Krusty Memories

If you went to any Christian music gig in New Zealand from the mid to late 90's then you remember Krusty.  At the time they were appearing on every concert lineup across the country and nobody was complaining, these guys definitely knew how to shake up a room.

A feel good, party band at heart, you got the idea they were just doing it for kicks, yet they consistantly upstaged the more serious bands on the bill.  Naysayers may have moaned about their singing, but no one could deny their pure energy and command of a stage, or the refreshingly good theology in their lyrics.

No doubt about it, these guys were a treat to see live. You could be sure at some point the whole crowd would be singing along or chanting the catchy choruses, but unfortunately, all good things come to an end.  People grow up and the time for rocking the party is over.  Who knows what the band members are up to now.  They're probably blending in with the rest of us mere mortals. Married perhaps? Fathers maybe? Heaven forbid they might even have mortgages.  But thankfully, they did leave behind recordings of most of their material for us to remember them by.

And so I present to you "Krusty Memories." A place to listen to your old favorite band.  It has to be said that these recordings dont really do the band justice.  Live was where they really shined, but at this stage we might have to wait until the next life before we ever see them live again.

Thanks for the good times Krusty, and for some fun and sturdy Christian music, wherever you are.

Madly in Lunch Lyrics

You're kidding me right?  You want me to transcribe this?
Alright then, here goes nothing.

   Coming to you now with the grand food style
   Bringing to you now, mr Hugo for a while
   I'm gonna rap to you about a funny new thing
   Its the food thing, so let your body swing

Some say love is all you need

   Wave your hands in the air, oh yea

I'd like to see them eat some love

   Come on get down with the how now brown cow

Some say love is all you need

   Cows are things that are made of meat

I'd like to see them eat some love

   And of course, it's something you eat

Do you see love on the healthy eating pyramid

No you dont
do you
Every girl in my life has ended up leaving me
But I can trust a BLT
   The food thing
to stay with me for at least today
   Lets get tea

   I'm the gangsta
   Gangsta style food man
   I like to drive around on the street
I'm madly in lunch
   If I'd like to see some food
   There's a knife they wish they'll never meet, me
Madly in lunch
   
   Lets do the food thing
We all know girls dont grow on trees
I cant say the same for plums and apricots
I've never seen lasagna split up a band
I've never had an evening ruined by a ham

I'm madly in lunch
   Thats right can I have a big mac
   A wig wak daddy and a migidy mac
Madly in lunch
   I wanna raise my hands with a coke
Madly in lunch
Madly in lunch

   I know how I deal with the meat
   Lets go down drive by KFC
A potatoe's never made me look into its eyes
   With a funky in your face
You can't go to far with a bowl of fries

Chicken is easily carried in a bucket

Girls are hard to carry in a bucket
   Lets get down, get on down

I'm madly in lunch
   I want a twenty piece party pack
   Wigidy wak slak jack
Madly in lunch
   Get down with migidy migidy mack
Madly in lunch
   Do that thing, do that funky thing
Deeply in lunch

   Driving down, driving down the street
   Something catches me in the eye
   I have to go have a closer peek
   Thats right, drive by in the Georgie Pie
   Hello mr Georgie Pie drive by lady
   Lets get funky, do some ordering
   I want your home fresh pies 
   Yea, the funky Georgie Pie
   I hear you have seventy five cent pies
   Seventy five cent pies, ho
   Seventy five cent pies, thats right
   Seventy five cent pies, ho
   Seventy five cent pies

   Coming to you now
   The seventy five cent pies
   I open up the tops
   Get into the meat
   Pull out the meat
   Squish it between my feet
   I hear that you haven't anymore
   Seventy five cent pies, ho
   Seventy five cent pies

Listen to the Cake EP

The Lifeguard Song

Truly a masterpiece of symbolism this one.  I remember talking to someone after a gig who thought this was just a song about an incompetent lifeguard who liked wearing speedos, but Krusty worked on more than one level man.


Enlightenment Cake

The EP's namesake track puts the bread of life up against competing religious foodstuffs.  The bread of life comes out on top naturally.


Rhema

Another simple but effective Krusty earworm.


Madly in Lunch (hidden track)

Although there were only 3 songs listed on the sleeve, the disk actually had 83 tracks. Most of the extra ones contained only silence or a weird low electronic hum, but if you played track 78 and fast forwarded a wee bit, you would suddenly discover this little jem.

