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by Damien Youth

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    Between "Bride Of The Asylum" & "Sunfield", Damien's double album "Jinx" was compiled. Unconcerned with genre, this double album lays out like a lo-fi "White Album". Mixing psych pop, freak folk, space rock & ghost ballads.

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"Damien Youth, often acting as a one-man band, writes and records material at a far more furious rate than many a multi-platinum act. Jinx is a double CD of 23 songs he cut at his home in 1998, between the albums Bride of the Asylum and Sunfield. Elizabeth Black sings background vocals on "Melody," but except for that it's just Damien Youth, handling not only the standard vocals, guitar, bass, and drum, but also organ, piano, flute, and trumpet. It's not up to the same level of the albums it bridges, but it, like all of his output, maintains a pretty consistent level and tone: British-styled folk-psych-rock, perhaps not easy enough to differentiate from his other albums to convince all but the converted, but an easy sell to the converted. If you're looking for mild departures from his norm, there's the early punk-styled buzz of "I Hate You" (which sounds like it could well be a satire of all that Sex Pistols-styled nihilism), or the more successful "One Eye Blind, Broken Finger & Ghost Girl," a pretty close match for Donovan in his "The Fat Angel" period. More typical is something like "Crushed," which is what Paul McCartney would sound like if he had decided to make "Blackbird" the base approach for his entire career." - Richie Unterberger
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released 24 September 1998
Instruments & vocals by Robert Damien Youth.
Background vocals on "Melody" by Elizabeth Black.
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Track Name: Animal Boy
Hey there animal boy
walking through the streets like an accident
You've got your headphones on
And the world's got a crush on you.
And you go out late to the bar,
but none of these people even know who you are
but if they did, they'd all be going home with you.

But like you came, you're leaving alone
down the blurry street that takes you back to your home
there's a voice in your head saying
"Something must be wrong with you."

You get home, lay alone on your bed
With criminal thoughts all swimming in your head
You get up.... But decide to go to sleep instead.

And you're alone down here,
you mights as well swallow the fear
It's an ugly little world
You're alone, it's real,
no matter how bad it feels
It's the only thing we know.

Hey there animal boy
you've got a friend in Jesus but he only annoys,
what some call love still sounds like a threat to me.
Still you tell me all your sweet little lies
that bring you comfort when you're drifting off to sleep at night
And I wonder, if I should kick the crutch from you.

And you're alone down here,
you mights as well swallow the fear
It's an ugly little world.
You're alone, it's real,
no matter how bad it feels
It's the only thing we know.

Hey there Mr. Zoomorph,
if you listen up close I'll tell you what you are here for
To eat, shit, breed, then to die with the rest of the herd

Still, you think you're better than everyone else
because you made a career out of lying to yourself
And you believe it, but you really are the only one.
Track Name: Starboard Floating
Lester bring the light in here & shine it on the map
I've got the pathways through the hemispheres
all laid across my lap
Lets navigate a way to penetrate electric fields
White mantis colonies persisting
through the paraenesis will
Starboard floating, me & the Mantis People
Millo Shanti, we are the forest people


Mani bring my gigascope & set it by my side
We come through windows, walls & ceilings
sprinkling moon dust in your eyes
Your body it is sleeping but your spirit's over there
swirling unconscious & transparent
like a sickness in the air
As we go floating, me & the Mantis People
Millo Shanti, we are the forest people

I am sitting silent my familiar with me
It's trying to comfort us by saying
we're in control of this machine
The Maluse says we're floating
high above the reeling earth
As me & my familiar are floating in a hearse
Starboard floating, me & the Mantis People
Millo Shanti, we are the forest people
Track Name: Doors & Letters
Somebody cried, they cried, opening doors & letters
I am alone, denied, somebody soon forgets you
There in the world outside, you are a silent statue
Distorted alone, in mind & nobody's there to catch you when you fall

Winter comes on strong & presses against your window
You are alone, in drones, with silence weighing on you crying

I see you sitting in your empty room
going through photos & opening all the wounds
I saw you standing by that empty chair,
where she'd sit & she'd stare and say I'll always be here for you.

You lay down in your bed with that hollow in you
then you feel a prisoner inside these walls alone

Somebody cried, they cried, opening doors & letters
I am a soul, denied & I've got to get a message to the world

I've been consumed by shadows of this room
tormented in limbo, a spiritual castaway
And there's a universe outside that door
I don't no what for but I think it's my enemy

I wake up in my bed, 'neath the frozen windows
I'll spend another day down here alone, alone, alone.
Track Name: Subterraneans
She's into heroin
looks just like a mannequin
He's not paying rent this month
blew it all on junk
She's got every Nico record
he's got all the beatnik books
they're both into the underground
they swear real soon they'll leave this town
... and mostly drive around

She's a hemophiliac
he's the new Jack Kerouac
He keeps a needle by his book
he writes at night, she sits and looks
she's tightening the tourniquet
her eyes are rolling back, she's hit
with liquid moonlight in her veins
she's stretched beneath his hovering

He's Dr. Morphine
with pornographic magazine
She's into science fiction
a nicotine addiction
Sitting like two skeletons
with messy hair and pail white skin
there's no reason to go outside
let's you and I stay here inside

Barrett, Bowie, Beatles, Needles
Arbus, Witkin, cockroach kitchen
Long coat, black hat, electric doormat
Sexless, sleepy, books of human oddities
anomalies, abominations,
experiments on masturbation
a suitcase full of secret lies,
a childhood photograph, that smiles
a gravestone for a father's head
a child that will not know it's dad
no love, no god, no Jesus Christ
now fuck all this and let's get high
Track Name: Walking Alone In The Rain
I walked alone today through dismal rains & misery haze... alone ....alone
On past graffiti walls all paralyzed down cold alleyways ...alone ...alone
Strangers pass by on their way, I'm walking alone in the rain

On past the paper stand, the coffee shops the cafes & bars . . . I go . . . I go
I've got nowhere to be but far away from the shadows of home ... alone ....alone
And nothing will get in my way, I'm walking alone in the rain.

Here in my overcoat I stop beneath the shop's overhang unknown, unknown
I watch the people in the stations waiting by the railways unknown, unknown
I watch them get on to the train standing alone in the rain
Track Name: Into The Gray
I'm lost out in the stars, I'm all alone
in the streets of the city I walk at night
with strange eyes following me
I'm floating through the crowds, paranoid
The spacemen & angels are watching me
& I can't wake up from the dream...

I'm strung out in my room, I'm all junked up
like the voices of angels the morphine
throws blankets over the pain
I'm frightened to be seen, I'm going clean
so I lay in the black room for 7 days
with candles torturing me...

Satellites & twinkling stars are circling my bedroom wall & I can feel the curtain fall, I'm sinking into gray
Satellites & twinkling stars are circling my bedroom wall& I can feel the curtain fall, I'm sinking into gray