THE WORST OF KOALA?! AND THE K-HOLES PLAYLIST!

I wrote this in about fifteen minutes yesterday morning, and now I have less than 5 to upload the track from the library (i dont own a computer). I will hopefully think of a better title at some point.

Lyrics to "Untitled mountain anger song":
"When I wake up in the morning and look out of my front door and see all of those trees/my mind is generating images gasoline and turpentine and bic's setting me free/How the hell did I get here in this stupid fucking forest all these stupid fucking trees?/I pray, one of these stupid tweekers would blow up their stupid meth lab/send them running in the street//This is it I'm sick of this shit/I'm really fucking tired and I'm really fucking pissed/Burn this God-damned mother fucker to the ground/I've lost my wit and funny bone/Fuck this shit I'm going home/I rather live inside a god damn trash can" (repeat again)

"Untitled Mountain Anger Song" (now with lyrics) by k0aLa?! (and the K-Holes)

Came out of me in about five minutes, though i had the idea floating around for a day or two. And yes I realize i might get thrown into guantamo bay for not being more careful with my metaphors, but fuck it...i hear they have a good vegetarian menu there.

lyrics:
[refrain: oh my only love x2///verse: There is no way i'd be here today/if it werent for these hunks of wood/if it wasnt for guthrie albini and weasel/i know that i'd be up to no good./I'm well aware i am impaired/it scares me i am so out of control/But no matter what new shit blows up/i know there is a place for me to go///repeat refrain///verse:if it wasn't for music, swear to JAH that i would lose it/if it weren't for breaking strings well i'd be fucked/i would surely explode if it weren't for notes and codas/the vocoders and choruses i love/When i lose it i choose not to blow up a car/and instead i press play on the deck/when i want to mass murder and go into a fervor/i know that i have one thing left///chorus: i'd cry for help/if anyone could/but when i have/they've misunderstood/Elyon and songs/are all that stop me/from becoming/a tsunami///refrain///verse: if i had not had my Aus Rotten tape dropped down by GOD/i would fly to Lebanon wrap my turban and start a jihad/if it weren't for dr octagon the pixies and mtx/i'd be living in a cabin mailing bombs to techno admins/and the feds would be out gunning for my neck///refrain///verse:if it wasn't for music, swear to JAH that i would lose it/if it weren't for breaking strings well i'd be fucked/i would surely explode if it weren't for notes and codas/the vocoders and choruses i love/When i lose it i choose not to blow up a car/and instead i press play on the deck/when i want to mass murder and go into a fervor/i know that i have one thing left///chorus: i'd cry for help/if anyone could/but when i have/they've misunderstood/Elyon and songs/are all that stop me/from becoming/a tsunami///refrain///

"koALA akbar! (a.k.a. koala jihad)" by k0ala?! (and the K-Holes)

A cover of the mountain goats/john darnielle. The original was so beautiful I thought i would fuck it up a bit for you.

"No Children (Mountain Goats cover)" by k0ala?! (and the k-holes)

After returning home yesterday i realized that my chorus rhymed a word with the same word, which pissed me off. So i re-recorded it today. My bad....

lyrics:

[verse: not a single thing/every venture was doomed from the start/not incompetence/apathy and chaos in my heart/i try - i feel proud/but something random always tears me down/i do - things i don't mean/cut my tongue to see if it still bleeds///chorus: and hell can't scare me down/i've climbed this tree too high to jump off now/and this I can't defend/but i'll ride this mother fucker til the end///verse: and if I couldn't laugh/i would let the earth devour my ass/but it's all thick brick walls/full of holes from nights of alcohol/and i can't feel my spine/i've become proficient at killing time/i've used up all my prayers/when i invoke HIM there is no one there///repeat chorus///verse: Where did i go wrong?/or maybe i've just been right all along/i walk with crooked steps/bastard grin, broken heart, broken neck/i make bad decisions/each one contributes to cloud my vision/it's like self flaggelation/ masochistic tricks that i engage in///repeat chorus]

***NOTE: I appear to have trouble saying the word "contribute"....apologies

"Thanatos Dendron (2nd version)" by k0ala?! (and the k-holes)

A new recording of an old song, circa 2010.

lyrics:

[verse: oh light shines through cracks in the darkness/holding on to whats bitter and pure/everything seems to tell me there's a bad moon rising/sometimes i wanna check out/but i'm not so sure///chorus: and I, i'm feeling better all the time, and I///verse: its hard to tell if its me or the new medications/everythings wrong but it feels so right/now that you ripped out my heart, well i'd like to thank you/cause maybe now i can actually get something done///chorus: and i, i'm feeling better all the time x2///bridge: i deserve what i got but it sure was a lot of frustration/we could have made it if only we made it shine/we only had a few more feet until the end of the race/but we gave it up ten yards from the finish line///verse: Well I tell lies i tell them too often/you just believe them and only i lose/sometimes its so bleak that i can fucking stand it/my spine is cracked/and my guts are all bruised///chorus: and i, i'm not really feeling better x2 and I, I'm feeling better all the time]

