MC Lars

"Guitar Hero Hero (Beating Guitar Hero Doesn't Make You Slash)"

Featuring Parry Gripp of Nerf Herder and Paul Gilbert of Mr. Big

MC LARS - This Gigantic Robot Kills

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1) Where Ya Been Lars?

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2) True Player For Real

(Featuring "Weird Al" Yankovic and Wheatus. intro from Wesley Willis)

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3) Hipster Girl

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4) It's Not Easy (Being Green)

(Featuring Pierre Bouvier of Simple Plan)

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5) This Gigantic Robot Kills

(Featuring Suburban Legends and The MC Bat Commander of The Aquabats)

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6) No Logo

(Featuring Jesse Dangerously)

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7) 35 Laurel Drive

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8) Twenty-Three

(Featuring Amie Miriello)

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9) Guitar Hero Hero (Beating Guitar Hero Does Not Make You Slash)

(Featuring Parry Gripp of Nerf Herder and Paul Gilbert of Mr. Big)

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10) O.G. Original Gamer

(Featuring MC Frontalot and Jonathan Coulton)

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11) We Have Arrived

(Featuring K.Flay, YTCracker and The Former Fat Boys)

12) White Kids Aren't Hyphy

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13) Hey There Ophelia

(Featuring Gabe Saporta of Cobra Starship And Brett Anderson of The Donnas)

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14) (Lord It's Hard To Be Happy When You're Not Using) The Metric System (Featuring The Worm Quartet)

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About MC Lars

MC Lars is a member of what he dubs the "iGeneration," a group born and raised in the time of the Ninja Turtles, cassette tapes and new wave music, who now live in the age of Gossip Girls, iPhones and screamo bands. These are the kids who have grown up using the Internet as a part of their every day life. They can conveniently carry 30,000 songs in their pocket, but are faced with the glooming fact that the world's oil supply and Social Security will both run out in their lifetime. MC Lars is the hero of this new generation, addressing their thoughts and every day struggles in his music.

From 2003-2005, Lars has spent every day years building this group of fans, performing around the world with nothing but his laptop and lyrics. His indie EP has sold over 10,000 copies to a dedicated group of misfits, allowing him to pulse the mainstream through unexpected outlets like Rolling Stone and MTV News. All of this led him to the decision to steer his own ship and to release the album on his own
label (Horris Records) rather than fall into the major label glut. He sees little need for the traditional label trappings and would rather storm his own trail through the Internet, even encouraging file-sharing as a means of promoting his music.

Released in 2006, "The Graduate” captures the punk rock spirit and attitude of his approach to music. "Download This Song", a song that has served as a complete manifesto on the future of music industry while “IGeneration” and “Hot Topic is Not Punk Rock” became anthems for his fans across the world.

On ‘THIS GIGANTIC ROBOT KILLS” (OUT NOW on CRAPPY RECORDS) Lars worked with many diverse and eclectic artists including "Weird Al" Yankovic, Brendan B. Brown of Wheatus, MC Bat Commander from the Aquabats, Brett Anderson from the Donnas, Gabe Saporta from Cobra Starship, "Godfather of Nerdcore Hip-hop" MC Frontalot, Jesse Dangerously, Parry Grip, Paul Gilbert and Pierre Bouviere of Simple Plan .

GUITAR HERO HERO (BEATING GUITAR HERO DOESN'T MAKE YOU SLASH)

lyrics by MC Lars

music by MC Lars, Terrible D, Daniel Dart, and Paul Gilbert

Walking down the hall all the fifth graders swoon

Autograph line every day in homeroom

On the playground all the kids like to point and whisper,

"Check his calloused guitar-button blisters"

I'm a fourth grade celebrity

Plastic axe on my back and a Dragonforce T

My teachers know that I'm the man

A walking, talking ten-year-old-brand

Pepsi offered me mad G's to drink Sobe exclusively

Guitar Hero, it's my song, flip the switch and then it's on

CHORUS

Well I'm starting up my Wii and all my fans are in the stands

I would invite my parents but they'll never understand

I've got a reputation for the levels that I beat

I'm a Guitar Hero hero, hey that's me

They say Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil

I can beat "Through the Fire and Flames" on expert level

While Slash rocks the strip up and down LA

I push multi-colored buttons on a stick all day

Dimebag brought the dope harmonics

My five buttons are electronic

Clapton spilt his heart on "Layla"

I go (click click click) playa

Hendrix lit his strat on fire

Generations were inspired

One day my songs could do the same

if I weren't so addicted to this game!