Listen to Knitting Furiously

Knitting Furiously

The first impression of the album feels like a more mature, more serious, more polished Krusty.  But had they maybe lost something?


Alone

While eventually growing on you.  This one suffered from having indecipherable words.  Thankfully, they were printed on the inside sleeve.


Freedom

Light and resonating lyrics plus catchy as all get out melodies.  This one delivers in spades and has a great theme.


Madly In Lunch

First heard as a hidden rough cut on the Cake EP,  this is probably not what you were expecting the finished version to sound like. It certainly abolishes any ideas that Krusty might have grown up and become too serious. On the credits inside the sleeve I'm pretty sure Tim is apologising for this song.


Chocalate Milk

Surely the stand-out tune of the album, It grooves along famously and delivers its message in good fun Krusty form. 


Unicyclists

I remember Matt actually riding a unicycle while perfoming this.  You couldn't help but sing along with such a zany chorus, yet once again, the message is loud and clear.


Elixir

Slow emo jam, but with an answer that works.  Nice one.


Furiously (Pilbromatic Justosonic Mix)

Drum and Bass remix of Knitting Furiously.  Much later DnB acts became a big deal here in New Zealand.  Were Krusty ahead of their time?


Company Policy

You gotta love the way these guys think.  My favorite line is "I'm gonna regret it even more than the day I got my DC Talk tattoo."


Going Home

One final hurrah for a great band, and what a way to go, alluding back to the catchy sing along chorus's of Sticky the Cat.  Bet everyone in Taranaki had a great time that night.


Sticky the Mix

But wait, there's more, in the form of this curious me-me-mega-mix of past Krusty hits completely reimagined and remixed.

Listen to Sticky The Cat

Image

This recording never quite captured the magic of their live sets and doesn't do anything to dispel the rumors that Krusty couldn't carry a tune, but I remember fondly singing along with the "oooooh's" with the rest of the crowd long after the band had left the stage.


Eazy Peezy

Possibly a cunning analogy about something really deep and spiritual, but more likely just a quirky song about road safety.  Used to go down a treat.  I dont think people realised what they were moshing to.


Ignored

The population has increased but the song's still as catchy as when you first fell in love with it.


Polar Fleece

Whatever happened to polar fleece?  For a while it was the trendiest thing in fashion.


Georgie Pie

The anthem for a generation of thrifty pie lovers.  We miss you Georgie Pie!


Mere Reflections

One-upmanship that matters.  The gospel can't be beaten.


Meant to Be

Covers a whole bunch of doctrine, this one.  From creation/evolution to satan's demise and Christ's return.


No Fishing

I'm not sure there's a better way to explain God's forgiveness than this. Once you trust in Jesus your sin ain't coming back.  It's drowned and gone in the deepest part of Gods forgetful sea.  Fantastic song!


See You 'Round

Another charming tune. Would feel kinda sad when this was played, you knew it was the end of the set.  But it was always nice to know that "we'll see you again!"

What would you like to listen to today?

Or listen to a 2014 interview with Krusty here!

Lyrics

One of the great things about Krusty was their lyrics.  Often very simple, yet profound and fun at the same time.  Gods forgiveness is described as Him throwing our sin into a great big sea of forgetfulness and erecting a sign that reads No Fishing!  Christian apathy towards evangelism is likened to a lifeguard who never bothers to save anyone. (they really nail our excuses with that one.)  Some of the most clever lyrics would go right over your head until you thought about them again later;  Was that obviously home made cheesecake lyric really a reference to man made religions!?  They weren't afraid to occasionaly ditch the theology and just go a little crazy either, as in Polar Fleece or the huge hit Georgie Pie.  Enjoy sifting through the lyrics.


STICKY THE CAT

Image

Eazy Peezy

Ignored

Polar Fleece

Georgie Pie

Mere Reflections

Meant to Be

No Fishing

See You Round

CAKE E.P.

The Lifeguard Song

Enlightenment Cake

Rhema

Madly in Lunch (Hidden Track)








KNITTING FURIOUSLY

Knitting Furiously

Alone

Freedom

Madly in Lunch

Chocolate Milk

Unicyclists

Elixir

Company Policy

Going Home




There were seemingly a few more Krusty songs that were either never recorded or there is another album out there that I dont know about. I can distinctly remember a song that went "You've got to watch what you do, watch what you do.... etc."  If anyone knows anything, hit up the comments.

