Stereo Luxuriances (2001)

This Dizzy Height

The full length demo album by This Dizzy Height, featuring James Moats (guitar & vox), Lincoln Benson (guitar & vox), Dan Taylor (bass), and Chad Hildebran (drums).


This is a collection of songs, old and new, that were brought into the band and turned upside down. The three songwriters in the band working together made quite an interesting sound. These songs were recorded track by track in what might just be the most stuperrific time of my whole stinkin' life.


That's what Lincoln tells me, anyway... I don't really remember most of it.

Track listing

1. Life In The Background
in a makeshift studio in the back of my home it's got six or eight wheels sometimes i don't know it's hard to say but it sounds ok it's hard to stay in the background life in the background it looks like it was cloned with my neighbors and their neighbors all parked in perfect rows but it's all i know it's hard to say but it sounds ok it's hard to stay in the background life in the background we're staying in the background in a makeshift studio in the shed behind your home it's got a tin roof overhead i just don't know it's ok though life is grand it seems to be coming soon yeah in the background it's ok though the life of a man i know we'll all fall soon into a band
2. Run Jenny Run
she's on a plane wasting away fading out above buzzards bay she's give and gotta go no time to waste run jenny run i felt the fangs and backed away i will not allow you to make me the prey i said you gotta go you'll miss my face run jenny run don't make a mistake that you cannot escape a vampire's kiss i'll get you i'll get you for this she's playing games dancing in a fluid pose follow me she said sweetly and so i'm going back to burn the dead field she sows she pulled nails from my veins but couldn't feel my pain so now she's always on the run orbits in bloom there goes another one someday she'll write to say she didn't miss me anyway i drew a gun you cannot stay she wouldn't run so i had to blow her away run jenny run
3. Altima Bud-Get
i can't seem to recall how things were two weeks ago and now i know that time can never move too slow dream of me in flight we'll be strangers for a second time tonight i bet you thought you'd not see me again well here i am let's take a walk tonight and talk of kicking sand in the face of the man talk of letting go and taking control then our lives would be our own speak for me tonight in a week i'll die with a tear in my eye i bet you thought you'd not see me again well here i am when utah takes a breath the sky turns burning red purple mountains up ahead rear view sunset goes away say goodbye to californ-i-a
4. Days Like Rusty Nails
i met medusa's ugly sister she walks the world on long and crooked legs populace pruning like a twister she's so possessive of my every cell call the cdc we're up to level four call the cdc four hundred fifty monkeys at the door call the cdc this one's a level four call the cdc and down the hill there's kids on swings so fire at will cough up my heart there's no vaccine she says i'm smart slow motion skid that will not end look what you did building me up like a piñata waiting to pop me like a daughter (four hundred fifty monkeys) she's digging right down to the naked rocks to pull it all out fresh
5. Visitors
i've got visitors coming by my house tonight and i came prepared to sell myself tonight bring your friends we'll have a beer did you notice i'm talking to myself for a lack of conversation in your backwoods high school world we've got a visitor coming out of the rain and he came prepared to share his pain don't be afraid to spill some soul did you hear him talking to the ladies there are no ladies here but there's admiration a form of applause and it smiles in the smoky air are you expecting visitors it only takes a brew to herd them through and now i know that i've been here before it's coming round again did you notice i'm talking to myself for a lack of conversation you're so fucking cool now that you're in school what's your major
6. Dorkabilly Rock
just what do you mean you want me to leave well i'm wound up wrapped tight and throwing down every night my alter ego runs the show but you would never know i guess it's wrong of me to love a good party well my name ain't jed and this ain't beverly (hills that is) you can't see what's behind my eyes it's a hell of a disguise i don't know what's wrong with me there was a time if i remember correctly i was wound up wrapped tight and throwing down every night
7. Calculate
i'm a ruined ship a curdled beach my truth lies just beyond your reach it's such a joy to be alive my blasphemy survives go on and rob me of this i'm too tired to fight anymore i've got a cradle for your blade create it just below my skull hard axe and shallow hull the finest ever made it's looking just like a sign maybe we'll make it out this piece of ore i cradle tight will never get me through the night your sai in my regards leaves a chasm large i calculate this dizzy height the river waits for me tonight
8. Wax Moth
fish are swimming and trends are spinning in my head there's no end to it life is too short to miss the excitement and watch it all fade away just wait and see what becomes of me inside people love to stare at you falling clumsily around inside people would love to share with you if only you were inside back home people are cloudy opaque dark and thick back home people have faded what have i seen in the chlorine dream the light is burning wearing down wearing down humanity's learning to burn it down burn it down fish are floating and twins are sinning in my head theres no end to it just wait and see who depends on me yesterday was full of reruns i think i've seen this one before stand up like erector tear it down run it down tonight you remind me of mean old black beard pillaging my soul i'll stand my ground if the ship goes down fish are living and friends are giving in my head theres no end to it just wait and see don't ever question me
9. James Taylor
if i close my eyes and block out the sounds of a city in the sky i can smell the salt all around on a bluff where i sit and if there is a god this is it james taylor on the headphones could make me miss carolina there's no time for that you know this is one of those moments that will last for all time and if there is a god this is it the tide is coming and the stones begin to roll up and back against the shore it sounds like traffic below and now it's an overpass on a highway here at home and if there is a god this is it
10. An Open Letter To Charlton Heston
instrumental