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1.	just beg me 03:22	buy track
2.	annual rain parade 04:29	buy track
3.	girl named hell 02:30	buy track
4.	if I let you down 02:45	buy track
5.	here comes the echo noise 04:11	buy track
6.	internet girl 01:45	buy track
7.	internet grrrrrl (da remix) 03:06	buy track
8.	plan 05:05	buy track
9.	you won't change 03:29	buy track
10.	everything 04:11	buy track
11.	gained the world and lost yourself 03:41	buy track
12.	uneducated 05:06	buy track
13.	living on top of buildings 05:08	buy track
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16.	replay 05:21	buy track
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about

I always hated that this is exploding was seen as a one record band. I get why one would see us as such a thing, seeing as how we only had one record.

However, we wrote something like 25 or 26 songs between the time we started and the time we recorded our one and only "until the next red light". And we wrote after as well, which thanks to a few discoveries in my cd library I can finally prove that we were on our way to a record number 2.

actually... we were going to skip record number 2 and move straight to record number 3, but that's another story for someone else to make up.

I'm happy to finally get a bundle of these songs released to the public. Yes, there are still a few unreleased nuggets in our collection, but they remain hidden for a reason.

this collection attempts to show all the work and music we wrote and recorded while working up to "until the next red light". I've only included the most recent or best performance of each recording as in many cases there were demos and then rehearsal takes and then live takes of each song. You dear listener, don't need to hear five versions of the song "better" or "a lust song" all you need is the version that was on "until the next red light" so I've spared you things like that.

all you're getting is the unreleased stuff from early on that I thought was worth salvaging.

thanks for listening. I hope this gives you a good insight into our process and better charts are evolution as a band.

and now of course when you're having your indie rock conversations you can say "oh... you like this is exploding's "until the next red light"? have you even heard the earlier stuff! that stuff is way better"

be well.

-joshua 2013

credits

released April 4, 2003

joshua jesty: vocals, guitar
nick tolar: guitar, vocals
brian hill: bass, vocals
dan price: drums, vocals

evan wilhelms: rap, guitar on "internet grrrl"

annual rain parade recorded and mixed poorly by joshua jesty

internet girl, you won't change, neither do I, here comes the echo noise, covered in gasoline, and if I let you down recorded and mixed by Mike Brown at Lava Room Recording

everything else recorded and mixed in and around cleveland by Dan Price

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joshua jesty Cleveland

Joshua Jesty is a professional starving artist based out of Cleveland Ohio. He has been making music that people have been getting eargasms from since 1998.

now a days he dances salsa, kicks doctors, and makes tons of pop and un-pop music.

His latest release is "...you will be forgotten". he lives with no regrets but many tacos in a physical house.

"songs about death disguised as love songs" ... more

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