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A Monster With Matches

Until a few months ago I had forgotten about this track completely.

I was on the guitar one day and started playing the riff out of the blue - hadn't crossed my mind in years. ‘A Monster With Matches’ is a lo-fi, psychedelic, minimalist rock song that I recorded sometime between 2001 and 2006. I don’t have any notes and my memory isn’t too sharp on this one.

The song is entirely based around one repetitive anthemic guitar riff. It owes a lot to 60's proto-punk bands such as The Stooges and MC5. That said, The Beatles' track ‘It’s All Too Much’ was a big influence - something about it always fascinated me.

As for the song, it was all pretty spontaneous. It was basically inspired by people like Phil Spector. Stars that absolutely set fire to their careers, their reputations and their lives in general. I usually find the world’s fascination with stardom tedious, but I must admit that I find it fascinating when a well known star hits the self destruct button. I’m not talking about unfortunate stars like Jimi Hendrix, James Dean or Nick Drake. I am talking about those that implode by crossing a line that most normal people find abhorrent. In my opinion these people are probably fucked up to begin with and fame helps them to go up in flames – Monsters with Matches.

Not a fantastic track, but lively enough. I'll be back to uploading some higher quality in my next post.

Hope you enjoy!

LYRICS...

I’m just a monster with matches / I burnt my dreams to the ground
I’m just a monster with matches / I burnt my dream to the ground.
I could have rock 'n rolled / I could have rock 'n rolled
I’m just a monster with matches
there ain’t no rock 'n roll anymore...

I’m just a monster with matches / I burnt this house to the ground
I’m just a monster with matches / ain't nothing here to be found
you could have rock 'n rolled / you could have rock 'n rolled
I’m just a monster with matches
You can't rock 'n roll anymore...

I’m just a monster with matches / I burnt my dreams to the ground
I’m just a monster with matches / I burnt my dream to the ground.
I could have rock 'n rolled / I could have rock 'n rolled
I’m a monster with matches
I can't rock 'n roll anymore...

A Monster With Matches by the East Village Vampire is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.