Various Eggs realize that their first release will set the expectations for all releases that follow. With this in mind, their initial E.P. reflects a wide breadth of influences. If the next release were a horror movie soundtrack, it could be anticipated by this E.P. If the next release were a cover of the entirety of Neil Young’s Tonight’s The Night, this could be anticipated by the E.P. as well. And somewhere between these extremes lie Various Eggs.

The entire album is available for download, with a PDF of the liner notes, at https://variouseggs.bandcamp.com/.  If you like what you hear, you can download it (for free if you like).

Various Eggs Don’t Expect Much From Others

1. Biggest Fish
2. Summon Us All Up
3. Interstitial #1 (Thank You G.B.)
4. Girls
5. Disposing of “The Need”
6. Interstitial #2 (Duet)
7. I Wish The Best For You

Julie Bosak: Vocals
Tricia Kupec: Drums
Justin Poroszok: Bass
L.J. Rafalko: Songs, Etc.

Recorded and mixed by Allen Bergendahl and L.J. at Scott's Addition Sound, The Birdhouse, The Hope Church Studio, and a warehouse in Ocean, NJ. Mastering by Full Circle Mastering.
Art work by John Murdock.

©2013
Mending Wall 1

Don't Expect Much From Others

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I wish the best for you

Various Eggs realize that their first release will set the expectations for all releases that follow.  With this in mind, their initial E.P. reflects a wide breadth of influences.  If the next release were a horror movie soundtrack, it could be anticipated by this E.P.  If the next release were a cover of the entirety of Neil Young’s Tonight’s The Night, this could be anticipated by the E.P. as well.  And somewhere between these extremes lie Various Eggs.

Interstitial #1 (Thank You G.B.)

Various Eggs realize that their first release will set the expectations for all releases that follow.  With this in mind, their initial E.P. reflects a wide breadth of influences.  If the next release were a horror movie soundtrack, it could be anticipated by this E.P.  If the next release were a cover of the entirety of Neil Young’s Tonight’s The Night, this could be anticipated by the E.P. as well.  And somewhere between these extremes lie Various Eggs.

Lyrics:

You’re the biggest, greatest fish in this fragile shrinking pond. 
You've got that act down well. You’re the center of this song. 

And that’s so great hun, let’s put it on the fridge. 
And that’s so great hun, come to get, come tuck me in. 

You've kept yourself enabled. I applaud you for that. 
But, the act you’re keeping up has its well bored out cracks. 

You’re the biggest, greatest fish in this, but it’s such a sad pond.
It’s a survival skill. Hell, it’s worked for this long.

Biggest Fish

Various Eggs realize that their first release will set the expectations for all releases that follow.  With this in mind, their initial E.P. reflects a wide breadth of influences.  If the next release were a horror movie soundtrack, it could be anticipated by this E.P.  If the next release were a cover of the entirety of Neil Young’s Tonight’s The Night, this could be anticipated by the E.P. as well.  And somewhere between these extremes lie Various Eggs.

Lyrics:

I was in bed, half asleep, not alone, when I got the call. 
She couldn't breathe, lost her feet, she said, 
“Please, I’m about to fall.” 

Where is Superman? The Flash? Where’s the next Hulk 
when they’re all tired and lost their nerve after the bomb? 

“I can’t think, need a drink, Vicodins to steady my nerves. 
If I am the last to survive, well, what is that worth? 

Who replaces Superman? The Flash? Where’s the next Hulk 
when they’re all tired and lost their nerve after the bomb?” 

I’m to expect that I’ll feel incomplete for quite a while. 
But to get up, keep routines, face the day, even fake a smile. 

“For this too shall pass,” it’s said and it’s said cuz it’s true. 
When next they summon us all up, it’ll just be me and you. 

We’ll drag ourselves along til we find purpose anew. 
And, if that never comes, you've got me and I've got you.

Summons Us All Up

Various Eggs realize that their first release will set the expectations for all releases that follow.  With this in mind, their initial E.P. reflects a wide breadth of influences.  If the next release were a horror movie soundtrack, it could be anticipated by this E.P.  If the next release were a cover of the entirety of Neil Young’s Tonight’s The Night, this could be anticipated by the E.P. as well.  And somewhere between these extremes lie Various Eggs.

