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Effect of Excess

by Short-term Memory

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1.
I Don't Care 04:09
I Don't Care Written by - Dooley / Paul / Skeel Vocals - Jim, Kevin and Jon If I gotta wake up, I'll do it for myself Now you're living on the street, with nothing left to eat, no shoes upon your feet If I gotta wake up, I'll do it for myself (no matter how hungry I get) I don't care, you don't care, who cares? Now you have no way to know your future is a mystery Now you have no way to know your life is only what you see Now your friends have all packed up and left the planet screaming You think that you're responsible you know you really shouldn't be The world spins all around me The world spins all around me, no matter what I do Now you have no way to know your future is a mystery The world spins all around me Now you have no way to know your life is only what you see If I gotta wake up, I'll do it for myself When I have to wake up, I don't rise to nobody's rules So you say that I don't care my futures anywhere there's nothing really there If I think about it too much (you know), I just get scared So if I gotta wake up, I'll do it for myself , no matter how hungry I get I don't care, you don't care, who cares? There's nothing really there, there's nothing really there
2.
Written by - Dooley / Paul / Skeel Irritating Stun Guitar - Robert Sax - the Rev. Dwight Frizzell Introducing Mabel Barker
3.
I Think I'm Losing My Mind Written by - Dooley / Paul / Skeel Vocals - Jim, Kevin and Jon Sax - Kevin I think I'm losing my mind Don't know, what am I doing? Why else would they be kind? Why would they want to upset me? Don't know, I'm losing my mind I think, what I am doing Why did I walk out that door? To think is so confusing I Think I'm Losing My Mind I think I'm losing my mind Don't know, what I am doing? Why else would they be kind? Why would they want to upset me? What am I doing, losing my mind? Don't know what I am thinking The keys I left behind Walked home while it was raining I Think I'm Losing My Mind
4.
Take Your Place Written by Cat Cooper Vocals - Cat with Jim Reach in deep, pull it out, you can feel it, feel it, feel it Rich in ease, full of doubt, go on steal it, steal it, steal it Colors pass you one and all, but you don't feel it, feel it, feel it What do you want, cause you can have it all come on feel it, feel it, feel it Take your place, in the crowd Take your place, our heads are bowed Take your place, before you fade Take your place, do you have it made? Here's a glass, have a ball, there's a step here, don't fall Here comes your make up man so don't light up There's a place to rest, it's one flight up Will you live it and love it hard, and do you feel it, feel it, feel it? Don't move too fast, you've played your cards, and you can't deal it, deal it, deal it So take your place, in the crowd Take your place, our heads are bowed Take your place, before you fade Take your place, do you have it made?
5.
Out East 03:47
Out East Observations from a visit to NYC Written by Dooley / Paul / Skeel Vocal - Jim He sleeps on the corner, he sleeps at the edge of the world She dreams of boys, she dreams of boys and loving touches He is old, he feels a thousand years old, and his bed is the rising steam in the cold She is lovely, feels her life beginning and her blade cuts the ice beneath her Line it cuts, line it cuts like the river Jordan The city walls, these walls are like the Grand Canyon Skates her life away and loves the beauty of the plaza Skating is so peaceful and her dreams are fine While he sleeps it is peaceful and his dreams are fine As long as he doesn't want something else As long as he doesn't feel trapped by time And he thinks, and he thinks.... and he thinks maybe the best thing for the world is to.....Dream it away
6.
Banzai 04:36
Banzai Written by Paul / Skeel Vocals - Jim with Cat Let us imitate the Japanese, after all they're imitating us No not the transistor radio, maybe the espionage It's a hard time in the free marketplace, where the big 3 were king telling the public what they want, we built ourselves out of the game Well the Japanese believe in some book of rings, and parents in industry it's foolish to think we could work this way, We in the land of the free Let us imitate the Japanese, after all they're imitating us No not the transistor radio, just the automobile we drive It's a hard time in the land of the immigrant, where the union was king Asking for more while giving less, we priced ourselves out of the game Well the Japanese believe in some book of rings, and parents in industry We independent people of the world, we are the mercenary We are the mercenary
7.
Written by Skeel / Womack / Duckworth Jon -Banjo Robert - Bottleneck Guitar Jim Melodica and loops
8.
Freedom 04:41
Freedom Written by Duckworth / Paul / Skeel Vocal - Jon Melodica / Loops & Trumpet - Jim Staging platform, center stage Freedom is free You're out voted Jon Call it thorazine
9.
Page 64 02:43
Page 64 Written by: Skeel / Womack / Cooper Vocal - Cat Sitting by the lamp, reading late at night I'm prepared to enter a great western book Somehow the pages are putting up a fight They don't want me in there to take a look but.... It use to be so simple, on page 64 Never had a bit of trouble, now open up the door Usually I mesh right in, my senses disappear within Oh I made it inside and the scene is long ago Oh I feel uneasy and I think I better go I was a wanted face in 1834, I want to get back out but they've locked the door It use to be so simple, on page 64 Never had a bit of trouble, now open up the door Usually I mesh right in, my senses disappear within It use to be so simple on page 64, I never had a bit of trouble now open up the door
10.
Lullaby Written by Duckworth / Paul / Skeel Vocals - Jon with Jim and Robert Soon you'll know, that it's time to go to bed Soon you'll know, that it's time to shut your eyes Dream of happy industry, happy, happy industry Soon you'll see, futures shining bright Window gleam, stars above the night Dream of happy industry, busy, happy industry And your dreams are monitored And your thoughts are controlled Done discreetly while you sleep Soon you'll dream, of brand new bright careers Then your world will never be the same Dream of happy industry, happy, happy industry

