Wckr SpgtA Tea Party of Love1994 :: Car in Car Disco Product :: USA Recorded May 1994 at Car in Car Studios Remixed and mastered by Wckr Spgt and Rob DeChaine at Brilliant Noise French-speaking Canadians engineers needed to be told to ignore the pops and buzzing All songs written, produced, and recorded by Wckr Spgt Cover photo donated by helpful Christians Photography by Kim Dillbeck Layout and computer froittling by Bill Magdziarz Wckr Spgt is Joel Huschle and Mark Givens Liner notes by Cash Nexus and Furniture Huschle Special thanks to the guys in Nothing Painted Blue for being our live back-up band for the last five years. Also thanks to Berit, Kim, Johnny D., Howard Drucker, Bob Fritz, Clinton Wadell, and all of the fabulous folks at Shrimper Inc. Liner Notes "A Tea Party of Love" is a beautiful rock opera about Howard Cosell, his red-haired sister, and their ugly child (The "Family of Three"). The narration switches between the voices of Howard, Howard's sister, the ugly child, and an "outside party" (eg. "Warner Electra Asylum" and "The Caring Song"). God is Howard Cosell's father ("I asked my father for a ten dollar bill") making Howard Jesus and the ugly child humanity. Through the course of the opera, it is revealed the father, God, is a New York insurance salesman ("I met your dad in New York City"), and Howard's sister is the Devil ("Her eyes were backlit from a torch from Hell"). Most of the love songs are from Howard to his sister, establishing a love interest ("someday she'll be your queen") that results in marriage. The high altitude (Heaven) wedding documents the eventual fall of the sister and loss of Howard's wife ("don't use meat for a parachute / Meat chute, wife lose"). The trinity of train references describe God, in his shame that Howard had hooked up with the Devil, turning his back on humanity. Howard reflects on what was (pre-sister / devil) normalcy ("We lapped each other's nectar from the soil"). The sister is struck on the head with a rock ("A pebble lands upon her") which, besides leaving a hole in her head, makes her aware that she is the Devil himself. Being the Devil, she destroys humanity ("...the ugly child, who you killed in a fit of glee..."). The voice of the ugly child can be heard in "e.e." berating Howard, the Devil, and God - making a stand against the powers which will eventually destroy him. Howard's sister, upset at being the Devil, asks Howard to plug the hole in an attempt to correct the pebble's incredible damage ("My aching hole is itching for your finger"). Howard is afflicted by a virus and, in classic Oedipal / Freudian fashion, kills his father ("stabbed him with my pocket knife") and rapes and kills his mother ("He's stabbed his poor mama"). Filled with guilt and remorse, Howard seeks re-crucifixion ("pencil through my hand"). After the demise of humanity and the failure of the re-crucifixion, Howard walks the barren earth, gazing in shock at the evil drinking animals that have taken over the sins of humanity. "Difficult Month (100% Fun)" is a direct reference to Kurt Cobain and may not be related to this story. |
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