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No Radio

by The Miss

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1.
French New Wave 01:34
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It was so unkind French cinema in 1959 And she, she was not like the others And space was suddenly lines, lips and bodies After days were done The room was turned into hours Each window was four hours long And days and days were gone So unfair, so unfair, so unfair, so unkind So unfair, so unfair, so unfair, in ’59 After days were done Each room was four hours long Hours turned into days Each room was four hours long After days were done Room turned into hours And hours and hours and hours they passed The room was four hours long The thought is so unclear
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Question and Answer Session 02:11
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Thought it was a question She heard it like an answer Something like a question that I think I’ve heard before A question An answer A question answer session The sound of a question that I think I’ve heard before And that’s a hard bargain you’re driving there It kind of sounds like a bad business proposition The kind I don’t like to hear at all A question, an answer, I’ve heard them both before And I don’t think I like the sound of either at all A question, an answer A question answer session That’s not what I like, not at all Thought it was a question It sounded like an answer Nothing like an an answer that I think I’ve heard before An answer A question An answer question session I think that I’ve heard it all before A hard hard bargain and a hard hard drive This is a deal that I don’t like at all I would not sign I would not listen I would not say what I thought at all That’s a hard bargain you’re driving there It kind of sounds like a bad business proposition The kind I wouldn’t like to make at all That’s a hard bargain that you’re driving there The kind I wouldn’t ever want to have to see The kind I don’t like to hear at all If you do pardon me I believe I’ll decline
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Closer Still 02:08
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Closer still, they came through rain Through smoke, through rain, they came as sirens sang Closer still, under the ground, came the fire and the rain Close stiller, they came through rain Closer still, they came through rain Through the the smoke and the rain they came Closer, still closer, they came Through the smoke and the rain As the sirens they sang In droves they came
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Electric Eye 01:59
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Take the case of city geography Much better than this dichotomy Than this one, than this one Skyscrapers look like pens Thanks to their imbrication As you ride through the Inner Stadt Thank your driver for the ride And right now This place is rife With cultural capital spies keep a look out for the electrical eye Take the case of city geography We inhabit a space walled by a mirror For years we looked out and saw nothing else but paradise, pradadise Which was to us denied, thanks to inflated price Due to electric eyes Thank your driver for the ride And right now This place is rife With cultural capital spies keep a look out for the electrical eye the electric eye Take this place and take these eyes out of this face and — Take the case of city geography Much better than this dichotomy Thank your driver for the ride There are snakes on this slide
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The Identity Question 01:39
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And would it make the scene tonight Like a broken down toy that doesn’t run right Like a dream with no beginning or end He only needed this to make it happen again Found his body in the back of a car A dragged-down heap from a derelict bar And derelict hags and derelict men Spotted the alley like dirty old rags This is the identity question for which there is no easy answer Where are your identity papers? I need this easy answer He fell out plans and he fell out of cars Laid out drunk in derelict bars He cloned himself and let it walk around Dirty moonlit streets with a a derelict’s frown
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Foot and Mouth Infection 01:46
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They say that hope’s a peacocks’s tail But as time tells, such devices fail As old tales tell, no creatures fly When on each quill there blooms an eye Now stories of eyes, they leave him cold And battle-talk can tear and fold Each passing moment is left behind Lost and sealed, new myths of mind She tells us about her depth perception And a nasty case of foot and mouth infection Her veneer waxes cool and it’s so inviting But cheap centerpieces of so disquieting Conception, rejection, both come and pass I’d salt the earth if I though it would last No more to come, so I’ll please advise Dregs in free wine, it’s no surprise Now I don’t mind, it’s the best I’ve had My final glass? It was the best I’d had
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Grey Light 02:06
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This exercise was called This exercise, it called repression “Endless bright light so cold” These words he said with no inflection This setting, it was bad science fiction This empty canvas, he would paint it clean The next exercise was bold The next exercise, we will call this negation The pattern we test is erratic A little bit of static to keep your memory keen This blank paper, this empty canvas Like a killer’s eyes, he would make them clean They broke him down and they took him apart This exercise not for the faint of heart They broke him down, they took him apart “We unbuild things, together is apart” This exercise, rhythmic and cool It would soothe, like dawn’s grey light
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Game Set Match 02:06
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Time turned out of time, ran out of time Game, set, game, match You went down, man now down Game, set, I let, game, set, I let You have this one, have this one Time and after time, ran out of time and after time and out of time Hush Without struggle they went to the street Night time, night rain can’t repeat It pelted and slaked these arid lands No more is called for the end time All this is yours, he fear you will feign The fear, the fear you will feign The fear, the fear you will feign
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Reflex 02:17
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the words you say and the way you said them a verbal haze, you must admit the things I’ve heard under the cover of day they’re not quite the same when night moves away the decorum and complacency of our angelic lovelies the things you say, I doubt you’d want to have a thought betray, let it end it’s where the soundtrack fades, slow down the film negative, it’s where you want it silence ensues over these longer days wax and persist in a clearer haze time’s been split and it’s gone two ways we’ll have to can one if it goes out of phase business is strained and the props decay the cast is bored and they quit without pay writer shows shows up and he’s gone insane the floorboards sag on the stage where you age reflex demands that, that, that you leave it reflex reflex reflex, you want it the things you say, you’d give them all away you want it, you want it, you want it, you want it
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Thin Black Line 03:10
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Night time and he was searching for The right line Thin line, a thin black line Before his eyes Thin-lined brow Beaded balls of sweat on the thin black line of his brow Dripped down on his knuckles as they lay stiff Thin like a thin black line, inconsequential, Meaning nothing again and again Inconsequential Meaning nothing A thin black line again and again Inconsequential, without from within A thin black line again and again Night time He was searching for The right line thin line A thin line of sweat dripped down his brow and onto his neck A thin line of text lay before him Moving not at all Meaning not at all It’s inconsequential Buried beneath these hours and days Inconsequential It’s without meaning A thin black line again and again This night which has no end Without within, without within A thin black line Nothing at all Inconsequential Without or within A thin black line Again and again Coming through this night with no end That thin black line Again, again, again Without from without Sight from sin Without meaning, it’s nothing at all Again and again Day after night and night after night Without from within A thin black line again and again This night will never end
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Spoiler 01:45
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It took his breath away The thought of losing gravity Put a boy atop an arch In an execution stay I’m going to deal it If you can read it, right now 00000 Mädchen, you cannot stay Brennschluss, calls you away Give the plot away Everything will be fair play It’s such a holy day When King Kong’s got his Faye Wray And the other side of the arch Was traveled shrouded and dark All through our crippled zone, there is a soul in every stone
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Vast Deference (single ver.) 04:22
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Convention, it will dictate That we use this mark to suppress and erase Both the written and the spoken And history becomes a token For all the dreams that have gone unbroken And all the sleep from which you have awoken To defer: to put off to a date It’s a different kind of clock with a brand-new face To defer: to put off, to push back, to put off, to push back, to postpone Another time, another place Another time and a different face Another time, another place Another time and another face Another time, another place Another time and a different face Another time, another place Another time and another way Another time, another place Another time and another way Another time, another place Another time. another day I don’t know the way

