Carseat Headrest - Monomania [Full Album]

[@gattobello6802]

1. I didn't like you anyways You always spoke so quiet I had to ask you to repeat yourself I'd like to explain to all of my friends To everyone involved How it all happened How things fell apart La la la la la la la oh La la la la la la la oh La la la la la la la oh La la la la la la la oh Let's reconstruct the scene As best we can and try to figure out What crimes were committed I saw you I saw you again last night you were Hiding in a poor man's body But I saw your soul slip out of his fingers La la la la la la la oh La la la la la la la oh La la la la la la la oh La la la la la la la oh La la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la La la la la la la la oh La la la la la la la oh La la la la la la la oh La la la la la la la oh La la la la oh 2. Everything you say is a bridge Everything you do is water under it Such a worthless waste of time to write about Every bit of you that I don't love Is filled up with my hate I was a situation That you were glad went away Move move forward like a human being (Sometimes you have to kill things to impress your friends) You probably looked like an idiot in that hat (Used to feel bad about crushing ants) I can't go back to not understanding what you mean to me I'm turning into the person that you were afraid I'd turn out to be There is something in me that can only give There is something in you that can only give out When you hear my songs do you get that feeling And if not, what the hell were you hearing? I am not crazy, I am right What do you mean? what are saying to me? I was just another bird you touched Whose mother won't take him back I was searching for a soul to sell my devils to (All I wanted was sleep and you took it away) Did you do something wrong was there something you did that I could blame I thought I was open I thought I was intimate and then you asked me my name By the time they send the lifeboats I won't want to leave the island Calling out to distant shorelines Calling out for different basslines I can't go back to not understanding what you mean to me I'm turning into the person that you were afraid that I'd turn out to be Ooh, it was nothing special Ooh, it was nothing sacred Just hands held And shoulders rubbed And voices touched 3. All of my friends are getting married All of my friends are right with God All of my friends are making money But art gets what it wants and art gets what it deserves I think I'm gonna build a giant hotel Lest we be scattered, I'll stack it sky-high It's not symbolic, it's just human nature Under the foundations, there is a graveyard We've all had better times to die We've all seen better times to die We've all had better times to die We all had better times to die "Get a job!" Job lying in bed while all his friends chant "You must've done something wrong" But he just keeps singing this song We've all had Better times to di- We've all seen better times We've all had better times to We've all had We've all had We've- better times to die (We all had better times to die) We've all seen better times to die We've all had better times to We've all seen better times to di- We've all had better times Got to have faith in the one above me Got to believe that Lombardi loves me It's a deal I want a deal Let's cut a covenant And when they took him to the temple Oh, then they fed him to the devil And when they took him to their temple Oh, then they fed him to their devils And when they took him to the table (Hey man, we listened to your demos!) Before they fed him to their devils And when they took him to the temple (Hey man, we listened to your demos!) Oh, then they listened to his demos Most of the time I'm just getting older But I'll get to heaven standing on your shoulders So many people you know that could make you They say kid you're good, but do you have what it takes to be Invited into the divine council? Invited into the divine council? Invited into the divine council? Invited into the divine We've all had better times to die We've all seen better times to die We've all had better times to die We all had better times to die Invited into the divine council Invited into the divine council Invited into the divine council Invited into the divine Invited into the divine council Invited into the divine council Invited into the divine council Invited into the divine Divine Divine Divine Would you give it all up if there was another scene? Would you kill it to see and to be seen? Would you give it all up if you had another scene? Would you kill it to see or to be seen? Divine Divine (renouncer) Divine (renouncer) Divine Is it harder to speak when you're holding the machine? Is it harder to sleep when you can hear him breathe? Is it harder to speak when you're holding the machine? Is it harder to sleep when you can feel him breathe? Divine Divine (renouncer) Divine (renouncer) Divine Divine Divine Divine Divine 4. You used to have a future, now you don't even have a past You won't have half an answer if anyone cares to ask You promised to speak to no one, you were lucky that I heard Because without a witness no oath can be assured Somewhere down the line you'll look back and Say you did the best that you could and you'll be wrong You're always wrong I hope you enjoy it underneath the light I hope you can get some sleep tonight Because where you live the sun doesn't set This is your bed. Hope you enjoy You held me in the sunlight, your interlocking hands Left a photograph on my shoulders, spots where I didn't tan But my skin was an imperfect film and the negatives were burned Without the evidence there was no need for you to ever return And someone down the line will look back And wonder what you felt for me and he'll be wrong You're always wrong I hope you enjoy it underneath the light I hope you can get some sleep tonight Because where you live the sun doesn't set This is your bed. Hope you enjoy I can't turn this thing off It keeps following me Used to be so human now it's just a machine I can't turn this thing off It keeps following me When'd you say you were leaving? When'd you really leave? I hope you enjoy it underneath the light I hope you can get some sleep tonight Because where you live the sun doesn't set If this is your bed, how do you do it? I was within my rights, I was behind the line You were dancing in your sleep I promised to hide it underneath the covers This is my bed, how do you do? Hope I enjoy my no one 5. Being sad's so boring I'm taking a vacation I'm driving down to see my old friends tonight Let's spend the week with rosy cheeks And crush the grapes beneath our feet And stop burrowing through old chocolate boxes Like a heartbroken Bacchus I miss those good old boys They could still find joy in life to talk about I miss those good old boys They could still find joy in life to talk about So leave that girl behind you Or whatever it is that's got you We've still got time for one more drink tonight Think what the others would say If they saw you in the bathroom, kicking the stall door They'd say get out of your head for a while Jump into mine, leave it on repeat and it says And if I'd been a parrot I'd have been a very good parrot And if I'd be a parent I'd be my own parents And if that's not apparent than it will be soon I miss those good old boys They could still find joy in life to talk about I miss those good old boys They could still find joy in life to talk about I miss those good old boys They could still find joy in life to talk about I miss those good old boys They could still find joy in life to talk about I miss you, miss you, miss you I miss you, miss you, miss you I miss you, miss you, miss you (I don't have any hope left, but the weather is nice) I miss you, miss you, miss you (I don't have any hope left, but the weather is nice) I miss you, miss you, miss you (I don't have any hope left, but the weather is nice) I miss you, miss you, miss you (I don't have any hope left, but the weather is nice) If you're trying to live, you have to own what you do If you're trying to live, you have to own what you do Oh, Jesus Christ, I I wish I could talk like that But such is my place in life I I don't have I don't have any hope I don't have any hope left, but the weather is nice I miss you I miss you I miss you I miss you

