My Angel Age, by Pitchman

My Angel Age

by Pitchman

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B.P.R Raw, loud and ahead of the game. The included booklet is a great insight into a moment in time for these guys. Such a find!

Jeremy "The Denim Dad" Atkins It's like this group of kids from DC somehow managed to combine all of the things I loved at this time, and manages to sound like none of them and all of them at the same time. This is essential. No better way to say it. Favorite track: Standoff on the Top Stair.

( B.O.S.Q.U.E.T ) Con Una Fuerza De Juventud , Sin Limites Y Con Un Voz En Un Gran Apogeo De Rabia , Esculpen Letras Pegadizas Y Una Sonoridad Aplastante. Favorite track: Route 13.

Chris DKA Killer teenage DC Punk band. Was very happy to discover this!

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1.	Standoff on the Top Stair 02:29	lyrics
Standoff on the top stair I’m not gonna sleep tonight Standoff on the top stair I’m not gonna sleep tonight Scream loud enough to bring my house down Scream loud enough to bring my house down Scream loud enough to bring my house down I’m gonna take my jacket and run and run and… Catch me! I’m not gonna die now “You’re not going anywhere” You can throw the last punches Standoff on the top stair Why don’t you go away? Why don’t you go away? Why don’t you go away? Why don’t you go away? Open mouthed and soaked in shadows Catch me when I fall out my window It has to happen collectively I wanna jump in anyway Oh oh oh! I won’t forget the things you’ve done for me. Oh no, I won’t forget!
2.	100 Tears 02:28	lyrics
He’s got a look I’ve seen before Got a head the size of a fuckin’ star Hot sunglasses oh so in tune! What are you going to… What are you going to do? What are you going to… What are you going to do? I wanna see you cry Oh, no you make me want to… Oh, no you make me want to… Oh, no you make me want to… Oh, no you make me want to… Watch out, he’s comin’ through Watch out, he’s comin’ through Watch out, he’s comin’ through Watch out, he’s comin’ through 100 tears 100 tears 100 tears 100 tears 100 tears 100 tears when you come into view
3.	Mod Anna 02:51	lyrics
He fell like gravity But it came up too quick Stop cuz this is serious We laughed and they just fell dead down They didn’t get the joke We set the stage for an empire to rise from the smoke They said, they said to leave the streets empty But that’s not what happened That’s not what happened Street tar got hotter That’s not what happened Take it to the tune Onward to ask you how Take it to the tune Onward to ask you how It doesn’t work that way Hey kids, come out to play We’ll close school doors forever And smash their heads together Take it to the tune Onward to ask you how Take it to the tune Onward to ask you how It doesn’t work that way Our teachers ran away We’ll close school doors forever And smash their heads together I always wanted to go West!
4.	Dead Girls 02:12	lyrics
It’s a dead girl world! I wanna know, how did you get so clean? Why don’t you come back, why don’t you come back to cool black? Do you live in a washing machine? Why don’t you come back, why don’t you come back to cool black? I wanna know, how did you get so clean? Why don’t you come back, why don’t you come back to cool black? Her pretty odors are really fatal But her sweet smells won’t stick on me I’m getting dizzy on perfume My world ends with strawberry shampoo The dead girls go to my school The dead girls go to my school Wow! All the dead girls go to my school! It’s a natural disaster Bite the adolescent fever It’s a natural disaster Bite the adolescent fever It’s a natural disaster Bite the adolescent fever All the dead girls go to my school! (I know) Yeah!
5.	Shrinker 02:53	lyrics
I can’t see any better up on this ledge my brother pinpoint thunder It was like thunder everywhere all around, crashing down Take me in from downtown Take me in from downtown What a long-time trip to get here What a long-time trip to get here Take me in from downtown Take me in from downtown What a long-time trip to get here What a long-time trip to get here Now I’m on the out train Quiet hum my basement silver Push under Push under Just like I wanna I feel I’ve reached cold bottom Yeah, ocean rock bottom Fish first, line up Hey no, hey no We’re not movin’ Hey no, hey no We’re not movin’ Hey no, hey no We’re not movin’ Hey no, hey no! Hey no, hey no! Hey no, hey no! Hey no, hey no! Not much longer Take me anywhere Take me anywhere Take me anywhere Take me anywhere Take me anywhere Take me anywhere Take me anywhere Take me anywhere
6.	Parents Suck, Kids Fuck (Teen Sex Anthem) 02:45	lyrics
