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Something Corporate Biography Review The Artist (2)
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Send Something Corporate polyphonic ringtone to your cell phone
Answer quick"All Ages Show." What the first thing that comes to mind? It most likely spiky-haired 13 year olds running
in packs, colors dripping down the back of their necks from day-of-show dye jobs. Probably not melody loving high school kids
and college students freely intermingling with a subdued contingent of work-a-day thirty-somethings. It not what you would
have guessed, but that exactly what you find when Southern California quintet Something Corporate takes the stage.
And,
while on the topic of assumptions, you probably assume that your average teenager in a band might cite Limp Bizkit or Sum
41 as their major influences. Not so with Something Corporate 18 year old frontman and chief songwriter Andrew McMahon. He
explains, "I love the great 0s Elton John, where he was at the best part of his youth, writing angst-filled songs."
As
his love for the legendary Elton John would suggest, Andrew weapon of choice has 88 keys. While that might suggest that piano
is featured more in any given song, Andrew insists that egos have always taken a back seat to the good of the music. "Whatever
feels right, we do," he states. "Sometimes you just suck it up and say, ey, I don belong on this one. And with two guitarists
in the mix, Something Corporate is hardly what you would call a piano-centered band. Andrew explains, "Ie always been a fan
of a more driving sound, blending guitar with piano chords." After careful listens one notices other influences like Jimmy
Eat World and Jets To Brazil in the mix.
In addition to this musical blend, what endears people most is Andrew off-beat
notes on love, relationships and being a member of Generation Y observations that frequently belie his chronological age and
appearance. In "Punk Rock Princess," Andrew dissects the desire to love a cool girl and to be her "garage band king." He asks
her, "You could tell me why you just don fit in and how youe 'gonna be something" In "iF yoU C Jordan," he describes an on-going,
relentless assault by a misguided high school bully, who can seem to accept that he no longer in High School. The song taunts,
"its jealousy that led us to this song. Won play it often, just at least until youe gone." And, they meant it, that is they
meant it until the song ended up on the EP.
If finding the perfect sound and words for each song is a painstaking process,
one thing that has been surprisingly easy from the start for Something Corporate has been finding gigs.
"About a year
before we were Something Corporate, Andrew, Brian, and I started a band to play the high school battle of the bands in Dana
Hills," explains bassist Clutch of his band beginning. "We ended up winning on a fluke. We were horrible, but everybody was
pretty horrible, too." The victorious group disbanded, but after Andrew stumbled upon Josh jamming on his guitar at a party,
the pianist desire to play in a band was renewed. "You don find a lot of really great high school players," says Andrew. "I
saw Josh, and I was like, ow, he really knows how to play. With a new name, a new lineup, and a new sense of purpose, Something
Corporate met with little resistance.
"That summer we decided to kick it into gear. We set up a show at a local theater,
and ended up selling 150 or 200 tickets, packing a bunch of kids in there," recalls Clutch. "We called the local club a couple
weeks later, told them what we did, and they said if we could sell that many tickets we could definitely play at their club.
That started it."
From there, the unlikely assemblage of teenagers quickly became local favorites, and landed one-off
opening slots with acts like Sugar Ray and Better Than Ezra. It should be no surprise, then, that record labels soon came
knocking. Perhaps more surprising, though, is that the most persistent of these was Drive-Thru, a label best known for youth-oriented
punk.
"As you can probably assume from listening to the music, our punk sensibility is not necessarily intact," Andrew
laughs. Nonetheless, Drive-Thru track record of artist development made signing with the label a no-brainer. Besides, Andrew
points out, "They sign cool bands and connect with kids in a way that not many record labels do."
"People who listen
to radio songs tend to like our band because we write choruses with hooks, so wel always have a pop crowd," he continues.
"But, because of our association with Drive-Thru, maybe a kid who wouldn normally listen to a band like us might give it a
shot and hear something they like." Andrew also notes that immersion in the culture of Drive-Thru bands and fans may have
led to a gutsier sound for the newer material, but, Something Corporate isn about to trade in the upright piano.