[@gattobello6802]

6. That wasn't any better at all That didn't make me feel any better at all I thought it would, but it didn't My consciousness is bigger It gives me no pleasure to say My consciousness is bigger than yours It gives me no pleasure And we descend the basement Poorly done murals, the faces If there wasn't a house, we would build one with our bodies Hang on to my ego Everything is coming loose tonight I'm too nervous for boys now I'm too nervous for girls now Every bottle you drink must be recycled and Every plastic cup that can't be recycled in this town At the party kids come in and out Talking about T.S. Eliot It starts out fun Because the night is young But then the night gets old And it just gets cold And we go outside And we go back inside And we say what's the plan And there is no plan so we go La la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la I just need to wake up burst into motion Raise my finger say aha, say moving is easy I just need to take off, burst into motion I just need to get up burst into motion Raise my finger say aha, say moving is easy I just need to get off It wasn't fun It wasn't educational It lingered on I put my fingers on you were gone Let's get away from these despicable people They can't keep their mouths to themselves I know there's lots of other guys with my name here But tell me I'm the only one that you will Does anybody use this bathroom in the daytime? Is this a house or the set of a film? Let's get away from these awful people They can't keep their minds to themselves I refuse to let go until you're impressed I refuse to let go until I'm depressed I see you reaching out to t-t-t-touch My skin shrinks, I think I'll be shocked By that static It's too dynamic Because I never wanted you to change I only wanted you to be different Like, not so distant Cause we are alone in our orgasms But your flesh seems so solid Why does it melt away In the morning dew? I'm sorry, I thought someone was there Like two mirrors gazing into each other's eyes Like two microphones kissing But oh, that night, that music! The longer it goes, the more important I feel But oh, those lights, those colors! The less I can see, the more I can feel B----- said never to write about what's in my pockets But that's where my hands are, and that's where they'll stay Because you're used to a softer touch She's just used to a gentler touch She is used to a gentleman's touch But hey man it's cool when you do it We are alone in our dreams Do we have to sleep tonight? Murmur, murmur! Coward! Building towards a meaning that'll never come Leave someone beautiful Find someone horrible Dig me I just want to have sex with you I just want to fuck you I just want to have sex with you I just want to fuck you When I say stop, When I say stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop! Bounce and stretch I stretch into a smile Not just my face, my body, my soul Because I view life as something that I Don't think I'll get away with And you think that we've already gotten away Yeah we all have dreams, I know I should have forgotten them in the morning (A dead dog painted on the sea) If none of us know the words then only the melody matters Na na na na na na na na na na na matters I wrote this verse drunk I thought it would solve everything I thought it would But it didn't When everyone was going homewards Did you cry because it was over? Or did you cry because you knew it would never end? As long as we don't go to sleep yet I promise I can't go to sleep yet Cause the night's not dead, no the night's not dead I will not go alone to my single-size bed I don't know what that means We could go anywhere But we will always be where we are We could go anywhere But we will always be where we are I waited for you on the eastern shore Watching people trying to act sober on the other side of the sea Until I laughed and headed home I learned my lesson never to roam 7. When did our heart Stop beating? Used up all the heat When did it start? Our meeting It's been on repeat I know there's a full moon every night It's just not always bright But it's been so long since I saw the light Maybe I haven't been looking at the sky Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Maud Now you're gone Now you're gone Maud Now you're