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Bassist Wanted

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Kevin the jerk popstar

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Popularity rank 56 #42. Less drums, less bass

October 3, 2005

ROCCO: OK... less drums. Good now?
KEVIN EDO: I need, like, the guitar to really jump out. Maybe lose the bass.

ROCCO: OK. But it's almost just guitar and vocals now.
KEVIN EDO: Mmm... can you distort the vocals?

ROCCO: Well, yeah. I mean, the song'll sound totally different.
KEVIN EDO: Good. Yeah, good, I want to hardly recognize Gordon's God damn song.

ROCCO: Kevin... does Gordon know about this mixing session?
KEVIN EDO: Oh yeah, sure, he... ooo, hey, could I record just a whole new guitar riff?

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Popularity rank 57 #11. Where the lyrics come from

February 22, 2005

KULA: Kevin, I'm a huge fan. First, I have to ask, the lyrics of "Spiral Away", so moving. I mean, I wept the first time I heard--

KEVIN EDO: I copied them off a condon ad I saw sitting on the can in Detroit.
KULA: W-what?

KEVIN EDO: "Kevin," I thought. "You spend all this time, you know, thinkin' a words, when there's all these words already written all over the place!"

KULA: But... y-you... there's....
KEVIN EDO: "Too Little Time" is from my VCR manual.

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Popularity rank 58 #9. Watching your friends on VH1

February 8, 2005

RONI: Man. Hard to believe. Kevin Edo, our bassist just two years ago, started "Jumpstart Malady", the most successful rock band in twenty years.
KEVIN EDO: (silent)

RONI: And here we are, still in Brooklyn, watching the "Behind the Music" about him. About Kevin Edo. So weird.
DAN: Shh! It's back on!

VH1 NARRATOR: "For several years before forming 'Malady', Edo toiled in several small unsuccessful N.Y. bands..."

DAN: Oh my God, John, get in here, they just mentioned us on TV!!
CHRISTINA: I... I gotta call m-my mom....

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Popularity rank 59 #316. How’d you do it?

November 27, 2009

JOEL: SO his albums, Mega-Tuned to one note per track, recreate his biggest hit song. ...SO WHAT?
BART: SO he still retains copyright on the Mega-Tune version.

KEVIN: So YOU still owe me my royalties.
BART: Meaning Mega-Tune... is USELESS. Jumpstart Malady songs were the only way we'd've made any real money.

BART: How'd you DO it, Kevin? How'd you make music so sonically BORING that it simplifies recursively into itself? How'd you write pop songs that PERFECTLY?

KEVIN: By ACCIDENT!!!
BART: Inadvertently brilliant... Yes, that IS your M.O.

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Popularity rank 60 #315. Returning the favor

November 25, 2009

KEVIN: I'm here to return the favor and screw YOU, Bart. Listen to our hit song, "Spiral Away"...
MUSIC: Spiral awaaaaaaaay, I lost myself, I fell until I couldn't fall...

KEVIN: And listen to our first album, Mega-Tuned to one note per song...
MEGA-TUNE: Spiral. Away. I. Lost. Myself. I. Fell. Until. I. Couldn't. Fall.

BART: They... sound the SAME.
KEVIN: YEAH... That's RIGHT...

KEVIN: MY MUSIC IS DERIVATIVE OF ITSELF!!
BART: Holy GOATS...

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