written, performed, recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by Chas Got the Spins
recorded June 2 - 9, 2024 at Team Headquarters, Ballard, Seattle, WA
mixed June 10 - July 18, 2024. mastered July, 2024 with assistance from Landr AI mastering

Don't Forget the Girl

Dabbin Cat Records 
Presents
Chas Got the Spins
THE BEST REVENGE 
7 new songs of passion and empowerment

BUMP THAT NEEDLE
THE BEST REVENGE (IS LIVING WELL)
GOT HERE SICK
THE LADY
GET IT
WEST GALER STREET FLYOVER
THE ELECTRIC CAROUSEL

Chas Got the Spins
THE BEST REVENGE

recorded March 22, 2024 - August 18, 2024 at Team Headquarters, Seattle, WA 
mixed August 24, 2024 - September 8, 2024 at Team Headquarters, Seattle, WA
mastered September 10, 2024 - October 1, 2024 with assistance from Landr AI mastering 
Written, produced, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by CHAS GOT THE SPINS. 
Album visual art by Clipchamp: unknown artist(s)
Promotional stills and portraits taken by Jennifer Rice 

© 2025 Dabbin Cat Records all rights reserved
© 2024/2025 Chas Got the Spins Music Publishing
© 2024/2025 music and lyrics Charles J. Rice


The Best Revenge

Just in time for summer comes a red hot arena rocker of a single from Chas Got the Spins - TIE HER DOWN - an ode to the woman who inspires me to throw off my chains and live an authentic life every day - I hope she inspires you too.

The single includes the titular anthem and the kinetically frenetic COMMIT HARDCORE, a ferocious commentary on the use of social media and other addictive substances owned by millionaires you hate to influence, addict, and drain.

The single releases worldwide on 5/2/2025

A MESSAGE FROM THE ARTIST

Dear Reader,

You are of the fortunate receivers of electronic information to have opened and laid eyes upon this message of rock, roll, and good will. It is almost summer in Seattle, as it is in many places in the Northern Hemisphere. Have you considered that winter is coming for half of the world?

But not here in Seattle, where the juxtaposition of city and nature is as striking as the contrast of our political beliefs and our political reality. Here’s the good news: we might get one more good summer in before it all falls apart, and I have just released a single that we can party to until partying is outlawed.

Grab yourself a beach and bring along some drugs. Do them in public. When I say “them,” of course I mean beer and sand. Don’t get hung up on words - get hung up on meaning, and the meaning will set you free. 

Check out Tie Her Down and share the good news with a friend.

Believe in yourself as I believe in me,
Sincerely,
Chas Got the Spins 



Tie Her Down

CHAS GOT THE SPINS 2.0
This Superior Machine
a Dabbin Cat Records release
1 This Superior Machine
2 Enduro 2.0 
3 Medicine 2.0

Recorded June 20 - July 16, mixed and mastered July 20, 2023 at Team Headquarters in Ballard, Seattle, Washington.
Chas Got the Spins is Charlie Rice: conception, creation, final product

Lyrics

THIS SUPERIOR MACHINE
This superior machine is built for endurance
This superior machine is built to last
This superior machine is reassurance
This superior machine will kick your ass

ENDURO 2.0
Ronnie plays enduro,
Ronnie plays all night
Ronnie’s careening to the left
Ronnie’s careening to the right
Ronnie’s racing racers
Ronnie’s up for the fight
All the kids know that Ronnie can’t be beat
Their clapping all their hands, their stomping all their feet
Saying, go Ronnie go, while their running down the street
Their saying go, Ronnie, go Ronnie, go Ronnie, go (3x)
Go Ronnie, Go Ronnie
Find a better place
Go Ronnie, Go Ronnie
Save the human race
Go Ronnie, Go Ronnie
Go right into space
Go Ronnie, Go Ronnie
Smack them in the face
Go Ronnie, Go Ronnie
Don’t you leave a trace
Go Ronnie, Go Ronnie
Lead them on a chase
Go Ronnie, Go Ronnie
Keep them on your case
GO!

