Depravity's Rainbow/Your Mind is a Disco

by Hank IV

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Jon Wain Your Mind is a Disco is killer. I remember hearing it on WMBR when this came out in 2013. So glad this is available digitally now and not just on my 7"! Favorite track: Your Mind is a Disco.

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1.	Depravity's Rainbow 03:39	lyrics	buy track
I’ve got some thoughts Deep in my head Maybe better left, Left unsaid… A cup of water A crust of bread, Trapped in a nightmare chatroom thread I went to sleep A long while ago Inside my eyelids A gentle TV snow… Depravity’s Rainbow Depravity’s Rainbow Depravity’s Rainbow A multi-colored, moral relative halo I’ve got some thoughts Deep in my head Maybe better left, Left unsaid… A cup of water Some moldy bread, Can’t get these images Out of my head For all my sins I’ll surely pay I’ll stop lying to myself one day (you first!) Depravity’s Rainbow Depravity’s Rainbow Depravity’s Rainbow A multi-colored, moral relative halo I will if you say so So why don’t you say so? I will if you say so So why don’t you say so?
2.	Your Mind is a Disco 03:58	lyrics	buy track
My TV don’t like what I watch Says it wants a new one My stereo hates my songs Yeah, that’s a new one My car don’t like my route Bike is flat and it won’t go out Nothing seems to work for me Guess that’s the way it will be I’m feeling backed against the wall I’m feeling three feet tall Is this some kind of test? Next to you there’s no second best I’m feeling, up yours I’m feeling, up yours Wore concrete shoes to the dance Went to work and forgot my pants Perform surgery with my fists Got nothing to do I lost my list Just standing here blocking your way Waiting for you to move me Just standing here taking up space Waiting for you to approve me I’m feeling backed against the wall I’m feeling three feet tall Is this some kind of test? Next to you there’s no second best I’m feeling, up yours I’m feeling, up yours Your mind is a disco

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Originally released as a 7" on Holy Mountain.

Depravity’s Rainbow is something of an alternate-universe rock ’n’ roll pop hit vista for Hank IV. But these songs aren’t any sort of gauzy or hazy faux-California summer jams—this is some straight-up TV-MA-LSV shit and the screen is on the inside your eyelids.

“Depravity’s Rainbow” is a mid-tempo self-loather about moral relativism that grinds three different gears before finally achieving escape velocity for its pummeling climax. Feel free to shout along with the chorus and / or cry along to the verses the next time the crushing weight of your misspent life keeps you awake in the small hours. The flip, “Your Mind Is a Disco,” sports a propulsive skiffle-bounce beat, but lead vocalist Bob McDonald has worn concrete shoes to the dance. His mirrored ball of a brain spins, dazzles and ultimately explodes inside his skull, causing guitar feedback to leak from his ears as he screams the refrain over and over.

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released February 4, 2013

Bob McDonald - vocals
Anthony Bedard - guitar, drums, vocals
Andy Oglesby - guitar
Chris Portfolio - bass

Recorded and mixed by Phil Manley at Lucky Cat, San Francisco, 2012
Cover artwork by Chris Johanson
Covers silkscreened by Idiot or Genius?

Released as a 7" on Holy Mountain, edition of 300

Thanks to Mike Lisk, Therese Mahler, Tom Scharpling

This record dedicated to Scott Jones.

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Hank IV San Francisco, California

Hank IV's hard-charging and visceral dual-guitar rock punk has been likened to “Crime meets Viletones meets Styrenes punk” (Z-Gun Magazine) and by WFMU’s DJ Terre T as “a sick combination of Volcano Suns and Blue Cheer and Chain Gang!”

Hank IV is not related to Hank Williams or any of his descendants. ... more

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