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title: "Plague Beats, Vol. 1"

description: "September 2020 meme beat tape: oddly satisfying, decreasingly verbose, bread stapled to trees, birds with arms, cats are assholes twice, D&B pass instrumental."

year: 2020
releaseDate: 2020-09-21

artist: "Scoobert Doobert"
artistId: "#scoobert"

apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/plague-beats-vol-1-ep/1532121341"

tracks:
  - { title: "Oddly Satisfying", song: oddly-satisfying }
  - { title: "Decreasingly Verbose (Ya'll'd'n't've)", song: decreasingly-verbose-yalldntve }
  - { title: "Cats Are Assholes (Drums and Bass Only)", instrumental: true }
  - { title: "Bread Stapled to Trees", song: bread-stapled-to-trees }
  - { title: "Birds With Arms", song: birds-with-arms }
  - { title: "Cats Are Assholes", song: cats-are-assholes }

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**Plague Beats, Vol. 1**, six-track beat tape, **September 21, 2020**, ~one minute per track. Luke Francis Walton solo; same pandemic season as [*Masks and Monsters*](/albums/masks-and-monsters/) and [*Moving to Canada*](/songs/moving-to-canada/). Meme titles as songs, minimal runtime, maximum title-as-content, the first plague-era beat tape before [*Plague Beats, Vol. 2*](/albums/plague-beats-vol-2/) (May 2021).

Five lyric tracks have annotation pages. **Track three:** *Cats Are Assholes (Drums and Bass Only)*: **instrumental** (no song-meaning page); same hook as track six without vocals. **Closer:** [*Cats Are Assholes*](/songs/cats-are-assholes/), full vocal pass, four times, QED.

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