The Neighbors You Hate

If you see a suckah

2007-07-10T19:20:00.000-07:00

I always like how music goes with motion and I always thought that animation with music is a much higher form of art than just music alone. Scott Herren, the guy from prefuse 73, does all kinds of cool stuff including piano overlord and savath y savalas.

Another new old song

2007-07-02T12:27:00.000-07:00

Wow, so far archive.org is great for storing audio. I just put up an old song I started working on called Better Off Alone, and there was 911 people with that name before me.

Something From the Archive

2007-07-02T00:45:00.000-07:00

...

er...damn, how does this work...?
Stone Hole

I'm trying this archive.org thing for a place to store music. I'm gotta find a way to stream em...

Anyway, here's this other song I call the Future of Ice.

Everybody Everybody!!

2007-06-19T21:14:00.000-07:00

Tearin down the barriers like Gnarls Barkley
They got what they wanted
Maybe I can get what I want too

Noise Rock!

2007-06-19T20:33:00.000-07:00

Sonic Youth: Possibly the best rock band ever?

The French think so.

So Central Rain

2007-05-02T23:15:00.000-07:00

Hey, do you remember when REM kicked ass?

I don't.

On a similar note...

2007-04-29T23:21:00.000-07:00

Now, on th other side of th prizmatic spectrum, david bowie createss a stage presence that many poeple (th Books included) are unable to dio. Bowie, and your're definitive rock and rollers, have a way of engaging a large audience that convinces every inividual member of the group that he or she is recognized. That you were there! Mirror, image and glass.

Anyway, sit through ch-ch-ch-chain-jez, for about 3 or 4 minutes, and listen.

Where's my parenthsis key?

The Books in Philly

2007-04-29T19:17:00.000-07:00

One of the things that I've always wanted to do musically was to have a show that plays on other senses beside just sound. I've tried with burning things to get a smell and the Floyd did it first with those swirling oil & water colored slides, then later moving pictures and laser light shows. I like the electro-acoustic duo called The Books and their stage how they fill darkness.

Ok....

2007-04-26T22:58:00.000-07:00

This one is for:

I Saw Modest Mouse

2007-04-26T22:47:00.000-07:00

How have you been?

Oh my god...the devil's pitchfork!

My other favorite band

2007-04-22T23:56:00.000-07:00

Another fine train ride

2007-04-22T23:23:00.000-07:00

Bss

2007-04-22T22:41:00.000-07:00

The chick from broken social scene is Feist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uev2J_cBHjQ

Scary Friday the 13th gig

2007-03-30T08:34:00.000-07:00

I don't think anyone checks on this blog because we are way too lazy to update it. As advertised when it initially launched, this is the emptiest blog in the universe.

On the off chance, though, we'll be playing the Keg again on Friday the friggedy Thirteenth. Same Keg-time, same Keg-channel.

Rocked

2007-01-08T08:53:00.000-08:00

Well, I think the show at the Keg was a rousing success. Many people came, got drunk, had fun, made noise, and went a little crazy. We had lots of compliments, my favorite being: "Wow, you're better than I expected." Thanks Meghan!

Anyway, we were so awesome, we'll be playing again at the Keg on Feb. 23 .

Describe the band, win a beer

2006-12-12T08:15:00.000-08:00

We are going to need a description for the band, probably something better than "Straight-forward beer-fueled basement rock." I was thinking something mentioning a combination of classic rock and alternative originals, or something like that... That's sort of what we have that's unique, is that we are doing new music, with alternative rock song structures, but classic rock arrangements.

Alternative Classic Rock???

We have a gig

2006-12-08T19:59:00.000-08:00

For reals:
Friday January 5th
9:30-12:30
The Keg
315 Gregory St.

That's all I know.

2006-12-07T19:38:00.000-08:00

Dolls in the Ashbin Lyrics

2006-12-05T15:21:00.000-08:00

By unpopular request, here ya go:

Gauzy curtain fell
To choose a home
Necesary papers
I tried, I quit, leave it alone

I never dreamed
We could lose the war
A shining example
of life, and death, not your own

Hair is dust
On wooden fingers
Soot covers dark plastic eyes
Six broken thumbs in a row after row
after row after row after row

We all are dolls in the ashbin
Our minds are made of dust and string
Our travels so far have led us
In and around the reasons why

The fire spred
And ate the factory
Where our dumb parents were born
They'll never know about our triumphs
Our failures and weakness and strength

We all are dolls in the ashbin
Our limbs are cut from our frames
Our skin is melted plastic
And I'm pretty sure there's no reason why

Lyrics available

2006-12-05T15:00:00.000-08:00

View all the lyrics for all songs performed by The Neighbors You Hate as a poorly-formatted Google Doc right here. Actually, Dolls in the Ashbin is missing because I don't know all the words and I don't think Pete wants to write them down for anybody. Something about gauzy curtains and melted plastic or something...

The Neighbors You Hate get a blog

2006-12-05T14:17:00.000-08:00

Nearly five minutes in the making, we bring you the fabulous TNYH blog. In the future, look for band photos, bios, MP3s, song lyrics, and all sorts of fun stuff. For now, though, it's just an empty blog.