Don’t you know? It’s started catching The next invasion It’s started catching Hey, you and me It’s time…so soon We’ve gone this far We’ve gone this far Just to show you! Follow me to a dark room Yeah, let’s rot our minds Do you want a piece of it? Don’t you want to be a part of this youth crime? Do you want a piece of it? Don’t you want to be a part of this youth crime? She’ll close her eyes to everything To preserve her sterile mind Her sterile mind Tonight, history’s gonna fall on your bedroom floor Oh, yeah! We’re going down! Watch out we’re going down!
7.	AKA (Nefarious) 02:25	lyrics
Writing on the bathroom walls 100 feet tall Do you know what it says about you? Do you know what it says about you? Laughter kills, so breathe heavy baby Now they all want you “We’ve heard what you can do” Writing on the bathroom walls 100 feet tall 100 feet tall Laughter kills, so breathe heavy baby So (she knows), sit tight (she knows) So (she knows), sit tight (she knows) So (she knows), sit tight (she knows) So (she knows), sit tight (she knows) Don’t show your thighs Don’t show your thighs Don’t show your thighs Don’t show your thighs They don’t want you They don’t want you She knows those stains aren’t coming down She don’t care She don’t dare She knows! Eyes fixed on a distant planet She’s on a mission to make it to the end of the hall alive.
8.	My Angel Age 00:59	lyrics
Cigarette love Wraps me around like blood Hangs over Hangs over till I think it tastes good Make a scene It doesn’t matter I don’t care if I’m idle forever You can choke on me or throw me away It’s not quite like television Still, I can be the envy of millions Who wanna be my angel age Who wanna be my angel age I’m not an American baby Get so sick in your lunar drag anyway Smoke hard till my fingers drip cigarettes Smoke hard till my fingers drip cigarettes
9.	Stone Age 02:56	lyrics
I wanna go Let’s go! Direct me to the crowd Transform my world with dynamite Oh, no I’m not like you tonight Oh, no I’m not like you tonight I’ll tell you something I’ll tell you something You never spoke a word that I know And now I wanna go Sound around moves on so relentlessly It’s more than a meditative energy And rules don’t mean so much to me It’s more than a meditative energy And rules don’t mean so much to me It’s more than a meditative energy I’ve had enough, I’ve had enough patience Yeah, well I’ve lost my mind But it slinks in every hour Why are you so stuck like glue? So insistent When I’ve got a mind When I’ve got a mind All this is just a great big waste of my time Test and draw connections Make corrections I’m not going to I’m not going to I don’t need any of this Cuz I can close imagine Soaked in energy Soaked in energy Not so numb Up so high Feels like heaven I’m already inside I came back in in black and blind And it feels like heaven in shock it feels like heaven in shock it feels like heaven in shock it feels like heaven Feels like heaven, yeah
10.	Smoke and Mirrors 01:53	lyrics
The day came when my town was too small Visited by a gang of strangers Oh mean! So mean they looked, we said Oh mean! So mean they looked, we said They rode in on motorcycles And oh, I wished I could go The situation was sticky In a secret mission The day my parents fell To the gang I will belong to To the gang I will belong to To the gang I will belong to To the gang I will belong to When they have fallen I leave town on a big machine I thought I was cross-eyed forever.
11.	Route 13 03:50	lyrics
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7….I’m already gone! Before you get your wake up call And it doesn’t matter anymore Yeah, it doesn’t matter anymore Yeah, it doesn’t matter anymore You wanted to know where I’ve been You wanted to know where I’ve been I told you, I told you route 13 I told you, I told you route 13 You’re lost in orbit You’re lost in orbit You’re lost in orbit You’re just a crash landing! But you can’t come this way with me I said I’ll meet you at the corner And take you out with a punch I said I’ll meet you at the corner And take you out with a punch I’ll take you out with a punch I’ll take you out with a punch I’ll take you out with a punch I’ll take you out with a punch When I hit you didn’t feel a thing When I hit you didn’t feel a thing When I hit you didn’t feel a thing When I hit you didn’t feel a thing You’re just a….a crash landing You’re just a….a crash landing You’re just a….a crash landing You’re just a….a crash landing
12.	Springtime Timebomb (Pandora's Basement Session) 02:19	lyrics
I’ll write my own words! I know I know what to say! I think its fine I think its fine I think its fine I think its fine Stuck in all this fuckin’ honey Sticky, twisted, candy-sweet Tell me what’s going on Everything that I do wrong I think its fine I think its fine I think its fine I think its fine I’ll write my own rules! Well won't you?

