We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Todd's Neat Futons

from 79 Songs Project by The Bassturd

/

lyrics

BELMOND, IOWA IS A SMALL TOWN
WITH AN ECONOMY BASED AROUND
ENGINE VALVE MANUFACTURING
AS WELL AS CORN AND SOYBEAN FARMING
IT’S A PRETTY NORMAL, BORING PLACE
SECLUDED, LOTS OF OPEN SPACE
BUT OUT OF THIS MUNDANE SCENE GREW
AN ABRASIVE AND WEIRD MUSICAL GROUP
IN THE EARLY 90S NORMALITY PREVAILED
POP CULTURE WAS WATERED DOWN AND STALE
THEN ALONG CAME NIRVANA USHERING IN A
NEW AND STRANGE MUSICAL ERA
ALMOST OVERNIGHT WEIRDOES APPEARED
FRONTING EVERY BAND THAT YOU’D HEAR
WELL BELMOND, IOWA WAS NO EXCEPTION
THEY HAD TODD’S NEAT FUTONS
FORMED IN 1993 BY BRIAN AND BRANDON BOELMAN
DAN BUTLER, CODY HENNESY, AND TODD COURSON
NOVICE MUSICIANS – THEY HAD NO CLUE
HOW TO WRITE, OR SING, OR PLAY, OR EVEN PERFORM A TUNE
YET THEY BOLDLY DECLARED THAT ON AUGUST 15TH
1994 THEY’D HOST A PARTY
HELD IN A MACHINE SHED
SEVERAL DOZEN ATTENDED
AND SO IT BEGAN

THROUGHOUT THE ENSUING YEAR THE FUTONS RELEASED
TWO FULL LENGTH TAPES OF BASEMENT RECORDINGS
MUCH TO THE BAND’S SURPRISE THESE TAPES SOLD WELL
AND HELPED CREATE A GROUNDSWELL
THAT INEVITABLY LED TO INVITATIONS TO PLAY
AT A JUNIOR HIGH LOCK-IN AND A GROCERY STORE’S BIRTHDAY
THEY WERE ON THEIR WAY, MAKING WAVES ABOUT TOWN
OPENED APRIL FEST AT THE NORTH IOWA FAIRGROUNDS
THEIR SHOWS WERE CHAOTIC, BOLD, AND IDIOTIC
TO SOME IT SEEMED MAYBE THE BAND WAS PSYCHOTIC
THEIR ANTICS UNCEASING, VENUES WERE REFUSING
TO LET THEM CONTINUE PERFORMING AND USING
THE RENTED P.A. AND THE MAKESHIFT STAGE
WITH VERY FEW CHOICES OF VENUES TO PLAY
THE BAND STOPPED GIGGING AND FADED AWAY
BUT LEFT US WITH THIS LEGACY

TODD’S NEAT FUTONS
(REPEAT)

credits

from 79 Songs Project, released July 31, 2011
Written, recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered by The Bassturd

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

The Bassturd image

The Bassturd Las Vegas, Nevada

The Bassturd was born, and now occasionally plays music. He does not care for deep house or cucumbers. Influences include alcohol, cigarettes, psilocybin and cats.

contact / help

Contact The Bassturd

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like The Bassturd, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Saxophonist Isaiah Collier chats about his new LP and the influence of Pharoah Sanders.
listen now