"Musically,
my goal in life has always been to touch people the way that first Counting Crows record did to me," says Andrew. "People
tend to underestimate what kids will comprehend and what theyl connect to. I think the more honest I am with myself, the more
people get it."
"And regardless of whether or not people always get it," he concludes, "theyl definitely get that
wee not just spitting out bullshit." | |
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"Straw Dog"
Staring into the intersection she thinks that
she can fly and she might holding on in a new direction she's gonna try it tonight the closer i get to feeling the
further that i'm feeling from alright the more i step into the sun the more i step out of the light
Jessica's
covered in a blanket on a sunday porch thinking of the weekends she would party in the city she doesn't have a
flame she'd prefer to burn out like a torch If she gets nowhere in life At least she knows she's pretty
She
said Hey Now The Straw dog's out in the street Hey now there's chemicals in the clouds Hey now they're calling all
the police But they won't get to us anyhow
The moon is shining now And shadows are what's left of all the noise simple
silhouettes and cut outs As if we had a choice he listens closely now swears that he can hear a voice that's calling
him
and saying
Hey now the straw dog's out in the street Hey now there's chemicals in the clouds Hey now
there calling all the police but they won't get to us anyhow... No
What does it take to be a super hero in my world? make
no mistake that these villains always get the girl we can escape and then we'd skate away from all of this but no one
ever does
She's saying
Hey now the straw dog's out in the street hey now there's chemicals in the clouds hey
now they're calling all the police but they won't get to us No they'll never get to us hey now the straw dog's out
in the street hey now there's chemicals in the clouds and they're calling all the police but they won't get to us na
na na na na na na na now
"Mulligan Goes To War"
He graduated with
a degree in Poli-Sci Premeditated what he would do until he died And then he faded into a never-rising sky Surfaced
in the airforce, then learned how to fly
Mulligan goes to war Mulligan goes to war The days are gone when
he could tell you what he's fighting for Mulligan goes to war
Flew helicopters with a patriotic grin Built
up brick walls, rarely letting people in Had his pitfalls and he lived a life of sin That life is over now, the new
one must begin
Mulligan goes to war Mulligan goes to war The days are gone when he could tell you what
he's fighting for Mulligan goes to war
We all gotta go sometimes
Made his living selling real estate Met
his first wife, she came much too late To save the low man, he was slowly growing mad He lost his business, the economy
went bad
Mulligan goes to war Mulligan goes to war The days are gone when he could tell you what he's
fighting for Mulligan goes to war
"Drunk Girl"
I kissed a drunk girl I kissed a drunk
girl, yes I did Kissed a drunk girl on the lips I let my guard down how could I have been so dumb Her eyes were
open I know I am not the one I know I am not the one I know I am not the one
I kissed a drunk girl Why
do I do these things I do to myself I kissed a drunk girl I'm sure I could've been anybody else
I went to her
house and everybody there was gone her little cousin just passed out on the lawn We walked to my car She mouthed
"Is everything ok?" We leaned in slowly So now I can say
I kissed a drunk girl Why do I do these things
I do to myself I kissed a drunk girl I'm sure I could've been anybody else anybody else
I pulled away cuz
you see I didn't think it would be right I said let's save this for some other night She said "No, no, no I know That
everything is gonna be just fine" How could I do this when I want her to be all mine.
I kissed a drunk girl Why
do I do these things I do to myself I kissed a drunk girl I'm sure I could've been anybody else anybody else
I
know you don't care about me I'm sure when all is said and done and I go home feeling lonely You will have had your
fun do you even remember?
I kissed a drunk girl Why do I do these things I do to myself I kissed a drunk girl and
now I'm sure and now I'm sure I could've been anybody else anybody else anybody else I could have been anybody
else
"Plucked"
(This goes out to
the radio stations going out to you...)
