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Fixing Great Mistakes With Duct Tape

by The Black Elephant Band

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1.
we'll never fix me and my guitar but okay let's keep trying it seems to keep the brain occupied well at least at my end we'll never fix this old complication but my heart feels like and overcrowded train station whenever they mention your name and i'm just fine playing that game and while others climb the mountaintops i crawl the wall up and while others put up a tent at the summit i enjoy the view from the ceiling for a while and then plummet this runs on love and duct tape we'll never find the mystical fountain of youth and so this car will eventually break down but as long as there's still a chance of drivin it to your door i'll wrap some duct tape around we'll never fix any old thing but we can wrap some love around the part that stings and put it over there in the bookshelf until i am old thing myself and while others climb the mountaintops i crawl the wall up and while others put up a tent at the summit i enjoy the view from the ceiling for a while and then plummet this runs on love and duct tape
2.
Peachy 03:11
oh a brand new morning has begun the sun was smiling at me, i was fake smiling at the sun everything seemed to be completely in tune expect for me and my bad mood - they told me theres no reason to complain but then i found the problem the problem was my brain the day was almost over, it went down fine, and pretty sober but i was in a steady decline they gave me a gin tonic and said your mopeyness is chronic - they asked me whats your reason to complain i wasnt sure but then i found the problem the problem was my brain cause its not easy to feel peachy
3.
Pizza Pants 02:15
it's been a messy ride since i've been on this earth but i measure my age not by the distance from my birth but by the urgency and the frequency that i go out to the pharmacy there's no way im gonna win this so i put on my pizza pants, trading onions for opinions and in those straight edge days when i had the food poisoning blues my own mortality became an uncomfortable truth couldn't hold in any of the fries or the mayonnaise ready to hug the toilet bowl till the end of days there's no way im gonna win this so i keep on my pizza pants, trading onions for opinions
4.
phil jackson said to me through a netflix documentary handle the goddamn pressure and i was thinking eventually i just would come to be the man to pull it off if i'd spend some years fightin and weightliftin with zero prep some ambition once i felt smaller than life with the world on top of me atomic war, i brought a knife tried to be an animal tried to be a gentleman and enemies became old pals after we spent those years fightin and weightliftin with zero prep some ambition i know phil wasnt talking to me but to the bulls of chigaco only difference: there are no trophies in my room
5.
ever since the dawn of mankind there are two things that never stopped to puzzle man's mind the one thing is religion with one god slaying the next but i like it more peaceful, some call it love, some call it sex do you see my tjiuana bible right there on the nightstand? just by sleight of hand i follow the commandments the ones that are viable so sorry jesus i don't mean to be rude but i prefer my holy figures to be badly drawn and nude the image of your corpse is just not doin' it for me oh my religion is a blast, a blastforyou and blasphemy do you see my tjiuana bible, right there on the nightstand? just by sleight of hand i follow the commandments the ones that are viable let's say we strand on a lonely island or the apocalypse comes i'd be the first one to wager that you'd rip up your holy book, turn it into firewood lie down with me and enjoy an eight pager do you see my tjiuana bible, right there in you hands? do you now understand? oh what good is it banned? i'll make a convert out of you, i'll make a pervert out of you, yet
6.
tied to seize the day got a seizure tried to recall the good days turns out i got amnesia do i look like i've got a punchable face? i'm seriously asking, do i have that kind of gaze? because it seems to me i've got a punchable face and my punchability seems to transcend time and space the fistfights and the kung fu chops are not what i've in mind i'm talking about the mighty blows of the supernatural kind do i look like i've got a punchable face? i'm seriously asking, do i have that kind of gaze? because it seems to me i've got a punchable face and my punchability seems to transcend time and space some of these punches go straight for my wallet and i'm sure whoever punches there is aiming pretty solid, my aim's poor and my actual face is pretty lucky that it's all just a metaphore do i look like i've got a punchable face? i'm seriously asking, do i have that kind of gaze? because it seems to me i've got a punchable face and my punchability seems to transcend time and space
7.
you have cars and you have condos, bank accounts and firms you measure your pleasure with the money that you earn you've got the greatest assetts, well we've the greatest assfat, you assheads we have people everywhere you've the good bodys here, the arrogant nose job faces but never in a million years i would want to trade places carry on with your bribes, with your lies, carry on with your false pride till we unite we have people everywhere yes i did buy the cheap shit again without know how and precision but i learned to live with my oh so uninformed decisions this is what you're up against, this is how we frolic a parade of happy alcoholics we have people everywhere
8.
god-fearin americans burnin beatles LPs it's really hard to see the difference to the evil nazis just double check your thinking and youll be okay unless you are a cop, a soldier or the KKK and i'm just sittin here on the beach, and here they come wave after wave, wave after wave, and they all weigh a ton wave after wave, wave after wave, of xenophobic bullshit rolling in there ain't no surfin under a brown sky killing all the fun it used to be to be a person killing all the fun it used to be to be on this earth and i dig my feet into the dry brown sand this is a thing i'll never understand and i'm just sittin here on the beach, and here they come wave after wave, wave after wave, and they all weigh a ton wave after wave, wave after wave, of xenophobic bullshit rolling in there ain't no surfin under a brown sky
9.
