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Endless Fields of Poppy

by The Curiously Strong Peppermints

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    In honor of both the tenth anniversary of The Curiously Strong Peppermints and the fifth anniversary of the release of their debut album, this 2014 remix and remaster of Endless Fields of Poppy presents a truer representation of what the band originally sought to release. Prepared over Thanksgiving break by head-Peppermint Jesse Miller at Colorwheel Studios, much of the mud is cleared up and the dynamics are greatly improved, revealing layers otherwise overlooked and letting the dense sonic details sparkle. This remix & remaster is the definitive version of the album!
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1.
Once upon a time in castle under the sun Ruled a King who only half his subjects he had won Through a wizard's magic wave He knew his people could be saved And thus his evil fight to muse the masses had begun It was known the King and Queen were quite a silly pair The King had spoke moronic words, the Queen had pretty hair The allegations were ludicrous The King threw down an iron fist He called his knights and told the other kingdoms to beware Other kingdoms heard the warning but they didn't heed The King knew this and thought a battle's what the people need "I'll let them torch two tower walls And shed the tear when castle falls Then the filthy peasants will not mock me when they bleed" And so our story ends with the conclusion of his rule The battles fought I hope have taught they simply were a tool Though faceless kings will come and go I doubt the peasants will ever know The lessons lost of wars and costs of the King who was a fool
2.
I can’t see why you say the sky is falling down Because my head is in the clouds Believe you me when I say those shards of blue are now All just sequins dancing as your crown Flies and bees buzzing ‘round the notion that you grieve We are awaiting your release You’ve skinned your knees falling down, now just breathe deep You’re already on your cautious feet All your dreams are reality Your conscious needs to know Your sorrow’s multiplicity But you are already home Plant your trees and dance around their harvest harmony Your spirit is the seed Taste the greens and remember these, the words I plea: It is your life that the world needs All your dreams are reality Your conscious needs to know Your sorrow’s multiplicity But you are already home
3.
Oh Me Oh My 02:21
Waiting for that telephone call Where you can blame you’ve heard it all Before you say your emotions played A part in our downfall Fire fuels the heart I guess You put all your love to rest Sleeping on the bed we’ve drawn Its presence has been suppressed Ride inside your temper’s lies Now you here me sigh: “Oh me oh my You have gone to hideaway Oh me oh my The words we said, I had no say Oh me oh my Deliver me without delay Oh me oh my You have gone away” Sitting in this biosphere Intentions lost and wasn’t clear Enough to tell I couldn’t sell A way to persevere And now this sphere becomes a cage Of words that coax to act my age I’m hiding from the wrath has come To circle ‘round your rage
4.
Never Call 03:25
What the hell is my story? Cleaning up this mess once again You’re banking secrets for me Kiss and tell or is this pretend? We’re playing make believe A round of tag that will never end I never call you, when I do you’re never there You sigh but it’s all that I can do, coincidence has got me impaired Now I’m stuck with all of my bad luck tucked in the front of my wares I never call you, when I do you’re never there Serendipity sure has Dropped the ball on our little game Now that my innocence and Indifference are one in the same Emotional piracy No time to assign who’s to blame
5.
I've seen your face It is shadowed by this monkey's game disgrace Take my case and I will set you free I've seen the sun It is shining on the donut's midnight run When it's done I hope you'll stay for tea So sail away from all the worries of your life So take a break and just release that blurry sigh Reach out – you saved me Freak out -- displayed me Lifting up our heavy hearts Bike, ladder, pills, Car wrecks can't shake these sultry summer thrills But until I take you home again You took my hand Green pillow milkshakes in Happy Mathland and Understand that no heart cannot be mend So sail away from all the worries of your life So take a break and just release that blurry sigh Reach out – you saved me Freak out -- displayed me Lifting up our heavy hearts
6.
George Bush 03:55
Your kamikaze faith meets the sweat on your brow You’ll be standing and facing the sun Just save your face and take a final bow There is no encore when you’re done Your fantasies twist and then buckle down The saliva just drips off your tongue The pacifists’ fist punches a blow Hasting the last ladder’s rung Hey! Hey! The cavalry’s play There is no resolution to this Hey! Hey! The democratic delay The voice of our nation has gone to shit The punctuation proves our head on a stake Your sentence is ending alone The audience soothes over bastard’s mistake Regrets that you will never atone Your razor-like teeth filter the enchanting words They drift through the crowd’s patient ear Subliminal fees censored birds and the bees Replacing our courage with fear Hey! Hey! The cavalry’s play There is no resolution to this Hey! Hey! The democratic delay The voice of our nation has gone to shit
7.
Cellophane feelin’ from a seven AM ceilin’ And it’s only ours to keep Detroit’s callin’ back the San Francisco pollen Christ, I gotta get some sleep Sunday’s lookin’ better since the Jester’s got the weather Because I’m strung out in the rain Can’t afford to tell her it’s a paper umbrella That protects us from her waterproof game Where have we come to? Nobody told you? Looks like we’ll ensue all that we’ve tried "So stop your playin." That’s what you’re sayin’? I’m not complaing of suicide The synchronized pounding from the morning call sounding Reverberating in my ears Tastin’ my temptation from a narcissist nation And the salt that fills my tears Quantifying Quaaludes to the first refrain of "Hey Jude" The record’s skipping in its sleeve Feeble needle’s grooving, the F / Eb / Bb soothin’ As the crackles drown out my worn out belief So start complyin’ if you’re not tryin’ I should be flyin’ away from this Where have we come to? Nobody told you? And so I ask you: "Please don’t persist."
8.
Colorwheel 03:05
The sunshine is fading, the world closed her eyes But yours remained open beneath your disguise Forcing emotions bottled inside Throw it into the ocean, let it sink with the tides We’re living in a colorwheel What a shame to see it as a grayscale We’re living in a colorwheel We play the game but cannot touch without the feel So color your life Paint some highlights Color it bright You see the big picture? Read between the lines: The sins of the mother erased over time Remember the father, his colors defined We love you forever and your sadness is blind We’re living in a colorwheel What a shame to see it as a grayscale We’re living in a colorwheel We play the game but cannot touch without the feel So color your life Paint some highlights Color it bright
9.
Cupid’s enrolled at the institute He takes a single fraction, then times it by two The factor of the factor: I’m the remainder when through Craig says "Lake Street is for the lovers" Well I’m thumbing, bumming cigarettes out on the corner Rain soaked, head cloaked Who else can relate that it’s true? La-la-la la la-la-la la la la What I need to do is divide the multiples of two Two prime numbers and that’s all that it takes But a zero times a zero, you know what that makes Calling for a calculator Send me to a cosmic cosign Tommy says "You’re innocent when you’re dreaming’" I cannot relate, no REM I’m achieving’ Cold sweat bed wet (Put an expletive in this line!) La-la-la la la-la-la la la la What I need to do is divide the multiples of two
10.
Babycakes 02:04
Babycakes, Babycakes, you are my Babycakes Babycakes, Babycakes, I love my Babycakes You float from cloud to cloud Above a shining sea and back to me Eloquent to dangers in your sleep You drift along the seashore And sandy foam on turquoise stone All aboard the elephants that roam
11.
The periscope is elevated all night long Sending hope to a deflated ego to stay strong Mish and mash the truth and lies I wonder what you’re really like inside? That is your disguise Self esteem evaporated in the air Selfish dreams wetted from a single glare Acceptance in a click again Surround yourself with mannequins That is your disguise So you’ve found some salvation in your peers? You’re hiding from penetration of your fears Mish and mash the truth and lies I wonder what you’re really like inside? That is your disguise
12.
Hang me from a mouse trapeze Nothing left to break my fall Icing on the birthday cake Tastes like ash and Geritol I’ve fallen for the setting sun Prophylactics block the view Thirty-thousand wretched souls evaporate Can’t question all your social taboo You disintegrate my heart The Captain’s here so why am I? Stowaways dress chickens in drag Setting soon the silver moon Prune the feelings of the fag Rabbits race on empty lies Turtles trip on trillions of trials Sitting across an empty room How can fifteen feet feel like millions of miles? You disintegrate my heart
13.
Innocence welcomes the backlash of a spiteful tongue The sediment of senseless vengeance lies in anyone We travel round the world with open arms Awaiting our demise Dancing in the streets round rings of fire Waltzing to the tune of sizzling skin Do-si-do Around she goes Stepping on the stones The fingerprints are smeared on our generation’s thumb We wipe it on the children standing in our bloodline’s run The bodies fall before me and I don’t mind They’re all just stepping stones Dancing in the streets round rings of fire Waltzing to the tune of sizzling skin Do-si-do Around she goes Stepping on the stones The laughodils are dieing and we can’t hear their plea Say good-bye to innocence and the endless fields of poppy
14.
The situation concedes As the procession proceeds But I know you oversee The loneliness of a fallen tear Is equaled to the constant fear But your love is her lighthouse beam Mother Mary embraces us all There are no disgraces to fall Are you smiling down on me? Am I all you hoped to be? Although we never met I hope this message gets through We are all smiling up at you Gravitation relieves The bleeding hearts at the seems But I know you oversee I wish I knew you when you were here To see us through all the jeers But I know you see it from above the trees

