MASTER-DIK (non beatbox vers.)
   
Originally Released on:

SISTER CD

also appears on:

  • Master-Dik EP (beatbox version)
  • SST Godhead Storedude In-Store Play Device #2 (unsure which version)

Line-up:
Thurston - vocals
Kim - bass
Lee - guitar/tapes
Steve - drums
J. Mascis - lead guitar

Lyrics   status: unconfirmed

One two, one two, one two titty
I know every nook and cranny in New York City
We're Ciccone and that's enough
I'm the Royal Tuff Titty and you gotta taste my love
Taste my love
Yeah

Come on everybody and rock with me
I am the one on the Christmas tree
Now whippin' out the words like a moving story
Now walkin' up the stairs and corkin' up the board
Trippin' everywhere, I don't fuckin' care
Put on some dark eyes and wave me goodbye

[Kiss sample: "says she's looking good"]

[thurston does random ciccone rap overtop]

[thurston says something i can't decipher, coughs, and a second Kiss sample begins - "i know" - w/ thurston singing along, then saying "Gene Simmons is an ugly mother.....". back into "i know" and then "c-c-ciccone... we're ciccone" etc... "i know" again... more mumbled shit... "got off balance..??..Sun Ra...?????" ... "like a hylozoic gonna pass right through saying 'all is one and one is too too many'...]

London fuck you're pissing me off
Hollywood weirdo, cough cough cough
Won't you please let me rock you
Now I'm just a boy and not much to do
Everybody says doesn't come from above
You're gonna scream when you taste my love
Taste my love
Yeah.....C-C-C-C-Ciccone...C-C-C-C-Ciccone..
Yeah we're Ciccone...
...aaaaaaaaahhhhh........
We're ciccone...ciccone..c-ciccone..ciccone
...etc...

Track length: 5:10

First Known Performance: n/a
Last Known Performance:  n/a

NOTES:

  • "Master-Dik" is an interesting composition. Another "in-studio construction", similar to In the Kingdom #19. It really is more of a Ciccone Youth project (Thurston even repeats "We're Ciccone" over and over at one point). However, the live drum mix on the Sister version gives it a more natural feel than the drum machine take on the Master-Dik EP.
  • The song began with Lee feeding tape loops of KISS songs into Steve's headphones, and Steve would play along. Lee would change the feeds and Steve would switch beats, etc. Then everybody added guitars later on.
  • Further Ciccone references: "I'm the Royal Tuff Titty", which was Thurston's Ciccone moniker.
  • I would really like confirmation, if anybody can offer a source, on whether J. Mascis does play guitar on the song.
  • The outro features a sample of one of Lee's bell tapes, which he's also used in concert.

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