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Short-term Memory's 3rd release and 1st LP follows the 1983's full length cassette Every Head Needs Cleaning and a cassette EP Lost in Gundam (1984).

Effect of Excess (1984) covers a period of transition for the band with Kevin Dooley leaving and Cat Cooper and Robert Duckworth joining. The shift in personnel drove a change from strictly sequenced rhythms to real drumming with the addition of bass guitar underpinning the sound. Jim dusted off his clavinet as a main instrument to complement his synthesizer. Other instruments were also brought in to flesh out the sound.

Songs 1,3 & 5 reflect the early period with Kevin, looking backward, and the remainder of the album looks forward to the ongoing changes that were to envelop Short-term Memory.

see lyrics area for additional instrumentation, song writing credits as well as the lyrics.

Jonathan Paul - drums, acoustic & electronic percussion, vocals and synthesizer
www.discogs.com/Buddy-Lush-Phenomenon-The-Buddy-Lush-Phenomenon/release/4488004
jamscience1.bandcamp.com
short-termmemory.bandcamp.com
johndoetheband.bandcamp.com/releases

Jim Skeel - Clavinet, synthesizer, vocals, percussion, and devices
randomrex.bandcamp.com/album/random-rex
cyberchump.com
cyberchump.bandcamp.com/music
jamscience1.bandcamp.com
damawa.bandcamp.com/releases
thankfreud.bandcamp.com
short-termmemory.bandcamp.com
johndoetheband.bandcamp.com/releases
thebuckthrusters.bandcamp.com/releases
drdoomandthevictimsofcircumstance.bandcamp.com/releases
sosss.bandcamp.com/releases

Robert Duckworth - fretted and fretless bass, vocals
www.fandalism.com/blindduck
jamscience1.bandcamp.com

Kevin Dooley - sequenced events, synthesizer and vocals
(zero-one.org)
jamscience1.bandcamp.com

Cat Cooper - synthesizer, percussion and vocals

The Rev. Dwight Frizzell - saxaphone
www.dwightfrizzell.com

Introducing Mabel Barker
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Recorded @ Heavenly Music (AKA Skeel's Reels) just south of Gundam
Engineering & Digital Mastering by Jim Skeel
Cover Art - Tim Higgins
Mixed and Produced by Jim Skeel, Jonathan Paul, & Robert Duckworth for that Silly Poodle Music © ℗ 1984 / 2014 (BMI)

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released May 11, 2014

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Short-term Memory Record 6 "official" DIY releases from 1983 to 1993. Originally a 3 piece "electronic" collaborative effort featuring Kevin Dooley, Jonathan Paul and Jim Skeel. These 6 releases reflect a continually shifting lineup of musicians and the change in sound with the departure of Kevin. More to come? ... more

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