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band Sluggo: "Tiny people, tiny people. So small you can fit them in the palm of your hand. Prove that they're not real and win a hundred dollars." The lyrics can be heard, slowed down and played backwards, during the song's final instrumental section. At concerts, the band would speak the words
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EP, guitarist David Grubbs and bassist Clark
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The mostly instrumental "Rose Island Road" takes its title from a winding country road that held sentimental value to the members of
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Dynamite" and "Slake Train Coming". While listening to the mixes, guitarist
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invited Karl Meyer of local band Human Zoo to do some backtracked vocals based on a dream related by Julian Bevan from the
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262:Descendents
258:Sonic Youth
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684:(9). 1987.
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429:Title
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237:indie
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