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Like Junior High

from Pre​-​Season Scrimmage by vonHummer

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This is the second of five recorded versions of this song. The first appears on the soon-to-be-re-released-for-the-first-time album, "Isoprolific." (Due out by November 22nd, 2011.) That was a very barebones version, with just a bass and voice. This is the first full instrumentation version, clicking and clacking along with the drum guitar I invented in 1999. (The other versions are found on "Abbey Damned" and "October Surprise.")

Usually the recording process for drum guitar songs was to put down a drum machine track for tempo, record the bass and high guitar, then add the drum guitar and take out the drum machine track. Sometimes, though, as this was done on tape, I didn't record over the tape pre-roll, and so you can hear that original drum track kick in before the song begins.

I've written extensively already about the text and background of this one. You can read more about it in the liner notes for the song on the album "Abbey Damned."

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"Like Junior High"
(vonHummer)

Finally wrote you the ultimate love note, gonna slip it in the pocket of your pea coat, loved you all year, it’s time to let you know, cafeteria theory says it’s so…

In the girls room, you are a smoker, which makes me an impractical joker, you’re so hot, you walk by and I’m all “whoa!”
Way cooler than me, maybe, but who knows…

You’re all high school, but I love you like junior high,
You’re all high school, but I love you like junior high,
You’re all high school, but I love you like junior high,
You’re all high school, but I love you,

See you roaming the hallways cos you always have a pass, can’t sit nearby you no more cos you crack me up in class, there’s sparkle in your eyes like streetlight on broken glass, you could stop an assembly with your laugh…

Someone said that you got detention for telling truth too ugly to mention, I’m so into you I’d risk suspension just to play hooky all day with you…

You’re all high school, but I love you like junior high,
You’re all high school, but I love you like junior high,
You’re all high school, but I love you like junior high,
You’re all high school, but I love you,

Finally wrote you the ultimate love note, gonna slip it in the pocket of your pea coat, loved you all year, it’s time to let you know, cafeteria theory says it’s so,

Still thinking about you in Social Studies, after Math, you’re still the topic sentence in my perfect paragraph, though you left my love note for the janitorial staff on the floor by your locker torn in half…

You’re all high school, but I love you like junior high,
You’re all high school, but I love you like junior high,
You’re all high school, but I love you like junior high,
You’re all high school, but I love you,

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from Pre​-​Season Scrimmage, released June 4, 2002
Produced by Clark Kent for Therisno Records

vonHummer: vocals, guitar drum and percussion, bass drone, high guitar drone.

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vonHummer Portland, Oregon

vonHummer is a Portland music/cable access legend whose career spanned from Fall of 2001 to Fall of 2011, during which he recorded a hundred or so songs for use in his absurdist show (and feature film) and played only a handful of concerts. Currently retired, his work shines on for the ages. Or will he someday return...? ... more

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