Parasite Diet - The Traveller

 

  Parasite Diet are a power pop punk band from Nashville who previously featured on Just Some Punk Songs a couple of years ago with a song from their Lost In Time Album  http://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/parasite-diet-night-of-bugs.html

  Today they make a welcome return as I post a song from the new album, Coast To Coast. It's a fun, 15 track tribute to their favourite overnight radio show, Coast To Coast AM and covers topics such as astral projection, falling in love with Bigfoot and killer bees. There's also covers of songs originally released by Shonen Knife, They Might Be Giants and The Outrights. If you like your punk rock to be bouncy and full of hooks, melodies and all that other catchy stuff then you can check the album out here :  https://parasitediet.bandcamp.com/album/coast-to-coast or here  https://outloudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/coast-to-coast

  The band are currently on indefinite hiatus due to their drummer being unavailable to tour but it's not all bad news. Aside from the album (watch out for a limited vinyl edition) there's already plans to release an ep of already recorded new material. You can get more details here :  https://www.facebook.com/parasitediet/

  This is The Traveller.....

Lying alone in my own bed 
I could be anywhere instead 
we could be anywhere you want 
I could be everywhere at once 
catch me when I'm falling down 
we can turn everyone around 
and if I mean anything, you'll wake me up before I hit the ground 


I can't sleep without you tonight 
can't sleep alone 
and I can't sleep without you tonight 


I can bring heaven home to you 
I can bring earth and oceans too 
I can see everything from here 
I have seen planets disappear 
I have seen time begin and end 
I have seen love lost in the wind 
I have seen universes fall apart and built back up again

Parasite Diet - Night Of The Bugs

  This last week or so I've been listening to a lot of pop punk songs with a sci fi theme. Stuff from the likes of The Lillingtons, Screeching Weasel, Groovie Ghoulies, The Riverdales, Mean Jeans etc but one of the best of the lot is a song about killer insects by Paducah, Kentucky's Parasite Diet.

  The band are comprised of the improbably named Josey Juice (guitar/vocals), Technicolor Kid (drums/vocals), Padlock (bass/vocals), PC the Lost Plutonian (guitar/vocals) and Sammy Solar (guitar/keys/vocals). Announcing themselves in 2009 with an ep called God Hates Parasite Diet (which featured a version of OMD's Enola Gay), they play an upbeat, energetic brand of pop punk that owes a debt to The Ramones, Queers etc.

  Feb 2015 saw their latest release, an ep entitled This Is My Hat Now but the song I'm featuring today was on 2014's, Eccentric Pop Records release, Lost In Time. You can check out their music here : http://parasitediet.bandcamp.com/.

  This is Night Of The Bugs.......


There's no hope for anyone alive
 
the giant bees have built their giant hives
 
and China doesn't stand a chance
 
against these 20 story ants
 
and France is overrun with mammoth slugs 

Night of the bugs
 
they're multiplying
 
bugs
 
mosquitoes, flies and slugs
 
it's the end of the age of the man 

Rolly polly boulders rolling out
 
with fleas the size of mattresses about
 
please call on Master Terminix
 
and plead that he come cast some hex
 
insecticide inside hot metal slugs 

Night of the bugs 

please call on Master Terminix
 
and plead that he come cast some hex
 
insecticide inside nuclear hugs 

Night of the bugs