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Somewhere a Child is Crying
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Insane mind of a child batterer.
shockrock carey burtt careys problem lisa jenio cindy brolsma mental illness unpop art dave sardy
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UnPopArt, Shock Rock, Mental Illness Rock, Industrial Pop,
This is my old band from the eighties. Started with good friends Cindy Brolsma and Lisa Jenio. They are the core of CP but the whole thing was already kaput when this album was finally finished. I had to leave out some songs for legal and artistic problems (borrowed lyrics and at one point I segue into "Hey Jude" (what was I thinking?). I just wanted to play fancy guitar stuff...and I wrote the music first to all of them. I came up with guitar riffs. But they are outshined by the lyrics which were inspired by what I was reading, which was some extreme non fiction about child abuse, satanism, teen suicide, incest and serial killers. All hot topics in the eighties. I guess The Shaggs were an influence but so was the Skeleton Crew albums and Massacre's first. I was into all this extreme stuff but wanted to play off of the graveness of the subject matter with childlike vocals. Soundclick is like my graveyard of my dead old bands. Dave Sardy is to blame for making the record sound so good. I miss him. I was really into playing guitar then. I didn't think about vocal melodies too much. WARNING--These songs are very intense and assaultive and dense. I would consume them in small portions. Don't try to listen to the whole thing at once. As one 'fan' said to me "Music is spiritual and your music is oppressive." Plus we take sudden turns from brutal horrors to humor. Abusive music about abuse...Whatever. Enjoy (?)
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Peak #192
Peak in subgenre #22
Author
Carey Burtt
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1987
Uploaded
March 12, 2005
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MP3 1.9 MB 128 kbps 0:00
Story behind the song
The music was written first and inspired by 'Lark's Tongues in Aspic Part 2' and 'In My Time of Dying.' I read this book of the same name and was shocked and horrified by the excuses some parents gave for beating their children. It was mind boggling. Some people should not be allowed to breed.
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Doctor, please help me, my baby's dead. She's got broken ribs and broken bones. Third degree burns and a fractured head. "How did she get this way?" "She kept on screaming so I spanked her. She kept on screaming so I punched her. She kept on screaming so I pulled her hair. She kept on screaming so I threw down the stairs. This child won't listen. She won't go to sleep. She wets her pants. She doesn' want to eat. So I let her lie there in her own filth and stuff the food right down her throat. Oh mommy I'm sorry wouldn't eat my dinner. I didn't mean to misbehave. Please give me some more meatloaf. It's good. Mommy please let me out of the closet. I didn't mean to be bad. Open the door. She kept on screaming. So I burned her with a cigarette. She kept on screaming. So I bashed her in the head. She kept on screaming so I broke her arm. How else is she going to learn right from wrong?
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