Cokeholes
Released April 2008
Tracks
1. Cokeholes
2. Yellowhills
3. Lost Youth pt. II
Catalogue number
ATIC Records: 7″ vinyl single (ATIC005)
Notes
- Released on 7″ vinyl only in april 2008 in an edition of 300 copies.
- First single from SJ’s Death of the Neightbourhood album
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ATIC Records press release 1. september 2008
DEATH OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
‘COKEHOLES’
ATIC RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: 27TH OCTOBER 2008Death of the Neighbourhood is self-explanatory. We all know the neighbourhood’s dying. It’s buggered, on its last legs, maybe even dead already.
By its grave there’s some idiot selling Heat Magazine, with a free pullout of freak celebrities with leaking tits and it’s all pretty unfixable. You’ve got kids happyslapping and stabbing you for ‘interfering’ and you can’t even tell a grown-up to turn off his mobile in the cinema without the threat of death.
Coincidentally, ‘DEATH’ is the first word of this spanking brand new project. Not ‘death’ in a bad way, but in a ‘living life to the full’ kind of way.
The first single from the album is ‘Cokeholes’, a celebration of the ills of society, wrapped in a cacophony of beautifully warped sound. Disturbed Pop at its wonderful worst, laced with, as Rakim said, ‘lyrics of fury’.
It’s the sound of being “sat on a bench, drinking a two litre plastic bottle of cider, smoking knock-off fags, eating a stolen cheeseburger, whilst contemplating having a tit-job done with a Stanley knife and lard filler, so I can sell my story. Make some real money.”
On the B-side (yes B-side, this is vinyl after all!) we leave the Earth behind with ‘Yellowhills’, a song about “lying on the grass, looking up at the sky, drifting off and out of my body and not coming back.”
‘Lost Youth Pt 2’ is a wordless poem taken from disc two of the DOTN album. “It’s about memory so it’s not really lost. It’s lurking in your head somewhere. So youth is not really lost, it just escapes you every now and then.”
The monster sounding the rapturous death knell behind DOTN is Stephen Jones, one of the most prolific and original songwriters this country has ever produced. He once sold two million records, with his early albums going to Number 1 in the NME charts and nine singles all going proper Top 40. Lucky Bastard.
Death of the Neighbourhood’s self titled album is released 10th November.
myspace.com/deathoftheneighbourhood | aticrecords.com.
Lyrics:
The cocaine makes me sneeze
The botox on my double cheese
I got $129 for sneakers
Now I’m walking ’round like Jesus
Got three stripes on my leg
And a black tick on my knees
Got a straw stuck up my ass
Going “Where’s the coke? Where’s the coke?”
Boom boom boom, sha la la, where’s the coke?
Who got the coke? Yeah, the kids got the coke
Boom boom boom, sha la la, where’s the coke?
Who got the coke? Yeah, the cops got the coke
Yeah the kids got the coke
Yeah the cops got the coke
Yeah the cops got the kids
Got quaaludes in my milkshake
Afrikaans on my Benz
Got a three-point cross on the fireplace
And a gun sight on my lens
Got $1500 for a nose job
Got six for a double chin
Gonna sail my flesh to Mozambique in a wheelybin
Chorus until fade
(lyrics transcribed by Loquacious Music)
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