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New Part In Town

by The Scenics

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    Pre-order of New Part In Town. You get 4 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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    releases May 7, 2024

      $10 USD  or more

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited Edition 12" Vinyl with 8 page booklet- featuring 8000 word essay by Scenics co-founders Ken Badger and Andy Meyers about the scenic view of 1976, lots of pictures, including the ONLY existing picture of the "SCENIC CAVES" (The band's original name) trio... plus a coupla stickers!

    Includes digital pre-order of New Part In Town. You get 4 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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      $27 USD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Limited edition CD of the Scenics' earliest recordings! Six panel gatefold package designed by David Montle. Features a 2000 word essay on the scene and the Scenics in 1976 by Scenic co-founder Andy Meyers.
    with photos (including the ONLY known photo of the first line up of the band) and a cartoon and drawing by celebrated west coast cartoonist Gareth Gaudin.

    Includes digital pre-order of New Part In Town. You get 4 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around May 7, 2024
    edition of 100 

      $12 USD or more 

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 4 Dream Tower Records releases available on Bandcamp and save 40%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of New Part In Town, In The Summer, Talking Songs, and Dead Man Walks Down Bayview. , and , .

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Jonathan Richman
2.
Tokyo 04:07 video
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(Hey Ho) Goin’ To Tokyo Ken Badger Goin’ down by the river I’m goin’ to shed a tear Then I’m goin’ to hop a Japanese freighter And float right on out of here Going to find me a new home With something that’ll tie me down Lord knows it’s not the healthiest thing To be runnin’ around and around and around Though I’m not exactly sure The kind of thing I’m gettin’ into It’s up and down and back and forth On that you can depend Hey Ho To-To-Tokyo Ain’t got no place better to go They say everyone should have something to do to occupy their time To keep their minds and bodies free Of things that don’t jive and don’t rhyme Well I tried doin’ this and I tried doin’ that And I tried to walk a straight line But when the wind starts shifting My mind starts drifting To some other space in some other time And even if I had 100,00 2nd second chances I’d still be looking for a different set of circumstances Hey Ho To-To-Tokyo Ain’t got no place better to go This North American city is dragging me Round on the end of its tail It’s tryin’ to lose me and it’s Tryin’ to confuse me I’m doing my best just to stay out of jail Maybe i’ll form a union for vagrants Perhaps achieve international fame Meanwhile for my enjoyment I’ll just save my unemployment For some rainy Fujiyama day Hey Tiger Lily save some free time for me I like ketchup on my rice and hot sake with my tea Hey Ho To-To-Tokyo Ain’t got no place better to go
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Farm Reports and Test Patterns
4.
New Part In Town
5.
This Day 03:08
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This Day On the porches they were watching In the street a cat and a car TV noises float around in the air They approached the intersection then they stopped and then they ran across and nothing happened after that for a while This day suspended in time Late afternoon and the sun is shining. On the porches they were vacant watching dust settle all around all around and each one of them thought of what she would wear And it darker and it grew more light and it’s gonna blot out a vacant light and each one of them decided what she would wear This night might be something unkind But on my porch I don’t seem to mind This night might be something unkind But on my porch I don’t seem to mind
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O Charlotte 03:44
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Oh Charlotte! Ken Badger Oh Charlotte put your coin in my slot My liver is soaked and my hands got o’clock You’re my subdivision lover in your new Corvette I’ve tried for four months now and I’ll get you yet We’ll park at our greasy gazebo baby I’ll put my hand on you need Give me all you got Considering it’s a lot And then we’ll oh Charlotte Oh Charlotte you sure got a lot My sweet Charlotte Your daddy was a loser long before you were born Now he owns a company and a great big shiny new Cadillac car His eyes see little dollar signs with trees used to grow Now is eyes they move more fast and his mind it moves more slow Well next at our greasy gazebo baby I think I’m going to twist your leg Give me all you got Considering it’s a lot And then we’ll oh Charlotte Oh Charlotte you sure got a lot My sweet Charlotte Your mama is a swinger she’s a party doll She said son you better take good care of my little girl Mama don’t you worry about your teenage girl She was in good hands with Allstate she’s in better hands now Will dance and prance to that heavy music We’ll watch the hippies do their thing new We’ll scrounge and lounge in our wormwood heaven And then we’ll oh Charlotte Oh Charlotte you sure got a lot My sweet Charlotte
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I'm Sad
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Garthuson 02:16
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GARTHUSON (Andy Meyers/ Allowed Sound Music) Garth Hudson is so cool He never even blinks and when he is out front just close his eyes and thinks and when he gets behind sure blows up a storm Garth Hudson is so cool? you ain’t even warm Garth Hudson is so cool he’s an organist bag of tricks and all the others drool when he supplies the missing licks the sounds he makes with his own hands no tapes could recreate.
And I was born to love him yes I know this was my fate Garth Hudson walks. Garth Hudson sometimes even talks when everyone goes quiet his musical bag of tricks he unlocks Garth Hudson sometimes smiles and he’s been known to cry but when he lives his life offstage he’s just like you and I Garth Hudson is so cool He never even blinks and when he is out front he don’t play nothing that stinks and when he gets behind blow hotter all the time Garth Hudson is so cool and I’m so glad he’s mine Garth Hudson
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In The Summer
10.
Little Johnny Jewel

about

“In the last week of High School, I hand wrote a sign. In bold and shaky print, I issued a series of challenges—“Are you tired of being in bands that aren’t doing anything different? Do you want to hear something new?”

In the summer of 1976, Andy Meyers wrote this ad, Ken Badger responded, and The Scenics were launched. From day one they shared an uncanny musical connection as they stepped into the new musical landscape opened up by artists like Patti Smith and Pere Ubu, the Velvet Underground and Roxy Music.

NEW PART IN TOWN is Protopunk at it’s most sizzling-- the intricate interplay of Television meets the surging urgency of the New York Dolls. It is nascent Scenics, recorded with drummer Mike Cusheon 4 months after Ken and Andy met. It includes 9 Scenics originals (6 by Badger, 3 from Meyers), 7 of which have not been previously released in any version. It also includes a 9 minute take on Little Johnny Jewel.

On LP (with a booklet featuring an 8000 word essay by Scenics' cofounders Ken Badger and Andy Meyers and lots of pictures. Also a coupla stickers!) through Supreme Echo Records. SE61.

On CD (with an 1800 word essay) and digital through Dream Tower Records. DT13.

Release Date 05/07/24. Digital pre-order 04/11/24

This album is first in a series of ‘SCENICS ANNUAL’ LPs covering each year of their original run, drawn from the Scenics 300 hour tape archive. Coming in Spring 2025: A YOUNGER VERSION featuring unreleased studio, live, and basement tracks from 1977.

credits

releases May 7, 2024

Ken Badger /Guitar, Bass, Vocals
Andy Meyers /Bass, Guitar, Vocals
Mike Cusheon /Drums, Background Vocals

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Dream Tower Records Toronto, Ontario

Vintage/current music by Toronto protopunk legends The Scenics & related projects.

“It wasn't so much that The Scenics were ahead of their time in 1977, it's more that almost everybody else didn't even know what time it was.
New York had Talking Heads, and England was blessed with XTC, but here was their equal in Toronto...”
Bob Mersereau, author "the Top 100 Canadian Albums" ... more

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