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		<title>Gig: Sunday 10/2</title>
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We&#8217;re going back to our roots for a special show this Sunday, Oct 2, at the Brighton Bar in Long Branch, NJ &#8211; the punk-rock capital of the Jersey shore. Where we got our start. No, we weren&#8217;t ever actually punk-rock, but they kept inviting us back anyway, because that&#8217;s how punk-rock they were.
We&#8217;re opening [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://troubledolls.com/a/2011/09/28/gig-sunday-102/</link>
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		<title>Track 26: &#8220;A Girl Named Pam&#8221;</title>
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Everyone knows the bass is the most important instrument in a pop band. Or, at least, everyone should know this. Herewith, we celebrate our own, with apologies to Dr. Seuss.

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		<link>http://troubledolls.com/a/2011/09/28/track-26-a-girl-named-pam/</link>
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		<title>Track 25. &quot;One Slimy Person&quot;</title>
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Written after a particularly gnarly encounter with a co-worker at the corporate media farm where two of us worked. Why punch in the face when you can poke in the ears with a jangly guitar?
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		<link>http://troubledolls.com/a/2011/08/18/25-one-slimy-person/</link>
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		<title>Track 22-24. &quot;Cross It Out&quot;/&quot;Turd Bomb&quot;/&quot;Crucial Thing&quot;</title>
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Cross It Out by troubledolls

Turd Bomb by troubledolls

Crucial Thing by troubledolls
We joined a cool little group called the Immersion Composition Society. It consists of songwriters who each try to write and record 20 songs in a day, once a month. Speed-songwriting, basically. It turns out almost no one ever actually gets 20 songs done, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://troubledolls.com/a/2011/08/04/22-24-cross-it-outturd-bombcrucial-thing/</link>
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		<title>Track 21. &quot;Stand On&quot;</title>
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We were asked to write and record a sea shanty and we had one night to do it. If we had one more night, we might have written another verse.
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		<link>http://troubledolls.com/a/2011/07/21/21-stand-on/</link>
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		<title>Track 20. &quot;Distant Early Warning&quot;</title>
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Another would-be TV theme, this one for a series about a government agency that knows a little too much about you. We were given two phrases to work with: &#8220;distant early warning&#8221; (a Cold War reference; also, of course, a Rush song) and &#8220;pattern recognition.&#8221; Conveniently, they both have six syllables and the same rhythm. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://troubledolls.com/a/2011/07/15/20-distant-early-warning/</link>
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		<title>Track 19. &quot;Reindeer Boy&quot; featuring Mouse Pack</title>
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The goal: Bring a laptop to a friend&#8217;s house, order dinner, write and record a song, have dessert, go home.
The result: Mouse Pack.
Mouse Pack is Cheri and Matty along with our friends Mark and Lynn Bacino and Mark Creel. Mouse Pack existed for exactly one night, though we reserve the right to reunite someday. Mouse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://troubledolls.com/a/2011/07/07/19-reindeer-boy-featuring-mouse-pack/</link>
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		<title>Track 18. &quot;Little Surprises&quot;</title>
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Lyrically inspired by a friend&#8217;s script about weird goings-on at yard sales. Musically inspired by the old-timey yacht-rock bounce of classic TV theme songs by Harry Nilsson and John Sebastian, and maybe even by our musical brother Mark Bacino, who turned us on to them and does a pretty amazing job of capturing that vibe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://troubledolls.com/a/2011/06/30/18-little-surprises/</link>
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		<title>Track 17. &quot;Under the Summer&quot;</title>
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Happy¹ summer² everybody.
- &#8211; - &#8211; -
1. This is song is not completely happy. But it is not completely sad either. 2. Today is the longest day of the year (15 hours, 5 minutes, 51 seconds of sunlight here in Brooklyn). This is the longest original song we have ever released (3 minutes 50 seconds). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://troubledolls.com/a/2011/06/21/17-under-the-summer/</link>
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		<title>Track 16. &quot;Outrunning&quot;</title>
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As we mentioned before, we adapted three of our friend Oliver Baer&#8217;s poems into songs to celebrate the publication of his book &#8220;Baer Soul.&#8221;  But we ended up with four songs because we wrote one of them twice. We can be weird that way. So if you&#8217;re wondering why this one and &#8220;Smudged Makeup&#8221; seem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://troubledolls.com/a/2011/06/16/16-outrunning/</link>
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