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1st EP (We never bothered thinking of a title)

by Mr Kamikaze

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1.
Cartoon 03:30
Lyrics: Sometimes I wish that I was a cartoon Walking ‘round in a cartoon room Singing songs for the other cartoons Making money out of you I’ll write a book and it’s all about me Tales from my life for you to read A fictional biography For making money Take a leaf out of my book and when it’s took Take a chapter or two You can learn from my life experiences Even though they’re not true It’s an in-joke that I’m having with myself Raise a glass and drink to my health And sincerely I apologise if I can’t look you in the eyes It’s not easy getting comfy when you’re sitting on a goldmine Or maybe I could make a film instead About the life that I could’ve lead About my life and philosophy For making money Take a moment from my life and make it right Make it shiny and new You can learn from my life experiences Even though they never happened …it’s not easy getting comfy when you’re sitting on a goldmine Or keeping poker face when you’re shuffling a pack of lies I don’t know who this life belongs to, but it isn’t mine
2.
Lyrics: She had them scrape back Lines on her face that Spoke of her age and of the time passing by And does she kiss with Those collagen lips? And when she smiles, does her face fall to bits? She sees her picture in the mirror but the face is not hers She’s looking like her mother looked Staples behind her ears are holding back the years You know she’s gonna get there soon And she paints eyebrows where her eyebrows used to grow Browsing magazines, she’s eyeing silicone Now her face looks like an egg Doreen doesn’t know what to do about it Now she looks just like an egg And she’s building a face so she can hide behind it She’s getting older Over her shoulder The creepy-crawlies of her mortality She’s lying in the grave But she looks half her age! A surge of surgeons did a dance on her face She sees her picture in the mirror but the face is not hers She frightens everyone she meets Her grandchildren are scared, “What’s that thing standing there?! A stranger, but it has no sweets…” And she won’t go out She’s an expressionist cubist portrait When turned inside out You can still see liver spots on her brain
3.
Lyrics: I’d like to be an astronaut, but I’m not sure if I’ve got The qualifications and the physical fitness I need I’d like to be falling asleep in zero gravity, I’d like to be Drifting off to sleep (counting robotic sheep in my dreams) Don’t want to be a robot arm in a factory, I’d rather be Working with animals! I’d like to be an astronaut, way up in space I’ve often Thought of the Earth as smaller than my thumb I’ve often thought of myself as being Bigger than everyone! I’d like to perform brain surgery “Scalpel, please” the nurse turns to me Her heart in her mouth, a perfect brain in a jar Can you see me on your TV? Photogenically, I’ll be performing Medical miracles! I’d like to see the apocalypse Cryogenically my nemesis is waiting for me I’d like to lead a robot army, fulfil my destiny. I’ll be Fighting with animals! Robotic animals! (Cyber voles.)
4.
Lyrics: Here I am again; I’m on my own again with you We’re watching episodes 4, 5, 6 again But we pretend there's only two And you know that when we’re watching, we’re not talking You say “I love you,” I say “I love you” But I don’t know that it means a lot to you And it means nothing in my Millenium Falcon I can go anywhere that I want to go And I’m back in school trying to keep all my clothes on Then that old familiar feeling that comes when films are ending Unstoppably descending back Down to Earth again, I’ve not got anything to do I’m frantically searching for a film or comic book So I don’t have to look at you And you know that when you’re talking, I’m not listening You say “I love you,” I smile politely And think of people that I could be talking to And I’m right back up in my Millenium Falcon… (Imagination, fly me away To a place where I know what to say And the sofa is so far away) Then that old familiar feeling that comes when it's all ending Unstoppably descending down to a place I don’t want to go (I’m a waste of time) Then that old familiar feeling that comes with over-thinking Unstoppably descending down, but oh I would do anything To stop myself from feeling like this I’m a waste of time, a back without a spine Just a waste of time, a body without a mind

about

Recorded in two days with former Pickled Dick axe-monger Alastair Sweeney and featuring Ed's incredibly-cool-but-completely-impractical Klone Drums. They were hexagonal, white drum pads that (rumour had it) once belonged to Spandau Ballet. I'm pretty sure that was bollocks.

We were all quite excited about this recording because it was a new band and a pretty different one to the ones we'd been in before. Also we got to rip off Devo which had been a long-held ambition for all of us.

I lost my copy of this ages ago so I'm just listening to it all again for the first time in a couple of years. It's actually alright, not the first CD I'd show people if they asked me what the hell it is I actually do with my life, but certainly not complete shit. So there you go. If pressed to describe it in one word (which I'm obviously not), I'd go for 'cute.' In a 'four-year-old child saying something weird' way rather than a 'video of a cat on a tortoise' way. So there. Now you know.

Also featuring the guitar/vocals/songwriting/infectious, childlike enthusiasm of one Mark Breakdown

credits

released January 21, 2007

Richard Bushby - Vox/guitar
Mark Breakdown - Guitar/vox
Robin Robotic - Bass/vox
Edwin Brooks - Klone Drums/Synth Programming

All songs written by Brooks/Bushby (except for waste of time which Mark wrote the end for)

All songs arranged by Mr Kamikaze

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Mr Kamikaze Rancho Cucamonga, California

New EP will be available right here on January 21st 2013! It will feature, among others, the song "I'm in a Pickle" the video for which can be found here www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_PtwEam24w

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