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▄ ▀███▄ The Robot Ate Me - On Vacation ░▄▓██▀ ▄
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▓ ▄ ▀▓█▌ RIPPER........: JCE ▐██▀ ▄ ▓
█▄▄▄ ▐███ LABEL.........: Swim Slowly ███▌░▄▄▄█
▄ ▀ ▄▓██▌ ENCODER.......: Lame 3.92 ▐███▄ ▀ ▄
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▓▓████▀ MODE..........: Full Stereo ▀▓████▓
▐▓███▀░ DATE.RiPPED...: May-19-2004 ▀████▌
▓███▌▄█▄ DATE.RELEASED.: 000-00-2004 ▄█▄▐███▓
▓███░▀▐█▌ RELEASE.SiZE..: 64,0 MB ▐█▌▀ ████
▐▓██▌▄█▀ TRACKS........: 17 ▀█▄▐███▌
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█ 01 The Genocide Ball 01:47 █
█ 02 Jesus and Hitler 02:16 █
█ 03 The Republican Army 02:37 █
█ 04 Oh No! Oh My! (1994) 01:43 █
█ 05 Crispy Christian Tea Time 02:05 █
█ 06 You Don't Fill Me Up the Same 02:11 █
█ 07 I Slept Through the Holocaust 02:21 █
█ 08 Every Nazi Plane Has A Cross 02:51 █
█ 09 On Vacation 1 03:58 █
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█ 01 On Vacation 2 03:00 █
█ 02 Watermelon Sugar 02:41 █
█ 03 Apricot Tea 02:39 █
█ 04 The Red-Haired Girl 03:37 █
█ 05 Pre-Party #94 01:04 █
█ 06 The Tourist 02:14 █
█ 07 Oh No! Oh My! 01:50 █
█ 08 I'm Ok 02:57 █
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▓ TOTAL 41:51 min ▓
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▓ Ever since the fight against Communism was "won" by ▓
▓ the "free market," religion has been on the rise. ▓
▓ President Bush supposedly reads the Bible everyday, ▓
▓ the neo-conservatives (a.k.a. Leo Strauss' pets) are ▓
▓ reading books on Plato and Aristotle, anti-Semitism ▓
▓ is increasing at a significant rate, and battles over ▓
▓ sacred texts are still being fought. Just recently, ▓
▓ the Georgia school system tried to change the term ▓
▓ "evolution" to "biological changes over time," in an ▓
▓ attempt to undercut science. In short, religion has ▓
▓ become inextricable from contemporary politics. Yet ▓
▓ these topics remain largely ignored by the rock ▓
▓ community. ▓
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▓ With On Vacation, The Robot Ate Me has written a ▓
▓ double disc masterpiece that pushes these heavy ▓
▓ topics to the fore. Unlike Lennon's approach to ▓
▓ religion and politics (see "Imagine"), the approach ▓
▓ here is more playful and commentary rather than ▓
▓ optimistic and revolutionary. Hell, there's even a ▓
▓ song about Jesus and Hitler making out in the ▓
▓ backseat of a car. ▓
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▓ The first disc deals with these topics explicitly, ▓
▓ but in a generalized fashion. From songs like "The ▓
▓ Genocide Ball" and "The Republican Army" to "Crispy ▓
▓ Christian Tea Time" and "You Don't Fill Me Up the ▓
▓ Same," Robot Ate Me begs us to contemplate the roles ▓
▓ that religion, politics, consumerism, and the media ▓
▓ play in Western society, and how is it that most ▓
▓ people are still so apathetic. Most of the disc is ▓
▓ made up of samples of old records that make it sound ▓
▓ like it was recorded in the mid-20th Century, ▓
▓ providing a Lynch-like contrast to the eerie but ▓
▓ playful lyrics. It's the type of music that procures ▓
▓ a nostalgic pining for the 1930s, when things were ▓
▓ "better," yet the lyrics remind the listener that it ▓
▓ was the decade of the Great Depression that ended ▓
▓ only after the U.S. entered WWII. ▓
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▓ The second disc is a bit more ambiguous. Judging ▓
▓ purely by the music, you might think this is typical ▓
▓ pop rock. This is further emphasized with Ryland ▓
▓ Bouchard's carefree vocal delivery that deals with ▓
▓ such inane topics as watermelons, apricot tea, and ▓
▓ red-haired girls. But underneath the white-washed ▓
▓ exterior, it becomes apparent that this disc is ▓
▓ sarcasm at its best. And not in an annoying way. ▓
▓ Instead, Robot Ate Me sounds maybe too convincing, ▓
▓ attempting to balance the escapist undertones with ▓
▓ genuine songwriting. It really wouldn't be so ▓
▓ affective, though, if the music wasn't so damn ▓
▓ amazing. It's music you can bounce to and feel ▓
▓ sardonic to at the same time. "The Tourist" is ▓
▓ probably one of the best combinations of harmonies ▓
▓ and hand claps that I've ever heard. ▓
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▓ In a music world based on press releases and ▓
▓ advertising, it's sad to think of how many people ▓
▓ will miss out on this amazing album. What's more is ▓
▓ that each copy is hand-made (in a beautiful ▓
▓ Rauschenberg-like art book), numbered, and released ▓
▓ through Ryland's Swim Slowly label. Without actually ▓
▓ eating dinner with the band members, this is about as ▓
▓ personal as you can get. The unfortunate part is that ▓
▓ it won't quite get the distribution it deserves. ▓
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