Fibonaccis rose out of the early '80s art/punk scene in Los Angeles. Drawing from a wide range of influences including film scores, circus music, as well as an interest in bizarre pop culture in general, the band took their name after Leonardo Fibonacci, the 14th Century Italian mathematician. The group's first lineup consisted of Magie Song (vocals, percussion), John Dentino (keyboards), Joe Berardi (drums, percussion), and Ron Stringer (guitar, bass). Fibonaccis' first record was released in 1982 on the Index label, (fi'-bo-na'-chez). Mixing their many influences, the band emerged with intelligent keyboard passages, over-the-top vocals, and surf-influenced guitar work. With a rising reputation as a live band, the group performed bizarre versions of ""Purple Haze"" and the theme from the film Psycho in their sets. In 1983, the band released the EP Slow Beautiful Sex with new member Tom Corey (bass, mandolin, vocals). Though they continued to appear live occasionally, they did not release any new material until 1986. By this point, Stringer had left the group and was replaced by Corey. The band wrote the soundtrack to the cult horror/comedy film TerrorVision, and had high hopes, but the film and the soundtrack did not do as well as hoped. The group then returned to the studio to record Civilization and Its Discotheques (1987), which was a frustrating process, and the band broke up afterwards. – Geoff Orens, All Music Guide

	Ordinary Women From a poem by Wallace Stevens.		Alternative
	Somnambulist Have you ever seen a dream...walking?		Alternative
	Sergio Leone An homage to Italian spaghetti western director Sergio Leone.		Alternative
	Rice Song sung in Korean		Alternative
	Had It With Girls Women—are they necessary?		Alternative
	Crickets Robert Pinsky writes: "Scientific discoveries and explorations—in genetic codes, in sub-atomic particles or in the vastness of space—seem to make the world as a whole all the more mysterious, even while they explain some part of it. That sense of mystery, for Emily Dickinson, is associated with this time of year. She imagines the secret rituals of crickets or cicadas, her isolation from their hidden, insect ceremonies. The sound of the insects, her sense of their presence, makes the August world		Alternative
	Second Coming with apologies to William Butler Yeats		Alternative
	Old Mean Ed Gein A sixteen-year-old girl writes a letter to her hero.		Alternative
	Maculae Maculae are discolored spots or imperfections on the skin or in the eyes.		Alternative

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