorus that he was working on for us. The lyrics were, “You can call it anything you want but the fact remains the same, I never got to be your....”. He had a few three syllable place holders like "heroin" but nothing that was blowing either of us away. I loved the way the melody flowed over the chord progression but I wanted it to be bigger than a love song - that end had to be perfect. I told him my thoughts, he understood and was game to try and come up with other ideas. The three of us started discussing the song on the ride up. I explained to them that I wanted to put a melody to a conversation between a demanding but well intentioned teacher/parent figure and their student/child. It was different and they liked it but if not “heroin”, then what? What did this kid, that was to be a representation of this confused and wasted generation, never get to be? Who did I never get to be?! I kept on imagining these Bollywood stars that were a staple in my house growing up but “I never got to be your Amitabh Bachchan” didn’t evoke the right feeling and our audience wouldn’t relate but I was on to something. I just needed to make it more universal. Who in Western entertainment personified hard work… someone from the golden era, perhaps? Elvis? No. Charlie Chaplin? I was getting closer but no. Fred Astaire. Yes… He was known as the hardest working man in show business and his name phonetically sounded great as a part of the melody. I just blurted it out in the van and Saarang broke into his goofy smile, gave me a “Hell yeah!” and Adam gave me a congratulatory slap on the shoulder from the captain’s seat he was sitting in. After our parts were done at the studio and the other boys had shown up to take care of theirs’, Adam and I took an acoustic guitar out to the parking lot and started working on our ideas. We finished the lyrics for the chorus together and I came up with the verse and pre-chorus quickly after along with the opening lyrics. “You have so many opportunities I never had” – Parent/Teacher “Don’t push so hard” – Student/Child “Nothing is ever easy” – Parent/Teacher Little did I know, I had started the fictitious conversation that would end up being such a definitive part of my life. We called it a night and decided we’d reconnect after we both had a little time to reflect. A few weeks later, Ryan and his then girlfriend and I went to go see the Pharcyde at the Metro. The show was 17+ and I, in my infinite wisdom, had forgotten my I.D. – I didn’t want to ruin the show for them so I told them I would just meet them after the show. I went across the street to the convenient store and bought a green wide ruled (I hate wide ruled) notebook and a black inked pen and sat outside the Metro for 3 hours and finished the lyrics for the parts of “Fred Astaire” that we had. When Ryan came back out he just laughed at me and, in a mocking way, said something to the effect of “I hope you learned your lesson”. I remember just smiling and saying it was worth every second. I knew I had something going with this song. I was saying something different, something that hopefully both kids and parents could relate to. This was shaping out to be not just a one sided, angst filled teenage battle cry but a song of honest but guilt filled rebellion that, for once, wasn’t demonizing the adults. I was trying to capture how painstaking it was to seek your own path while knowing it was crushing your loved ones. The same people that cared about you so much, it killed them to watch what they deemed as you wasting your life away. They weren’t the enemy – they just didn’t understand. His girlfriend looked at me like I was crazy. I didn’t blame her. The next six months we hashed out the music and they arranged the music for the bridge and I wrote the melodies. Joe and Adam, both at different times, asked me when I was going to actually write the words for the bridge. I would just brush them off and ask them to trust me. We were on our way to pre-production to demo “Fred Astaire” and a bunch of other songs and I still didn’t have the words for the bridge. I knew I was on to something but I was stuck – where was this conversation going? What was I missing? I needed a spark. It was crunch time and I was in the vocal booth – it was time to record the song. “Hey, bro, what are you going to sing for the bridge?” “Umm… not sure… I’ll figure it out” Laughter. “Well, you have about two and a half minutes.” In the midst of singing the second chorus, I decided what was missing in this equation was me. The narrator’s voice needed to be heard to give a different angle to this story. I was just going to sing from my perspective and just drop the conversation for a few lines. It all came out in one piece. One take. “They’re pushing these children for all the wrong reasons, so far, man, you’re crushing down their spirits…” I had never written or said this phrase before in my life and to this day I don’t know where it came from. I stepped out of the booth and the guys all gave me all their nods of approval. I still remember the first time I heard the whole crowd sing that part back to us, I was so taken back that I almost forgot to sing the rest of the song. From the minute it first came out of my mouth to the last time I sang it at practice, that line has meant so much to me – at different times, it’s meant different things but it has always been there. When we were doing our art/photo shoot for “Throwing the Game” I only had one demand - I wanted a picture of that line written in chalk on a gravel road. They forgot the chalk. I took the make-up artists roll on deodorant and went to work. It took me the whole stick and an hour but I wasn’t going to give up. I felt that the lyric defined this period of our lives and I would regret it if I didn’t have this picture in the album. It came out perfectly. I’ve always been curious to know if anyone walked by my deodorant graffiti in the next couple of days and what they thought. Thank you, Secret Antiperspirant, you were a lifesaver. - Stubhy" |
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| Lucky Boys Confusion – Back Then... Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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These are comments about the song that Jason from the band published on LBC's website on October 15, 2017: "The song ‘Back Then’ is so perfectly titled. It takes me back to all of my 1st memories of Lucky Boys Confusion, far enough back to when we weren’t yet ‘Lucky Boys Confusion’. On a summer night in June of 1997 I was hanging out at my friend Carlitos basement at one his weekly get-togethers amongst high-school friends. Our friend Molly Dawson mentioned to me that Stubhy was trying to get ahold of me and that he started a new band. Nothing else mattered to me that night except getting in touch with him. Some of you might remember that this is before cell phones, texting, etc. And, I hated pagers. Rewind: I had met Stubhy once before at a Farmboy show, which was his and Ryan’s other band from high school. I went to one Farmboy show and fucking loved it. It was nothing like any other local band in the Chicago scene. I was supposed to try out for Farmboy, but Stubhy and I had lost touch. So, when I heard he had started a new band I couldn’t wait for the opportunity to try out. Up until then, I wasn’t in any cool bands - I played bass by myself in my bedroom and jammed along with Red Hot Chili Pepper and Metallica records. Back Then and back to early June 1997: I contacted Stubhy and agreed to meet at his parents house in Downers Grove and drive together to Adam Krier's parents house in Naperville. On the way there, Stubhy and I immediately connected and became great friends. He seemed like a veteran band guy to me, gave me a few tips and also told me that if we get big to make sure to keep my ego in check. We get to Adam’s house and I don’t remember having the same bond with him right away like I did with Stubhy. Adam was sort of intimidating, on the quiet side and more reserved. Ryan Fergus had already been there and set up so they decided to show me the song ‘Back Then’. Immediately I felt like these guys had their shit together. Adam, was a great guitar player, Ryan was super solid, and Stubhy's voice was perfect for this tune. I learned the chords and immediately started playing an over complicated Flea style bassline. There was an odd look and maybe some confusion as to why I would choose to play something like that for a punk song. I didn’t listen to punk rock at all - ever. I didn’t care though and just wanted to come up with something to compliment the song. I immediately came up with what is now on our first purple 4-Song Cassette tape and later made it onto the album 'Growing Out of It'. Jason Schultejann " |
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