Kiss the Crystal Flake is the sixth studio album by the northern California rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

  band The Mother Hips

The Mother Hips

-Formation and Debut:Tim Bluhm , Greg Loiacono , Isaac Parsons and Mike Wofchuck met in 1990 while attending California State University-Chico, living off campus in Bradley Hall...

. The songs Time We Had and Time-Sick Son of a Grizzly Bear were featured as playable tracks in the music video game Rock Band. Time-Sick Son of a Grizzly Bear also includes a reference to the infamous Mexican patriot/bandit Joaquin Murrieta

Joaquin Murrieta

Joaquin Carrillo Murrieta , also called the Mexican or Chilean Robin Hood or the Robin Hood of El Dorado, was a semi-legendary figure in California during the California Gold Rush of the 1850s...

with the lyrics: "Were you out in Monterey/ In Joaquin Murrieta's day/ Adobe huts in the cypress groves/ Is where the rich man now builds his homes".

Track listing

1. "Mission in Vain"
2. "Wicked Tree"
3. "Time We Had"
4. "No-Name Darrell"
5. "Let Somebody"
6. "Confirmation of Love"
7. "T.G.I.M."
8. "White Hills"
9. "Not So Independent"
10. "White Headphones"
11. "Time-Sick Son of a Grizzly Bear"
12. "In This Bliss"