gone Now you're gone Maud Now you're gone Now you're gone Maud Now you're gone Now you're gone Sweetheart, please love me too long My heart's too strong Love me too long Sweetheart, please let me hold on To these old songs I've loved too long Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh When I'm in bed I'm dead No one to check my pulse And so instead My head Begs not to be so full And when I fall Asleep Which part of me writes the dream And which part falls Asleep Who's running the machine? I know there's a full moon every night When I dress black it snows white I know there's a full moon every night When I dress black it snows white I know there's a moon I know there's a- I know there's a full moon every night When I dress black it snows white I know there's a full moon every night When I dress black it snows white Maud Now you're gone Maud Now you're gone Maud Now you're gone Maud Now you're gone Now you're gone 8. Will anyone be surprised? Will anyone not say they're surprised? Where will it be? Will I have found a home by then? Or is it always in your hometown? Will my hanging leave me indecent? Will they have to cross my legs? No more throwing the bottle cap into the trash And throwing the bottle into the recycling Let nature take its course Such a drag It's such a drag It's such a drag It's such a drag How long will the casket hold? How long will the old home hold? How many hands will have touched me? How many eyes shut? Only two Will it be like in the movies? Will they play music I like? Or will everyone be hovering around the iPod Trying to put on their playlist? It's such a drag It's such a drag It's such a drag Such a drag All that oxygen, no more All that senseless rubbing, no more Only gravity, gravity, gravity, gravity, gravity, gravity, gravity And it's such a drag It's such a drag Such a drag It's such a drag And when the night comes Who will be lying by my side? I never liked sleeping with strangers And when the night comes Whose side will I be lying by? I never liked sleeping with strangers And when the night comes Who will be lying by my side? I never liked sleeping with strangers And when the night comes Whose side will I be lying by? I never liked sleeping with strangers It's such a It's such a 9. You never stopped smoking, but I forgive you My words and my heart were not enough to give you And my words always sounded wrong, it was easy not to listen Still it pained me to see when I left, you never noticed what was missing After all that's unsaid and undone I know this cannot mean much But I hope that you find someone who loves you very much Yes, I hope that you find someone who loves you very much No, I've never slept next to someone who wanted to sleep next to me It was hard to debate, you couldn't wait to lose your memory And it didn't take long, you were strong in your resolve to lose your mind It was only a mistake that on the way you happened to lose mine Yes, I know in your eyes we were never really lovers as such So I hope that you find someone who loves you very much And I hope that you find someone you can love just as much Sometimes I wish I hadn't taken all my notes on your rolling papers But when you burned them the scent came as such a bittersweet vapor I watched the flames silence the words I was given in life But if your heart was in it I was glad to be your sacrifice And though I'll miss, or at least sometimes wish for your touch I hope that you find someone who loves you very much I hope that you find someone who loves you very much Such a drag Such a drag Such a drag Such a drag It's such a drag It's such a drag It's such a drag Such a drag It's such a drag (Such a drag) It's such a drag (Such a drag) It's such a drag (Such a drag) It's such a drag You suck! Fuck! You son-of-a-bitch! God damnit! You motherfucker! Fuck! Fuck! It's time Hurry up, please, it's time Hurry up, please, it's time It's time It's time Hurry up, please, it's time

[@asaribenjj]

if i was the reason a guy wrote an album as painful as this one i'd seriously reconsider my entire life view fr

[@somerandomperson8439]

Will absolutely locked in for the second half

[@itsNarg]

Almost every bandcamp-era album (other than 2011's TF and HTLT) is underrated but Monomania is REALLY overlooked despite how good it is.

