Holland Island Bar Light

by California Cheeseburger

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about

Music by California Cheeseburger
Recorded and produced by SUMO PUMA

California Cheeseburger reunite to take care of unfinished business. This time they’re seasoned to perfection, smothered in secret sauce and grilled just right.

Ari Eldon: bass / vocals
Kormákur: Drums
Pétur Úlfur: guitar / vocals
Riina Pauliina: guitar / vocals

California Cheeseburger first appeared as a trio in 2005, when Pétur Úlfur, Ari Eldon and Riina Pauliina started writing and recording songs together. Pétur and Ari had played together in the band Panman earlier, while Riina had been busy with her own bands, the Homebreakers and Minä Rakastan Sinua.

In 2005 they played their first gig, at a Gay Pride party in Reykjavík and maintained a fairly active schedule for the following year. In 2006, Cheeseburger recruited local legend Kommi (Langi seli og skuggarnir, Oxsmá) as a drummer, but only played once in public after that before disbanding.

Now, they have risen from their grave only to record songs that were too good for collecting dust and release it as their debut album Holland Island Bar Light. The album has a genuine soothing surf vibe to it and one can imagine standing at the beach porch with beer and BBQ, and afterwards taking a nap in a hammock and drift away.

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released 12 January 2011

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tags: alternative electronic folk indie pop rock Iceland

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Track Name: Malibu
it was a hell of fight
thank you for the night
had to borrow your car, don´t worry
I'll never give it back to you

I like it better than you
I'm gonna paint it blue
better off without it I am
forever rid of you

Malibu...

the sun is warm on my face
i have forgotten your place
your poetry, your pleasure center
your daydream pass me through

you left some stuff in the trunk
I'd throw it out but I´m drunk
and I´m not stopping for no one, honey
the ocean beckons blue

Malibu...

(guest vocal Black Valentine)
at the top of the mountain we will finally get stoned
Track Name: Paralysed
looking at the ceiling
I hear them getting near
you ask me how I´m feeling
well it´s been over a year

they feed me with a bottle
they come to me at night
I never got it right
left me paralysed...

I stay here for the long run
I'll never win this fight
I'll wait for dawn forever
in this never ending night

they feed me with a bottle
they come to me at night
I never got it right
left me paralysed...
Track Name: Everwrong
hey mister, I know what happened to you
so you raised your fist, made a list, hit them out of the blue
leave it out if you'd rather not we know
you can lead me lost to a no place left to go

waiting for the time
to receive the sign
as I go along, everwrong, alright!

Hey mister, we all are brothers now
center stage where it´s warm and the songs keep turning you on
if you'd never dared, who would care, how would anyone know?
if we love you so, can you ever let us go?

and out of my mind
it´s for you I rhyme
mr. Taylor-Taylor, alright!
Track Name: Number Thirteen
in your belly awaits another monster
waiting to come out and snuff my day

in your belly awaits another monster
waiting to come out and snuff my day

number thirteen on my door
chillin' with the fags and looking to score
number thirteen on my door
chillin' with the fags and cursing amore
number thirteen on my door
chillin' with fags and begging for more

everyone get laid at the perfect mansion
walls cocaine white and I'll see you inside,
helpless that we like

everyone get laid at the perfect mansion
walls cocaine white and I'll see you inside,
helpless that we like

number thirteen on my door...
Track Name: In the Kitchen
in the kitchen
you got your songs and all your stitches
hanging on, come on do now.

this will take all my time
I will not seal my sigh
I will not sleep today
your my friend, my heartache spent

here come the medics
they bring along antistatics
bad time picking on the wrong kind of leaf

this will take all my time...
Track Name: Medicine Man
I bet you my medicine man
I'll cut you off when I can
I'll skin you naked, leave you no goodbye
my hope is on the family man

but wait I think I smell my rat
singing on the karaoke fab
mouth ain't moving
knuckles swing to beat
hanging around on the memory waiting

are you into Lou Reed?
are you into the songs?
into your everything
you can possibly ever dream of...
Track Name: In Your Eye
oh is it strange how you made me feel made
and is it strange how you made me feel strange
I locked myself in and I took all the blame
I carried your pain, it was all understood

you needed the time
everyone knew
what you left behind
it's in your eye...

now it suits me to feign my surprise at your smile
you think you remained in my heart all this while
I think I remember my state at the time
so helpless and blind in my hopeless denial

you helped me to find
came back to remind me
I know it's a sign
it's in your eye...
Track Name: The Violins
I say my head is full of razors
and my lethal dick is into the stains
waiting for daimonds coming gold
waiting my turn in a Rover van

do you think you can,
handle the violins?

no matter if cats keep cooling you down
I will pick you up and turn you around
never leave you stranded on the trip with me
and singalong songs are better sung three

do you think you can,
handle the violins?
Track Name: Holiday
look mommy I'm going away on a holiday
this time nothing seems too far away

this time I've had enough
I'm too tense to see straight
white lines fueled by the despair in me
back in time to make amens

look mommy I'm going away on a holiday
please know that I hope you can somehow live through the gray
Track Name: Waiting For You
it´s a song about a boy I know
it's been keeping me up at night
and tonight I feel like leaving
no more in the saviour song I hide

hey hey hey
what a beautiful day
to be standing here with my open arms
waiting for you
to bring me your love
your love and your regrets
and promises that you will somehow call me back

it's the same with the lovers charms
it will give you pleasure before the harm
and tonight I feel like breathing
but your smell never leaves my room
Track Name: Splinter
you shot yourself in the face
and what a face it was
it's all really kinda sad
all those things you never had

I bet you left the lights on
'cause you know when you're gone
no one will find you in the dark

feel it splinter through the bone
you're not answering your phone
they might think you were alone
how could they ever know?

I remember the days
through the drunken haze
I guess you were still around
resting on the ground

and the dope you had
was definitely not so bad
they'll never find you in the dark

feel it splinter through the bone
you're not answering your phone
who will know if you're alone
who will stumble on your bones?
Track Name: You Got It All in the Scene
you got it all in the scene...

you know my time centers on your sign
and you know I ain't dying to squeel
get back on your track, stop hanging your arms
you know I ain't dying to squeel

you got it all in the scene...

so you made a buck, blame it on your luck
you know I ain't dying to squeel
let me rest my head where the music is at
you know I ain't dying to squeel

lord you know that
someday I will come back to you
although it may seem strange