Die Schadenfreude, by The Urbane Decay

Die Schadenfreude

by The Urbane Decay

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1.	King Kong (vocal) 01:29	buy track
2.	Garage 00:58	buy track
3.	Hell Bandit 02:20	buy track
4.	Plank 00:54	buy track
5.	Cats and Dogs 01:10	buy track
6.	Stooge 01:55	buy track
7.	Winter 03:05	buy track
8.	King Kong 01:29	buy track

about

In 2007 there was an infamous release party for our new CD, The Urbane Decay Has Never Kissed A Girl, held it in my apartment and to which I invited all the exes and crushes that I dissed in the songs.

"Gutsy set" a friend half-complimented, half-chastised me immediately afterwards.

I also proceeded to ask my most recent ex's current boyfriend to join the band, which shows I was pretty much out of my fucking mind at this point. The whole night was the indie-rock equivalent of some guy with entitlement issues anonymously calling girls who'd rejected him "sluts and bitches" on Internet message boards. Only it wasn't anonymous, just a very public dick move. More importantly, also in attendance was a potential girlfriend who then dubbed me "undateable" (as clearly I was) and when that got back to me, I started to evaluate my life, my attitudes and my music.

Immediate result: I rashly "broke up" The Urbane Decay by renaming us Die Schadenfreude and ditching all my autobiographical songs in favour of nonsensical garage-punk/sludge/grunge/noise-rock.

These songs were recorded sometime in 2007 on a Zoom H4 in the basement of The Yellow House with some guitar overdubs back at my apartment. The song all had lyrics which either Jamie or I would sing, but only King Kong got recorded and the rest are lost to time. I think they work better as instrumental noise rock anyway.

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released March 3, 2018

Jakob Rehlinger: Guitar
Jamie Anderson: Bass
Nate Krell: Drums

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The Urbane Decay Toronto, Ontario

The Urbane Decay was an indie pop recording project mainly active between 2002-2010, mainly by Jakob Rehlinger, mainly maudlin and mopey.

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