Missing Teens

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Hi this is Greg Travis II, I was in the band, The Missing Teens for a couple of years. James Call was the master-mind of the songs. I added some guitar to the mix. Darren on drums. Most of the songs we plyed live were from the album "Music For Young Adults". James' lyrics are very awesome. many of the songs feel like he is yelling at you and if you are not a self confident person who is doing the right thing it might be kind of painful to hear. but they make you want to be a better person. at least for me they did. But much of what james "sings" was and still is over my head. I am semi-literate. Even as a band member I was very often unsure as to what the songs were about. i recently asked him to explain briefly what some of the songs were about. Drive Uphill Drive Uphill is basically about how mankind is (often) rushing towards a pending collapse, sort of blindly with and with optimism, but with plenty of fear and hatred along the way - misplaced fear and hatred. It's a drive uphill to get where we're going, but if we stick together, we can all make a killing. Of course, in the end, our killing doesn't matter, as our short sight fucks us all. Round of Applause Round of Applause has a similar theme - how the quest for success can lead to our own abandonment and malignment by the people we love and care about. It's essentially a song for the small-time operator trying to "make it," but just making a fool out of his or herself. Although a few, a tiny eli

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the nuerotic world of James Call

Gentrifornication

1991 man!

Unhappy / Happy

astroturf

Hubris: the lost sequences...

MAIDEN AMERICA soundtrack

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JP - POTC - FINAL MIXES

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Last.fm free recommended downloads for slimak_ua's

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Last.fm free "Outsider and Incorrect Music" downloads

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Last.FM - Modern Psychedelic tag

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Music For Young Adults [master]

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