Lucy, I've confessions I don't think you ought to know Lets just sit
back Forget about what's past You see my longs are wet with age Beyond what I can show This is the first time
It's not the last it's not the last
And it's been long since i've moved Long since I've grooved on And
now my empty chorus falls on empty ears Since I left LA days ago The concert made me crave the shows And times
when I could be more cavalier
Don't you look away too long You see I've got something you might need Don't
look away too long I said you may not believe and I just may concede
Holding onto what is right The truth
escaped me twice last night In clouds of smoke and scattered ash With visions of an empty hall While wiggers crowd
the shopping malls And overzealous DJ's that ghetto blasted rap
Don't you look away too long You see I've
got something you might need Don't look away too long I said you may not believe and I just may concede hey..
(Chicka uh)
Lucy, I've confessions I dont think you want to know let's just sit back forget about
what's past you see there are places that we shouldn't go and not so fast
Don't you look away too long You
see I've got something you might need Don't look away too long I said you may not believe and I just may concede don't
don't don't don't look away too long You see I've got something you might need Don't look away too long I
said you may not believe and I just may concede
"When It Goes Down"
When it
all just fits No more waiting up 'till midnight To see if he comes home And it sinks in Through these holes
in your old bed sheets You might spend your life alone And you don't want to be alone no not alone
When
you think too much And you came to another game Despondent out of touch And you reach so hard it makes you fall
For these hands that let you go That shouldn't let you go at all that shouldnt let you go at all no not at
all
I don't know what its like to be you babe but from the looks I don't think I want to and I know I've been
hanging on tight so maybe it just might mean I want you yeah babe I want you
You know what I mean When
I say that I come from a place that hurts You fit in my scene And try to make everything work You watch me turn
green I come down, yeah but I might never land You said you'd understand But you don't want to be there When
it goes down again
bop bop bop bop bop ba da [x6]
Staring at the ceiling Gives me another feeling
About who you are And you know I was really thinking I could be another Lincoln If I got this far If I
got this far driving in my car and Then I started holding on to these I couldn't keep And the wise ass called
me faggot But I feel more like a creep and these things creep I watch them creep and I dont get no sleep
And
I don't know what it's like to take it slow and from the feel I don't think I want to no I dont want to and I
now know And I know that it seems I'm Letting go And things I know, I know would haunt you and I don't want to
haunt you
You know what I mean When I say that I come from a place that hurts You fit in my scene And
try to make everything work You watch me turn green I come down, yeah but I might never land You said you'd understand
But you don't want to be there When it goes down again
You know what I mean When I say that I come from
a place that hurts You fit in my scene And try to make everything work You watch me turn green I come down,
yeah but I might never land You said you'd understand But you don't want to be there you don't want to be there
you don't want to be there When it goes down again when it goes down again
"Babies
Of The 80's"
I grew up on five-alive And transformers and slip-n-slide Toy's R Us and Chuck-e-Cheeze
Disco out and techno in to synthesize my favorite sin And here I am on my knees To get it back again
Babies
of the 80's Little girls in lycra shorts Tented beds, nerf contact sports My babies of the 80's Shout it out
just one more time For the generation that was all mine
We learned to crawl on linoleum floors Ronald Reagan
fought Star Wars But he'll never be Han Solo Students march Tianenmen Square They took him out hey that's not fair
Dad said it's good to be free As we watched from our T.V.
Babies of the 80's Little girls in lycra shorts
Tented beds, nerf contact sports My babies of the 80's Shout it out just one more time For the generation
that was all mine
We watched the wall fall down Woke up early for Bozo the clown MTV and Nick at Night And
I slept for the first time Without the light without the light without the light
(one two one two three
go)
My Babies of the 80's **Little girls in jelly shoes got the ferris bueller blues** My babies of the
80's We'd be something after all Who knew we would be something after all Who knew we would be something after all Who
Knew
Cavanaugh Park"
At Cavanaugh Park Where I used to sit All alone in the
dark And dream about things That I cannot say You always said denstiny Would blow me away And nothing's
gonna blow me away
At Cavanaugh Park Where you used to take me To play in the sand And said to me, "Son,
one day you'll be a man. "And men can do terrible things." Yes they can
And there was never any place For
someone like me to be Totally happy I'm running out of clock and that Ain't a shock Some things never do change
Never do change
At Cavanaugh Park We used to get high Watching teams as they fought They loved my
friend Adam But he always got caught Man, that kid made fucking up look cool Aren't we all so cool? No, No...