was looking for identity and any kind of sign waited till one fateful night for the planets to align went to the fortune teller's trailer, lit by moonshine she looked at me with fiery eyes and opened up my mind, and she said you're a dirty bastard, you're a dirty bastard, you're a dirty bastard and i said i know that i'm a dirty bastard, i'm a dirty bastard, i'm a dirty bastard and she said, yeah you are you're a dirty bastard, you're a dirty bastard, you're a dirty bastard and i said i'm aware that i'm a dirty bastard, i'm a dirty bastard, i'm a dirty bastard unsatisfied i waited for an astrologically insignificant day sought out someone less of a rock n roll cliché to examine my brain with technology i was plugged into the machine, a flock of doctors studied me and they said you're a dirty bastard, you're a dirty bastard, you're a dirty bastard and i said i know that i'm a dirty bastard, i'm a dirty bastard, i'm a dirty bastard and they said, yeah you are you're a dirty bastard, you're a dirty bastard, you're a dirty bastard and i said i'm aware that i'm a dirty bastard, i'm a dirty bastard, i'm a dirty bastard now everytime someone asks me to lend a helping hand i hand them this medical document and i say sorry i just won't. because you see...
10.
School Times 02:03
well my overall mental situation all my social phobias as a whole probably have a whole lot to do with physical education specifically the climbing pole because school times are hard times when you're chubby in case you can't already tell from how i describe this personal hell i never could climb up that damn pole but they made me try and try again surrounded by bully assholes because school times are hard times when you're chubby it's not the failure per se that's gonna haunt you, it's that everyone is watching but in the very end you learned the most that day gonna murder you a sports teacher someday because school times are hard times when you're chubby now it's the present, these days are long gone and i'm still unable to train or workout when there's other people around teachers, educators, are you proud? because school times are hard times when you're chubby school times go by, school times go by, even when you're chubby
11.
some things i have learned some things i'll never understand standing at the seaside at nighttime with a kebab in my hand walking in the wrong direction walking towards a wrong attraction which upon thorough reflection is all according to expectation how did i behave before the jokes are gone, there's so much more that i just don't remember this brain has been dismembered some things i have learned some things i'll never understand standing at the seaside at nighttime with a kebab in my hand finally you said to me everything is rotten and i've forgotten how to be around people how did i behave before the jokes are gone, there's so much more that i just dont remember this brain has been dismembered
12.
Naked Splits 03:05
at first i didn't like her and she didn't like me because of a goddamn comment that i couldn't let be but then she did naked splits on the wet concrete back in innsbruck and i couldn't help but respect her insanity for when someone does naked splits on the wet concrete back in innsbruck it'll be one of the wildest sights that youll ever see it was rainin down hard she split her legs apart the city was dipped into a sweet night completing the piece of art and i had learned a valuable lesson that is still pretty hard to beat: you never really know a person until they undress in the street
13.
i'm the vampire that forgot the time and so a simple thing like the first sunlight all of a sudden can be the very end of me ain't it typical a cross is just a geometric shape made of two intersecting stakes but hold it in my face and i'll go ape and berzerk and not in a good way garlic, man, even more embarassing actually tastes pretty great in anything but for some reason, i guess well that's just me i have this ridiculously massive allergy now as far as i understand really a lot of people have a problem with the holy water it is known to make the spirits move at first i just shrivel into the couch, after my worst behaviour man i'm just tryin' to pave your way into the mortal world master. dracul. not cool. not cool. i'm just a big ol bundle of weaknesses man you don't know how frustrating that is by far overshadowing my monstrous superpowers if you need me i'll be hidin out in my coffin for the next hour or so
14.
and i'm aware that you think i'm a slob took all my filthy habits, turned them into a job holding on to this cup of coffee for now might keep me safe but every favorite cup will break someday ain't it fun when things get worse or just as bad as they can be where can we meet up to rehearse the great uncertainty and i've been dodgin people, partys, events domestic violence next door has gotten more intense and i've been dodgin my moral code and responsibilities domestic violence sounds better with chords underneath ain't it fun when things get worse or just as bad as they can be where can we meet up to rehearse the great uncertainty and you must be aware that every relationship is just a fuckin countdown for somebody to quit or to die, or to get a pet i don't know much but i guess that there is nothing wrong with that ain't it okay when things stay okay fuck the great uncertainty ain't it okay when things stay okay fuck the great uncertainty i try to deal with the medical facts printed on the sleeves of all of your cigarette packs, in these times of peace they sent out the attack telephone command do you copy, black elephant band?
15.
they say the antidote is in the poison and if that is really true then i should look a little closer but this here bottle appears see-through to me so won't you hand me another to check out scientifically they say the antidote is in the poison and if that is really true then i should look a little closer so won't you hand me a bottle to check out scientifically to quench my evergrowing curiosity they say the antidote is in the poison and if that is really true then i should look a little closer and quench my evergrowing curiosity in this particular field of research they say the antidote is in the poison and if that is really true then i should look a little closer because this particular field of research affects me personally whenever i am thirsty they say the antidote is in the poison and if that is really true then i should look a little closer

