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This is a rough mix of "The Mediocre Gatsby," the first song I ever released on Bandcamp. (In 2018)

I believe I trashed the original GarageBand file for this. This song name-checks all of these Minneapolis bands:

Fixed Gears are for Jerks and Lesbians
The Replacements
Hüsker Dü
Prince
The Blue Up?
Steel Shank
Velma
Chromaphase
The Spectors
Trip Shakespeare
The Hang Ups
Rex Daisy
The Wonsers
Chatty Cathy Cathcart and the Catheter Catharsis
The Mediocre Gatsby

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My first band,
We weren’t bad
We were not trying to reinvent the wheel
We just wanted to make music
That was fun to dance to
At parties in basements, in garages
That was fun to dance to
And we called ourselves the Mediocre Gatsby
And we had our own theme song
And it went just like this:
The Mediocre Gatsby is coming to your town
That’s right!
The Mediocre Gatsby is living in your home town!
That’s how our theme song went!
And my next band, we were called
Chatty Cathy Cathcart and the Catheter Catharsis
We were pretty good
We played around
We played some parties
And in the the Clown Lounge
And people danced and they cheered
In the Clown Lounge it felt weird
(in a good way)
But Chatty Cathy Cathcart and the Catheter Catharsis
Had to die, just like all bands must die
Like Fixed Gears are for Jerks and Lesbians
The ‘Mats and Hüsker Dü and Prince too
And The Blue Up? And Steel Shank
And Velma and Chromaphase
And The Spectors (and Trip Shakespeare)
And The Hang Ups (and Rex Daisy)
And The Wonsers
Now!
It is time, to repeat the theme song, of my first band:
The Mediocre Gatsby is coming to your town
That’s right!
The Mediocre Gatsby is living in your home town!
Mediocre Gatsby!

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from From the Mixed Up Files of Mr. Matthew T. Schindler, Volume 6, released September 26, 2023
Written and performed by Matty Schindler, aka Faux Jean.

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Faux Jean San Diego, California

Faux Jean is singer-songwriter from Duluth Minnesota who currently resides near the border of Mexico. He is kind of a stay- at-home dad slash dilettante coming out of hibernation and releasing music with greater frequency as time speeds up. Faux Jean cut his teeth in the fertile Minneapolis music scene in the early aughts before settling down to family life. He likes to draw and dance and and and!! ... more

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