Soul Coughing, 1992-2000, was a New York-based band founded by vocalist and guitarist Mike Doughty(who billed himself at the time as 'M. Doughty'), a folk singer (he attended Eugene Lang College with Ani DiFranco, where they studied with Sekou Sundiataand played around the school together), slam poet, sometime music writer, and doorman at the old Houston Street location of The Knitting Factory, then a nexus for such avant-garde artists as John Zorn . Doughty put the band together from instrumentalists he met as they came through the club; he met sampler player Mark De Gli Antoni(recently graduated with a composition degree from Mannes College of Music) when they both participated in a performance of Zorn's "game piece" Cobra. This same ensemble also featured Jeff Buckley. Doughty brought a stack of CDs over to De Gli Antoni's house one afternoon and had him sample iconic riffs from Raymond Scott, Carl Stalling, Howlin' Wolf, and The Andrews Sisters, among others.
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Mr. Bitterness Lyrics
Soul Coughing
There is a bar they call the bitter sea.
And she sits and drinks a velvet crush--that's
Kool aid and gin--casing the clientele
Like a relentless cameraman. she is
Elsewhere. she says you keep a-knocking
But you can't come in, and i say
Little sister, don't you do what your big sister does
Spiral down down down down down down down
Well desire looks just like you with an uzi nine
Gundown fifteen bystanders in a roadside driveby
Desire is the grassfire drinking gasoline
And she says open up your mouth, man, let me come inside
Spiral down down down down down down down
She cracked
Now they call me mr. bitterness
She snapped
Now they call me mr. bitterness
She's gone,
Gone gone
Aaah, leaning up against the wall
I will lash out dancing like a madman when you're gone
I will spit the blue flame and hurl my glass against the wall
And i will hear your name coming out from a boom box
I will hear your name called out from passing cars
Spiral down down down down down down down
She cracked...