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NO RADIO is Baltimore-based the Miss's only full-length release, coming out on Morphius Records in early 2002. Morphius pressed a collectible single for "Question and Answer Session," the b-side of which is included on this digital release as the last track, The band broke up amicably in October 2002 after recording the tracks for "The Ride."

The Miss was formed in 2000 from the ashes of Baltimore club scene stalwarts the Brogues when drummer Damir Marusic and bassist/singer Hank Baker sought a new guitarist. A plan for a rotating six-string player abruptly ended when Brendan Bartow of the Fuses joined and it became immediately obvious that no further searching was needed. The Miss played local small clubs and art galleries for two years and an early one-off in Baker's native Louisville, Kentucky, and closed their brief career by playing Princeton University's 2002 back-to-school event, after NO RADIO spent a summer in constant rotation on WPRB 103.3. John Peel played a few songs from the album on his legendary show in early 2003, after the band had stoped playing. Always the way, right?

Afterwards, Bartow went on to play in Greg Preston's Mean Spirits and later, the Advlts. Marusic pursued a solo project, Hot Pigeon, and Baker provided vocals for Seattle's Iarvles.

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released June 17, 2002

Hank Baker, bass, vocals, lyrics, Brendan Bartow, guitar, Damir Marusic, drums, piano on "Reflex," mini-Moog on "Spoiler."

Recorded by Craig Bowen at ACR Audio in 2001, except "Question and Answer Session" and "Thin Black Line," recorded by Craig Bowen at 1518 W. 36th St., Hampden, Baltimore, Maryland, in fall 2000. With thanks to Chuck's.

Mastered by John Golden at Golden Mastering in Ventura, California.

All music/lyrics © 2002, the Miss, BMI.

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The Miss was formed in 2000 from the ashes of Baltimore club scene stalwarts the Brogues when drummer Damir Marusic and bassist/singer Hank Baker sought a new guitarist. A plan for a rotating six-string player abruptly ended when Brendan Bartow of the Fuses joined and it became obvious that no further searching was needed. The Miss played local small clubs and art galleries till autumn 2002. ... more

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