Chords for Jay Reatard (Exclaim!TV EP.50)
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Jay Retard has been putting out awesome, popular records since he was 15 years old.
And now that he's 28, he has literally put out countless records, in the sense that I
cannot count how many fucking records he has put out.
But they're all awesome.
He's done bands like the Retards, the Lost Sounds.
Now he's doing the solo thing.
It's going pretty well.
He's real popular.
He punched a guy in the face in Toronto.
He kicked a dude in the face in Las Vegas.
And he's kind of become the sort of person that people like me make a living spreading
rumors and innuendo about, which is really exciting and I really appreciate it.
So we're going to head down to Sonic Boom, ask him some questions, then he's going to
play a free in-store, and there's a good chance that someone will videotape him doing something
that they'll be able to edit later and put on the internet to make it seem like he threw
a cat into the audience and wouldn't play until people would kill it, or he punched
my grandma in the face.
So hopefully that happens, and I can make another video next week about that, which
will keep me employed.
Good job.
[G] [Fm]
[C]
If you want to [D#] come to this party, come on through.
You wrote a story that you told to me.
You said I loved you and I really believed you.
[D] I'm curious [F] how much people expect a certain thing from your shows, [D] I guess, to some extent.
And I wonder if it's gotten to the point where those expectations are becoming difficult.
You go to a show [D] and people are like, I'm going to [A#] pour a fucking pitcher of beer on
you and it's going to be punk rock and awesome.
Well, [C] there's that.
[Em]
[B] [E] And then [Bm]
[Em] there's [C] the opposite, which is equally as annoying.
I think we're starting to [D] reach an audience that has this pretty closed-minded vision
of what a band is supposed to sound like live.
I've had more people recently [F#] come up and say, you guys don't sound like your records.
Foo Fighters might sound just like their album [A] Live.
[D] We try to make it completely different.
I even change the lyrics, change the song structure [D] sometimes, everything, just to keep
it interesting for me, which in the selfish world of being an artist, [E] the most important
thing [G] to me is me having fun.
[C] [G] And the punk rockers, I don't want to sound like an old man, but I've just been there
and done all that stuff too.
I can understand if it's an 18-year-old kid, it's [D] having too much fun and he fucks
up and I want to take a grown [G] man, that's when it's just downright depressing.
[D#]
[A] Even from [F#] past bands I was in, it's always [B] been my goal to expose the creative process.
[A]
It's too much of a commercialized way to work.
It's like every 18 months you [Dm] put out a record, no one gets to hear your bad ideas,
no one gets to see your [D] flaws.
It's like putting makeup on your music or something.
I just want to expose all the zits and butt zits and gross shit about myself and my music to everyone.
I don't have anything to really hide as far as creatively.
I put up stuff on my blog that I'm completely embarrassed of just as a process of getting over it.
What's [F] the biggest butt zit of a song that you feel you've put out there?
I put it on the last Matador singles.
I put [F#] a [Fm] super limp-wristed, [F#m] [F]
acoustic, almost ballad kind of thing, if you will.
[A#]
[F#] Just because [F#] I liked it and I knew [F] people wouldn't, I figured I would just put it out
and surprise some people who really like it and some don't.
That's just like every other thing I've ever done.
It's [A] all in your head.
I just had to get past it.
I was like, man, I want to put this out.
This is the wimpiest thing I've ever done.
Now I feel like I can put five [A] songs on a record like that and not be subconscious [D] about it.
[G]
[Am]
[D#] We played this thing called Riot Fest last week in Chicago with The Casualties and 3
O [F]'Clock, and there was a lot of [F#] Mohawks and stuff [D] there.
[D] I thought we played our super [G] raw, [C#] balls-out kind of punk setting.
They thought [D#] we were hippies.
[A#] [B] What can you do to [D] convince the punk rockers that you're so hard?
And now that he's 28, he has literally put out countless records, in the sense that I
cannot count how many fucking records he has put out.
But they're all awesome.
He's done bands like the Retards, the Lost Sounds.
Now he's doing the solo thing.
It's going pretty well.
He's real popular.
He punched a guy in the face in Toronto.
He kicked a dude in the face in Las Vegas.
And he's kind of become the sort of person that people like me make a living spreading
rumors and innuendo about, which is really exciting and I really appreciate it.
So we're going to head down to Sonic Boom, ask him some questions, then he's going to
play a free in-store, and there's a good chance that someone will videotape him doing something
that they'll be able to edit later and put on the internet to make it seem like he threw
a cat into the audience and wouldn't play until people would kill it, or he punched
my grandma in the face.
So hopefully that happens, and I can make another video next week about that, which
will keep me employed.
Good job.
[G] [Fm]
[C]
If you want to [D#] come to this party, come on through.
You wrote a story that you told to me.
You said I loved you and I really believed you.
[D] I'm curious [F] how much people expect a certain thing from your shows, [D] I guess, to some extent.
And I wonder if it's gotten to the point where those expectations are becoming difficult.
