Black Jelly Beans and Smokes

by Mark Lint

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1.	Celebrity 01:38	info	buy track
2.	The Nipple Song 00:40	info	buy track
3.	Love and Death 04:47	info	buy track
4.	The Quiet Song 01:26	info	buy track
5.	Manager 02:59	info	buy track
6.	The Zoo Song 00:53	info	buy track
7.	Pass Time Incorporeal 03:01	info	buy track
8.	I Am the Devil the Devil Is Good 00:47	info	buy track
9.	The Evening Standard 04:42	info	buy track
10.	Romantic 03:13	info	buy track
11.	To Be Maybe 04:02	info	buy track
12.	The Nipple Reprise 00:33	info	buy track
13.	The Saga of El Kater 05:21	info	buy track
14.	Lust Song #57 01:05	info	buy track
15.	Criminy, Criminy 01:31	info	buy track
16.	Lady Iraq 02:11	info	buy track
17.	Solitary Drama 01:34	info	buy track
18.	Lament 03:13	info	buy track
19.	Zi-Pow! 05:05	info	buy track
20.	Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands 10:13	info	buy track
21.	Kimmy 02:32	info	buy track
22.	Come On, Lady 03:11	info
23.	Lust Song #59 00:33	info	buy track

about

Black Jelly Beans are the ones that normal people with a fine taste for fine things pick out and throw to the weevils, but which certain freaky weevil-like individuals find quite to their liking, thank you...

Smokes (aka Spoo) are those silly (harmful?) indulgences that act to let off steam (smoke?), producing a small, noxious cloud, intoxicating to some and irritating to others.

In short, these are recordings from ‘90-’97 deemed (or created with the intention of being) too silly and/or sickly to put on any of the albums I was involved with during that period. They are often of dangerously low fidelity, and were for the most part written and/or recorded with a minimum of time and/or effort on my 4-track cassette Tascam PortaStudio recorder.

It was compiled and mixed in the summer of ‘97 as a break from the assiduous Mark Lint and The Fake Johnson Trio sessions.

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released September 1, 1997

Mark takes responsibility for nearly all of the noises on this album, with a few exceptions:

Dr. Sanjiv Ghogale made some noises on 6, while Brian Hirt né Gerber co-wrote and “sang” on 13.

Said Brian and his brother Ken wrote, sang, shook and strummed things on 22.

Mr. Matt Bohm played drums on 3 (using a broom handle, if I recall correctly).

Backing vocals on 15 include Josh Fielstra, Dale Baker, and whoever else was in their room when I dropped by.

19 is a MayTricks (my band from ‘90-’94) tune, sort of, on which I had Matt Diaz, Geoff Esty, and Steve Petrinko fill up several tracks of guitars and percussion in no more than one take each.

Oh, and of course I didn’t write 20, but I did make up some backing vocal lyrics.

Quick and dirty mastering by Sam Ray.

Photos by Mark and Kimmy.

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Catchy, homespun tunes ranging in style from power pop to folk ballads to alt country, laced with a sense of the absurd.

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