Rhema Lyrics

Do you know the man who gave His life for you, do you know?
Do you know the man who gave His life for you, do you know?
And did you know that man was God, He died but now He lives above?
Did you know that man died for you to show His love?

Do you know Him?
Do you want to?
He asks the question
will you follow me?
what will you do?

He asks the question, will you follow me, what will you do?
He asks your obedience, what will you say?
He laid down His life, will you lay down yours?
He asks the question, will you follow me, what will you do?

Enlightenment Cake Lyrics

I dont want to eat your enlightenment cake
No, I dont want to eat your enlightenment cake
I dont want to eat your enlightenment cake
I think that I'll stick to this bread of life that I eat

Your ghettos not attractive
Fruity fingers are a bore
Once I tried your cheese on toast
I dont want anymore
You tripple layer, jam filled, strawberry fran
is as tempting as some fat free isotonic spam

Magic meringues are not my scene
You love everything with whipping cream
Your century buns and sally lunns are giving me the runs
No, I dont want to eat your enlightenment cake
I dont want to eat your enlightenment cake
I dont want to eat your enlightenment cake
I think that I'll stick to this bread of life that I eat

I dont want a piece of you cheesecake of peace
No, I dont want a piece of you cheesecake of peace
I dont want a piece of you cheesecake of peace
The base is too crumbly, you've obviously made it yourself


JOHN 6:35

The Lifeguard Song Lyrics

I like being a lifeguard
sitting on a high chair
wearing special underpants
I can swim and everything
and at the end of the day
theres always the club house

I am a lifeguard at a surf beach
I am a surf beach life guard
I see people swimming
I see them drowning
but I do not help them, no

Cause I think its their faults
that they're in trouble
and anyways I hate getting wet

What if they want to drown
dont want to be saved
what if they call me a fanatic

There's too many beaches
too many people drowning
if only I could devise a way of saving them all
...or even just one


ROMANS 10:14

See You Round

We'll see you round
we'll see you round
we'll see you round
we'll see you round
see you round
see you round
we'll see you again

Round like a ferris wheel
Round like a light bulb
Round like a wheel or an "O"
Round like the round window
Round like humpty
Round like a pizza or a fruit loop

Round and round and round and round

Round like the snare drum
Round like the bass drum
Round like cymbals and the floor tom
and the two other toms
Round like the cross section of spaghetti
Round like the.... oh well a big toaster
yea, a big round toaster going through space

Like the moon
Like the sun
Like the whole world

No Fishing Lyrics

When Jesus forgives He forgets what I have done
The bad things I done have now gone

For He's thrown them in the deepest part of Gods forgetful sea
where theres a great big sign that says No Fishing!

No fishing
No fishing
No fishing
No no no

Now hear this, now hear this
Sometimes we can do some pretty stupid things
Lets call those things sin

No matter how stupid those things are
we can always give them back to God
Hes promised to forgive us if we ask Him
It says so in His word the bible

Hes going to take that thing
and throw it into the great big sea of His forgetfulness
where ladies and gentlemen...
theres a great big sign that reads a little something like this:

No fishing
No fishing
No trawling
No whitebaiting
No drift netting
No nothing
No fishing
No fishing
No smoking
No fishing
No fishing
No kissing
No fishing
No fishing
Nooooooooooooo


PSALM 103:12

Meant To Be Lyrics

Doors were meant to be opened
Mountains were meant to be climbed
When my God made me
He had His plan in mind

There is a reason
That I walk upon this Earth
It's no mistake or accident
That my mum gave birth
No

I'm meant to be
I am no accident
No
I'm meant to be (x4)

I'm no relation to the monkeys
I never used to walk on my hands
I did not crawl out of the ocean
God created me on the land

And tennis is a pleasant racket sport
And kittens are pleasant too
So is physics and gatorade
God created them for me and you

Satan's a created being
He was made to serve my king
But he wanted fame and power
So he's going to burn without a thing

My God is coming back one day
He's coming for His friends
And I know that I'll go home with Him
And my life it shall never end

I'll never end
I'm meant to be
I'm no mistake
I'm no coincidence
I am no accident
I'm meant to be
I'm meant to be
God has a plan for my life and yours
We're all meant to be

Mere Reflections Lyrics

My friend, he has a CRX
My friend, he has a beautiful girl
My friend, he is a millionare
Well my friend died and rose again, he he hey

This world, it has nothing to offer
This world, it has nothing to give
This world just has nothing to offer
Christ came, died and rose
And gave me a reason to live, yea