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recorded and produced during the coldest of decembers in 2021
at roony road studios and in overdub city
by taekwondo black belt DOMI BACK
mastered by MICHI WINKLER / bekassine records
special thx to WINSTON MCCLOUD

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released September 10, 2022

all songs written and performed by the black elephant band
aided by the magical powers of

JOHN STEAM JR: electric guitar (1,4,5,13,15), mandolin (4,14), bass (5), lapsteel (14)

BOMMY DUCK: drums (2,6,8,9,12,13,15), percussion (3,5,14), pizzabox percussion (1), keys (8,10,12,14), bass (3,13,15)

BEN RUSHIAN: electric guitar (3,6,9) and tiny little spacemachine (3,9,13)

FABI QUATTRO: bass (6,9,12)

INA SPANG: mandolin (8,10,11,12)

MARTTI MÄKKELÄ: bouzouki (3,5), omnichord (7)

JULIA FISCHER: piano (11)

LEE: mandoguitar, squeezebox, banjo (16), spoons (3)

backing vocals / gang shouts by
KARIN RABHANSL, BRICKWATER, PATRICK PETS, LEE

cover art by LEE

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The Black Elephant Band Nuremberg, Germany

„[...] ungeschliffene, gestochen scharf auf den Punkt kommende, englischsprachige
Songminitaturen voll von schrägem Humor und bitterbösen Weltbetrachtungen, die schlecht
gestimmte Gitarre schnörkellos rudimentär, die Stimme ein wütendes Knurren, kaum ein Lied
länger als zweieinhalb Minuten. Wunderbar!“ (NN)

"Schräger Antifolk mit Bart, Klampfe und Mundharmonika. Zum Verlieben!" (A&F)
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