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The Muckrakers

by The Muckrakers

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    The 13-song album MAY by The Muckrakers, released in 1998.
    Songs:
    1. BETA
    2. Helvetica
    3. One Night in the Month of May
    4. ...and You in Cloudless Heaven
    5. Leech
    6. Box of Nails
    7. City in Bloom
    8. Chassel Rut
    9. The Arson Song
    10. Walking at Night
    11. Prometheus
    12. Skeletons Everywhere
    13. The Kiln

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1.
The Idea One 03:07
idle brain brain and map will code code your thoughts thoughts will always drain drain and block block the greedy hand hand of art art remains our need instability open up your skull helpless. you are the idea one hopeless. you are the idea one hear this: you are the idea one idea one lack of work work the weary ear ear and grave grave? it's not so hard. hard to run run away from fear fear of will will not keep a score lift away the veil intellectual
2.
you've reached the turning point you made your decision now you're looking back on it with 20/20 vision what would you have done if you knew what you would find? was it worth it for you? would you change your mind? i feel the cold chains extinguish my flames my dripping entrails and I'm fading away do you spend your time living with regret? if you think you're hurting now you ain't seen nothin' yet you want more than anything freedom from the curse but you can never take it back it's only getting worse i feel the cold chains extinguish my flames my dripping entrails and I'm fading away you feel the cold chains extinguish your flames your dripping entrails and you fade away
3.
BETA 03:25
buy each tape again but I don't care looking for the sharper picture but I don't know where gotta drive outta town gotta get it now do whatever it takes L750 I don't need two windows one will work for me I don't need six hours in front of the TV gotta drive outta town gotta get it now do whatever it takes tracking see it in the headlines about this other place where people didn't turn their backs and make the same mistakes gotta drive outta town gotta get it now do whatever it takes
4.
Helvetica 05:03
New York told me you'd be gone 2000 miles away Palatino played cold and formal listing off your days Times came when time was passing cannot count the weeks words on paper without feeling filling up the sheets finally you've found your muse passion soaking every word Helvetica, yeah it's her perfect way to hold her things to say tailed "t"s talking to me tell of tragic thoughts transition, temptation, titillation tired of trying trust "b"s and "d"s sit mirror image in "bond" and "divided" "betrayal" and "devotion" "beloved" and "despised" finally you've found your muse passion soaking every word
5.
Box Of Nails 04:28
box of nails bucket of hinges always a building to fill up some space lions and rivers needing a ceiling take it all under advisement to place nothing is worse than a windowless wall saving the workers some time print the letters and promise forever follow a number a dime a box of nails box of nails with silver and steel developing ground in the heart of the land figures to add are written on paper hope that the houses can shiver and stand box of nails on every acre nearly a series of points on a line turning the earth on winter and water every map has a perfect design
6.
Chassel Rut 02:41
mother warned me not to stray near the rut once you fall in you may never get out her good advice was never enough Chassel rut I've been in this rut for 25 years with trucks and boots and bullets and beer stayed long enough to like it down here Chassel rut
7.
my skies are dark as hell, and you in cloudless heaven no truth that I can tell, and you in cloudless heaven I look up to my skies, they fall in all around no I ain't doing well, and you in cloudless heaven when we were kids we had such fun we laughed and played the days away somehow you've held on to that sun I struggle just to find a ray you've been blessed with that appeal I'm damned with shifty eyes people know that you're for real and I live lost in lies you've always had a heart of gold while mine is made of lead you've found someone, you'll both grow old I sit and cry in bed you have the life I've always dreamed is mine your worst nightmare? you have won while I got reamed it really isn't fair jealousy is unbecoming but I have unbecome I have no strength to find the pieces whose whole is now less than their sum
8.
The Kiln 04:22
keep on working night and day working in 100,000 degrees form another world out of that clay read these words in Japanese wonder how it goes wonder how it stays wonder how the molecules change I ain't clay but I wonder how wonder how it is inside the kiln
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about

In the mid-1990s, Ishpeming, Michigan natives Jonathan Rundman, David Casimir, and Todd Berg wrote and recorded lo-fi garagey grunge-pop. This collection of digital downloads includes remixes from the the 1998 Muckrakers album MAY, plus previously unreleased tracks.

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released June 9, 2015

songs written, performed and recorded by Todd Berg, David Casimir, and Jonathan Rundman

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Jonathan Rundman Minneapolis, Minnesota

"bright, catchy indie pop" NEW YORK TIMES
“clever, intelligent songwriting” PASTE MAGAZINE
“clever phrasing and fresh rhymes" PERFORMING SONGWRITER
“literate…excellent…a record for anyone who hasn't given up on the idea that good songs, electric/acoustic guitars, and a great drummer are the key to all sorts of epiphanies” CITY PAGES
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