Deluxe double vinyl version of Tim Stiles' solo album, Cicada Exoskeletons. Pressed on 180gm, merlot and teal vinyl with full color gatefold jacket, shrink-wrapped. Featuring custom art by Ryan Breault and Richard Lim. Limited to 300 copies.
IMPORTANT: Do you want your copy signed? If you would like the cover signed by Tim Stiles, please use the send a message option at checkout in order to request a signature. Signed copies will have their shrink-wrap removed but will be placed inside a resealable poly bag. Unsigned copies come fully shrink-wrapped.
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Stern's Jurassic Park was my first pinball machine. The original Jurassic Park movie blew me away as a kid. I still own the VHS that I watched every weekend for months back in 1993.
While spending hundreds of hours customizing audio from the pinball machines code/firmware, I became inspired to write "Jurassick Dark" in tandem. Jay Battle (Qreepz) produced the beat with multiple, original soundtrack songs and dialog samples from the original 1993 Jurassic Park movie.
[Ian Malcolm: Genetic power's the most awesome force the planet's ever seen but you wield it like a kid who's found his dad's gun.]
[Dr. Grant: The world's just changed so radically and we're all... running to catch up.]
Before we appeared, its evolution crafted
Extraordinary creatures we couldn’t even imagine
Phylums fantastic, appetites gigantic
Bird-like lizards with a surprising advantage
Survival of the fittest brought an age of massives
Cretaceous synapsis through days Jurassic
And in those days giant tree limbs snapped with
A slow moving stream made of sap, which
Encased proboscis suckers, blood residing thoracic
As amber preserved Dee-oxy-ribo-nucleic acid
Which stayed safe for millennia like
Current day plastics. Until we arrived to extract it
With lasik-like precision, visions of reliving the past,
Advents in cryogenics, the first egg hatched
It took the world by surprise
How could time's passage all of a sudden become elastic?
[Ellie Sattler: Where do you get 100 million year old dinosaur blood?]
[John Hammond: It's all part of the miracle of cloning.]
[Mr. DNA: Bingo! Dino DNA!]
They say rage is primal
But we’re just tiny mammals
When it comes to the wars we wage
Beliefs are motifs
Until their waves become tidal
Drowning all in glorious ways
DNA spun a vital
Double-helix recital
Millenniums before we reigned
History is suicidal
If man remains its rival
We'll all go extinct
Like the dinosaur age
[Dr. Grant: We're out of a job | Ian Malcolm: Don't you mean extinct?]
Evangelicals say Earth was created in 7 days
But their literature has no pictorial proof
Saying God created dinosaurs but considered them corrupted
So he killed off that phantasmagorical OOPS!
I guess the Garden of Eden had no regard for the heathens
It wouldn't dare let in such gargantuan, great groups
Adam must've thwarted behemoths from reaching the gate
While Jesus guarded Eve from that garden snake's tooth
Disregard for discoveries made in the midwest plains
Turns the real dino story dissolute
Some are so ridiculously in the dark, they think brachiosaurs fit on the ark
That doesn't float in the primordial soup
Evolution's not a theory, Creationism's an illusion
The 'Good Book's editorial pursuit
Bible thumpers keep trumping along
With such assumptions which couldn't carry the weight of a T-Rex foot
[Ian Malcolm: You didn't earn the knowledge for yourself so... you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could. And before you even knew what you had you patented it, and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunch box. And now you're selling it! You want to sell it!]
They say rage is primal
But we’re just tiny mammals
When it comes to the wars we wage
Beliefs are motifs
Until their waves become tidal
Drowning all in glorious ways
DNA spun a vital
Double-helix recital
Millenniums before we reigned
History is suicidal
If man remains its rival
We'll all go extinct
Like the dinosaur age
[Dr. Grant: Dinosaurs and man... Two species separated by 65 million years of evolution have just been thrown back into the mix together.]
Look I know its a lot of time to digest
No way we could know the entirety of what life did exist
All we can do is turn stones and describe what’s left
Study footprints and bones, surmising the rest
I just think claims of supersized humans are kind of a stretch
[Ray Arnold: PLEASE!?]
Assuming dino's lived beside man in (the book of) Genesis is the wildest guess…
[Ellie Sattler: They have no idea what century they're in]
It was one thing for Cope to put an Elasmosaurus skull on its tail instead of its neck….
But quite another to claim they were human giants
A union of God's sons and the daughters of men
Pencils up class, it's time to reflect
Imagination's beneficial and we're trying our best
But bone wars keep breaking ties that bind and protect
Our own existence which consists of the tiniest speck
So, when you think of the past, show a little respect
Five mass extinctions, at the brink of the next?
What have we learned?
Life on earth’s been kind of a mess
I say lets keep gathering facts
For what little time we have left...
[Ian Malcolm: I'm simply saying uh..]
Abolish history’s abominable text and
Quit pretending we’re an indomitable Rex
[Ian Malcolm: ...finds a way...]
credits
from Cicada Exoskeletons,
released September 3, 2021
Written by Tim Stiles
Prod. by Jay Battle (Qreepz)
Cuts by Qreepz
Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Jay Battle @ The Battlefield Seattle, WA
Cover Art by Tim Stiles
Tim Stiles is an independent hip-hop artist historically known as the lead vocalist/rapper of the satirical hip hop band,
Passion Party. Tim is no one trick pony. He’s a clever, crafty wordsmith in his own right with an ability to adapt to just about any concept or genre....more
