AMERICAN BUDDHA

The Very Best of American Buddha

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:57:32 -0400

http://soundcloud.com/american-buddha/sets/the-essential-ab/

Monkey and Rat Can a monkey make a rat weak in the...

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 07:50:52 -0400

Monkey and Rat

Can a monkey make a rat weak in the knees

Dragon Palace printed paper placemat

Says you are the monkey, I am a rat

Says I am an ambitiously friendly rat

And you are a monkey who’s persuasively intelligent

Isn’t it silly to think that

According to this printed paper placemat

You are a monkey and I am a rat

And we’d be just fine if we were to affiliate

Isn’t it silly to think that

Isn’t it silly the monkey and the rat

Now what makes that mat think

That we would ever get together over drinks

Or shoot each other seductive winks

Might our offspring resemble minx

You’re a pro and I’m just hopeless at Tiddlywinks

According to this printed paper placemat

Says you are a monkey and I am a rat

And we’d be just fine if we were to affiliate

Your feet are furry and I got buck teeth

You swing from trees while I prefer a hunk of cheese

You’re a royal flush and I’m a pair of threes

Can a monkey make a rat weak in the knees

I praise my friends while you tisk tisk yours

Would you ever tolerate a rodent with whiskers

Would I abandon running in this rat race

To monkey around with my primate Princess Grace

Funkmanifesto of Sequin A boy about ten had to stay after...

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:55:00 -0400

Funkmanifesto of Sequin

A boy about ten had to stay after school

Cause he didn’t want to funk it by the Golden Rule

Teacher said, ‘Son, you gotta understand

How to let the funk grow and get large and expand’

Within and without, around across and between

How to let it play loud, how to let it play mean

There’s a lesson in what I’m saying that you simply must learn

If you want to shake and bake it, and burn baby burn

So write this on the chalkboard a hundred and six times

Until it sinks into a crystallized grain in your mind

You expect others to funk unto you

Fair enough, but you must funk unto them, too

FUNK MEN FUNK WOMEN OF THE WORLD UNITE

GOT NOTHING TO DO BUT SHAKE IT LOOSE TONIGHT

FUNK MEN FUNK WOMEN OF THE WORLD UNITE

GOT NOTHING TO DO BUT SHAKE ‘EM OFF TONIGHT

We need the funk, and we need it tonight

Funk get ready to roll tonight

Funk woman funk man met one fine funky day

He was walking ‘round the corner whistling Marvin Gaye

‘Mercy mercy me’ young lady did declare

‘Oh you make me want to holler’ he thought as he stared

Back into her eyes with the coolest of demeanors

Like once before a time, a funky time he had seen her

Funk forward a few years and wouldn’t you believe her

It was five funk kids, funky golden retriever

Zeke, Larry, Stella, Henrietta, and Ted

Lived funkily ever after with their dynamite Fred

CHORUS

You see in this day and age you know it’s sad but it’s true

So many think it only what the funk can do for you

I say that’s a big stinking bucket of bunk

You should be thinking, what can I do for the funk

Show and tell and funk people to those who don’t know

Before you know it, they’ll be slamming up with Kurtis Blow

So spread the good sounds to your whole unfunky clan

Do it right and get ‘em freakin’ it with The Gap Band

Take it into town where the hip and the hop can hang

And let ‘em all celebrate like Kool & the Gang

Whatever you do, don’t let it catch dust on your shelf

It’s a shame and sin to keep the funk to your self

CHORUS

Re: Buddha Quake Set me up with a nasty old right hook The night...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 15:37:00 -0400

