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JawboneOfAnAss

by Scaterd Few

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1.
Witchcraft 03:04
Witchcraft (Aguirre, Mitchell) “Saints alive I can't believe my eyes” is what Mama told me “Don't you dare end up rotten like the slime your father was until he died” Abba Father Cup of tea from a Gypsy: "Will you marry me I don’t love you You don't have to It's his destiny Tell nobody it’s our secret and I'll be your man Take the other cup that's shaking from my mother’s hand" Abba Father Left for dead as a pickney though He held my hand I wouldn't breathe when sleeping doctors couldn't understand So the demons took me places children know as hell ‘Til the Gypsy Lady broke the spell that made me ill Gypsy Woman ran an egg over my naked flesh All the while mumbling something underneath her breath Cracked the egg in water bloodied eye looked over me While my mommy watched the demons dance so patiently
2.
Dreams 04:04
Dreams (Aguirre, O. Domkus) Dreams Like bigger - better - bolder drive along in my stead Dreams Be tantalizing sweat drenched visions lost in my head Screams Keep talking to me longer still awaiting a reply Screams Don't hesitate me illuminating Constantly there A constant beware We've got to brush the heartache All of these feelings be denied We'll never dance on Silver Lakes Maybe I don’t want to die It seems Frustrated rated emancipated after the dead It seems To cope is futile and all the while I hide under bed Does it mean What profits I-man to gain the world while losing his soul Does it mean Erode - corrode - consume away Exalt - proliferate Be magnified and I'll minimize I Thou He Is what I dream Dreams Like bigger - better - bolder drive along in my stead Screams Don't hesitate me illuminating Constantly there A constant beware
3.
Sinking In Sorrow (Aguirre, O. Domkus, Mitchell) Am I hurting your ears I wouldn't say nothing here It's better not to stare Just try and stay away I couldn't see crystal clear Like love me do or dare Forbid I go astray Seen better days Seen a better day You bitter slithered back Jump on it You pushed me so violently that I would fall I've seen another revelation of Yeshua's Way I've seen another revelation It's here to stay Seen better days Seen a better day Sinking in sorrow You bitter slithered back Jump on it
4.
Sheets 04:09
Sheets (Aguirre, O. Domkus, Mitchell) I try to keep it hidden under the sheets My beloved Spy in the Sky It shouldn't hurt to wipe the tears from His cheek Such a crazy crime to keep you Looking to my Side You know this segregation's out of my reach They keep a hazy view We must adopt another's mind Amazing Grace Suffocation bottled up inside Such determined features Hypnotizing wide-eyed words In a Tainted Love Child So what's the cosmic Could it be your crystal charms or your lack of loving arms It's your lucky lucky day Do you remember I’ll die by keeping hidden under the sheets My resisted Spy in the Sky It really hurts to scar the tears on His cheek Such a crazy crime to keep you Looking to my Side You lack of taste It keeps you bellied up inside Such disgusting creatures Jeopardizing Blood stains for a desperate Pride Child So what's the cosmic Could it be your crystal charms or your lack of loving arms It's your lucky day Wild thing
5.
Stretch 04:10
Stretch (Aguirre, O. Domkus, Mitchell) (Stretching till the end of time) Has anybody seen my desperation It lies beyond and among my silent ways Sneak A Peak unveils a situation Would I lie Would I lie to save my soul Well I betcha with the right persuasion Does anybody heed my degradation Denying where and again I stay away (Searching for a truth divine) Sneak A Peak reveals an invitation Would they lie Would they lie to claim your soul Is it hard for you to crack a smile Does it cause you pain When you contemplate the Golden Mile Stretch... Through your eyes I feel the condemnation Trudging fences to claim whose bed I lay (Stretching till the end of time) Sneak A Peak unveils some revelation Would I lie Would I lie to save my soul Well, I betcha Stretch the imagination
6.
Once Upon... 03:38
Once Upon... (Aguirre, O. Domkus) I recall an Age of Mortals brighter than the sun How they led astray the League of Skels where a Scaterd Few had gone In the Year of Plenty the Sorrow Sentry awoke the Slumber King While a tribe of God Sent Humans bred some Native Son to sing "Thou herein lies the One despised the serum bring Drink till your eyes, deteriorized, begin to gleam Am ha'aretz acharit ha-yamim” So the story grows the Wise of Old make peace with Slumber King And as the borders threaten the Clamour Hammer awakens from his dream Feeling alienation in an Alien Nation the Sorrow Sentry flee Leaving GSH to clean the mess only you and I could leave Crush a bleeding heart is still the only start Then maybe we'll see His love for you and me Try to overstand the great and master plan You and I can be free like a honey bee Leave us guessing What’s a Slumber King Clamour Hammer who One two buckle my shoe Crush a bleeding heart is still the only start Then maybe we'll see His love for you and me Try to overstand the great and master plan You and I can be free like a honey bee Crush a bleeding heart is still the only start Then maybe we'll see His love for you and me Try...