MEDICINE 2.0
I’ve needed medicine all my life
So give me medicine and end my strife
When I take my medicine
It makes this all go away
When I take my medicine
I see things my own way
So give me medicine

All music and lyrics © Charles J. Rice 2023
Lyrics printed with permission © 2023 Chas Got the Spins Music publishing
Released by Dabbin Cat Records all rights reserved © 2023

This Superior Machine

I come from a jealous town
Where for everything they put you down
The way that you talk, the way that you dress
Mistakes that you make, sins you confess
It will all bring you down
In a jealous town
I don’t aspire to be 
A hero to anyone but me and my own
I’m happy to leave you alone
I spent my time watching things
That satirized your fragile feelings: so,
You spat on me, then you sat on me
Then you couldn’t help but get mad at me
When I stood up and said enough is enough,
And that’s enough.
The whole world is a jealous town,
Where for everything they put you down
The way that you talk, the way that you dress
Mistakes that you make, sins you confess
It will all bring you down
In a jealous town

Jealous Town / Wasn't Born

Jealous Town (single mix)

I wasn’t a good son
I walked the walk, but I couldn’t run
Everyone that saw me saw past me
I Couldn’t play the roles in which they cast me
I wasn’t a good man
Whenever they walked, I always ran
I don’t catch the drift you try to throw me
And I don’t care for seein’ what you show me
I wasn’t a good one
Put it on my stone
Then when the sun explodes
Everyone will have known
I wasn’t a good one

Chas Got the Spins

Good One

Jealous Town

When you see me, I’ll be alright
I’m looking up and I see Lucy in the light
I see Lucy in the light,
And I know everything’s gonna be alright
I know that love is never far
When I look up, I see Alice in the stars
I see Alice in the stars
And i know that love is never far
I will be safe, I’ll see know harm
I have the stars and light and Jennifer in my arms
I have Jennifer in my arms
I’ll be safe, I’ll see know harm

Lucy, Alice, And Jennifer

I remember what the sign song said
Everywhere that you turn your head
You will always see a sign
Telling you to stay in line
Where you work
Where you stay
Where you play
You must obey
The signs are the order of the day
Now, you see everywhere a sign
Telling you you had better stay in line
Telling you 
Where to spend your hard earned dime
Read the signs
I remember what your good book said
If you get smashed, turn your head
But you’re always on the attack
You give ‘em but can’t take a smack
You’ve given in
To your original sin
That state your in
Shows where you’ve been…
In the cult of religion
Now, you see everywhere a sign
Telling you you had better stay in line
Telling you 
Where to spend your hard earned dime
Read the signs

Everywhere A Sign

(Don’t choose a life you can’t afford to live)
On graduation day,
The fools I was surrounded by
Thought it was an ending
They all started to cry
But I started laughing
For me it was the start
Of me no longer giving a fuck
About things that break your heart
I’m gonna do things my way
I’ll do them in my time
I’ll do them till I’m dead
I’ll do them in my prime
(Don’t choose a life you can’t afford to live)
On graduation day
Fools walked two-by-two
Into lives decided for them
Doin’ what they’re told to do
I was never one of them
They knew it all along
Some thought they could break me
I proved them all wrong
On graduation day
Don’t you be afraid
Let all the fools cry
Do things your own way
(Don’t choose a life you can’t afford to live)
On graduation day
All I wanted
Was to get the fuck away
From all of those goddamned fools
Living lives that they can’t afford
They’re going to live and die by the goddamned sword
And I don’t care
‘Cause I’m not there
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Good-fucking-bye
You pioneers of the black hole
You got no souls

Graduation Day

(I’ve got something to put into you)
I wasn’t born to work a job
I was born to rock and roll
All day long
All day long, I make my songs
All day long, from the break of dawn
I make my songs
(I’ve got something to put into you)
I wasn’t born to wake up dead 
I was born to rock and roll
All night long
All night long, I sing my songs
All day long, till the break of dawn
I sing my songs
(I’ve got something to put into you,
Something that is faithful, something that’s true
Please remember, in all that you do…
No one can stop you, no one but you
So remember these things that I say,
Don’t live for tomorrow, live for today)
NOW WE’RE GONNA BREAK IT DOWN
The people I know, they work hard
In the coal mines, in the lumber yards,
But you know I can’t hesitate,
When I work hard, I create
We weren’t born to work a job
We were born to rock and roll all night long
All night long, we sing our songs
All night long, till the break of dawn
All night long, we sing our songs.
(singing it, we’re only singing it… it’s just a song)

