Missionarys Downfall

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuKhdBUmVNI
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Recorded and mixed by Yanick Bathfield
Mastering by Ross Finck

Lyrics:

Wake up in the morning and my socks are wet, my socks are wet
Put on a brand new shirt but we're not getting on, getting on again

Sigh 'n sigh again but it was only an accident, an accident
I'm tired of making sure that you not gonna freak out again
And leave me at the door.

Why's it so hard to understand me
I'm just tryna live my life while I can.

With our music and our friends we've got more than you can spend
Forget those early morning emails we're busy kicking down the man
Seems like such a waste of time when you're working 9 to 5
Baby that's it I'm hungover you gotta make up your own mind.

Beating on my back is not gonna change my way or win the game
You think I'm some kind of bad ass, but that's where you're wrong that's not where I belong.

Why's it so hard to understand me
I'm just tryna live my life while I can.

With our music and our friends we've got more than you can spend
Forget those early morning emails we're busy kicking down the man
Seems like such a waste of time when you're working 9 to 5
Baby that's it I'm hungover you gotta make up your own mind.

Waste Of Time

Playing With Fire

The A-OK's - "Beer Bong"

Lobishome

Swift Kixx

Swift Kixx - Jack Mehoff

Lyrics:

I have come to realise 
that there is in fact a left and right
besides ahead
I’ve accepted it, it’s all alright

Key is acknowledgement
of where it has gone wrong
from there on just go forward
hitch in and come along

I see no evil in 
taking a step backwards 
It’s critical to be able to
close the previous chapter

We’re back on track
stronger than a massive wolf pack
We’re back on track
It’s all about the future, don’t look back

We’re back on track
stronger than a massive wolf pack
We’re back on track
It’s all about the future, don’t look back

The future is looking mighty bright
In my own perspective
once you’ve found your way up again, 
re-join the collective

I have finally realised 
it’s been okay, more than all right
I’m back on track
At last I can sleep at night

Dance of the Lunatics

BACK ON TRACK

Ska Version Astro Zombies

Taken from the 1989 "Summertime" 7" Vinyl (Weserlabel). Merry X-Mas Everybody.

The Busters - X-Mas Special

02 The Mess

I Want You To Want Me

In the fall of 2005, two veterans of the Florida Punk Scene, guitarist Michael Smyth and drummer Glenn Stewart were  working together at a debt settlement company owned by Stewart. With passions leaning very heavily toward their  music, the two found themselves returning to the office late at night to work on songs that would eventually become  Do It Yourself, their debut album.   

“We had a full drum kit, a half-stack, a bass rig and half-a-dozen guitars lying around Glenn’s office”, says Smyth. “We  just kept the door closed and no one seemed to notice.”  Eventually the boys converted some unused warehouse  space next to their office into a rehearsal room. The space grew and grew until they had actually built a state-of-the- art recording studio.     

Buoyed by that accomplishment and with of a ton of original songs in their back pocket, they decided it was time to  form a band to flesh out all the creative ideas they had brewing.  So they brought in bassist Lindsey Pittard, trombonist  Aaron Zylman and saxophonist Jay Atheney to complete the line-up. Blending pop hooks with their distinctive fusion  of punk and ska, Victims of Circumstance quickly made a name for themselves among the sea of Central Florida  bands, both for their energetic performances and their commitment to the local scene.     

Victims of Circumstance tapped the talents of Tim “Johnny Vegas” Burton of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones to produce  their debut album Do It Yourself.” When the album was released in late 2007, the band locked down airplay on over  150 independent and college radio stations and a healthy amount of media attention.      

Hot on the heels of the in-store date, the boys supported the release with gigs with the Pietasters, Big D and the Kids  

Table, and, most importantly, with the Mighty Mighty Bosstones at the revival of their legendary Hometown  Throwdown in Boston.  Road warriors in spirit, they continued to play in the Southeast throughout 2008 opening for  bands such as Time Again, Whole Wheat Bread and The Voodoo Glow Skulls.      

Under the watchful eye of Big D and The Kids Table Bass player Steve Foote in the producer’s seat, the band entered  the studio again in early 2009 to record the follow-up.  The resulting album, Roll the Dice, will be released in August  of 2009.  Jam-packed with tight punk, ska and pop tracks with melodic hooks aplenty, this album pushes the band  even further, exploring different rock styles and rhythms. From the getgo of opening track "The Final Flight of D.B.  Cooper" that eases in with instantaneously-infectious punk rhythms to the celebratory skank of "This Riot Used To Be  A Party" to the cheekily-named (but not too far off) "Number One Hit Single", their second album packs energetic  melodic ska/punk/pop into fifteen tracks.     

Roll the Dice was produced by Steve Foote (Big D and the Kids Table) and will be released on August 25, 2009 on  Financial Records. 

I Want You To Want Me

VictimsOfCircumstance

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