Down With Memories

***Down With Memories*** is the eighth released album by Moes Haven. The album was released on December 7, 2005 (Spotify date), just one month after *Sir Paul Made Ram. We Made This.* The album has 29 tracks and a running time of 1 hour 18 minutes.

CDBaby describes it as "29 songs by two guys so intoxicated by the eternal muse that they never stopped to ask "why?" According to music critic Jonathan Wittbrodt, "This is the greatest album of musical songs that ever was. "A Scene" is undoubtedly the anthem of a generation."

The album is similar in length and style to the band's 35-track epic *Dislocated Songs* from 2004. It also features a swear word from Matt - he says "hell" pejoratively in the refrain of "No Future".

According to the band's website, the album is a collection of tracks that didn't fit the band's other 7 albums. It captures a variety of ideas, but musically, it flows and features the classic rocking / electro sound that Moes Haven would become known for.

It is the second and last album over 1 hour long by Moes Haven.

## Original editorial blurb by the band

"Matt Farley and Tom Scalzo, the founding members and lead songwriters of Moes Haven, have so many songs inside them that when they get together to write there's no time to ask 'why?' 'Sometimes we write and record songs for 16 hours straight,' says Farley. 'After sessions like that, we listen to what we've done. Usually we can't remember half of the songs we wrote. We're suprised by our own material.' Scalzo adds, 'I couldn't tell you what we were thinking when we wrote half of these songs. They just keep coming. If we stop and think about it, we might lose a song or two.' And so, for DOWN WITH MEMORIES, Moes Haven gives you 29 tracks that even they can't explain. These are the songs that just happened to come out while they were writing. There's no common theme from song to song. But they're all good. Some are funny. Some are strange. Some are sad. Some are whimsical. Some are insane. There are a couple of blues songs performed by Scalzo ('Look Out!', 'Angered by Love'). But Scalzo doesn't sing in his usual voice. Rather, he dons the persona of 'Blind' Vermont Jones, a bitter 97-year-old blues singer from Vermont. If you didn't know it was Scalzo singing, you'd think you were listening to a recently unearthed Robert Johnson record. There are some hard rockers ('A Scene,' 'No Future'), some reggae numbers ('Bob Must Be Dead,' 'The Pleasures of Months'), and plenty of insanity ('Wanna Russhuel Pie?', 'The Last Noel,' 'Necrophobia'). And, as always, Moes Haven manages to sneak in some sweet, sad, beautiful tunes into this album - assuring the world that they can write a straightforward song that stands up with the best works of any songwriters out there. 'Miss Molly Kiely,' 'Souvenir', and 'Her Name is Jaime' are just great songs. But then, every song on this album is great. And each is great in it's own way. DOWN WITH MEMORIES is classic Moes Haven: complex, strange, funny and beautiful."

*Out With the Old* (2004) • *Dislocated Songs* (2004) • *Svetlana* (2005) • *Someone Else.* (2005) • *Explorations in Madness* (2005) • *Moe's Haven* (2005) • *Sir Paul Made Ram. We Made This.* (2005) • ***Down With Memories*** (2005) • *January* (2006) • *February: From the Bayou to the Barnyard and Back* (2006) • *March: of the Aliens* (2006) • *April: What A Cruel Month* (2006) • *May: I Buy You A Sandwich?* (2006) • *June* (2006) • *July: In The Sun With Me?* (2006) • *August: of Temporal Inconsistency* (2006) • *September: In Manchvegas* (2006) • *(SH)OC(K)TOBER* (2006) • *November the Tar!* (2006) • *December* (2007) • *If Not Us, Who?* (2007) • *This is My Millennium* (2008) • *Stromboli’s Alarm Clock* (2010) • *Metal Detector Maniac* (2022) • *(Several Supreme Beings Told Us To Make This) One Last Album* (2023)
**Compilations**: *Victory is Ours! (For Now)* (2007) • *It Takes a Lot of Guts!* (2009)
**Songs from Deep in the Vault (1996 - 2010)**: *Vol. 1* (2013) • *Vol. 2* (2017) • *Vol. 3* (2017) • *Unheralded Origins of Genius* (2021)

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