Name: Canned Laughter
Duration: P00H03M10S
Description: This started out as a country song, then got a bit more sinister, as well as a bit funnier. It has reverb, feedback, satire, and one of our best riffs driving the whole thing forward like a guy with a mullet in Oklahoma City in a Camaro in 1990 listening to Styx. Except we're a lot better than Styx.

Canned Laughter

by La Tendance Jacobine

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This started out as a country song, then got a bit more sinister, as well as a bit funnier. It has reverb, feedback, satire, and one of our best riffs driving the whole thing forward like a guy with a mullet in Oklahoma City in a Camaro in 1990 listening to Styx. Except we're a lot better than Styx.

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CANNED LAUGHTER

Check the rear-view if you’re scared
At who’s been tailing you this time
Did you leave your house prepared
For this rush-hour life of crime
Who’s the loser, who’s the winner
Who’s preventing your success
When the door is kicked to splinters
Will your room still be a mess

Closing credits—off he goes
There’s the sunset—old cliché
A Stetson, but he wears no clothes
Cue canned laughter. Fade away

Will your breakfast cereal hurt you
on your morning comeback tour
Will your mobile phone alert you
At some text from girl du jour
Will her love still fail to save you
from your liver and your gut
Will you curse the things she gave you
Faithless whore. That stupid slut

Closing credits—off he goes
There’s the sunset—old cliché
A Stetson, but he wears no clothes
Cue canned laughter. Fade away

Somewhere past the distant mountains
GI Joe just got the clap
The good guys do their final count-in
Then abort—it’s a trap
Lesser sons watch cartoons fights
Their fathers’ wars in parody
Nothing’s good enough, or right
Hash it out in therapy

Closing credits—off he goes
There’s the sunset—old cliché
A Stetson, but he wears no clothes
Cue canned laughter. Fade away

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released July 17, 2022
Words and music by Quincy R. Lehr

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La Tendance Jacobine Los Angeles, California

Dad rock for cool dads, post-punk via Middle America, or what might have happened if Gram Parsons had joined Bauhaus instead of the Byrds (though we love the Byrds). Take your pick. The person you fancy but haven't worked up the nerve to approach yet likes us. You'll like us, too. ... more

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