Monday, December 10, 2012

Smorgasbord of Shit

Let’s talk why music and advertising are the best of friends, just like bagels and creamed corn, Jews and Palestine, and Klondike bars and bears.

You see long time ago music was just something people did because they knew they could make lots of money doing it. Sure their parents might have sung to them at night as some sort of archaic ritual or even at holidays, but by the time young Elvis came around he knew he wanted to sing to make lots of money.  The same could be said for other Elvis peers like Bukka White, Geeshie Wiley, and David "Honeyboy" Edwards. Obviously not all of these people made it to the big time, but one of them probably did, as some sort of background music for a product in a 30 second spot before another episode of Two and Half Men. This is your goal unless you are stupid.

The key here is that when composing music one should always think about what’s most important.  Sure in interviews lots of artists may say that Bitches are the most important, but Bitches aren’t cheap and so we once again come to our old friend, Mr. Bling. You see even if you don’t have money, the key is to pretend you do by using plastic jewelry and replacing it as you become more successful with high-class 14-karat stuff.  The illusion of money attracts real money, which is why an expensive cell phone is the best way to attract an even more expensive phone that does even more for you.  It doesn’t even matter if it can do the only thing it’s supposed to, the key is that you use it often and that people see you use it.

Writing songs is a byproduct of getting rich, the more money you have the mo problems, thus you have more to complain about and today with the aid of GarageBand you can capture your wisdom right at it’s apex.  Great way to attract money is pretending to be a stupid slut, for men this is classy, for women trashy, but either way it attracts eyes to your creative project.  For example I have a new album in progress, I know that using normal means of distribution through a label will net me lots of cash, but I want the respect due to someone on the edge, someone fighting the system. This strategy was drawn up by my label and I got the minimum amount of tattoo flair to excite the demographic that finds body art dangerous.  Now I have hired writers to come up with a tell all biography about my childhood growing up in a dangerous part of some town near where I grew up and my PR people are working on spreading rumors about a possible sex tape. The key is to get on the front page of tabloids, if I can get them to take pictures of me wearing nothing but a wife beater,  when I do my interview with O’Reilly or Carson Daly, I will have plenty of indignation to go around.  The key as always is to pretend that the attention I’m getting is a burden.  In reality of course my album which has vague titles about love, freedom, and most importantly how I’m not a slut, is selling like, whatever it is that the poor trample each other to buy on Black Friday.

The key is to say you are an artist and soon you will be one, because labels are only the things that describe you to a world largely unconcerned with checking facts.

This philosophical guide to success in life brought to you by,

The UN

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Celebrating Celebrity

Yes, it's that special time in our lives, we're almost done with school and almost ready to maybe try that whole music thing again. A month ago we flirted with disaster when we attempted to enter a song writing contest, there was no chance of winning but it wasn't the winning that interested us. The list of judges included Tom Waits, Jeff Beck, Dr. Demento and Wynonna, the possibility that one of them might hear our secular music, well let's put it this way, it was excreting. The only problem we ran into was that we forgot to write the song. However, that's only a difference of a few hours, but let's be honest it's hard to have a long distance bandship.

We are likely to see each other in person for the Solstice holidays where we will dress in all sorts of homemade costumes put together from all sorts of different things and go from village to village in order to bring blessings to others and drive away evil demons. Everyone will be glad to greet us and we will be given food and drink at each house. The head of this group is called the elder and he will carry a twig or stick with him. The twig will be used to spank the people that live in the houses where we will stop along the way. The twig has magical powers and when people and animals are touched with it the natural energy from the twig enters them. One of the most common types of masks are bear masks because the bear with his roar could frighten away all evil spirits. Then there is the ram where horns and a beard are attached so that the mask looks real and then the crane and this costume is specially made to resemble the bird with a long beak and the head is movable. Others prefer to dress up as death and make sure that they look like the real thing scythe and all. If you would like to learn more about our holiday rituals, please go here

During the two weeks we will be within 5 miles of each other, we might just find an hour or two and bang out a new album, don't hold your breath, but wouldn't that be a gift worth taking for this fancy capitclism season? We think so, we think so. Speaking of people we do this for...



We have great news, someone in Finland listened to Fuck You Tube on our Soundcloud page. Who ever that was we greatly appreciate it and are happy that we are invading the Viking territories, watch out we're coming for your Abbeys.

In news slightly less old than our old ass album, here is some music one of us did that took more effort. Enjoy the piss out of it, it's binding, sexy, and free.

Osaka Love Hotel  and  [sparrow] 


The UN

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

In Soviet Russia Pussy Riot Eats You



In a country where an asshole invoking the soviet era can simply swap jobs, is it really surprising that a punk band will possibly be charged for 7 years based on what you see in the video above.  Putin is the emperor without the physical crown. The UN does not in anyway support him or his DICKtaterSHIT.