My father is a wrestler
My father, he is a police man
My father, he is a president
Well my dad made the universe and your dads

Well I should sing in a famous band
Well I should be an astronaut
Well I will invent a cure for AIDs
Well I'm gonna die and go somewhere else to live, yea

Georgie Pie Lyrics

Standing in line
behind big Mex's wife
I had not had dinner
It was causing me strife

I looked up to see
the menu looking back at me
I started to scream
I started to shout
I started to cry
No seventy five cent pies

I bought four pies
it cost me four dollars

I didn't get change for my dollar
I didn't get change for my dollar
can't you hear me holler
I didn't get change for my dollar

They kicked me out of the playground
They kicked me out of the Georgie Pie kids club
and they put 75 cent pies back up to a dollar

Surprise, surprise
right before your eyes
no seventy five cent pies

Inflation, inflation
I'm gonna smash your face in

Inflation, inflation
I'm gonna do you over matey

Sorry all the pies are a dollar...
[Try $4.50]

Polar Fleece Lyrics

From that day on the beach
whenever you (something)
I knew that it was perfect
yea, I knew it in my mind
and even though your looks could kill me
even though I had to stop
I could not figure out
just why your togs were made from polar fleece

No, not polar fleece togs

The next time that I saw you
we were going for a ski
You saw me from the chair lift
and you came to visit me
Now I know it's cold on mountains
so your clothes I could excuse
but there just is no good reason
why your skis were lined with polar fleece

No, polar fleece skis? What is this?

I think you are fantastic
you're the woman of my dreams
I'd like to take you shopping
because everytime it seems
you aren't aware of leather
and you aren't aware of suede
but the shoes you wear upon your feet
are made from polar fleece

Yuck, oh yuck

I'd like to get to know you
and I'd like to make you mine
but all my friends have left me
and my dog I cannot find
I fear they fear the fear I fear
that you on marriage day
will be walking down the aisle
in a pure white dress of polar fleece

Hey, aren't you the polar fleece girl

Ignored Lyrics

Love the Lord, let Him into your life
if you dont you'll be in strife
you dont want to spend forever in Hell
change your ways, dont rebel

Five billion people in the world
not many know my Lord
Three million people in this land
yet Jesus still gets ignored

Sex and drugs are just not on
save the children and ban the bomb
do what your parents say
brush your teeth twice a day

Mathew, Mark, Luke and John
explain what Jesus Christ was on
The Holy Spirit and He's our man
if He can't do it, no one can

It didn't happen overnight but it did happen

Eazy Peezy Lyrics

It might be eazy peezy for your (something) pie
and it might be eazy peezy for a bird to learn to fly
but accidents can happen crossing roads, you know why?
You think it's eazy peezy but it's not

It might be eazy peezy for a duck to learn to quack
or a worm to learn to wiggle
a snail to leave a track
but accidents can happen crossing roads and thats a fact
Cause you think it's eazy peezy but it's not

Cars are made of metal
they haven't got a brain
and if they run you over
they wouldn't feel a thing
and even if there's children near
they go fast just the same
you think it's eazy peezy but it's not

So if you
think that
it's eazy peezy
well it's
not

Image Lyrics

Ooooh, ooooh, ooooh, ooooh?
What should I do with my body?
What should I do with my face?
What should I do with my hair today?
Everything that I try, it just seems out of place, yea

Ooooh, ooooh, ooooh, ooooh
Is it the image that counts?

Shall I be a bogan?
Shall I be a nanny?
Shall I be a surfey?
Shall I be a yuppy?
Shall I be techno?
Shall I be retro?
Shall I be?
Shall I be?
Shall I be?
What shall I be today?

Ooooh, ooooh, ooooh, ooooh
Is it the image that counts?

Man looks at the outward appearance
God looks at the heart
It's not the image that counts
Nooooooo

Ooooh, ooooh, ooooh, ooooh
It's not the image that counts


1 SAMUEL 16:7

Going Home Lyrics

The tide might be out but it's coming back
The sun's coming back even though it's black
There's a slow train coming around the bend
Steamboat coming better buy your ticket
It's coming back again

The king is coming better bow the knee
He's coming on back for the world to see
The champ's coming back for a victory lap
He's coming back again

We're going home...

A thief is coming in the middle of the night
If you don't know his face you'll have a hell of a fright
But you and I shall rave on streets of gold
We'll sing and dance, we will celebrate
We shall not grow old

We're going home...


REVELATIONS 21,22