You go to a show [D] and people are like, I'm going to [A#] pour a fucking pitcher of beer on
you and it's going to be punk rock and awesome.
Well, [C] there's that.
[Em]
[B] [E] And then [Bm]
[Em] there's [C] the opposite, which is equally as annoying.
I think we're starting to [D] reach an audience that has this pretty closed-minded vision
of what a band is supposed to sound like live.
I've had more people recently [F#] come up and say, you guys don't sound like your records.
Foo Fighters might sound just like their album [A] Live.
[D] We try to make it completely different.
I even change the lyrics, change the song structure [D] sometimes, everything, just to keep
it interesting for me, which in the selfish world of being an artist, [E] the most important
thing [G] to me is me having fun.
[C] [G] And the punk rockers, I don't want to sound like an old man, but I've just been there
and done all that stuff too.
I can understand if it's an 18-year-old kid, it's [D] having too much fun and he fucks
up and I want to take a grown [G] man, that's when it's just downright depressing.
[D#]
[A] Even from [F#] past bands I was in, it's always [B] been my goal to expose the creative process.
[A]
It's too much of a commercialized way to work.
It's like every 18 months you [Dm] put out a record, no one gets to hear your bad ideas,
no one gets to see your [D] flaws.
It's like putting makeup on your music or something.
I just want to expose all the zits and butt zits and gross shit about myself and my music to everyone.
I don't have anything to really hide as far as creatively.
I put up stuff on my blog that I'm completely embarrassed of just as a process of getting over it.
What's [F] the biggest butt zit of a song that you feel you've put out there?
I put it on the last Matador singles.
I put [F#] a [Fm] super limp-wristed, [F#m] [F]
acoustic, almost ballad kind of thing, if you will.
[A#]
[F#] Just because [F#] I liked it and I knew [F] people wouldn't, I figured I would just put it out
and surprise some people who really like it and some don't.
That's just like every other thing I've ever done.
It's [A] all in your head.
I just had to get past it.
I was like, man, I want to put this out.
This is the wimpiest thing I've ever done.
Now I feel like I can put five [A] songs on a record like that and not be subconscious [D] about it.
[G]
[Am]
[D#] We played this thing called Riot Fest last week in Chicago with The Casualties and 3
O [F]'Clock, and there was a lot of [F#] Mohawks and stuff [D] there.
[D] I thought we played our super [G] raw, [C#] balls-out kind of punk setting.
They thought [D#] we were hippies.
[A#] [B] What can you do to [D] convince the punk rockers that you're so hard?
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Jay Retard has been putting out awesome, popular records since he was 15 years old.
And now that he's 28, he has literally put out countless records, in the sense that I
cannot count how many fucking records he has put out.
But they're all awesome.
He's done bands like the Retards, the Lost Sounds.
Now he's doing the solo thing.
It's going pretty well.
He's real popular.
He punched a guy in the face in Toronto.
He kicked a dude in the face in Las Vegas.
And he's kind of become the sort of person that people like me make a living spreading
rumors and innuendo about, which is really exciting and I really appreciate it.
So we're going to head down to Sonic Boom, ask him some questions, then he's going to
play a free in-store, and there's a good chance that someone will videotape him doing something
that they'll be able to edit later and put on the internet to make it seem like he threw
a cat into the audience and wouldn't play until people would kill it, or he punched
my grandma in the face.
So hopefully that happens, and I can make another video next week about that, which
will keep me employed.
Good job.
_ _ _ [G] _ [Fm] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ If you want to [D#] come to this party, come on through.
You wrote a story that you told to me.
You said I loved you and I really believed you.
[D] I'm curious [F] how much _ people expect a certain thing from your shows, [D] I guess, to some extent.
And I wonder if it's gotten to the point where those expectations are becoming difficult.
You go to a show [D] and people are like, I'm going to [A#] pour a fucking pitcher of beer on
you and it's going to be punk rock and awesome.
Well, [C] there's that. _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [E] And then [Bm] _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ there's [C] the opposite, which is equally as annoying.
I think we're starting to [D] reach an audience that has this pretty closed-minded vision
of what a band is supposed to sound like live.
_ _ I've had more people recently [F#] come up and say, you guys don't sound like your records.
Foo Fighters might sound just like their album [A] Live.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] We try to make it completely different.
I even change the lyrics, change the song structure [D] sometimes, everything, just to keep
it interesting for me, which in the selfish world of being an artist, [E] the most important
thing [G] to me is me having fun.
[C] _ [G] And the punk rockers, I don't want to sound like an old man, but I've just been there
and done all that stuff too. _
I can understand if it's an 18-year-old kid, it's [D] having too much fun and he fucks
up and I want to take a grown [G] man, that's when it's just downright depressing.
[D#] _ _
_ _ _ [A] Even from [F#] past bands I was in, it's always [B] been my goal to expose the creative process.
_ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ It's too much of a commercialized way to work.
It's like every 18 months you [Dm] put out a record, no one gets to hear your bad ideas,
no one gets to see your [D] flaws.
