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1997 (Tonight We're Gonnna Party Like It's)

from Grand Opening and Closing by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

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    Blood Music's second pressing of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's first album in black vinyl, still shrinkwrapped.

    The heavyweight 350gsm gatefold jacket with black-flood inner pocket printing features layouts and transliterations created in collaboration with the curators. Printed inner sleeves chock full of treasures from SGM's vast archives. Mastered specifically for vinyl.

    All proceeds from your purchase will go directly towards fundraising for the Museum's grand re-opening in 2024... and buying the curators some groceries in the meantime!

    From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for supporting independent artists. AMBUGATON.

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  • Rare limited edition 180-gram Double LP (CREAM FLARE)
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited edition first pressing of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's first album in what Nils describes as "cream flare" vinyl.

    Blood Music spared no expense. The heavyweight 350gsm gatefold jacket with black-flood inner pocket printing features layouts and transliterations created in collaboration with the curators. Printed inner sleeves chock full of treasures from SGM's vast archives. Mastered specifically for vinyl.

    This variation is long out-of-print and exceedingly rare. The Discog-listed resale prices are downright silly. Our own pricing is somewhat less silly while still reflecting accretion... and our need to raise funds.

    Your generous support will help ensure SGM's glorious return in 2024!

    Thank you for buying beautiful things from independent musicians.

    AMBUGATON.

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(in memory of Sean)

lyrics

Get in the pick-up truck, we’re goin’ for a ride
Come on man it’s a downhill slide
Remember the Dead Boys
Crawl in the back, we’re goin’ downtown
Come on bro, we can both fall down
Remember the Dead Boys
Got a big old cheap plastic bottle of gin
Nasty, but it’ll do you in
Got to keep on talkin’ so you don’t come to
What the hell, what the fuck is wrong with you
Midnight ride 1997, one two three
Motherfucker you’re goin’ down tonight
We’re takin’ you in. We’re takin’ you out.
Midnight ride one two three, come on
Tonight we’re gonna’ party like it’s 1997
I know you’re tearin’ shit up and you drunk
yourself wild. I been drinkin’ since I was a child.
Remember the Dead Boys
I know you out weigh me by fifty pounds
That won’t matter in a couple of rounds
If the cops get here first, you’re a dead man
You know I’m doin’ all I can
Sing along bro’ with the Dead Boys
and the New York Dolls you know we
like that noise Midnight ride….
Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1997

credits

from Grand Opening and Closing, released October 30, 2001
song & words: Nils
music: SGM

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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Oakland, California

Perhaps we can call them Avant-Prog Metal, or Grindcore Funk Theater, or in the words of one
particularly rapt concertgoer “Satanic Anarchic Viking Shit."

Regardless, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum indoctrinates their audiences with circuitous melodies, unnamable harmonies and gleefully dark, evocative sounds emanating from an array of voices and instruments, many of them homemade. ... more

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