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Los Campesinos! – Death to Los Campesinos!
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“Death to Los Campesinos!” is a single released on February 18th, 2008. It is the 1st track (12 total) of the album Hold on Now, Youngster… (2008). In the demo version album, Hold
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Los Campesinos! – A Slow, Slow Death
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“‘A Slow, Slow Death’, is a song that’s a lot more inspired by home… It’s one rooted in the sort of melancholy and sadness of home rather than being away. It kind of sums up the
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Los Campesinos! – Baby I Got the Death Rattle
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[Intro: Los Campesinos!] / Is where I want to be mourned / Not headstone / [Verse 1: Gareth] / We burnt all the skin from the palm of my hands / With an old Zippo lighter and
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Los Campesinos! – What Death Leaves Behind
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Released for free on the band’s SoundCloud page as the first single from the album.
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Los Campesinos! – Death To Los Campesinos! (Live At Islington Assembly Hall)
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[Spoken Intro: Gareth] / Hey, uh, we're called Los Campesinos! / [Verse 1: Gareth, Kim, Gareth & Kim] / Broken down like a war economy / Father, Führer, don't be mad at me
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Los Campesinos! – In Medias Res
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According to Wikipedia: In medias res (Latin “in the midst of things”) is the literary and artistic narrative technique of relating a story from the midpoint, rather than the
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Los Campesinos! – Knee Deep at ATP
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[Verse 1: Gareth, Gareth & Aleks] / ...And every sentence that I spoke began and ended in ellipses / Each of eight fingers gripping what he wrote / Clung on tightly, like
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Los Campesinos! – We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (Live At Islington Assembly Hall)
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[Spoken Intro: Gareth] / This song is called "We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed" / [Verse 1: Gareth] / By the light of the LED display of a VCR recorder / You kiss my neck, I whisper
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Los Campesinos! – Heart Swells / 100-1 / I Just Sighed. I Just Sighed, Just So You Know ( (Live At Islington Assembly Hall)
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[Part 1: Heart Swells/100-1] / [Verse: Gareth] / By now, it's just the three of us / Me, your shadow, your echo / I do not believe / That I've ever felt any more alone / [Part 2: I
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Los Campesinos! – My Year In Lists (Live At Islington Assembly Hall)
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[Intro: Gareth] / ...Mine / [Verse 1: Gareth, Gareth & Kim] / You said, "Send me stationery to make me horny" / So I always write you letters in multicolours / Decorating envelopes
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Los Campesinos! – My Year In Lists (Demo)
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[Verse 1: Gareth, Gareth & Aleks] / You said, "Send me stationery to make me horny" / So I always write you letters in multicolours / Decorating envelopes for foreplay / Damn
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Los Campesinos! – No Tetris (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Maybe it was the bitter cold / Or the lingering of the fumes from the paint / Or the fact that the music / Was just a worse version of the last year's / You said the
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Los Campesinos! – The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future
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A fan favorite, “The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the Future” tells the story of the singer’s relationship with a self-harming girl who often thinks about the futility of her
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Los Campesinos! – How I Taught Myself to Scream
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[Verse 1] / Hey! You want some universal truths, like / "In your heart, you know we're right" / You faked your death in a game of charades / So you know how to get me hot / [Chorus
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Los Campesinos! – You! Me! Dancing!
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Probably the song that LC! will be best remembered for, it also earned the band some cash for being featured in this Budweiser commercial (although the intro sounds decidedly less
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Los Campesinos! – Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #1
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[Refrain: Los Campesinos!] / Ooooh, ahhhh / Ooooh, ahhhh / [Verse 1: Gareth, Gareth & Aleks] / I restored your mother's faith in men whilst boring you to death / Left nothing more
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Los Campesinos! – Drop It Doe Eyes (Demo)
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[Verse 1: Aleks, Gareth, Gareth & Tom] / You expected my war diaries / But time ran out and I, I let you down / A small thanks note written in French / Is no shorthand for, "This
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Los Campesinos! – Romance Is Boring (Live At Islington Assembly Hall)
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[Verse 1: Gareth] / Darling, I'm with St. Bernards / And we are scouring the Alps and the Andes / And if they die then it is on my head / We follow paw prints through the snow to
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Los Campesinos! – There Are Listed Buildings (Live At Islington Assembly Hall)
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[Spoken Intro: Gareth] / Uh, this will be called "There Are Listed Buildings" / [Intro: Gareth, Kim, Rob & Tom] / Ba ba, ba ba, ba ba ba-ba-ba-da / Ba ba, ba ba, ba ba ba-ba-ba-da
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Los Campesinos! – A Heat Rash in the Shape of the Show Me State; or, Letters From Me to Charlotte (Live At Islington Assembly Hall)
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[Spoken Intro: Gareth] / This one's called "Letters From Me to Charlotte" / [Verse 1: Gareth, Kim, Gareth & Kim] / She'd a bruise so black they watched it fade / Through the full
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Los Campesinos! – Miserabilia (Live At Islington Assembly Hall)
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[Spoken Intro: Gareth] / And this song is about that. It's a song called Miserabilia / [Intro: Gareth] / Go / Breathe / Easy / [Verse 1: Kim & Gareth] / Your hands'll remain empty
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Los Campesinos! – You! Me! Dancing! (Live At Islington Assembly Hall)
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[Spoken Intro: Gareth] / Two more. This is a song about beer / [Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1: Gareth] / The beats, yeah, they were coming out the speakers / And were winding up
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Los Campesinos! – Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats (Demo)
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[Verse 1: Gareth & Los Campesinos!] / Any more tears for the birthing pool? / Bear this child directly into misery / Kiss him in the face with no lips and no tongue / But with your
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Los Campesinos! – Heart Swells/Pacific Daylight Time (Live At Islington Assembly Hall)
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[Spoken Intro] / Um, this is the first "Heart Swells" / [Part 1: Heart Swells] / [Verse] / Black holes, unraised moles / Let's just call them freckles / Hair cut, part left / Happy
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Los Campesinos! – To Tundra
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Another song about death from the band.
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Los Campesinos! – Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks
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[Verse 1: Gareth, Gareth & Aleks] / Oh, when the smaller picture is the same as the bigger picture / You know that you're fucked / When you're trading paper cuts for splinters, you
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Los Campesinos! – Drop It, Doe Eyes
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According to Gareth himself:
“This is a song about a long-distance relationship which I had, and the negative feelings that began to come as the relationship reached its close, as
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Los Campesinos! – Straight In At 101 (Live At Islington Assembly Hall)
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[Spoken Intro: Gareth] / This song is called "Straight In At 101" / [Verse 1: Gareth] / I think we need more post-coital / And less post-rock / Feels like the build-up takes
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