"The House We Built (2nd version)" k0aLa?! (And the K-Holes)

Never recorded this one before. I wrote it in 2009 when i was in a phase where i was obsessed with the mountain goats and thought this one was too fast. But since i obviously abandoned that i decided to lay it down for gits and shiggles.

lyrics:

[verse: when i was 14 and in the punk scene/we stayed out every night/cut "fight war not wars" into old brown paper bags/punk rock saved our lives/we'd walk into stores and come out with triple c's/go to the bridge and fight/waiting for the jocks with knives smileys and pad locks/but punk rock saved our lives///chorus: all the fucked up drugs we took/all the nasty girls we fucked/all the fights and all the crazy nights in town/if i could go back and change my whole fucking life I wouldn't/cause punk rock saved our lives///verse: When i was 14 and in the punk scene/i'd play in my dumb band/we'd fight every week because they thought that we were geeks/i broke my effing hand/the fear and catharsis and uncertainty/it always felt so right/and now i look back and it all feels like a dream/but punk rock saved our lives///repeat chorus/bridge/chorus/done}

"park trash (punk rock saved our lives)" by k0aLa?! (And the K-Holes)

(***New videos up on youtube. The page for my americana/roots side project Koala?! and the Exploding Meth Lab can now be found at www.soundcloud.com/theexplodingmethlab
KOALA has been making d.i.y. bedroom outsider lo-fi anti folk punk since 2003, but due to mental illness and drug addiction he lost his focus and nothing ever came of it. After sobering up and regaining a degree of sanity, he began writing and recording again in the fall of 2015. 
K0ALA was raised in Los Angeles and grew up in the punk rock and hardcore scene, moving into indie and noise rock in his young adulthood. Influences are taken from punk and hardcore, from indie folk and indie rock, from noise rock, from outsider, from folk punk, from early americana-roots, from folk and country, from alt. country and antifolk, even from the lyricism of hip hop (i.e. wu tang clan, del the funky homosapien, asher roth, el-p).

KOALA has long aimed to cultivate the chaos and urgency in his own life and capture it in his songs (whether he has failed at this or not is up to you). Noise, fuzz, overdrive, feedback, off key vocals, detuned guitars, cheap recording equipment, and of course chain smoking cheap cigarettes all add up to make the fucking mess that is KOALA?! AND THE K-HOLES

Some label better come suck this shit up before Def Jam or Atlantic come a knockin! :/

influences: the Moldy Peaches, The Mountain Goats, attilla the stockbroker, billy bragg, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Violent Femmes, They might be giants, langhorne slim, will oldham, neutral milk hotel, this bike is a pipebomb, woody guthrie, hank williams sr, the holy modal rounders, the fugs, david peel, velvet underground, screeching weasel, mr t experience, the pogues, the pixies, steve albini, new lost city ramblers, kentucky bootleggers, khaki king, john vanderslice, beulah, the microphones/mt eerie, postal service, old crow medicine show, get the hell out of the way of the volcano, ghost mice, defiance ohio, cat stevens, donovan, heathers, bob dylan (early), leonard cohen, nick drake, smog/bill callahan, david allen coe, the carter family, atom and his package, paul baribeau, the beat happening, the vaselines, Cake, CUB, go sailor, mike park etc.

Here are a few reviews from music blogs:
http://madmackerel.org/2016/01/12/100-songs-in-100-hours-40-koala-and-the-k-holes/

http://www.themodernfolk.net/2015/12/koala-and-kholes-sheolburbia.html

http://emergingindiebands.com/k0ala-and-the-k-holes/
Press Quotes:

"I literally almost shit my pants while listening to Koala?! and the K-Holes...But in a good way. My ears were bleeding and my underwear were stained with feces, but it was worth every horrible moment!" -Pitchfork Magazine

"When I first heard Koala?! and the K-Holes I thought to myself 'who do they sound like?' and when it finally came to me I realized they were the spitting image of the Arcade Fire, if the Arcade fire were, like, 78% less shitty of a band" - NME 

"Koala and the K-holes made me campaign to get the name of the zine changed to MAXIMUM FULK!, but they wouldn't agree because they said only posers like marsupials" - Maximum Rock n Roll

"If there's on artist to listen to while having questionably legal sex with animals, koala?! and the k-holes would totally be it! They're like Dave Matthews Band for severely psychologically impaired bonobo apes!" - Spin magazine
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"Untitled Mountain Anger Song" (now with lyrics) by k0aLa?! (and the K-Holes)

KOALA?! (and the K-Holes)