Re: Buddha Quake

Set me up with a nasty old right hook

The night the baby peach tree shook

Nooks became crannies, crannies nooks

Checkmate baby, knight takes rook

A window of hope in an otherwise wasteland

Remind me never to build on quicksand

In the end we were grossly undermanned

Itty bitty Custer’s lost the last stand

But the ground still harbors secret joy

Buddha’s back in the temple of Hanoi

Come on listen in, it’s better than bok choy

Seq, Turk, Roj and the Luv boy

Ground’s awake

Move and shake

Finnegans Wake

Have some dew and cake

Said the sooth is spake

Re: Buddha Quake

Yes the sooth is spake

Re: Buddha Quake

May I take your horse and stable

She says as if she’s clearing the table

Then proceeds to raise the Tower of Babel

An eerie power and the stuff of fable

Forgive me the sin of bewilderment

I just want to know what the fiddler meant

The riddle of the rhythm is my environment

When the heavy ground suddenly filled our tent

Hurricane Buddha

Mon, 28 May 2012 07:43:50 -0400

American Buddha’s 6th studio album closed out the 90s with a storm. Recorded September 1999 in Princeton, New Jersey in the wake of Hurricane Floyd.

http://soundcloud.com/american-buddha/sets/hurricane-buddha/

Burmese Chicken Jam Cause blood boils and children scream And...

Fri, 25 May 2012 07:50:01 -0400

Burmese Chicken Jam

Cause blood boils and children scream

And the man who toils ain’t quite what he seems

It causes my old heart to sicken

As I recall the Burmese Chicken …

The Real Deal (I Don’t Think). Hustlin through the artists...

Mon, 21 May 2012 22:24:00 -0400

The Real Deal (I Don’t Think). Hustlin through the artists to get to the underground. Listening to the strange beasts howlin all around.

I heard it from the monks, they drink it til they’re...

Fri, 18 May 2012 09:53:50 -0400

I heard it from the monks, they drink it til they’re drunk. It is Blue Papaya Funk.

Ground Nuts

Thu, 17 May 2012 00:17:50 -0400

American Buddha’s debut 1992 album.

http://soundcloud.com/american-buddha/sets/ground-nuts/

Sleeping Southern Summertime. Per Sequin B, this song was...

Mon, 07 May 2012 14:00:12 -0400

Sleeping Southern Summertime. Per Sequin B, this song was actually ‘Sleeping Down South’; original working title ‘Stains on the Brain’.

Windchimes ring across the country air … He can’t...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:46:40 -0400

Windchimes ring across the country air … He can’t get his mind off that Swedish au pair. No big mystery, just a Thrift Shop Stare.

Radio Free Buddha

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:04:00 -0400

American Buddha’s 3rd studio album. Recorded 1995.

http://soundcloud.com/american-buddha/sets/radio-free-buddha/

Can o’ Corn Blues. I stopped listenin’ to all my...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:00:06 -0400

Can o’ Corn Blues. I stopped listenin’ to all my records & I bought me a croissant. What else could a girl like you possibly possibly possibly want?

Childish Games. Sequin B might dream about @JLin7 but, Who...

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:00:05 -0500

Childish Games. Sequin B might dream about @JLin7 but, Who should appear to me in a dream? None other than Mean Joe Green.

Shad & Roe saw AB dispersed from SF to Almaty, but rooted in...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:00:06 -0500

Shad & Roe saw AB dispersed from SF to Almaty, but rooted in NYC where, it claimed, The fishmongers down on South St / Listen to AB on the radio!

AB’s ode to plentitude and perseverance. How many times...

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:06:06 -0500

AB’s ode to plentitude and perseverance. How many times have you been knocked on your derriere? Oh wtf, The More the Merrier!

Look what Sequin B has in common with POTUS! nbaoffseason: “I...

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:23:23 -0500

Look what Sequin B has in common with POTUS!

nbaoffseason:

“I DO have League Pass on my iPad.” — President Barack Obama, leader of the free world

Rhythm & Buddha

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:11:00 -0500

American Buddha’s 4th studio album. Recorded August 1996, San Francisco, CA.

http://soundcloud.com/american-buddha/sets/rhythm-buddha/

Original version of Alone by Little Brother, Live at Eagle Cafe,...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:24:56 -0500

Original version of Alone by Little Brother, Live at Eagle Cafe, Aug 23 1996. Rankin’ Roj E Roj moonlighting on bass.

Alone. The Major came home hardly able to stand on his feet...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:39:18 -0500

Alone. The Major came home hardly able to stand on his feet … After all this fruitless search his apartment appeared to him melancholy or extraordinarily squalid.