An Complete Fort Awesome Recordings, by Ten in the Swear Jar

An Complete Fort Awesome Recordings

by Ten in the Swear Jar

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szklany-kot This album pulled me through a lot it's an emotional outlet, it helps me cry while i cannot. There's so many different emotions throughout these songs and so many human experiences and thoughts with a vast array of musical compositions it's just, a very good album, or compilation of songs. Favorite track: Sita Deth.

nora_mal helped me, finally cry. Favorite track: When You Write.

unnamed project The perfect album for feeling like you need to escape and accepting that you might not

favorite track: San Jose Fight Song

Dominic James You want me to be quiet but I'm going to tell the whole world Favorite track: Sad Girl.

_2ndplanet Don't sleep on this! Contains some of Jamie's best material Favorite track: Hot Karl.

rano An exploding combination of the sadness of an accordion with the hope hidden in the lyrics which talk about the world out there.
Favorite song: San Jose Fight Song Favorite track: Sad Girl.

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1.	Malafuquana Espana 01:47
2.	Hot Karl 03:04	buy track
3.	San Jose Fight Song 04:20
4.	I Don't Play the Drumz 04:13
5.	Guantlet of Thor the Destroyer 05:33
6.	Fort Awesome Drunk Tank 00:52
7.	Helsabot 03:21
8.	Famine 04:32
9.	I Love the Valley 03:39
10.	Leg Show 04:14
11.	King Earth 04:09
12.	Melon 00:48	buy track
13.	When You Write 03:58	buy track
14.	Worry Boy 03:54
15.	Sita Deth 03:31
16.	House Quake II 03:56
17.	Sad Girl 03:21	buy track
18.	In the Blue Trunks, J.H. 03:28
19.	Accordion Solo! 00:04
20.	Gauntlet of Thor the Destroyer (Live) 05:41
21.	I Love the Valley (Live) 03:21
22.	House Quake II (Live) 04:23
23.	I'm Sorry, Grandma 00:25
24.	Hair, Hair, Hair, Hair, Hair 00:52
25.	Theme From Our Place in the Shadows 01:35

about

From June 1999 to June 2000 Cory McCulloch and Jamie Stewart (founding members of Xiu Xiu) were in a band called Ten in the Swear Jar along with Don Dias (Don Diasco), Tim Kirby and Kurt Stumbaugh (Master of the Bump, Kurt Stumbaugh I Can Feel the Soil Falling Over My Head). This is a complete collection of all the music they recorded at the trash dump house where Cory and Jamie lived, Fort Awesome. Two of these songs, Sad Girl as Sad Pony Guerilla Girl and I Love the Valley as I Luv the Valley OH!, were re-arranged and re-recorded by Xiu Xiu and they became two of the bands best known works. Lyrics from House Quake II and Hot Karl were re-purposed for the Xiu Xiu song, Pink City.

These songs are from two self released EPs, My Very Private Map and Inside the Computer are All My Feelings and an unreleased EP Eat Death, Orphans!

Ten in the Swear Jar played maybe 14 or 15 shows total mostly in the Bay Area.

credits

released November 5, 2021

Don Dias - accordions, harmonium, synth
Tim Kirby - drums
Cory McCulloch - guitar, mandolin, bass guitar
Jamie Stewart - vox, guitar, bass, banjo, drum machine
Kurt Stumbaugh - baritone sax

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