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Young Bodies Heal Quickly, You Know,The Paper Chase

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The Paper Chase
Released 2000

These Things Happen
03:44
529 plays

Neat; Manageable; Piles
05:37
477 plays

Ever Since The Turn
03:26
452 plays

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songs

- 1
- This May Be The Last Song You Ever Hear
- 01:00
- 396 plays

- 2
- These Things Happen
- 03:44
- 529 plays

- 3
- Ever Since The Turn
- 03:26
- 452 plays

- 4
- Apple Pies And Alibis
- 02:10
- 437 plays

- 5
- Neat; Manageable; Piles
- 05:37
- 477 plays

- 6
- Can I Pour You Another Drink, Lover?
- 02:41
- 414 plays

- 7
- Lenny What's Gotten Into You?
- 02:09
- 395 plays

- 8
- Goddamn These Hands (I Let Them Touch You)
- 01:48
- 381 plays

- 9
- A Face That Could Launch A Thousand Ships
- 03:27
- 356 plays

- 10
- Throw Your Body On The Apparatus
- 01:51
- 328 plays

- 11
- Off With Their Heads!
- 06:59
- 340 plays

- 12
- Daddy's Got Your Nose
- 02:48
- 343 plays

- 13
- Paperwork
- 04:08
- 314 plays

- 14
- When You Least Expect It
- 01:28
- 280 plays

- 15
- When (And If) The Big One Hits... I'll Just Meet You There
- 08:51
- 387 plays

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album review

The Paper Chase's debut album Young Bodies Heal Quickly, You Know clearly sets the band apart from other Texas punk bands. Although debts must be paid to the Butthole Surfers and Carbomb, the Paper Chase blends layers of grit, found sounds, samples, and guitar chunk with delicate piano swells and cello melodies to create a far artier and jarring overall work. Chief song architect John Congleton constructs abrasive but beautiful compositions that overlap one another punctuated by his emotive voice struggling to be heard above the din. In true prog-rock fashion, the album is divided into five movements, each detailing the terrible aspects of existence from death to broken hearts in a diffused, distanced manner. The fifth track, "Neat; Manageable Piles," is a sparse percussive pile of image poems both rejecting and pleading for love. Another passage, the voyeuristic "Goddamn These Hands (I Let Them Touch You)," replays an answering machine tape of Congleton's girlfriend breaking up with him, complete with a heart wrenching thirty seconds of raw instrumental punk anger while she puts his machine on hold and takes another call. With no breaks between songs, Young Bodies is a constantly rolling and spinning collection of emotion, an uncomfortably intriguing collage of sound and confusion that offers new insights with every listen. ~ Zac Johnson, All Music Guide