7.
Oom Pah Pah 02:03
Oom Pah Pah (Aguirre, O. Domkus) Well on your mark Ready steady go If you're in the dark We have to rock for Light When you oom pah pah Oom pah pah Ready or not Sometimes you never know How much you need to hear The little Light we shine When we oom pah pah Oom pah pah Well, here we go again Tell me can't you feel All the Love we share When we rock for Light When you Oom Pah Pah Oom Pah Pah On your mark Ready steady go Can you dig it On your mark Ready steady go If you're in the darkness We have to rock for Light When you Oom Pah Pah Oom Pah Pah Ready or not Sometimes you never know Oom pah pah hah
8.
Reel Not Real (Aguirre, O. Domkus, Mitchell) Frustration stride melts away unseen And when I catch you stretching in shame It tears my eyes away And when I see you wincing in blame I wonder what's inside Shadow Speaker denies Ever twisting collides Ever wishful besides Quivered Helpless subsides With the Smile of My Eyes And when I steal impressionist zeal Or the bordering fear And when I touch the sweat of her brow She feels reel not real And when I Or should I Like Dear Arise Love I and I
9.
Holding Stare (Aguirre) The Holding Stare that lurks around me everywhere Completes the vacant eyes and ignorant mind you choose to stare to hide behind in sinful despair The black to see in humanity weaves all imagery in the likeness of guilt over you The Chamber of Deadly is crushed from your heart and sucking the Life Blood spills to the floor And evil is laughing over you Laughing death over you So listen Repeat Our Father and Jesucristo Virgin Mary and Saint Peter Calling upon an exorcist Casting out demonic unrest Faith in religious ceremonials Putting trust in spiritual overtures Life of Goodness Pious Appeal Holy Fervor Fanatical Zeal Works of Mercy Door to Door Counting beads repeating more The wisdom of man Peace within self Salvation means found in our tasks I'm a God You're a God Evil is negative energy You’re a positive entity Heaven and hell are a state of mind God is a human insecurity An inner force The essence of time A political lie to keep us in line Then who is Jesus Who is Jesus to you The Holding Stare that lurks around me everywhere Like a Hall of Tortures between the ears that contaminates the heart and all you hear/here The Truth to see hold the Ring of Keys to release you free from the bondage of Hell over you Till the Chambers of Deadly are gouged from your heart and the Blood of the Lamb is free to spill out The laughter of evil continues to smile Laughing death So listen The Holding Stare
10.
Dáme 03:56
Dáme (Aguirre, O. Domkus) Dáme tus manos de amor mi querida (Give me your hands of love my beloved) Te llevaré a los cielos (Take you to the heavens) Dáme sangre de tu corazon mi herido (Give me blood of hearts my wounded) Te guiaré de los fuegos (I'll guide you from the fires) No easy listening Father of Lies So close to sinking don't deny Cantaré gozos de terror mis heridos (Sing praises of terror my wounded) Tocaré el dolor (Reach out touch the heartache) Llamaré sueños de passion mi querida (Call out dreams of passion my beloved) Te llevaré a los cielos (I'll take you to the heavens) No easy listening Father of Lies So close to sinking don't deny No hope in seeking counsel of flies Ponder whether my eyes still shine
11.
Ransom 04:18
Ransom (Aguirre, Mitchell) Peeling off disguise I view the writing on the wall Barúch Barúch HaShém Taking steps of mesmerize by the wayside adulation Barúch Barúch HaShém Glancing back to justify Love blossomed in my eyes Barúch Barúch HaShém Don't try to hide or wonder why Contemplation settles down to exult its only lonely cry Barúch Barúch HaShém Allegations mar my time by the wayside accusations Barúch Barúch HaShém Indignation emphasized like a solfide in your eyes Barúch Barúch HaShém Don't try to hide or wonder why Doing the same old song and dance "Forget Me Nots" and "Say Good-bye's" An intimate Ransom Don't try to hide and wonder why Nothing denied Peeling off disguise I view the writing on the wall Baruch Baruch HaShém Glancing back to justify Love blossomed in my eyes Barúch Barúch HaShém Don't try to hide or wonder why Doing the same old song and dance
12.
Pinnacle 04:26
Pinnacle (Aguirre) Pinnacle preacher Sleeper kiss the sky Who could believe such carnality on time Pinnacle creature feature checks in line Who would expect a believer locked inside Dáme Son Spy Alive Jude 3-7 (CJB) Stare Sorrow Witchcraft Abba Jude 8-13 (CJB) Pinnacle preacher Sleeper kiss the sky Who could believe such carnality on time Pinnacle creature feature checks in line Awake the slumber (CJB: Complete Jewish Bible)

