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"Shared my secret with a few of my friends, should have kept quiet ‘cos they’re laughing again" – Belly Jean by McRackins

Damn, I have to re-write this post from scratch because for the first time, ever, WordPress didn’t save what I was writing and logged me off. It makes sense why that happened because what I’m going to share with you is a crack in the egg of reality, and the world will try to prevent me from sharing it with you. But sometimes life is one guy vs. the rest of the universe.

One of my favorite songs of all time is Belly Jean by McRackins. Official McRackins website here.

Wikipedia says about the McRackins

The McRackins are a Canadian pop punk band that was formed in 1994. Their song and album titles revolve around egg puns (i.e. "Bat Out of Shell") They have had approximately 70 releases from over 30 different record labels.

The McRackins nearly always play live in full costume and made up to look like two eggs and a dog. The band claims that they were transformed from men to two eggs and a dog and given super pop-punk powers as the result of a freak nuclear accident. Since then, twin eggs Bil (guitar, vocals), Fil (bass) and dog Spot (drums).

I noticed that this song didn’t make the McRackins top 100 list on last.fm, well, there are alot of great Mcrackins songs. But it looks like, other than me, no one has listened to the song at all! I know it’s a rarity but it’s not that rare! It’s on Amazon.com!!!

I did a Google search for "Belly jean" mcrackins and found two measly hits, one was the Amazon site for the CD that has Belly Jean by McRackins, Music To Listen To Music By (there’s a sample of the song on Amazon yea). the other hit was this site haha!

You might think, oh well maybe it’s a spelling mistake problem, but the search for "Belly Jeans" Mcrackins only gets three hits, all for listings for the CD and the song is Belly Jean not Belly Jeans.

last year I wrote Bil McRackin, the guy/egg who wrote the song, and even he didn’t consider it a ‘hit single’, he remembered writing it and quoted the lyrics, and while he had a sense of pride about it he considered it a rariety that didn’t make the cut for one of their regular albums but it might be included in a rarities CD one day.

"My Belly Jean she means the world to me, my Belly Jean if you could only see, could i be that lucky guy, you can’t say I never tried"

I loved this song the moment I heard it, it has all the elements of a perfect pop-punk song including the 5 second guitar solo and catchy chorus, even lalala’s hehe! and now it seems a miricle I ever found the MP3 in the first place, I downloaded the MP3 from Napster back before it was illegal to do so. Weirdly, some years later, I knew a girl called Jean who this song totally makes me think of, in some ways it’s the best memory I have of her, or rather it makes me remember her in the best possible way.

Do you ever get that feeling that the world makes things just for you? "a ten pin bowling ball, she threw a strike like it was nothing at all.."

Words can’t really describe how grateful I am for this song, even if I am literally the only person who has cared enough to write about it on the internet, I might not have seen a ufo or had any paranormal encounters but do I have a glimpse into the magical way this world works when you take the learned suggestions of Dannion Brinkley to heart, inspire, be inspired and appreciate (and you’ll understand the meaning of life a little more).

Anyway, my new zine Go B Zine, is a labor of love and while it’s slightly behind schedule and has an initial print run of less than a dozen, that doesn’t mean that it might not be the coolest art ‘zine ever! My goal is to do art that gets to the right person at the right time, like I discovered Belly Jean by McRackins I want someone to pick up my zine and get that feeling that I wrote it for them, that they are the reason I wrote it and while no one else seems to think much about it, they love it regardless of how obscure it might be.

The model for the girl on the horse in the upper left corner was Jean!

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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Originally posted 2008-07-14 10:01:43. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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