MUSIC

Scroll down for a comprehensive list of Chris Merritt albums and lyrics.  New to this junk?  Choose a song from the Chris Merritt Value Menu below and read on.  You have only five choices.  This is the only tape you have in your car and MP3 players have not been invented yet.  Start it over when it gets to the end.

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I write songs.  I am a songman (pronounced like longshoreman).  I used to number them all and organize them in smell-good spiral notebooks, but I lost track sometime a couple years ago, at around 1,250.

You don’t have to worry about all that, though.  Research proves that people are less happy with their decisions when they have too many choices.  Our world of infinite choices is already watering down your human experience, and I refuse to add to it.

Choose from the above five songs.  Feel good about your decision.  Try another.  If you feel closer to some sort of objective goodness, then maybe the time has come to sample the hundreds of bizarre ditties that have been birthed of my depressed mind’s contractions.  Additional instructions follow.

Did you make it?  Congratulations.  Prefer visual stimulus?  Look at these music videos.  Prefer albums?  Download this free ‘best of’ album I threw together.

And now I present you with the official Chris Merritt albums.  Virginia Is For Hoverers (2009), Demos Of Nod (2009), Pixie And The Bear (2008), and Hello, Little Captain (2007).

You can trust me to deliver the latest in cutting edge human tragedy.  I’m paying attention and you can be sure that I’m weaving the mysteries of the solar system, evolution, physics, and philosophy into some sort of prophetic or retarded quilt.  I’ve fallen flat on my face over a thousand times but at least I’m out there trying (I might suggest that you take another look at the popular songman in your pocket, because he or she might be cheating on you).  You need not worry about your decision:  come back to this music time and time again and rest assured that these are the most honest and dirty sing-alongs that unfathomably complicated hydrogen atoms currently have on offer.

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Virginia Is For Hoverers (Part I) (2009)

This record was made in a huge rush with no budget.  Do you miss the Era Of Heart Swell Gut Wrench Rock?  Tracks were engineered using off-brand iPod headphones after a day of hard manual labor.  This was the last Virginia album, before packing and moving to NYC.  Hence the stupid title.

Buy Virginia Is For Hoverers (Part I) from (this site) or

Tracks: (lyrics)
1. Sequel 2. I Don’t See You Here 3. Tarmac 4. Rain King 5. Feminine Mind 6. Magical Stones 7. Baby’s Gone 8. She-Wolf 9. Princess 10. Another World 11. Turing Machine

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Demos Of Nod (2009)

Another over-the-top double-disc, filled with heartbreak and emotion.  How embarrassing.  Made entirely by the artist in his boxer shorts in Virginia in a state of shell-shock, despair, and utter contentment.  I long to play The Ocarina Of Time in the air-conditioned smell once more, with the garden of Eden, sauna-like at the door, with every ilk of domestic animal.

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Disc one (lyrics)
1. The Purple Haze Returns 2. Sherlock Holmes 3. Baby, Understand 4. Flightless 5. Osborne ‘98 6. Misery 7. Long Distance 8. Arizona (Original Demo) 11. Quinn (Original Demo) 12. Try To See The Good

Disc two (lyrics)
1. The Singularity (1998) 2. Favorite (original demo) 3. Sugar 4. The Beautiful Ms. Parker And I Approach The Singularity (2040) 5. Just To See You 6. On My Own 7. Sanctuary (2205) 8. Al 9. Peace Of Mind 10. Fool 11. Live Or Die Once

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Pixie And The Bear (2008)

Dual rotaries, each painted with cartoons and etched from the center out with rousing melodies set to peculiar phrases.  At first polished and glossy, later meandering and over-confident, and finally falling apart and holding on for dear life, this double-disc mimics the lifespan of most empires.  Recorded in Provo, UT with the most tight trio known to man.

Buy Pixie And The Bear
from (this site)(cheapest) or (Nimbit) or

Disc one (Pixie) (lyrics)
1. North 2. Sarah&The Fabric Of Reality 3. The Cult Of Karl 4. Bleach 5. Mafia 6. Madison 7. Arizona 8. Cruise Elroy 9. Mimic 10. Dr. Jerk 11. Whole

Disc two (The Bear) (lyrics)
1. The Long Road 2. Show Me What You’re Made Of 3. Quinn 4. Avery 5. A Song About Being Frustrated While Watching Layer Cake The Movie Written In A Layered Style At Times Similar To Cake The Band 6. Andrew 7. Be Found 8. Tiny Planets 9. September 10. Nick & Kat 11. The Mexican Border

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Hello, Little Captain (2007)

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Dismal, uplifting, Virginia-styled Los Angeles rock and roll music, brimming with emphasized melodic content and performed and recorded with the finest personnel and equipment that LA County has to offer.  I mixed this myself mostly.  A great man named Carlos mixed three tracks and tracked most of it, and for the change in my pocket, bless his heart.  I almost died making this record, but it was only loosely related.

Buy Hello, Little Captain
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Tracks: (lyrics)
1. The Palace Flophouse 2. Always On My Mind 3. Tower Of Sand 4. Virginia 5. Beowulf 6. Linger 7. It’s Been Sad 8. Dance Karate 9. Off And On 10. Los Angeles 11. Time Bomb 12. Cell

Demos
There is an endless supply of hastily-recorded and humiliating home recordings that sometimes find their way onto the internet.  Although the exact number is currently unknown, there are over 1,000 to collect.

Samples on a small toothpick:

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Check out some music from my old bands, Upperville, and the infamous, life-changing, and infinite (at least to a few generous-shovel-fulls of people), the original, Paperface. Don’t accept cheap imitations.