Scrodes The Biography

At 2:00 Post Meridian time in the Year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-one at 55 Fruit Street in Boston, Massachusetts, a man named
Jeff Benson was born.

Thirty minutes later in the City of Onondaga, New York, MattTassos was born.

Unbeknownst to the world at this time, two children born 315.85 miles apart from one another in the exact same hour of the exact same day in the exact same year would grow to form the worst band the world has ever heard.

15 years would go by before Jeff and Matt would meet.

Then
On December 1st, 1996 at 5:38 PM Jeff Benson and Matt Tassos met in the City of Tallulah Falls, Georgia

In this building

Matt sat down to dinner at a table in the Willet dining hall at Tallulah Falls Boarding School where Jeff Benson had been sitting and conversing with a man named J.D. Berry. Matt then proceeded sit sit in J.D.'s seat at the table which started a two year hatred of Matt by J.D.  Many years later, a fight of biblical proportions erupted between the two and Matt fatally stabbed J.D. in the face with a lightning bolt.

After dinner ended, Jeff and Matt decided they bitterly hated one-another and then made fun of each other every single day for a year and a half.

Then one day in the early 1998-1999 school year, Matt asked Jeff to bum a cigarette at a tubing trip on a north Georgia river. J.D. and Jeff were not physically tubing in the river because J.D. had a brooding vision of impending doom that would eventuate from the act of getting into a tube in a tiny shallow river.

During the question of a possible cigarette transaction between Jeff and Matt, the two men decided that they mysteriously loved one-another as brothers. From that moment on, they were inseparable.

In the winter of 1998, Matt and Jeff finally decided to combine forces to make an album of their friends and dorm counselors singing karaoke style called The Ludicroussian Ensemble. It was, to date, the absolute worst record Matt had ever engineered. However, this first collaboration of Jeff and Matt turned out to be reasonably successful in the market it was designed for which was only the students, faculty and staff of Tallulah Falls School. Entirely meant for a small audience of only about 200 people, the album left Matt And Jeff eager to start a larger project.

A single for The Ludicroussian Ensemble entitled "Damnation" sparked a specific writing style for Matt And Jeff to work off of. The song was about a distraught man who kept falling under unfortunate events such as waking up next to Kenny G. and inadvertantly showering with Matchbox Twenty. it was then that the two broke open Matt's songbook of previously written satires of popular songs.

And it was decided in the North Georgia mountains in the stark winter zephyrs, that music this shitty could only have been written by a band called The Scrodes.

With name set in stone, the two pressed on and begun recording songs for Matt's fifteenth production entitled "The Scrodes Live From Uranus".

The epic first album was recorded from october 5th 1999
In this building

Slated to be the first Scrodes single was the tale of a homosexual cowboy who made erotic flavors of pudding called "The Legend of Pudding Earl". This first single was released in January of 1999 to lukewarm review. However, the second single entitled "Big Gravy" (a parody of STP's "Big Empty") about the act of fornication in a car was an instant hit. It seemed that people in general enjoyed listening to songs of bizarre sexual mischief rather than homosexual cowboys who made pudding.

"Cockinballs", the next single was just downright disgusting. A parody of Oasis' "Wonderwall", covered everything from group masturbation to shooting semen on the floor. Clearly at this point, the world was not ready for the smut that The Scrodes were about to unleash upon it.

So The Scrodes put the guitar back in the case for three years while Matt and Jeff persued higher education.

Then in 2002, Matt wrote a song called "Gay (David Hasselhoff)", the magic was revived, and The Scrodes reformed to have another go. For the world was now right for a grossly inappropriate band to emerge once again.

The second Scrodes album entitled "Live from Uzbekistan" was recorded in the worst city in the history of mankind called Statesboro, Georgia. The sun scorched the land like it would in Uzbekistan and people were set afire every day from trying to get into their cars which had been sitting in the parking lot all day. Since Matt was from New York and Jeff was from Boston, the 162 degree average temperature in Statesboro put an unnecessary strain on their songwrtiting and recording schedule. But in 2002, "Gay (David Hasselhoff)" ,the first single was released satirizing the Goo Goo Dolls' "Name".

The Album was very successful but the best was still to come for the Scrodes.

After a year, The Scrodes again went on tour to launch the third record entitled "Live From An Undisclosed Location. This album marked the return of The Pudding Earl saga with the first single "The Legend of Senor Ding Dong". The Scrodes went on to promote two more singles entitled "The Snacky Cake Song" and "CASV".

then to follow up the third record, The Scrodes released another maxi single called "The Legend of Tapioca" with no parent album.

A forth Scrodes record is in the works and set to feature the songs "Turd Aficionado", "Crotch Stampede" and "Heaven Knows I'm Gay Now" among many others slated for 2006.

Below is an article from the August 2003 issue of Trendy Magazine.

The Scrodes, a conceptual band with emphasis on making fun of other bands started in a small city in the north Georgia mountains in the year 1998. Only three records have been released by The Scrodes. The Scrodes suck. Their first record is a live album entitled “Live From Uranus”. The first single named “Damnation” was released on January 4th 1999 on the Ludicroussian Ensemble soundtrack. It was shitty. The second single was the epic song about a homosexual cowboy who made erotic flavors of pudding entitled “The Legend of Pudding Earl”. This single was also shitty. The next two singles included “Cockinballs”, a remake of “Wonderwall” by Oasis and “Big Gravy”, a remake of the Stone Temple Pilots song “Big Empty”. These two singles were much better than the first two but ultimately, they too were shitty. The Scrodes enjoyed much praise for the first record and looked forward toward the future of their music making. The sophomore effort for The Scrodes was 2002’s “Live From Uzbekistan” which was recorded in a desert in close proximity to the city of Jizzakh. After a four year hiatus, The Scrodes released their fifth single entitled “Gay (David Hasselhoff)” which was a successful rip off of the Goo Goo Dolls popular song “Name”.

[The album served as a much needed revival in music making for The Scrodes. The new record allowed for overlaying vocals, complex guitar layers and overall, much better sound credibility. More singles such as “Conniechung” and the ever popular “Testicles “. Overall, an excellent sophomore effort by The Scrodes, even though they’re shitty. In the year 2003, The Scrodes reunited to produce their third live album dubbed “Live From An Undisclosed Location”. The band teamed up with superstar drummer Phil Collins to make what many consider to be their best record to date. The first single released in April 2003 was the sequel to the epic about Pudding Earl entitled “The Legend of Senor Ding Dong”. This ten and a half minute epic encases both the absurdity as well as the plain out disgusting nature of the songwriters in The Scrodes. The second and third singles from the album include “The Snacky Cake Song”, a tribute to John Mellencamp’s “Jack and Diane” and “Bowel Moves”, a disgusting revamp of Bob Seger’s “Night Moves”. Altogether, their best record yet. Trendy Magazine’s best new record pick for this month. If you enjoy shitty music.]


The Scrodes currently reside in Atlanta, Georgia where they are recording at Room 17 Studios.