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This song has been played on the radio by Dr. Demento ... and Uncle Floyd! (Also Tom Robinson at the BBC, and countless college radio DJs.) The Eggplants thank them all.

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"Monster Hit Record"

So I said to the barkeep,
“Please give me back my money.
This has not been a happy hour at all.
I fear your beer is insincere
and it does not cheer me.”

She said, “Perhaps you would prefer
something undomesticated”
and she poured out something green
with pink and purple bits.
Its bouquet was rank. It tasted gank.
But I drank it nonetheless.

And then
I felt my body changing.
What was happening to me?
Me - ta - mor - pho - sis

Yes, I had become some kind of orange monster
with bulgy eyes and one giant eyebrow.
I said to the barkeep, "What the heck?”
And she said, "Oops, wrong bottle."

Since then, my life has improved dramatically.
I found a rent-stabilized apartment
with twenty-five-foot-high ceilings.
I have a new job and I don't have to wear a tie.
I can get my fangs whitened
and it's covered under my dental plan.
At lunch, street vendors give me all the sauerkraut I can eat.
After work, I have my own lane at the bowling alley.
It is difficult finding shoes.

Yeah, New York is a good place for an orange monster.

(c) 2017 Kenny Young

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from Plantastic Voyage, released May 2, 2021

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Kenny Young and the Eggplants Brooklyn, New York

Kenny Young and the Eggplants play intergalactic folk-and-roll songs about giant squirrels, scary bits of cheese, and malevolent washing machines. The New York Times said they give “eloquent voice to the multifaceted neuroses of prolonged adolescence.” The Sunday Herald said they “mix the wit of Jonathan Richman with the sound of the Nico-era Velvets to create a surreal and satirical gumbo.” ... more

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