And
there was never any place For someone like me to be Totally happy I'm running out of clock and that Ain't
a shock Some things never do change Never do change
Never do change Never do change Never do change
At Cavanaugh Park Where I used to think That this life would be good And I would do things That I thought
that I should And no one's going to tear me down
And there was never any place For someone like me to be Totally
happy I'm running out of clock and that Ain't a shock Some things never do change
And there was never
any place For someone like me to be Totally happy I'm running out of clock and that Ain't a shock Some
things never do change Never do change Never do change Never do change
"If I Die"
A
train crashed And everything slows down I was wishing I could get out of this town These dreams we've had Have
never made you cry And I am not a twinkle in your eye But I've got to get out of here Cuz you drive me up the
wall I've got to get out of here Cuz I can't stand to fall
And If I die see you won't be so close to me
And I won't be the one Who sticks around If I'm awake see you won't go to sleep, I promise And I won't
be the one Who lets you down
Tailgates, long talks And your superficial friends Shiny, silver Fords That
lead us to dead ends And I said do you lick these salty wounds That you, yourself condone I sit, wait, and I'm
all alone But I can't go home 'Cause you're my home
If I die see you won't be so close to me And I
won't be the one Who sticks around If I'm awake see you won't go to sleep, I promise And I won't be the one
Who lets you down No, I won't let you down No, I won't let you down
Tell me where you are tonight And
is everything alright? Do you remember what I said, While he's sleeping in your bed? tell me now you Smile hard
cuz i don't smile much so far And is he everything you need? Is he everything I couldn't be? Does he make
everything match better? Bring you all the shiny weather that you want And is he everything everything I'm not
And If I die You won't be so close to me And I won't be the one Who sticks around If I'm awake see
you won't go to sleep, I promise And I won't be the one Who lets you down no, I won't let you down no, I won't
let you down I won't let you down I won't let you down
"Ben Franklin's Kite"
Give
me an answer Why this cancer eats me away How this restlessness Could turn into a day. I fear what comes first
The things that hide in the night But I'm quaking, and shaking Even now that it's light
And no I don't
feel right I can see but I've lost my sight I'm high, so high Like Ben Franklin's Kite
And maybe you'll
find me On another lonely street By the smell of summer, after she rains Maybe you'll loose me All together
in her heat Let this humid air Take away my pain
And no I don't feel right I can see but I've lost my
sight 'cause I'm high, so high Like Ben Franklin's Kite
Maybe you're weary You always stand so tall Maybe
you, holier than thou Will make me crawl I don't claim to be better I don't think that you do But see I'm
weak and incessinct My addictions the proof
And no I don't feel right I can see but I've lost my sight I'm
high, so high Like Ben Franklin's Kite
And maybe I'm crazy But lightning might strike me tonight And Maybe
I'm crazy But lightning might strike me tonight
"Inside The Pocket"
I
met you last month at a party You brought me up, you brought me down You came to me last night as an apparation Now
you came around
What's with you and all your talk of independence? What's with me and my lack of innocence?
Keep
it locked up inside the pocket And maybe I will sleep I'll be right there inside the pocket And you'll be knee
deep
My palms were sweaty and my heart grew big My leg, my leg was shaking How badly I wanted you with me
You came to me and said "This could be something" I'll take something over nothing anyday
What's with me and
the way that I've been lately? What's with you and the way you make me feel?
Keep it locked up inside the pocket
And maybe I will sleep I'll be right there inside the pocket And you'll be knee deep
And I'm scared 'Cause
these things fall apart Electric baby And I've known it from the start So please forgive me for being like I am
But I'll take you if I can
Keep it locked up inside the pocket And maybe I will sleep I'll be right there
inside the pocket And you'll be knee deep
Oooooooh.