It's like putting makeup on your music or something.
I just want to expose all the zits and butt zits and gross shit about myself and my music to everyone.
I don't have anything to really hide as far as creatively.
I put up stuff on my blog that I'm completely embarrassed of just as a process of getting over it.
What's [F] the biggest butt zit of a song that you feel you've put out there?
I put it on the last Matador singles.
I put [F#] a _ _ [Fm] super limp-wristed, [F#m] _ [F] _
acoustic, almost ballad kind of thing, if you will.
[A#] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ Just because [F#] I liked it and I knew [F] people wouldn't, I figured I would just put it out
and surprise some people who really like it and some don't.
That's just like every other thing I've ever done.
_ It's [A] all in your head.
I just had to get past it.
I was like, man, I want to put this out.
This is the wimpiest thing I've ever done.
Now I feel _ like I can put five [A] songs on a record like that and not be subconscious [D] about it.
_ [G] _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D#] We played this thing called Riot Fest last week in Chicago _ with The Casualties and 3
O [F]'Clock, and there was a lot of [F#] Mohawks and stuff [D] there.
_ [D] I thought we played our super [G] raw, [C#] balls-out kind of punk setting.
They thought [D#] we were hippies. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A#] _ _ [B] What can you do to [D] convince the punk rockers that you're so hard?
And now that he's 28, he has literally put out countless records, in the sense that I
cannot count how many fucking records he has put out.
But they're all awesome.
He's done bands like the Retards, the Lost Sounds.
Now he's doing the solo thing.
It's going pretty well.
He's real popular.
He punched a guy in the face in Toronto.
He kicked a dude in the face in Las Vegas.
And he's kind of become the sort of person that people like me make a living spreading
rumors and innuendo about, which is really exciting and I really appreciate it.
So we're going to head down to Sonic Boom, ask him some questions, then he's going to
play a free in-store, and there's a good chance that someone will videotape him doing something
that they'll be able to edit later and put on the internet to make it seem like he threw
a cat into the audience and wouldn't play until people would kill it, or he punched
my grandma in the face.
So hopefully that happens, and I can make another video next week about that, which
will keep me employed.
Good job.
_ _ _ [G] _ [Fm] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ If you want to [D#] come to this party, come on through.
You wrote a story that you told to me.
You said I loved you and I really believed you.
[D] I'm curious [F] how much _ people expect a certain thing from your shows, [D] I guess, to some extent.
And I wonder if it's gotten to the point where those expectations are becoming difficult.
You go to a show [D] and people are like, I'm going to [A#] pour a fucking pitcher of beer on
you and it's going to be punk rock and awesome.
Well, [C] there's that. _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [E] And then [Bm] _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ there's [C] the opposite, which is equally as annoying.
I think we're starting to [D] reach an audience that has this pretty closed-minded vision
of what a band is supposed to sound like live.
_ _ I've had more people recently [F#] come up and say, you guys don't sound like your records.
Foo Fighters might sound just like their album [A] Live.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] We try to make it completely different.
I even change the lyrics, change the song structure [D] sometimes, everything, just to keep
it interesting for me, which in the selfish world of being an artist, [E] the most important
thing [G] to me is me having fun.
[C] _ [G] And the punk rockers, I don't want to sound like an old man, but I've just been there
and done all that stuff too. _
I can understand if it's an 18-year-old kid, it's [D] having too much fun and he fucks
up and I want to take a grown [G] man, that's when it's just downright depressing.
[D#] _ _
_ _ _ [A] Even from [F#] past bands I was in, it's always [B] been my goal to expose the creative process.
_ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ It's too much of a commercialized way to work.
It's like every 18 months you [Dm] put out a record, no one gets to hear your bad ideas,
no one gets to see your [D] flaws.
It's like putting makeup on your music or something.
I just want to expose all the zits and butt zits and gross shit about myself and my music to everyone.
I don't have anything to really hide as far as creatively.
I put up stuff on my blog that I'm completely embarrassed of just as a process of getting over it.
What's [F] the biggest butt zit of a song that you feel you've put out there?
I put it on the last Matador singles.
I put [F#] a _ _ [Fm] super limp-wristed, [F#m] _ [F] _
acoustic, almost ballad kind of thing, if you will.
[A#] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ Just because [F#] I liked it and I knew [F] people wouldn't, I figured I would just put it out
and surprise some people who really like it and some don't.
That's just like every other thing I've ever done.
_ It's [A] all in your head.
I just had to get past it.
I was like, man, I want to put this out.
This is the wimpiest thing I've ever done.
Now I feel _ like I can put five [A] songs on a record like that and not be subconscious [D] about it.
_ [G] _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D#] We played this thing called Riot Fest last week in Chicago _ with The Casualties and 3
O [F]'Clock, and there was a lot of [F#] Mohawks and stuff [D] there.
_ [D] I thought we played our super [G] raw, [C#] balls-out kind of punk setting.
They thought [D#] we were hippies. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A#] _ _ [B] What can you do to [D] convince the punk rockers that you're so hard?