CHORUS

I'm a player, I'm a hero, I'm your rock star little man

If I don't do my homework will my teachers understand?

Can't really strum a note and every gig I rock for free

I'm a Guitar Hero hero, hey that's me

Beating Call of Duty doesn't mean your aim is good

Beating Wii Golf doesn't make you Tiger Woods

Beating Apples to Apples doesn't make you a farmer

Watching UFC won't make you any harder

Friends on Myspace won't make you a musician

Beating Operation doesn't make you a physician

Watching CSI doesn't make you a detective

Playing Mario Paint doesn't mean you have perspective

Beating Gears of War doesn't make you Wintson Churchill

Quoting 90's sitcoms doesn't make you Steve Urkel

Grand Theft Auto doesn't make you a player

Playing Sim City doesn't make you a mayor

Beating Rock Band doesn't mean you rock

Beating Tony Hawk doesn't make you Tony Hawk

American Idol won't make you a star

Beating Guitar Hero doesn't mean you play guitar

Play me some guitar

Now play me some guitar

Play me some guitar

Paul Gilbert on guitar!

Let's go!

CHORUS

Well I know my mom will ground me if I play again all night

When I step into the zone I always rock it right

My eyes are getting bloodshot as my fingers start to bleed

I'm a Guitar Hero hero

I'm gamer, I'm an addict, guitar strummer, I'm a fan

One day I'll tour the country in my drummer's beat-up van

But until I learn to play I'll sit in front of my TV

I'm a Guitar Hero hero

I'm a Guitar Hero hero

I'm a Guitar Hero hero

Hey that's me!

And that's me!

And that's you!

Well golly gee!

Yeah!

TWENTY-THREE

lyrics by MC Lars

music by James Bourne

I don't sleep, because sleep is the cousin of death

Down the hall, there's a kid that I know

He's kind of quirky so I say hello

He's so sarcastic but he's always right

Working on those problem sets late into the night

Mad Mad magazines sit piled by his bed

A million brilliant thoughts going all through his head

We bike to class in the autumn rain

He tells me that he's fine but I know he's in pain

Pat I miss you dude it's so hard to say goodbye

In Europe last winter you were tired of the lie

Monoxide in the bathroom but the door was locked

We were always there for you, you could have called and talked

I felt guilty and alone and so sick when I discovered

You did it in Berlin, you'd just talked to your mother

I guess it was too much, depression disillusion

Maybe suicide's an answer, but it wasn't the solution

CHORUS:

And I wish that you hadn't done it

Could have won it and moved on from it

And we could have grown old together

But instead you'll always be 23.... 23.

We sat together one night on El Camino

On the bench by the bus stop hiding from El Nino

You told me your secret I just sat there in shock

You couldn't tell your parents, you couldn't break that lock

Cognitive dissonance, trapped in your shell

Depression and regression made your life a living hell

The pain was too intense, the fence too strong to break

So you went to Germany, it was too much to take

You came back broken hearted distracted by the dream

The worlds collided now, college wasn't what it seemed

You went to back to Berlin to find yourself once more

They broke down the door and found you lying on the floor

I took the Amtrak up the coast, your mom met me at the station

I went to see your house and photos of your graduation

We drove to your grave, no tombstone where you lay

Your freshmen yearbook's by your bed and your room's in disarray

CHORUS

(vocal samples recorded spring 2003)

Lars: Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to meet a good friend of mine, this is Patrick Wood!

Pat: What's up Lars?

Lars:  What's up Pat?

Pat: How you doing man?

Lars: Good.  What do you think of me having my recording equipment take up three quarters of our small room in the Kimball dorm?

Pat: It's no problem man, I love you.

Lars: I love you too Pat.

Pat: Thanks Lars.

Lars:  Pat Wood!  Hey that's you.

Pat: (Sarcastic laughter)

CHORUS:

And I wish that you hadn't done it

Could have won it and moved on from it

Now we'll never grow old together

But you're in my memory, 23... 23.

Suicide sucks.