"Konstantine"
[NOTE: This
is original lyrics from "Ready... Break" CD. There is also another version of this song - Konstantine 2001 (Welcome To The
Family Version), it's under 'Other songs' at SoCo's page and lyrics are a bit different]
I can't imagine all the
people that you know And the places that you go When the lights are turned down low And I don't understand All
the things you've seen But I'm slipping in between You and your big... dreams it's always you and my big dreams
And
you tell me That it's over But i can't stand here in a patch of four leaf clover And your restless And I'm naked You've
got to get out You can't stand to see me shaking no, could you let me go
and you don't want to be here in the
future So you say the present's just a pleasant Interruption to the past And you don't want to look much closer 'Cause
you're afraid to find out all the hope That you had sent into the sky by now had... crashed and it did because of me
And
then you bring me home Afraid to find out that you're alone, no And I'm sleeping in your living room But we don't
have much room To live
And I had dreams that i would learn to play guitar Maybe cross the country Become a
rockstar And there was hope in me That I could take you there But dammit you're so young But I don't think I care and
if I hurt you then i'm sorry It's just this guilt has got the best of me
And then you bring me home 'Cause we
both know what its like to be alone, no And I'm dreaming in your living room But we don't have much room To live
Konstantine
came walking down the stairs Doesn't she look good Standing in her underwear? And i've been thinking, and i've thinking,
no But she's been drinking And it doesn't get me anywhere
My Konstantine came walking down the stairs And
all that I could do Was touch her long blond hair And I was thinking, what I was thining ya know we've been drinking
and it doesn't get me anywhere
This is because I can spell konfusion with a K It's hard to like it It's to dying
in anothers arms and why i had to try it It's to jimmy eat world and those nights in my car But this time i'm
alone, and i don't see those stars I'm not your star? Isn't that what you said what you thought this song meant you
thought this song meant
And if this is what it takes just to lie in my mistakes and live with what I did to you And
all the things i put you through I always catch the clock it's 11:11 And now you want to talk it's not hard to dream You'll
always be my Konstantine
They'll never hurt you like I do No, They'll never hurt you like I do No, No, No, No,
No, No, No, No, No
This is to a girl who got into my head with all these pretty things she did Hey Baby, You
know that you keep me up in bed It's to a girl who got into my head with all the fucked up things I did Hey maybe
baby, you could keep me up in bed My Konstantine
Spin around me like a dream We played out on this movie screen And
I said, Did you know I miss you Did you know I miss you Did you know I miss you Did you know I miss you Did
you know I miss you Did you know I miss you Did you know I miss you
God, I miss you
And then you bring
me home And we'll go to sleep but this time not alone, no no, And you'll kiss me in your living room, oh And you
see, no, that i've been missing in my Living room Cause this is what i miss, what i miss We don't have much room I
said, does anybody need that room? Because we all need a little more room To live
My Konstantine
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"(Hurricane) The Formal Weather Pattern"
Shake
down, you make me break, for goodness sake I think I'm on the edge of something new with you. Shout out, don't drown
the sound, I'll drown you out, you'll never scream so loud as I want to scream with you.
Standing there with your
smile blinding your eyes from seeing my face as I'm dying to figure out a girl. But she drifts so far away, I'm on
her coast, so maybe I should stay and map around her world.
So Don't Say "These currents are still killing me" and
you can't explain how the wind went and pulled you into the hurricane.
Stand up don't make a sound, your ears might
bleed. There are sweet fluorescent enemies that live inside of me. The world moves faster than I knew, not fast enough
to not creep up on you and the space we put between. So pull me under your weather patterns, your cold fronts and the
rain don't matter, because a sun burns what I needed.
You don't do it on purpose but you make me shake now I
count the hours 'til you wake. With your babies breath, breathe symphonies, come on sweet catastrophe. Maybe this time
I can follow through, I can feel complete, stop paying dues. Stop the rain from falling keep my oceans calm this time I
know nothings wrong.
"If You C Jordan"
I have a story, a bitter anthem
for everyone to hear, about this kid who just don't like me and that's a solid fact. They say he's hunting me and as
you see I'm all swelled up with fear cuz I can't get him off my back.
