CHOTTO GHETTO/STAB CITY
SIMPLER TIMES

One of Quote Unquote Records' favorite bands, Chotto Ghetto comes back with their third release for us, a split with California comrades Stab City. So gather 'round the wood burning stove, turn off your victrola, kick back and take a trip back to simpler times.

Click here to download the whole album!

1. Master Blaster
2. Eres Es Mas Vigoroso
3. KVS
4. Louder Than Everything Else
5. Worm
6. Skull Network
7. Community Mouth
8. Cloak & Dagger

Chotto Ghetto is

Chris Candy - vocals, trumpet, keys
Chris Shilakes - guitar
Fletcher Alliston - bass
Jody Giachello - drums and percussion

Tracked at Sandline Studios
Mixed by Justin Bates
Mastered by Hans DeKline

Special thanks to Tim Gedemer, Rose Candy, Jim Alliston, and Jeff Rosenstock

STAB CITY plays death blues. We like old, crusty dirty blues songs about cold-blooded revenge and we love heavy metal shredders annihilating their guitars. We write songs about environmental apocalypse and heroic violence and pointless violence and cycles of shitty lives and the strange joys in being bad at life. We're from Los Angeles.

The band is Dan Catalinotto on vocals and bass, Bobby Vega on drums (and vox on Skull Network) and Sailor Alexander on guitar (and vox on Community Mouth) .

The split EP with Chotto Ghetto, Simpler Times, is our first release on Quote Unquote Records. Our portion of the EP was recorded and mixed by Sailor in our practice spot in Glassell Park, and the lyrics were written by Dan. Go Lakers!

More info can be found at:
http://www.myspace.com/stabcitystabcity

We want to play at your house/bar/warehouse/party/brothel/etc., wherever you are! Write us at:
stab_city@fastmail.fm

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

LYRICS!!!

MASTER BLASTER

Wow.. You don't say
Not another junk show date
With these ethics ease my pain
My pain will

In this time I refine all my options and take you
With this project it makes you
Use what you have inside
But damaged is divine
And I know what to do
It's making me, breaking me
Giving me something to do

Well get up boys, and I'll say
Breaking isn't far away
Didn't think I'd have to say
Get up boys, and I'll say
Breaking isn't far away
Didn't think I'd have to say
Another night another day
This is really happening

Rant on the floor
Just give me something that reaches you more
I will not let you down
Glamourous counter stance
I got a second chance
To be a martyr now
Oh look what I've got
I'm in an honest spot
This room is excited
Yet rarely divided
You'll trample the masses
And get drunk on acid
Your world is so blinded
Yet never invited to stay

Rant on the floor
Take it from me
Rant on the floor
Take it from me
Minds on the dime
We'll see
Rant on the floor
Take it from me
Minds on the dime
Stop listening

Rant on the floor and just take it from me
I'm friends of the family

ERES EL MAS VIGOROSO

Well come on in
And you will see
The many faces of me

You are the one for me
Every time you challenge me
I want to take you in the dark

You think you try but you don't
I'll show you what I know
You're a handful to me
I am reclusive and depraved
Open your head

You're a monument that bends
And you got the looks that took you there
Well I will not challenge then
But I want to be prepared
To ration my self respect
And I won't pretend
To follow your false pretense

You think you try but you don't
I'll show you what I know
You're a handful to me
I am reclusive and depraved
Open your head
Don't you try to be over it and away

You don't fool
You don't fool
You don't fool
Feelin so free I'm calmer than cool
Feelin so free I'm calmer than cool
Feelin so free I'm calmer than cool

Don't you rest
Don't you beg
Don't you ask
Don't you say

Open your head
Open your head
Don't you try to be over it and away
You don't fool
You don't fool
You don't fool
Open your head
Don't you try to be over it and away
Don't you try to be over it and away

LOUDER THAN EVERYTHING ELSE

Friends, gather in masses
Just look into your head
You'll see it's there, friend

They're, offering calmingly
Wisdom from a place that's so uncertain
They're quietly clammoring

Ends happen it's tragic
Just look amongst your friends
You'll see them, they're here
Friends offer compassion but

A chance affair
You think you're there
And all the while
You try and hold onto it

I never thought I was a leader
I never thought this was the end, my

And then you'll try and see
And then you'll try and see
Up until the end
And then you'll try and be
And then you'll try and be
Everybody friend, but
Didnt want to go my way
Didn't have to stop that day
Up to my friend, didn't want to see him
My friend said
Didnt want to go my way
Didn't want to stop that day
Up to my friend, didn't want to see him
My friend said

Friends, gather in masses
And follow to a place
that no ones found yet

They're, offering blindingly
Wisdom from a place
That's so uncertain
There, quiet catastrophe

Ends happen, it's tragic
Just look amongst your friends
And see it end here
Friends offer farewell as it ends

WORM
 
tried to dig a hole to hell
didn't think we'd get that far
the earth lay open like a girl
suns rays made a rectangle
 
bottom of the ocean sits
the grandest canyon in the world
ships get lost in triangles
bad thoughts dig into the minds of birds
 
stay dedicated to the one you love
you'll never see his face again
throw his body in the open hole
man is dirt man is dust man is dirt man is worm
 
eat the dirt like a worm
little girl, digging a hole!
 
SKULL NETWORK
 
torch the woods, it's where they live,
smoking leaves up in the trees
and all the painted savages will feel the
weight of the years in brilliant red colors
and when we break the rocks and sticks
that make the skull network whole
it stabs it right into the sun
it makes a man out of his bones
 
ha! this heart is ready to blow.
 
my bad dreams have come to be
the last things in my memory
i write my name across the earth
in the dirtiest veins with all of the colors
and when the soldiers fly their planes
and look at the land below,
there will be piles of bones,
it will say: "leave us alone."
 
ha! this heart is ready to blow!
 
i'll sign my name right on your skull
 
oh my bomb's the biggest bomb of all!
 
COMMUNITY MOUTH
 
Oh these days are so long!
all of the men have gone
No hard winter no more
they left to destroy the cold
The sun's been up for six days
Made an electric storm
Oh these days never end
Open your windows and doors,
let em in your home.
 
It'll eat this city, eat this city alive!
 
Sun's been up for six days
built an electric wall
No long winter no more
protected our city with stones
We are so much better
hunted the primitive child
We are so much stronger
we have the frozen flames
we have machines and fire
 
It'll eat this city, eat this city alive!
 
oh it's hidden in the wires
inside the DNA, behind the TV screen
now there is more than ever
moving across the skin, moving in artery
and it'll eat this city, eat this city alive!
 
CLOAK & DAGGER
 
Oh this shit is neverending
waiting for the axe to fall
apes dressed in cloak & dagger
apes spitting on the factory floor
sing sad song
 
work moves faster when you're loaded
staring darts into the wall
got a sadness can't be broken
ghosts hidden deep inside the pause
sing sad song
 
do it! string em up!
drown em! drown it out!
oh these thoughts are neverending
drown em out in dirty water
drown em good
drown em out!
sad songs
Drown your thoughts for good!