about

The Curiously Strong Peppermints are a Minneapolis-based psychedelic acid-pop quintet. Their bio claims they sound like “Elliott Smith backed by The Flaming Lips playing The Beatles backwards,” but that was written under suspicious circumstances involving a ferret, two buckets and a typewriter. What else is ‘known’ about the band may not be true: demos recorded from inside a box, using shoehorns and eggbeaters; concept albums about Lady Gaga’s left testicle; pianos drenched in gallons of peach yogurt. Are there actually seventeen members of the band, but twelve of them play nothing and simply perform pantomime at their homes while the remaining five perform/record the music at a gig or studio?

What IS known is that their debut album “Endless Fields of Poppy” was self-released in the imaginary internet realm three months ago, with a physical release on the mysterious Sunshine Cortex Records. The album was apparently 6 years in the making, recorded by the band in living rooms, garages, basements and bedrooms. A mix of melodic pop, layers of reverbed sketchy vocals, fuzzy basses and backwards drums. Plus a plethora of instruments such as air organs, glockenspiels, theremins, toy pianos and a Hawaiian tremoloa. This is headphones music, people. If your ears could smile… well… you should really see a specialist for that.

credits

released November 3, 2009

Written and produced by Jesse Miller
Recorded at Colorwheel Studios, Apartment 2, EJR Studios and a BP gas station Mar 2004-Nov 2006.
Additional recording & production October 2009 at The Arbor House and The Green Room.
Remixed & remastered Thanksgiving 2014 by Jesse Miller at Colorwheel Studios, Minneapolis

All songs © 2009 Soniclovenoize Music Publishing (BMI) Lyrics reprinted by permission

Band drawing by Astrid Miller.
Cover art courtesy Pale Of Future.
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The Curiously Strong Peppermints are an unexplained purple cumulonimbus cloud formation hovering above Western Abu Dhabi that has been emitting unusual sonic frequencies since 2004. If you stare at it long enough you can see a Jesse, a Ben, a Sean, and sometimes a David and Jeannette. Four pieces fell to earth, available here. ... more

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