Dis Side / Dat Side
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Release Date:   April 1st, 2002
Length:   65:51
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This album is terrible. Do not listen to it. You have been warned.

Dis Side / Dat Side contains a smattering of recorded blotches of noise, as performed by myself and my brother, between late 2001 and early 2002. My band was called Loaded at the time, his was called Pillowcases. What you see before you is our "Split LP"; the first six tracks are his, and the next ten are mine. After that you have the two of us playing our "hits" together, with my sister added in some places. Actually, she is in most of Pillowcases's songs, and probably all of those marked as being live. The LP finishes off with a karaoke version of Superlove, which in my opinion is the best song on this disc.

Superlove is a mysterious song. I tried to understand the lyrics, but apparently did a terrible job. You can find a version performed by Isaac Jacobs on The Abrahams Unplugged. As previously stated, this is probably the best song on the album. I'm not sure what it's about. I thought it was about a girl, but I am quite certain that I am wrong. You can try to figure it out yourself I guess.

Elements of Success. What? If you want a song to remember the periodic table, this is not the way to go. If you want to hear a disgusting guitar, check this song out!

Pillowcase Rap. Yikes! What an embarassment. The best part here is the performance by the late Paws. He was a cat. And he rapped. Word to your mother.

One Week Ago was part of a series of songs where the title starts out with the name of a pop song, but has more words, and has nothing to do with the pop song. In this case, it was the Barenaked Ladies song One Week being used. This is the only song I know of that was actually recorded for this series. We were full of bad ideas back then. This is a touching and heartfelt song about..?

Experimental Jam No. 1. Well, you can always claim it was an experiment and that's why it isn't interesting to listen to. Well, honestly, everything on this album is an experiment, and it is provided here for entertainment purposes only. This is where we blend my electric guitar (and crappy amp that I had at the time) with my brother's acoustic guitar. Yum yum!

The next track has a rather fun title: I Was Not Happy With The Riding Lawnmower I Spent My Life's Savings On. Kind of explains the entire song. It is an angry rant of a man who bought a riding lawnmower which did not live up to his expectations. "Give me back my caaaaaaaaassh!" The noise in this song leads nicely into the noisy sounds of Loaded.

Do Not Sniff (fff). What is this nonsense? Now we begin the songs which have a deep, dear meaning to me. This one is a public service announcement for the kids. It tells them to not use drugs, because they are bad. Do not sniff them. It was inspired by a pencil that I found from the Just Say "No" campaign of times past. (Now they tell kids Just Use a Clean Needle. There is nothing wrong with frying your brain, after all.) Listen to that quality guitar! Listen to that quality percussion! Listen to that .... okay, no, this is not quality. An updated (and more listenable) version can be found on The Abrahams Unplugged.

I believe that it was something I heard Dana Carvey say, perhaps on a late-night talk show or something. Who's Got a Third Nipple? is based on it. The title of the song, that is. Rather disrupting to the ears in my opinion.

No, My Underwear'sposed 2B Yellow is part of a series of song titles which involve the wetting of one's pants. I think that this is the only one which was actually recorded, though I may be mistaken on that. When I was in high school, I wrote a lot of goofy song and album titles which were never produced. Also designed the CD covers for them. I was a strange kid. This song title is one of those.

96. I have no idea.

Way back when I was a kid, my brother made his own "TV" show with the family's video camera. He had this little theme song that he did with his voice. I have recreated it with my guitar, embellishing certain elements. And thus, we have The Ian Show Theme.

Low Man is silly. And stupid. My mom has a Barry Manilow record, and it was sitting out for some reason one day. I'm not sure where this came from exactly, but you can see that the name is based on the man's name. Just a nonsense song, with my brother singing it as he saw fit. Not exactly how I envisioned it, but whatever.

The Beefy Chord is one beefy chord! I had this brilliant idea of making an entire song with just one chord played throughout the entire thing. (This was before I heard Tenacious D's One Note Song, though they did do theirs before I did mine.) You can hear at the end of this song that I got tired of one note, and played a different note. Shame shame!

"Corn chips and peppermints float in the sky/tripping on mushrooms makes you high/how come when we're dead we gotta die/running the race and tripped on my thigh." I was watching TV one night with my sister. It was somewhere around two or three in the morning. I thought she had said "Corn chips and peppermints float in the sky". In reality, she had said nothing of the sort, but I have no idea what it was now. I thought it was funny, sounded like something from a hippie song. So I wrote Corn Chips shortly afterwards (that same night). As you can hear, it is nothing like hippie music. Oh well, I tried.

3rd Incorporated. Gah. Stay far far away from this one.

The next handful of tracks are all "live" versions of some of the earlier songs, or songs we didn't write. I Got a Record Deal and You're Jealous was my brother's song title. It was improvised completely on the spot, in case that wasn't obvious. The title originally came from a "radio show" that was recorded, where the Isaac Jacobs character was first invented. It was a commercial during the show, actually, and that was one of his greatest hits. I liked the character, and later stole it for myself. Wait a minute, no ... I am Isaac Jacobs. Right. He's a real person.

Simple Love is a sad, unfortunate failure of a song. You can feel the effort in the performance of it.

 

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