While experimenting with a more nuanced songwriting process involving such steps as 'editing' and 'using a studio space that is not an echo chamber filled with noisy animals', Ernie Botts began creating songs that were more polished but still integrated the raw emotion and stuttering rhythms from earlier work. The result is a collection of songs that sound a bit like pop music transcribed to a decomposing merry-go-round's Wurlitzer, then performed by studio musicians primarily selected form high school battle of the band third runner ups. Although there are some solid songs, most of the release is uneven enough to preclude repeat listening. Prove us wrong!

Backyard Experiments in Noise

TRACK:

Ernie Botts + the Miseries - Backyard Experiments in Noise
Whatever

Chad A. Carino

ALBUM:

While experimenting with a more nuanced songwriting process involving such steps as 'editing' and 'using a studio space that is not an echo chamber filled with noisy animals', Ernie Botts began creating songs that were more polished but still integrated the raw emotion and stuttering rhythms from earlier work. The result is a collection of songs that sound a bit like pop music transcribed to a decomposing merry-go-round's Wurlitzer, then performed by studio musicians primarily selected form high school battle of the band third runner ups. Although there are some solid songs, most of the release is uneven enough to preclude repeat listening. Prove us wrong!

LYRICS:

One, three, two
Four seven five
Which of these numbers
Is not prime
That means to pump gasoline 
To light an internal fire
So let's get started

I'm asking these questions to get an answer
(You are whatever, made of nothing)
I'm asking these questions to get an answer
(I'm in the corner, made of answers)
I'm asking these questions to get an answer
(You are whatever, made of nothing)
I'm asking these questions to get an answer
(I'm in the corner, made of answers)
I'm asking these questions to get an answer
(You are whatever, made of nothing)
I'm asking these questions to get an answer
(I'm in the corner, made of answers)

2024 Remaster

Whatever

TRACK:

Ernie Botts + the Miseries - Backyard Experiments in Noise
Selective Anatomy

Chad A. Carino

ALBUM:

While experimenting with a more nuanced songwriting process involving such steps as 'editing' and 'using a studio space that is not an echo chamber filled with noisy animals', Ernie Botts began creating songs that were more polished but still integrated the raw emotion and stuttering rhythms from earlier work. The result is a collection of songs that sound a bit like pop music transcribed to a decomposing merry-go-round's Wurlitzer, then performed by studio musicians primarily selected form high school battle of the band third runner ups. Although there are some solid songs, most of the release is uneven enough to preclude repeat listening. Prove us wrong!

LYRICS:

I know the weight is coming
Over me
I sit befuddled
Broken monkey king

Someday I will lose you
One day we will die
Someday I will dream about your
Staring almond eyes

And I know
No one loves me
And I hope that I'm cold
When you drag me down
And drink me till I'm ash
Loving in my stiff bed
Dreaming of resting
In my padded casket

Someday I will lose you
One day we will die
Someday I will dream about your
Staring almond eyes

One day we will mourn the frozen passing of our love
This day we can dream together, lost broken doves

And I know
No one loves me
And I hope that I'm cold
When you drag me down
And drink me till I'm ash
Loving in my stiff bed
Dreaming of resting
In my padded casket

It is so quiet
It is so quiet
Why don't you come down to me
Why don't you come down to me
My mother once warned me

Don't give your love to someone
Who cannot use it

It is so quiet
It is so quiet
Why don't you come down to me

And I know
No one loves me
And I hope that I'm cold
When you drag me down
And drink me till I'm ash
Loving in my stiff bed
Dreaming of resting
In my padded casket

Selective Anatomy

TRACK:

Ernie Botts + the Miseries - Backyard Experiments in Noise
Wasted (working at a guitar shop)

Chad A. Carino

ALBUM:

While experimenting with a more nuanced songwriting process involving such steps as 'editing' and 'using a studio space that is not an echo chamber filled with noisy animals', Ernie Botts began creating songs that were more polished but still integrated the raw emotion and stuttering rhythms from earlier work. The result is a collection of songs that sound a bit like pop music transcribed to a decomposing merry-go-round's Wurlitzer, then performed by studio musicians primarily selected form high school battle of the band third runner ups. Although there are some solid songs, most of the release is uneven enough to preclude repeat listening. Prove us wrong!

