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Jim Shepard's lyrics & chords

Shepard's piercing, feedback-intensive guitar and corrosive lyrical outlook, first documented on the barely released 1977 LP Slit and Pre-Slit. A series of releases followed -- 1980's The Live EP and 1981's Smudge 7" among them -- all barely heard or acknowledged outside of the Ohio underground community. Though recorded a good five or six years earlier, the live Under the Blood Red Lava Lamp cassette went unreleased until 1986, followed a year later by Basement 2115; only a subsequent feature in Forced Exposure magazine brought Shepard and Ver...read more

bingle bangle

exile on brown street

quotients and numbers

dusted

a streetcar named depression

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guitar solo with right hand attached

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birthplace of aviation

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one percent of nothing

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some drink to remember

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the bride wore crimson

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stories of the street

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scars

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green eggs

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caught up in the race

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brown leaves

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panasonic

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the longest distance between two points

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the whiskey priest and charlie parker

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the stranger

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face on the factory floor

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no words

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the mirror

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the jet magazine interview

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break down these walls

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sick and tired

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white plains bayou blues 471

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message from central cocoon

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no deals for the border guard

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pain and the cost

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radio show excerpt dogs

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kike

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public service announcement

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loop that lower loop henry

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the chinese whores living in havana beckon the sailor boys

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simple ideas

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something about the queen

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After hours joint Havana sandwich Louie awaits you German radio Anorexic skinnie minnie The elevator In the death room A crucial glimpse into the nearest hole The laying of limbs Living in fear Paris in the spring

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