[@fredman727]

I think Monomania is better than 2011 TF tbh

[@wrenisprobablyb0red]

@@fredman727 I'd say it's probably better than 2018 TF, too. It's just really well structured, and despite not actually being a concept album, feels more complete. Still, a combination album that merged the two would be awesome. Like, TF focuses on Will's mistakes in the relationship, and then Monomania has him blaming himself for his lover's mistakes, or excusing them. But I think a lot of the emotions felt during these albums would have taken place at the same time. I mean, imagine if "Overexposed" and "High To Death" were combined. There's a few songs on Monomania that would fit right in to Twin Fantasy, and if all 19 songs were combined in a new order into a double-album sort of like Nervous Young Men, then it would be really cool.

[@ieatgarbage8771]

@@wrenisprobablyb0red I haven’t overanalyzed this album, but I can’t imagine something being better than TF. I guess I’m just a sucker for meta-commentary and being called out

[@zynel413]

@@wrenisprobablyb0red I have a playlist that starts with the Beach songs from 3, then into Twin Fantasy and Monomania with The Gun Song at the end. It's a nice albeit taxing listen. You talked about Twin Fantasy and Monomania being merged as some double album and while that would be cool, I feel like it'd be hard to balance cohesively. Anchorite, Famous Prophets and Those Boys have a really awkward clash of "What song do we end on?". Unless you mean just TF being side 1 and Monomania being side 2

[@polarosun]

@@wrenisprobablyb0red wdym monomania IS a concept album and it works perfectly as a sequel to twin fantasy

[@twin_fantasy]

i actually thought the album cover had flames for months until I realized it's someones shoulder silhouette rotated sideways. very weird

[@blaketto]

and of course its a god damn shoulder

[@DOROnoDORO]

@@blaketto and it's Cate Wurtz's shoulder, the person Twin Fantasy is about lol

[@shawndavis9070]

I just realized

[@universal_hyssoap]

?

[@edgydeathknight]

holy fuck

[@atl5033]

“You never stopped smoking”

[@painstar_]

“but i forgive you”

[@CainTheBoss]

Just as good as Twin Fantasy, a different kind of good tho, an angstier good

[@winter1657]

Their most underrated album in my opinion. If this got a remaster it would be my favorite

[@astrangeriremain]

Agreed 100% I really love this record and hearing Will's modern take on songs like Maud Gone and Overexposed would be so cool

[@r3n0wn1]

Overexposed is my top csh song of all time

[@astrangeriremain]

Def one of my favs too, I think I love all of the ones that play of the "Don't worry you and me won't be alone no more" verse from Sober to Death

[@shakycacti576]

just cried so hard at anchorite that my eyes felt like they got pepper sprayed

[@dododestroyer5480]

Sounds like this would be perfect for a remaster tbh

[@ollietotalgamer]

for sure needs the Twin Fantasy treatment, same with 3!

[@ollietotalgamer]

also thats a Ozzie quote right?

[@gafined2345]

a couple of the songs got remastered which is cool

[@fionnsterr]

@@gafined2345 no they got completely rerecorded for tos

[@gafined2345]

@@fionnsterr that's what I meant poor choice of words

[@gafined2345]

times to die is one of my favorite csh songs but I've only heard the teens of style version and I can definitely say this version is better also I love how there are callbacks to older songs in overexposed

[@atl5033]

there are callbacks to older songs all over the album, like “I’m too nervous for girls now” in Souls is a callback to This is the Hard Part

[@punpunpunyama9271]

@@atl5033 and the "you never stopped smoking" from Anchorite

[@gavinharris3060]

the FtF version of high to death also makes a callback to overexposed

[@wrenisprobablyb0red]

@@atl5033 Isn't "This Is The Hard Part" from Disjecta Membra, or am I totally insane?

[@wrenisprobablyb0red]

@@gavinharris3060 Unpopular opinion, but Those Boys and Overexposed should have been combined in the remaster. I feel like Overexposed's chorus and callbacks would make it a really good ending, but combined with Those Boys's callbacks to Sunburned Shirts, as well as that song's buildup and outro, it would generally be an amazing closer. IDK if anyone can imagine what I'm saying though.

[@AlienGuyCkun]

The trowback to Twin Fantasy in Overexpossed really kick in since Twin Fantasy was the album i used to lisent with a guy i really used to like, now he is gone in some ways in my life and the only thing left is that little trowbacks to Twin Fantasy (mostly "My Boy") i get from this album

[@AlienGuyCkun]

Alex if you end up finding this, i really used to like you man

[@astrangeriremain]

I've definetly felt simlliar with those call back lines, I think its kind of meant to cause some feeling of longing in the listener and its really cool.

