The band tour the U.S. frequently in a renovated vintage Green Tortoise bus, and their live performances have featured puppet shows, pseudo-scientific scholarly presentations, and performances by members of the Butoh group inkBoat. SGM's music has been categorized as anything from avant-prog to art rock to experimental metal to RIO (Rock In Opposition). Many reviewers have remarked that the group is altogether unclassifiable.
The band uses many homemade devices as instruments, such as the viking row-boat and the spring-nail guitar. Rathbun plays a stringed bass instrument of his own construction called The Log which uses piano strings and is perhaps 7 feet long; it is played with two sticks: one in the left hand generally used as a fret, another in the right hand striking the strings. Mellender's percussion instruments consist of restaurant kitchen equipment, trash can lids, and other "found" metal objects, in addition to traditional percussion instruments.
They've announced their imminent end, as their last concerts will be held early April around California. But 2011 will still see a new album, a movie and a live DVD.
Bring Back the Apocolypse
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Lyrics
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Bring it back
Bring it
Bring it back
Bring back the apocalypse
It's never too late for the end of time
The lyrics to Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's song "Bring Back the Apocalypse" are a commentary on the state of humanity and the world we inhabit. The singer is calling for the end of the world, as it is seen as a way to start anew, to have a clean slate, and to hopefully create a better world. The repetition of the phrase "Bring it back" emphasizes the desire for the apocalypse and is almost a plea to a higher power to end it all.
The line "It's never too late for the end of time" speaks to the desperation that one may feel at the state of the world, and how sometimes the end of things can seem like the only solution. The song is a commentary on the current environmental and political climate, and how there may not be a way out of the mess that we have created.
Line by Line Meaning
Bring back
Reintroduce or return something that once existed
Bring it back
Bring back a specific thing or concept
Bring it
Referring to something specific
Bring it back
Reintroduce or return something that once existed
Bring back the apocalypse
Requesting the return of a catastrophic event that would bring an end to the world as we know it
It's never too late for the end of time
It's not too late to experience an event that would result in the end of all life and existence
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