03/14/2024

Wasn't Born

This is this the story of Chas Got the Spins
A man in control is a man who always wins…
Stillness in not a virtue
Virtue can be like a disease
Watch me spinning around and around and around and around and around
As I please…
Here we go!
I started spinning records
When I was just a tot
On a child’s phonograph
I’d sit and spin a lot
It started with a KISS
Then I caught the new wave
But without a piano 
I felt like a slave
When I finally got some keys
I found my own voice
Started spinning my own songs
Felt like I had a choice 
Between livin’ just for them
And living just for me
Between free and enslaved
I will always choose free
I’m spinning around around around
Can’t stop spinning around around aound
won’t stop spinning around 
When I’m spinning I am free
Be free like me…
Some people give it all
Some people give up
I keep on spinning 
From my overflowin’ cup
It ain’t hard for me
I hardly have try
I got my own ideas
And I’m gonna fly
Give me any city
Give me any town
Put me on a stage
I’ll spin you to the ground
I’ll get you feeling dizzy
I’ll get you feeling right
I’ll get you out late
Stayin’ up all night
I’m spinning around around around
Can’t stop spinning around around around
won’t stop spinning around 
When I’m spinning I am free
You gotta learn how to play this game
If you do not want to go insane
So come on,
Chase your dreams
They’re as real as they seem
CHASE THOSE DREAMS

Won't Stop Spinning

Don 't Give Up the Girl

That Night At Hattie's

Hang tight
It’s time to fight
For what’s right
Every night 

When they come for her,
And they will come for her
Protect her with all that you are
(Be a man, understand?)
Step in front of the firing line
Close your eyes and just nevermind
You know, life without her, is cruel and unkind

The clock is ticking down down down
They wanna push her around, around
Don’t let them chain her to the ground

Hang tight
It’s time to fight
For what’s right
Every night

Don’t give up the girl no matter what they say
Don’t give up the girl, she’d never give you away

Don’t give up the girl no matter what they say
Don’t give up the girl, she’d never give you away
Don’t give up the girl, she’s the only one for you 
Don’t give up the girl, no matter what you do

Don't Give Up the Girl

Don't Give Up Girl

from the forthcoming 2025 album THE BEST REVENGE, coming to a college radio station this winter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPOxrLmoeWs


The Electric Carousel

The Electric Carousel (radio edit)

The Best Revenge (is Living Well)

Got Here Sick

Bump That Needle

The Lady

Get It

West Galer Street Flyover

Dabbin Cat Records presents a wordless concept album, a singular story worthy of many interpretations, a classical electroacoustic composition produced and created with the AKAI FORCE… 
from the creative soul of Chas Got the Spins comes:
THE RECONCILIATION OF TIME AND BEING - ten songs of existence, peace, disturbance, and reconciliation.

This musical narrative relates the struggle of intangible voices from across all of time, deceased, yet to be born, and alive, disguised as wind, attempting to form a perfect chord - a chord that creates tangible, perceivable music by producing vibrations in solid objects like chimes, bells, and other surfaces that resound. The wind longs to be reconciled with its tangible self. The wind believes reconciliation happens when it and objects in the tangible world create the same perfect chord together - the sound of acknowledgement. Even in reconciliation, the rhythm of fear is present, but those unafraid begin to do a joyous dance until they dissolve into and are reunited with the wind.

the sound palette:

bells/chimes/mallets - These instruments personify the tangible world. 

choirs/human voices - voices personify the wind for the listener of this music. The wind symbolizes the voices of struggle and conflict from across all of time, existing together, alive and dead and yet to be born.

strings/piano/electronic sounds - these instruments create melody and tone that symbolize emotions felt by the wind and the tangible world it longs to be reconciled with. These instruments are also meant to accompany and augment other sounds in the palette.

drums/electronic percussion - percussion symbolizes the rhythm of cardiovascular reaction to extrasensory stimuli, and represents the resonation of wind against hard objects. 

originally released October 27, 2023 as my first official full length LP


BANDCAMP

Social Psychosis

To Be And Not To Be Is The Only Answer

Somatic Prodrome

An Unsettling Wind Crosses a Settlement

A Perpetually Arriving and Departing Presence Among Stars

Time and Being: Reconciliation

A Settlement Crossed by an Unsettling Wind

Weightless Hands Touching Weighted Shoulders

The Doctors Are Actually Inmates

Time and Being: Conflict (An Overture)

Commit Hardcore

Seasonal Town (radio edit) is a story of survival in Seattle and other seasonal towns across the USA. Don't let it bring you down. Do better for yourself. The unabridged EP - Bay Life - comes out this fall '25. 

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