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The very standard world of stupid name group: 2021​-​2023

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1.
You've pulled back the curtain so far, you can never watch a film again 03:47
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Finally, a generation is getting there. Mine blundered from the path. I am filled with hope and sorrow. I will be your ally as far as that is possible and I can go a long way toward that.
2.
All interactions 05:15
lyrics
every interaction is hurtful I don't want to offend don't want to be obsequious the line is invisible oh it's hard to find fellow naive fools who live in a perpetual state of delusion I've scoured all towns for them the days are an endless repetition of the same anxieties never resolved nor progresed
3.
- 05:27
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If you can zoom until 'til you only see grain, zoom in again, zoom in again. It's quiet here and people smile. I made a perfectly almost dark silent room. I found several things. I invented the roman dodecahedron and I will discover what it is.
4.
The poetry days 07:16
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you've got to get me out of the poetry days this curse of beauty where the stone is grey there is a mill, there's a chain tied round and I say get me out oh, get me out of my poetry days i'm going round to the open houses there's a book of charcoal pictures, but I close it now and I think I know the way and I say
5.
Head servant (dolby) 03:24
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head servant head servant he rose to the top of the ranks of the servants he rose to the top of the ranks of the soldiers head servant he came from a long line of highly promoted servants she rose to the rank of head servant she was the smartest hardest working and most managerial of the servants the headness was well deserved well i'd say he was the headest headest headest servant oh head savant in a highly decorated room victorians edwardians in the teens and the twenties head servant head servant oh get a room and put it on a taep
6.
These you have loved/badges and marques/approaching menace/tech dream genius fuckwit doom 04:32
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//The priority lifeboats are this way; the beatings are that. Can you make a dream about a dream?// All of them dream big to make a world like one you’ve seen because who you are is you and what you have is what you have the great adventure of the global north but I dreamed a place into being it was the strangest feeling it was exactly like a dream it was exactly like a dream //and they will be so large these gods of pocket worlds their badges and their marques and they will be so large these gods of pocket worlds their badges and their marques.// the bold endeavour the global north the great construction forever on the event horizon of the memory hole. we dreamed and we dream. it’s all so old. We could make any world so we choose another hell. We could rebuild anything We have proved everything So we choose another hell. //and they will be so old these gods these gods of pocket worlds with their badges and their marques and they will be so old these gods these gods of pocket worlds we have their badges and their marques it’s all so old.// //we could make any world we have proved everything so we choose another hell. we could make any world we have proved everything so we choose another hell.// They live like gods of pocket worlds They think like gods of pocket worlds All but them see what it means.
7.
We're all angles 05:22
8.
World without (a the world) 03:50
lyrics
what do you think you found? take a look down a trench; a world circle these streets ‘til the world starts to spin spin the world ‘til I know everything oh friend it seems the world cannot be here without you all of those books work on me and none of them on you a slot-blue search, blackened walls it’s easy to find the way head uphill and ask until somebody knows the way oh friend it seems the world... oh friend it seems the world cannot be here without you I can't see what you see I don't know how to talk to you I tried my last recourse it coughed out empty rooms there's nothing like your last card for a chance to force your hand oh friend it seems the world... it winks and pukes grey and thin, I shuffle on
9.
The heart of a city 04:19
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this is the shadow of the world the heart of the city the canyon world I want to see the chalk I want to see where the lines were drawn over there I stood alone I can't see things as they were I can't see things as they are and penury's coming precarity's coming through I got lost here I cannot locate where it was somewhere in the vicinity it was somewhere in the precarity yet another lost decade and the shadow it casts your antecedent your own god stood there I can't see things as they were... kill the soul of the city kill the heart of you bringing it back to what is true I don't know how I got to any of those places I don't know how I got home a precarity no ticket money in a thin coat but I had games to help me I had worlds to hide in trust me and we can escape from here I can't see things as they were... kill the soul of the city...
10.
Standard behaviour 03:26
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show me some standard behaviour behaviour I can calibrate only against standard behaviour how can I stay non-standard when you diverge? I'm the one who gets to swerve and show me some standard behaviour behaviour I'm much too old for standard behaviour the unexamined life is a crock and at best it makes non-standard behaviour by luck, and

about

For part one, see Through Line: Stupid Name Group 2004​-​2020.

It doesn't feel long since our last compilation, but it really is time. Once again, this isn't meant to be a "best of", or a "greatest hits" (ha ha). It's meant to be an "of Stupid Name Group". And it certainly is that.

I love this compilation very much.

Track notes:

1.You've pulled back the curtain so far, you can never watch a film again

It is extremely unfair to pile all hope for the future on the younger generations. But still, I really see it there, and not elsewhere. If they're going to lead, then the rest of us should follow.

2. All interactions

Jane likes this one. I do too, when it gets going. And, there's a particular part of it that really is a "best of" sng moment.

3. -

You wouldn't believe the number of takes, and the amount of editing I had to do, to include a very simple guitar riff. This is a funny track to put on a compilation.

4. The poetry days

The parent album isn't that good, so I'm surprised to find myself taking two tracks from it. I still think about Heptonstall a lot.

5. Head servant (dolby)

The parent e.p. is one of those creative things where looking back, I don't know where it came from or how I did it...

6. These you have loved/badges and marques/approaching menace/tech dream genius fuckwit doom

... and maybe that's what you look for as an artist. To create something that you can't fathom for yourself where it came from or, even with the perspective of time, what it is. That applies to quite a few of the tracks on this compilation. Certainly The poetry days, Head servant, and this one, too.

7. We're all angles

The secondary section could do with a bit more development, but it is what it is. The main part is suitably large.

8. World without (a the world)

I apologise for the terrible, terrible vocals. You'll just have to imagine some good ones. It's a good enough track that I think it needs to be here anyway.

9. The heart of a city

Nearly everything on the parent album is about trying to find things by going back. In my case, to Liverpool, but the specifics don't really matter.

10. Standard behaviour

Given the year I had, it surprises me that I got a few coherent tracks out of it. Since recording this one, I realised that it has almost the same vocal tune as one I recorded in 1996. This track is much better, though.

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released April 3, 2023

Do not worry: all of these tracks have been NORMALISED.

"... we should never locate our national identities within histories that glorify domination... The truth is, neither coloniser nor colonised can heal through denial." Leila K. Blackbird

All writing, playing, shouting, noises, programming, dancing, breaking: Stupid Name Group.

Cover based on a photo by Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash.

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