[@lcof8318]

I have a love hate relationship with this album because I really like it but at the same time I am always fighting desperately to not feel identified with it, especially with the last song

[@onoderarintaro5179]

anchorite feels like it was made for me every single lines feels relatable

[@gildetesantos3362]

Thats actually good you should use this album as a "never become this" standard

[@jxomxo]

The video game-like synth during Los Borrachos at 26:05 gives me life

[@sleepyabby6421]

never found an album before that managed to feel like both a slap to the face and an understanding hug at the same time. but now i finally found it and will cry over it for the rest of my life.

[@FlyingMicrotonalBanana]

this album is absolutely fantastic. just got through a breakup with my bf and i still have no idea how to feel now, but this album is it

[@astrangeriremain]

I'm sorry to hear about your breakup, but I'm glad this can help you in someway. I went through a breakup about 7 months ago now and this record really helped me too. Please take care of yourself in times like this, you're not alone.

[@dingus3161]

even after i've stopped listening to car seat regularly, i still find myself coming back to this album. thanks for posting this

[@astrangeriremain]

Thanks for listening, I'm the same way with this record too. It has some of my favorite tracks to revisit

[@DXexter]

masterpiece of lofi sadness

[@SB-cc1xp]

Was hoping this was a full Deerhunter cover album but it's not and it came out before Deerhunter's monomania. It's good.

[@jemford3281]

woah this version of Times to Die is way better than the one ive been listening to

[@biggle_man]

*press play on this album without jumping challenge* (i startle very easy)

[@ifellonaknife]

i've never been through a painful breakup, but weirdly, this album makes me feel like i have

[@foxie8miller]

stinky commrent

[@mako3951]

Don't worry, you and me won't

[@jerrywhoomst1116]

It would be so horribly uncomfortable to have somebody write this about you.

[@Funkytownresident1]

Ive been saying this😭😭 bless you cate wurtz

[@IreneCAbry]

this fr might actually be the saddest album i’ve ever listened to

[@Just_A_Simple_Time_Traveller]

Nice

[@DOROnoDORO]

thanks star stranger

[@astrangeriremain]

[@nskeow]

Can anyone post the timestamps for each song?

[@astrangeriremain]

I updated the video, but I'm a few seconds off. I only uploaded this so I could add it to my favourite full album playlist, if you want the songs with perfect time stamps go to the bandcamp page here carseatheadrest.bandcamp.com/album/monomania

[@nskeow]

Thanks

[@lunarmachine]

this album ruined my life actually (affectionate)

[@astrangeriremain]

Same

[@timaeusTechnopath]

Real

[@PolicemanPlanet]

the volume seems a little low for this upload, bud good nevertheless

[@astrangeriremain]

Honestly this was the first time I've done anything like this so it prolly does need some work.

[@PolicemanPlanet]

Steevious I've uploaded a few cshr albums myself! I can teach ya for free.99 if you want. Simple audacity tricks n giggles.

[@astrangeriremain]

That would be rad actually

[@PolicemanPlanet]

@@timt183 on god?

[@swataras]

this cover is really confusing

[@gafined2345]

in my opinion I think it symbolizes letting go of your childhood but idk

[@alexalexson1849]

Looks like Will in the reflection burning a bunch of artwork from the past. This album is a sequel to TF so I think maybe it is suppose to symbolize Will angrily destroying the memories from the era and moving on post-breakup.

[@gafined2345]

@@alexalexson1849 you put it in words a lot better than I did

[@yourself123321]

Looks to me like the notes he wrote on the rolling paper burning up

[@valty3727]

@@alexalexson1849 i found out recently they're not actually flames, rotate your head 45 degrees to the left and you can see its the backlit right sleeve of someone with long hair. the bright white point is their shoulder

[@THESLOWDEATHHOOKS]

volume is wayyyy too low

[@astrangeriremain]

Yeah this was my first attempt at something like this, I had no idea what I was doing and because of that the audio is super low.

[@ummyeahno456]

demonomania brought me here

[@willmurphy3525]

What is it?

[@maeve3046]

monomania

[@astrangeriremain]

Monomania

[@maeve3046]

@@astrangeriremain facts

[@astrangeriremain]

@@maeve3046 Ooga Booga

[@foxie8miller]

post fantasy

[@m_crowley6674]

Will Gets Transphobic

[@nahimgood8891]

what

[@May-ey4cp]

didnt this album come out before cate transitioned

[@salviahunden]

@@May-ey4cp the lyrics on the bandcamp upload of anchorite has the "such a drag" part labeled as "the death of the ladyman"

[@May-ey4cp]

Yeah, a direct ref to leonard cohens death of a ladies man, not misgendering kate

[@salviahunden]

@@May-ey4cp yeah, it's "death of the lady man" in anchorite so clearly while it's a reference to cohen it's a double entendre/mean pun of misgendering