Wasted (working at a guitar shop)

TRACK:

Ernie Botts + the Miseries - Backyard Experiments in Noise
Dreamscaper

Chad A. Carino

ALBUM:

While experimenting with a more nuanced songwriting process involving such steps as 'editing' and 'using a studio space that is not an echo chamber filled with noisy animals', Ernie Botts began creating songs that were more polished but still integrated the raw emotion and stuttering rhythms from earlier work. The result is a collection of songs that sound a bit like pop music transcribed to a decomposing merry-go-round's Wurlitzer, then performed by studio musicians primarily selected form high school battle of the band third runner ups. Although there are some solid songs, most of the release is uneven enough to preclude repeat listening. Prove us wrong!

Dreamscaper

TRACK:

Ernie Botts + the Miseries - Backyard Experiments in Noise
Walking Floormat

Chad A. Carino

ALBUM:

While experimenting with a more nuanced songwriting process involving such steps as 'editing' and 'using a studio space that is not an echo chamber filled with noisy animals', Ernie Botts began creating songs that were more polished but still integrated the raw emotion and stuttering rhythms from earlier work. The result is a collection of songs that sound a bit like pop music transcribed to a decomposing merry-go-round's Wurlitzer, then performed by studio musicians primarily selected form high school battle of the band third runner ups. Although there are some solid songs, most of the release is uneven enough to preclude repeat listening. Prove us wrong!

Walking Floormat

TRACK:

Ernie Botts + the Miseries - Backyard Experiments in Noise
Traveling at the Speed of Clouds

Chad A. Carino

ALBUM:

While experimenting with a more nuanced songwriting process involving such steps as 'editing' and 'using a studio space that is not an echo chamber filled with noisy animals', Ernie Botts began creating songs that were more polished but still integrated the raw emotion and stuttering rhythms from earlier work. The result is a collection of songs that sound a bit like pop music transcribed to a decomposing merry-go-round's Wurlitzer, then performed by studio musicians primarily selected form high school battle of the band third runner ups. Although there are some solid songs, most of the release is uneven enough to preclude repeat listening. Prove us wrong!

LYRICS:

Sliver in the sky 
Catch his golden eyes
Moving far too fast for 
Human consideration

Walking down the road
Unremarkable until
Today
Finds his love and hate
Breathing mist he crowns his fate

Picked up and lost 
Fighting mountain's frost
Drowning in similes for 
Human condition

Walking down the road
Unremarkable until
Today
Finds his love and hate
Breathing mist he crowns his fate

His mind is wandering away 
His friends call him insane 
Drank too much mushroom 	tea
Parents plead insanity 
Dreaming on soldier of peace 
He won't come down today
His mind is wandering away 
His friends call him insane 
Drank too much mushroom 	tea
Parents plead insanity 
Dreaming on soldier of peace 
He won't come down today

Walking down the road 
Unremarkable until 
Today
Finds his love and hate 
Breathing mists he crowns his fate
Crowns his fate

Travelling at the Speed of Clouds

TRACK:

Ernie Botts + the Miseries - Backyard Experiments in Noise
Not My Fault

Chad A. Carino

ALBUM:

While experimenting with a more nuanced songwriting process involving such steps as 'editing' and 'using a studio space that is not an echo chamber filled with noisy animals', Ernie Botts began creating songs that were more polished but still integrated the raw emotion and stuttering rhythms from earlier work. The result is a collection of songs that sound a bit like pop music transcribed to a decomposing merry-go-round's Wurlitzer, then performed by studio musicians primarily selected form high school battle of the band third runner ups. Although there are some solid songs, most of the release is uneven enough to preclude repeat listening. Prove us wrong!

LYRICS:

Empty face, blanket caution
Leaves me beyond
Redemption
Finding you secretly perched
On my shoulders
In daydreams
And you, have been in wheelchairs
And mistakes of dreams

I'm blaming you for all my mistakes
No matter how many years it takes
You've got me outside the gates
I'm blaming you for all my mistakes

Not My Fault

TRACK:

Ernie Botts + the Miseries - Backyard Experiments in Noise
Keeper

Chad A. Carino

ALBUM:

While experimenting with a more nuanced songwriting process involving such steps as 'editing' and 'using a studio space that is not an echo chamber filled with noisy animals', Ernie Botts began creating songs that were more polished but still integrated the raw emotion and stuttering rhythms from earlier work. The result is a collection of songs that sound a bit like pop music transcribed to a decomposing merry-go-round's Wurlitzer, then performed by studio musicians primarily selected form high school battle of the band third runner ups. Although there are some solid songs, most of the release is uneven enough to preclude repeat listening. Prove us wrong!

LYRICS:

If you go out that door
I can't see you anymore
We bought every kind of dream
I guess some dreams can't be bought at the store

(You make up something)

Don't say goodbye
Before we look eye to eye
Kiss one last time
Deciding once and for
All the time
We have left before we die
We were wrong about
A love we thought was a keeper

(It's just pop punk... it's not hard!)