about

“…nimble and brutal and raw … pointed enough to hit right at the breastbone but abstract enough that they never felt like they were preaching.”
- Jes Skolnik, Bandcamp Daily

“Constants:
1. That first band brilliance, where the members learn to play their instruments at the same time as they learn to play together, building a telepathy that lets them lean into drastic switches and explosions
2. When the songs address the mundane, specific horrors of life ("strawberry shampoo") with such direness & conviction that the inexpressible becomes immediate, universal
3. Songs that elbow and shoulder, songs that get inside and see me jumping on the bed and pushing over all the furniture in the house, songs that are infectious in every sense of that word

If a band does even one of these things I am bound to fall in love. Pitchman, a quartet of teenagers in the early 90s, managed to do all three in one brisk year.
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- Ethan Swan, Jabs

PITCHMAN was a short-lived, frenzied, and fiercely determined high school punk rock band whose life spanned one year in 1992-1993 around Washington DC.

Aaron, Gabe and Matt had been playing together in various forms since meeting in the magnet program at Eastern Middle School but only gelled as a band with the introduction of Drée. As both the singer and the only girl in the band, she exploded all preconceptions with a wild and fearless stage presence that was equally so far beyond her years and squarely testament to the raw power of being 16 years old.

The band played less than 20 shows with highlights including sharing bills with Circus Lupus, Born Against, Slant Six, God is My Co-Pilot, Cupid Car Club, and comrade kid bands Smooch and The Vaporizers. They played St. Stephens Church, APE Embassy, Club Heaven, basements, the Mountain Lodge, and more.

Their first show was in September 1992 and they broke up in August 1993 when Aaron went to college. Members quickly went on to other projects including Mob Action, Meta-Matics, Idiot Symptoms, and others.

Their sole recorded appearance was on a small-batch cassette compilation entitled Rodeo Riders put out by Kim Thompson in early 1993, including a version of Shrinker from the same session as track 12.

credits

released April 24, 2023

Vocals - Drée Thibert
Guitar - Mat Keel
Bass - Gabe Andruzzi
Drums - Aaron Brenner

Music by Pitchman with all lyrics by Drée except Smoke and Mirrors by Aaron.

Tracks 1-11 recorded by Tony French and produced by Chris Thomson at Hound Sound, Baltimore in August 1993. DAT master corrupted over the years, songs restored from a very old cassette. Tracks 1,3,4, 8, 11 remastered by Fred Thomas.

Track 12 recorded by Chris Thomson and Kim Thompson live to four-track in Washington D.C. in January 1993. Ian Spiv described the tape as sounding like "Pandora's Box being opened," which the band liked.

Cover photo by Pat Graham, 1993

Thank You: Chris T, Kim T, Josh Blair, Sarah Katt, Chuck Bettis, Smooch, Mike M for booking us, Christina Billotte, Slant Six, Anna Stein, Jim Cooper.

Thank you 2023: Ethan, Fred, Ronni
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This modest release fills a very small hole in punk rock history. If you like it, please go find the teenagers playing punk music in your town and listen to them.

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