[Chorus:] If you see Jordan, if
you see Jordan, He makes me sick, he makes me sick High school's over, high school's over and you still won't quit.
You
tried to fight me down at Tyler's beach and man I think that's great. You nearly cried and said to yell at you like I do
at all the girls. Then you drove home real quick, did you make it in time to masturbate? There's one too many of you
in this world.
[Chorus]
You say its chivalry, but its jealousy that led us to this song. Won't play
it often just at least until you're gone. You'll stop at nothing but the real thing and everything up to that's pretend. You
tried to brainwash all my friends.
[Chorus]
Fuck you Jordan, fuck you Jordan, You make me sick,
you make me sick High school's over, high school's over I don't care if you dye your hair, You'll always be a little
redhead bitch
"Punk Rock Princess"
Maybe when the room is empty, Maybe when the bottle's
full. Maybe when the door gets broke down, Love can break in.
Maybe when I'm done with thinking, Maybe you
can think me whole. Maybe when I'm done with endings This can begin, this can begin This can begin.
If you
could be my punk rock princess, I would be your garage band king. You can tell me why you just dont fit in And how
you're gonna be something
Maybe when your hair gets darker, Maybe when your eyes get wide, Maybe when the walls
are smaller There will be more space
Maybe when I'm not so tired, Maybe you could step inside Maybe when I
look for things that I cant replace, I cant replace I cant replace.
If you could be my punk rock princess, I
would be your garage band king. You could tell me why you just dont fit in, And how you're gonna be something.
If
I could be your first real heartache, I would do it over again. If you could be my punk rock princess, I would be
your heroine.
I never thought you'd last, I never dream you would. You watch your life go past, You wonder
if you should.
If you should be my punk rock princess, So I could be your garage band king. You could tell me
why you just dont fit in, And how you're gonna be something.
If I could be your first real heartache, I would
do it over again. If you could be my punk rock princess, I would be your heroine.
Whoa! you know! You only
burn my bridges Whoa! you know! You just cant let it sink in! You could be my heroine, You could be my heroine!
"Bad Days"
It's been a bad day, another bad day and all I want
to do is look at you and know I'm okay. From where I'm sitting these shoes ain't fitting and I'm walking backwards, looking
down, don't see the sky I see the ground.
Above below you look and so you wonder, where the time has gone of
looking up, tomorrows on the way. Above below you look and so you say, when I wake up in the morning is it 'gonna
be another ugly day?
She sits in church its 2 pm and look whose back from work again. I guess they thought your
better off, without this life, without a job. From where I'm sitting these shoes ain't fitting and I'm going nowhere, killing
time, just trying to feed my bleeding mind.
It's been a bad day, another bad day and I cross my heart and hope
to die these dreams of yours are 'gonna fly.
"Little"
Climbing out of the sky a man
who could fly and a painting anyone could play. It's a comic book crush that taught you to trust. Staring out of the
stands at a rock n roll band and a hero no one else could save, it was never much but it's all that you gave.
And
I wonder if you wonder, or did your stars finally explode? Did the thunder pull you underneath the haze? I'm amazed,
then I let go.
Little minds let little pain burn big old dreams with little flames, and you don't think I understand. Little
holes in parachutes won't leave you falling, if they do, it's because you want to land.
Climbing out of his chair
to fix the T.V. glare is a man but no one knows he's there. It's a Dramamine dream that kept them alive but lost. She's
got her plastic friends and a brand new Benz and she laughs, "Hell, sometimes life ain't fair" It's a comic book crush
that got them nowhere.
These elevator doors are closing again you leave before I planned. I taste you walking down
the hall. You left your perfume on the nightstand.
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hesitate to E-Mail me at :::: TiffanyRoseRoberts@hotmail.com :::
I will e-mail you back . But, I have one consern.To
all of you people who think it's funny to waste your time and my time by sending
me hate mail and such.Don't. I have a lot of e-mails to go through.It takes time to e-mail back.
I have about 87 e-mails right now.
So yeah, don't waste your time on chain letters&&hatemail.
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