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Kansas Song (For Michael Johnstone)

from More Fun by X-tal

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In a small town in the Midwest
They’ve mounted speakers on the streetlights
All day they broadcast Muzak
Up and down the lane
The air is filled with Percy Faith
It penetrates your brain

Outside the town there is a river
The water is a peculiar color
The company it dumps its waste
And the river carries it away
Floating past the little town
That survives on company pay

Farmer looks down, scratches his head
Oh it sure has been one hell of a summer
All the cows are growing lumps
And the chickens roll over and die
He feels more dizzy every day
And he just can’t figure why

Sunday afternoon church social
Baptize children in the glowing river
All the people clap and sing
And the sunset burns so red
Junior doesn’t feel too good
So they tuck him into bed.

credits

from More Fun, released May 16, 2010
(J Neo Marvin)
© 1990 Undulant Rhetoric (BMI)

J Neo Marvin: Vocals and guitar
Mick Freeman: Drums and vocals
Jimmy Broustis: Guitar and vocals
Mitzi Waltz: Bass and vocals
Maati Stojanovich: Vocals

Produced by X-tal and Greg Freeman
Recorded at Lowdown Studio, SF in 1989
(Out-take from REASON IS 6/7 OF TREASON, Alias 1990)
(Also available on BITING THE UGLY BISCUIT)

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X-tal San Francisco, California

Here, for the first time, the entire recorded output of X-tal in one place.

X-tal (1983-1996) were a San Francisco post-punk band fronted by J Neo Marvin. Greil Marcus of the Village Voice described them as a “small-time San Francisco combo that wears their defeated leftist politics on their sleeves and can open for the Mekons without letting you forget them when the headliners come on.” ... more

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