Movin’ to the country, gonna listen to the new PUSA…

We all remember The Presidents of the United States of America, right?  Getting excited listening to the song “Kitty” at your friend’s house because of a certain curse word you hadn’t really heard much in music before?  The endearing hate song “Lump”?  And, of course, the classic “PEACHES”!!!

So you can imagine the 5th grader inside of me was excited when I saw PUSA released an album this year.  I did not realize that they were still together or that this album was released two months ago and did not touch my radar. So here is a track I pulled off of KEXP’s song-a-day podcast:

MP3: MORE BAD TIMES

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The song is hardly revolutionary and won’t make any end-of-the-year lists, but it’s worth a listen, and the lyricists have definitely been at work:

“You never had rabies
You never gained weight
You never drank poison
You watched what you ate”

and

” You twisted your ankle
I carried you
You got a divorce
So I married you
You fell off a cliff
So I buried you”

and

” You never got mauled by a mad baboon
You never lost all the air in your balloon
You never got poked in the eye with a spork
You never got sick from all that leftover pork”

Who can throw “baboon” and “spork” into the same verse? The Presidents, that’s who.

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