Don't say goodbye
Before we look eye to eye
Kiss one last time
Deciding once and for
All the time
We have left before we die
We were wrong about
A love we thought was a keeper

Don't leave me behind I'm breaking
My heart is filled with ways
To convince you to stay
Sweat staining the nights I'm wasting
A way is not in sight
To get this love right

Don't say goodbye
Before we look eye to eye
Kiss one last time
Deciding once and for
All the time
We have left before we die
We were wrong about
A love we thought was a keeper

(Oh god it hurts like a... papercut)

Keeper

TRACK:

Ernie Botts + the Miseries - Backyard Experiments in Noise
Short Ride

Chad A. Carino

ALBUM:

While experimenting with a more nuanced songwriting process involving such steps as 'editing' and 'using a studio space that is not an echo chamber filled with noisy animals', Ernie Botts began creating songs that were more polished but still integrated the raw emotion and stuttering rhythms from earlier work. The result is a collection of songs that sound a bit like pop music transcribed to a decomposing merry-go-round's Wurlitzer, then performed by studio musicians primarily selected form high school battle of the band third runner ups. Although there are some solid songs, most of the release is uneven enough to preclude repeat listening. Prove us wrong!

Short Ride

TRACK:

Ernie Botts + the Miseries - Backyard Experiments in Noise
Badass

Chad A. Carino

ALBUM:

While experimenting with a more nuanced songwriting process involving such steps as 'editing' and 'using a studio space that is not an echo chamber filled with noisy animals', Ernie Botts began creating songs that were more polished but still integrated the raw emotion and stuttering rhythms from earlier work. The result is a collection of songs that sound a bit like pop music transcribed to a decomposing merry-go-round's Wurlitzer, then performed by studio musicians primarily selected form high school battle of the band third runner ups. Although there are some solid songs, most of the release is uneven enough to preclude repeat listening. Prove us wrong!

LYRICS:

You can drink me under the table any day into night long as it feels right
Drag me through the gobi desert and show me the light girl show me the light

Find the switch turn me off turn it on and drop me the bomb
Write yourself in a song and we'll all sing along
Turn me on turn it off and make it all wrong
Turn me on girl turn me on

You can make me into your puppet smiling bright won't that be a sight
Sore eyes burn holes in the carpets and upholstery on cigarette night

Find the switch turn me off turn it on and drop me the bomb
Write yourself in a song and we'll all sing along
Turn me on turn it off and make it all wrong
Turn me on girl turn me on

12 steps one life
Let's get together
And live it alright
12 steps one life
let's make it better
let's make it
love

You can bury my body in the pale of moonlight it'll be alright
Next to all the other guys that passed through your life it's quite alright

Find the switch turn me off turn it on and drop me the bomb
Write yourself in a song and we'll all sing along
Turn me on turn it off and make it all wrong
Turn me on girl turn me on

Badass

Ernie Botts was the stage name that Chad A. Carino selected for himself when he got tired of the persona he had developed for performing under his given name. So, Ernie Botts is normal Chad A. Carino, and Chad A. Carino is the persona. Make sense? 
(he will be referred to as Ernie for the rest of this bio to reduce confusion)
The full title of Ernie Botts + the Miseries occurred when Ernie was working on recording solo, stream of consciousness songs (that would become the release The Art of Fading Thought) and realized he was writing for an audience of one. He claims to have decided that all audience members for any of his solo work would likely be miserable, and therefore claim the title of 'the Miseries'. Audiences, however, failed to play along at the sporadic live shows following the release of TAOFT in 2003.
Toward the end of 2003, Ernie began adding 'hacked' robotic toys to the MIDI triggers set up to play layered tracks at live shows, claiming to hypnotize audience members who listened to more than one song... to what end, no one knows. During this time, he disappeared due to serious illness for a month, and then reappeared with a new EP, Dysphoria. Apparently, this was recorded both in stream-of-consciousness and in the middle of treatment for the illness.
In 2005, the release Backyard Experiments in Noise revealed a more layered approach, even as the tempo shifts and complexity grew more unsettling than in previous works. Ernie disappeared again, for a number of years, before returning to the stage with a new outfit (Formulae). Outtakes and solo tracks recorded during this period were released as a new album in 2008, Unresolved History. This release was followed by a number of shows (with people instead of robots, this time!) in support of the album from 2008-2010. 
All  prior releases from Ernie Botts + the Miseries are being released in 'remastered' form in 2024. This seems like quite the gap.

Whatever

Ernie Botts + the Miseries

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