about

Next in the Scaterd Few discography is a chapter of epic proportions.

JawboneOfAnAss may not be the eclectic cacophony that Sin Disease was. But as we all know, Scaterd Few never put out the same album twice. It is in this stoical persistence to keep evolving that birthed an album like this one. JawboneOfAnAss took three separate recording stints before a finished product emerged, explaining four years elapsed for the album to materialize.

This album has a quintessential line-up of Allan Aguirre, Paul Figueroa, Drew Domkus, Omar Domkus and Samuel West.
There is also nearly an all-star cast participating: Jyro of Mortal, Eric Clayton of Saviour Machine, Edie Goodwin of Headnoise, all on background vocals, as well as Mark Rodriguez (Mortal, The Blamed, Aunt Betties, Lost Dogs, etc.) recording and Dave Hackbarth (The Choir, Prayer Chain, etc.) editing.

Forty-five seconds into the first cut Witchcraft, one can experience transcendence from a band that understands their alchemy. That transcendence does not let up, dancing between the rhapsodic Sinking In Sorrow to the sinuous balladry of Dame, and ending with Pinnacle, a fast-wielding number rebuking corrupted spiritual leaders. There within the album are twelve indispensable cuts of dark and weighty content played with reggae-infused punk likened to Bad Brains, with whom Scaterd Few played backing band for their singer HR. The funk and rhythm of Oom Pah Pah serves as kudos to their comradery. Another point of intrigue is the ballad Once Upon…, narrating a veiled tale of biographical nature with references to Godsent Humans and Native Son (Mark Solomon’s hip-hop project).

If by chance you did not receive Jawboneofanass with the ecstatic welcome as Sin Disease, give it another listen. It may surprise you how well it has aged.
- Doug Peterson

credits

released July 4, 1994

Scaterd Few was...
Allan Aguirre: Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitars, Keyboards, Percussion
Paul Figueroa: Electric Guitars, Sample
Drew Domkus: Keyboards
Omar Domkus: Electric Fretless, Acoustic/Electric Fretted Bass
Samuel West: Drums, Percussion

Written, Performed & Produced by Scaterd Few

Recorded by Mark Rodriguez
Second Engineers: Chicken & The Spy / Mixed by Everybody
Recorded & Mixed @ Knotty Pine, Nov. - Dec. 1993
Edited by Dave Hackbarth

Additional Keyboards: on “Once Upon...” by Jyro
Intro Voice on “Oom Pah Pah” by Omar Domkus
Female Vocals by Edie Goodwin
Additional Vocals: Eric Clayton, Jyro, Samuel West

2023 LEGENDS REMASTERED EDITION
Executive Producer: Matthew B. Hunt
Remastered by Rob Colwell @ Bombworks Sound

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All Songs ℗ 1994 Horn of a Dillema Musick / Sacrosanctus Musick / Sticktunes / Subrosa Musiq / Banana Cheese
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Scaterd Few Burbank, California

Perhaps the single most controversial Christian rock band of all-time!
A decade after it's sophomore release, HM Magazine called Sin Disease “the record that decisively ended the ’80s” for CCM & also “Christian music’s best punk album ever” a year before Nevermind.
Rarely has one single album had such a profound impact on how we think and see the world. Yet, Sin Disease did all that, and more.
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