We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive (album)

by The Prefab Messiahs

/
1.
Ssydarthurr 02:51
You may travel very far in a psychedelic car Mental mushrooms growing mold clog your life as it unfolds Ssydarthurr! Ssydarthurr! And deep inside a German book A princely price to have a look Your friends could never spell the name But you came out just half insane To wander dazed through muddled years Awash in desperate, happy tears You earned yourself the third degree Who told you you're too old to spree? Dripping from a garbage can, once you thought you saw a plan You've still got dreams piled in heaps - not awake and not asleep Ssydarthurr! Ssydarthurr! And every place you try to go Mad hucksters still put on a show With squawking horns and shiny things To tickle all the human beings Who push and shove amid the glare For love and sex and plastic ware And push through clouds of wobbly goo That screaming sound is probably you!
2.
Hey heh heh heh Where I come from you'd never know Like moths attracted to the glow You know just what I mean - soul-sucking suburban scene Weirdoz Everywhere Hey heh heh heh Some sort of truth is what I sought A school of knocks is what I got Feel like a leper clown - can't get arrested in this town Weirdoz Everywhere So I say - hey hey heh heh Here come the weirdos - look at them all Here come the prefab messiahs So help us all Here come the weirdos - can't count them all God bless the prefab messiahs So help us all
3.
Orange Room 02:32
He lives in an orange room so you don’t have to He lives in an orange room just to upset you He lives in an orange room - don’t look inside there He lives in an orange room - you cannot hide there Squirrels in the wall, Drunks down the hall Useless college degree Dead-ender jobs, hated by snobs Dread what the future will be! He lives in an orange room - that’s what he’s after He lives in an orange room - ignore the laughter He lives in an orange room amid the clutter He lives in an orange room - what does it matter? What does it matter?
4.
You're a rebel in a dorm, thinking just outside the norm Digging records from the local swarm Hear the DJ seldom seen, google eyes and skin of green In the basement of the College radio, college radio, basement radio And if you get on the air, you might feel sort of like a star Careful not to touch that dial, 'cause the signal can't reach very far In a triple decker town where the sky is like a frown And the factories and dreams are falling down Cut some classes, take a chance—buy an amp and strike a stance You'll be heroes on the Underground radio, underground radio, basement radio
5.
Don't go out with Booshwa Sally She'll take you and she'll water you down Don't go out with Booshwa Sally She'll take you where you'll never be found It's so easy to be swayed by her charms She'll buy you bracelets that will rip off your arms Booshwa Sally Booshwa Sally Booshwa Sally Booshwa Sally Don't go out with Booshwa Sally She'll take you where you'll never be found Don't go out with Booshwa Sally She'll take you and she'll water you down It's so easy to be swayed by her charms She'll buy you bracelets that will rip off your arms Booshwa Sally Booshwa Sally Booshwa Sally Booshwa Sally
6.
When your harvest of dreams has grown a crop of only weeds Starved and shriveled up and dead When all the people pushing carts amid the parking lots Are just voices in your head Hitch a ride in Bobb's Psychedelic Car Hitch a ride in Bobb's Psychedelic Car Hitch a ride in Bobb's Psychedelic Car The empty stores that line the butchered streets so sad so gray Watch you skidding in the rain The winking signs along the interstate announce the news Every place is now the same Hitch a ride in Bobb's Psychedelic Car Hitch a ride in Bobb's Psychedelic Car Hitch a ride in Bobb's Psychedelic Car Behind the wheel just push that junk right off the vinyl seat Give my rusty door a shove My breaks are shot, squeeze right on in, there's half a tank of gas Hear the tires squeal the love Hitch a ride in Bobb's Psychedelic Car Hitch a ride in Bobb's Psychedelic Car Hitch a ride in Bobb's Psychedelic Car
7.
Sip a cuppa coffee from your daily grind It's a full time job not to lose your mind You gotta do what you gotta do Gotta do what you gotta do to survive Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive Never mind the answer - what's the question again? Hide out in your garden 'til you cash it in You gotta go where you gotta go You gotta go wherever to escape the hive Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive
8.
[sound collage] Ee, ee, ee Heh heh heh heh heh Nice headband ya got there, honey! What...? Heh heh heh heh heh heh What, what...? What does it matter? What, what, what, what...? Don't tell me what to do! Ssydarthurr! And yer done!

about

BURGER Records BRGR772 / KLYAM Records KLYAM-005

Recommended If You Like: Thee Oh Sees, White Fence, King Tuff, 13th Floor Elevators, Outrageous Cherry, Black Lips, Electric Prunes

*ALBUM REVIEWS* at www.facebook.com/notes/the-prefab-messiahs/pressreactions-for-keep-your-stupid-dreams-alive-burger-klyam/10152587854781680

WATCH SIX VIDEOS from the album! at youtube.com/user/PrefabMessiahs

"The Prefab Messiahs blew minds and started fires with their unique brand of garage rock... Fortunately, this singular group survived the temporal dustbin and lives on to mess with a new generation.”
—Chris Collins, Boston Hassle

Indeedily-doo: Energized by a shockingly great 30th Anniversary mini-tour—and BURGER Records’ reissue of their early-80s anthology Devolver —wiggy art-punk popsters The Prefab Messiahs have cooked up their first new audio hi-jinks since originally disbanding in 1983(!). Hands down, 'Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive' is a solid garage-psych-meets-power-pop slam.

The Prefabs defiantly pick up where they left off and go Way Beyond, connecting-the-dots to 'THE NOW' for anyone who has been intrigued by their prophetic proto-lo-fi garage-psych-pop sounds!

This new batch of songs etches a loose "Siddhartha"-like trajectory—partly inspired by the band's early experiences—of a desperately idealistic journey from suburb to school, forming a band, encountering life’s pratfalls, and finally—battling disillusionment and self-doubt—gaining enough insight to keep dreams alive in a messed up and uncaring world. Dig?

"Weirdoz Everywhere" alternates irresistible garage-blast turnarounds and power-jangle verses; "College Radio" rings out in sweet'n'sour homage to the medium's embrace of young hopefuls; "Bobb's Psychedelic Car" is a trippy-yet-bracing tip of the hat to their original guide & guru, outsider psych legend Bobb Trimble.

The sessions were captured by ace knob-twiddlers Doug Tuttle (ex-MMOSS, now solo on Trouble In Mind) and Jesse Gallagher (recorded Quilt's 1st LP for Mexican Summer). The final mixes were conjured by the band themselves, and Burger's mastering guru Patrick Haight applied the final happy-glaze.

The crazy dreams encapsulated here all conspire to live on timelessly, even without pausing to take heed of the title track’s mischievous prodding.

credits

released March 10, 2015

Xerox Feinberg - vocals, gtr
Doc Michaud - gtr, organ, vocals
Trip Thompson - bass, vocals, kazoo, Kaossilator, Monotron
Ned Egg - drums, tambourine

Jesse Gallagher - backing vocal on "Weirdoz Everywhere"
Gary War - Monotron on "Bobb's Psychedelic Car"
Kurt Heasley - studio support

recorded by Doug Tuttle and Jesse Gallagher at Nightime Sunshine, Cambridge MA
mixed by Xerox and Trip at Distractionland, Callicoon, NY
mastered by Patrick Haight at Spot-On Sound, Palm Springs, CA

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

The Prefab Messiahs

Micro-legendary DIY Garage-Pop-Psych provocateurs! Evolutionary genre grinders practicing art-damaged power pop, rock, crunch, jangle and general mynd-massage.

contact / help

Contact The Prefab Messiahs

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like The Prefab Messiahs, you may also like: