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We wuz curious is , lyrically , probably the most autobiographical work by Dave Graney with 5 of the songs starting with the perpendicular pronoun “I”. It is also very much a “band” album with each player of the Lurid Yellow Mist collective contributing music for a song .
Within the songs, looking outwards , you could say in one place that its a
jazz/r&b album, elsewhere its pumping electro , over there “yacht rock” , elsewhere, wailing post punk. Lets call it a pop album.
It starts with “you had to be drunk” and this drops, with a single hi hat swish, into a funk groove that is all encompassing. It drives along with a lazy , behind the beat feel around an irregular six bar figaure that keeps both unwinding and winding up. Dave Graney, a teetotaller ,is singing about his life in the lyric.

lyrics

You had to be drunk
To put it all together in any kind of way
I dunno how you could’ve walked that world other wise
You had to be drunk
To take the blows
And take some pills to take the edge off
Playing the guitar
I took some weed
I could see the holes yawning between the beats
I was flyin’ high above the land
The nights were still long and dark and well lit
The air was still close and warm
And somethin had just happened
Or was gonna happen
And there was nothin you could do
you had to be drunk
so you could roll
somehow we had to survive the fall
we were blind
we fell and rolled and woke up again
like nothin had happened
We read some books and listened to some music
Sat in a circle with some old guys
They’d been there before
They took us through the scene and what plays we could try
We saw the future
"we’ll have to be drunk", we said
that was our plan - that’s what we did
we couldn’t change out clothes
we were so drunk
we had to be out of it to survive
you had to be drunk
otherwise you’d feel something
surrounded by the undead - "that might’ve been us"
you had to be drunk
to make it funny - otherwise you’d cry
you had to lie to stay true - That’s the way it seemed
if you wanted to stay out of trouble - you had to lie through your teeth
and smile all the while and pull the wool over your own eyes
you had to steal
if you wanted to eat
there was food everywhere
they rubbed it under your mouth and dared you not to bite
but you didn’t have the cash and you wanted to live
you had to take it walk slowly, smile, and plan it well

credits

from we wuz curious (2008 mistLY masterpiece), track released June 1, 2008
Dave Graney, vocals, electric and acoustic guitar
Clare Moore, drums, percussion,vocals, organ.
Stu D aka Stuart Thomas, bass, vocals.
Stu Perera, electric guitar.
Mark Fitzgibbon, piano.

mastered by Greg Wadley
Cover illustration by Tony Mahony.

Recorded September 2007 at Sing Sing South.
Engineer Adam Rhodes.
Mixed at the Ponderosa October-November 2007 by Dave graney and Clare Moore
Produced by Dave Graney and Clare Moore.

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dave graney Melbourne, Australia

From Melbourne, Australia.
Dave Graney and Clare Moore were once in the Moodists, singer and drummer respectively.Then there was the Coral Snakes and and now Dave Graney and the mistLY.
Stu Thomas on bass since 2004 and Stuart Perera on guitar since 1998
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