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Fuck You Tube (new song)


Yes this is a new song and it is called Fuck You Tube. You can enjoy the official release center area located here, you can also download it for free asperger usual. http://soundcloud.com/urinationnation/fuck-you-tube

Or you can just listen here.


If you would like to sing along, here is the only way to get it right.

Fuck you tube
fuck you tube
fuck you tube
fuck you tube

I don't like racism
I don't like censorshit
I don't like Vlogging
I don't like youtubeing

erotic hypnotic artistic humorous fuck it fuck it, that's what they
don't want to see
No dissent all the same, all the time, all the same, ethics morality
cloaked in vanity

They cant define offensive, they cant tell you why
they cant define bullshit, because that's what they are

Terms of Servitude, wrapped in money, to spread a message of control
over your mind
No reason no appeal, no way no need to feel, swallow it suck on it its
all you need honey

FCC Wannabees
FCC invite them in
Suck their dick
gauge their ass
its fun to eat
Censorshit

So what will you do?

Fuck you tube
Fuck you tube
Don't you tube
no you tube
scream it now
scream it loud
Join the fight
to free your mind
to free the internet
from fashist design

P.S. The truth is, this is not a new song at all, it was recorded just a tit bit after the first album, it was a visceral response to certain interactions we had with U2b in attempting to promote our selves. Basically it turned out that we were far too controversial for YouLube. This song has been shitting on a shelf for a while, so long in fact that we lost the original files, which is why the music is not mixed in any fancy way at all. The vocals were also quite challenging because neither one of us is really a singer, not that anyone has ever been stopped by that, the vocals were finished off a few days ago.
 
The UN 



Sunday, April 29, 2012

So Far So Girdle

Just to get this out of the way, no there has been no progress on the album.  We have both committed to our education, in fact one of us moved across the country for it. So it is not currently viable to finish the album.  Also there were setbacks due to some updates, the program of choice we were both using to record no longer functions. Well one of us updated, but the other has not had the money or time to do so yet.  So again no progress, tho if you want to support us, help us get a contract from Roadrunner.

http://signmeto.roadrunnerrecords.com/artists/urination-nation

Yes the chances of that working are well there is no chance. I could talk about how our brand of PunkRoll isn't popular and so has no chance. However it's far simpler than that, you see all websites that claim to be some sort of easy way to discover talent have the same flaw. The company in this case Roadrunner has no desire to monitor the whole site or to listen to all the songs, so they give the task of weeding out the crap to the members. Unfortunately this leads to reviews of music that sound like "hey I dig your song I gave it a 10 please check out my song too". This self interest always leads to non genuine interactions. If you take the time and listen to the top bands on the site, you find out that they are generic and boring.  The difference is usually the production value, so this bar band raised more money to record a few songs professionally, it does not in anyway change the quality of the song writing.

In general song writing seems to be a lost art, I find people more stumbling upon it than knowing it. This is why we have Pussy Yankin and Ninki Minaj and others cut from the same pasteurized slab of shit.

The real reason Roadrunner even set up this site was to simply get people to come to their site. They have no interest in discovering new bands, they have no desire of helping anyone get exposure, it's all about traffic. So perhaps with that in mind, how about you don't go to the link above. 

In other good gay news, http://urinationnation.tumblr.com/ is not in anyway related to us, other than in name. I suppose I should warn you that it's not safe for work, but if you're looking at this shit at work then I don't really care if your employer installed filters to catch you looking at porn get you into trouble.  Maybe you shouldn't work for assholes to begin with.  In the words of Bill Maher "Fuck Your Jobs"

In the less hate filled portion of the post, one of us, well the one that did update their recording equipment and is by far the most talented has a musical project which is far as I know ongoing.
Here is a free EP from it http://sparrowsongs.bandcamp.com/  you can also enjoy a free EP of his other project which currently is not ongoing. http://osakalovehotel.bandcamp.com/

You may have noticed that much of our music is instrumental, this is because fuck you.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

So after a clusterfuck of a good time.

I thought I had once and for all lost my accounts, for my fucking band. Fortunately for me, I figured out a way to get it back, and now I have a failsafe. It's really annoying that these days to have a password it has to be a long string of random numbers characters and whatnot, to the point where I have no chance of remembering it, so of course I have to either write it down or have the computer remember, neither option is favorable far as actual safety goes.

Sigh, anyhoo,,,,,,,

And now just to see if I can get the damn Blog back up, here's an update on the album. YES it is still happening, hahaha, 9 songs are musically complete but due to schooling we are taking it easy for a bit.

Anyhoo this is the link to the new instrumental song called Urethra Franklin http://www.box.net/shared/l74ujqfeyu

Enjoy it, or not, whatever, we won't be making an online push until the album is all done.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

New Logo WOOT!!!

Wow, this is the first thing ever that I've done in Adobe Illustrator, I've been afraid of the program ever since I accidentally once opened it and it bit my nose off.