Lyrics:

What’s with these girls-girls-girls hovering around me? 
All of these girls-girls laughing at something I can’t see. 

Tell all these girls-girls-girls I won’t take care of them 
if all these girls don’t smile when I approach. 

They’ll never warm up to me. 
Not this time around. 

Maybe next time I’ll be so handsome they’ll be fighting about 
Which of these girls really really loves me 
Which of these girls will draw me a bath. 

Tell all these girls-girls-girls stop acting like children 
or I’ll cover my ears and act like one too. 

They’ll never warm up to me. 
Not this time around. 

Maybe next time I’ll have so much talent there’ll be little doubt 
How much these girls really really need me. 
Without me these girls-girls-girls, they won’t be complete. 

Make sure these girls-girls-girls 
They know that they’re wanted. 

But hey you, you girls, we need not have spoke.


Girls

Various Eggs realize that their first release will set the expectations for all releases that follow.  With this in mind, their initial E.P. reflects a wide breadth of influences.  If the next release were a horror movie soundtrack, it could be anticipated by this E.P.  If the next release were a cover of the entirety of Neil Young’s Tonight’s The Night, this could be anticipated by the E.P. as well.  And somewhere between these extremes lie Various Eggs.

Lyrics:

I need your honey scent. Your amber brown tone. 
And me, I must depend upon your passing glance to get by. 

It seems that then, I should wait til when you want me to come home. 
Or be that man who just casts about to parts unneeded/unknown. 

And I should stop before these thoughts get the best of me. 
Before I sit on the edge of my bed and I recall it all as if it was a dream. 

…What I mean… it’s like the scene from when we were at your house 
and you left marks upon my throat. 

…Or that love note we read and we laughed and wept. 
Well yeah that was mean, but who was to know. 

…Your sweet white peach... we planted the seed 
and you took a bet. You said that nothing would grow. 

And I should stop before these thoughts consume the whole of me. 
Before I sit on the edge of my bed and relive it all as if it was a dream. 

What I mean is … I need your honey scent. Your amber brown tone. 
And me, I must depend upon your passing glance to get by. 

It seems that then, I should wait til when you want me to come home. 
Or be that man who just casts about to parts unneeded/unknown. 

And I should stop before these thoughts make a fool of me 
Before I sit on the edge of my bed and I want it all as if it was a dream. 

What I mean is that you’re facing me, you put your hand on my cheek 
and say “you poor thing, you need a home.” 
… … 

I wake up it’s morning. 
I’m so much better now. 
So much better now.

Disposing of “The Need”

Interstitial #2 (Duet)

The cat’s out of the bag… Our new 3 track E.P. is coming out on November 3rd! It’s also up and live on Bandcamp already because, well, I messed up.  Anyway, I’m thrilled to finally have released Five Four Girls. 

We started working on these songs at Rabid Ears Recording back in 2019 with the intention of releasing them as this E.P. From those recording sessions, only the drum tracking for the title track has made it to this release. Tricia and I recorded (or re-recorded) everything else at our own homegrown studio that we refer to as Mushroomtopia. The reason for that nickname is obvious if you’ve ever seen my moss-covered yard after a rainstorm.

"Five Four Girls" and "To Jenny" are songs written as a character.  They aren't me.  They aren't Tricia. But, it was fun to go to such unsavory places for some pretty creepy songs.

"Drone Bomb You" is an attempt to write something of a geo-political song.  And, boy, that is a difficult thing to write.  The song ended up a critique of another songwriter's attempt to write an urgent song about the state of politics. Kyle from Book of Wyrms guests on lead guitar on this song!

I thank Tricia for continuing to work with me and for enthusiastically jumping into the role of production partner. I thank Allen Bergendahl for his ongoing support, friendship, expertise and advice. I thank Kyle Lewis for many hours of shredding. I thank Laura Manchester for embracing my visual ideas and running with them to fantastic results. And thank you to Todd, Ben and Jake; “Five Four Girls” wouldn’t be what is without you.

-Lawrence Joseph