Category: Eric Din

“What The Universe Knows” – cosmic new single from Eric Din

The very latest from Eric Din is a cosmic California reggae-rock remedy, pairing well with stargazing or beachwalking and pondering the infinite universe. Produced the day after it was conceived, released the following morning, What The Universe Knows
fits Din’s “insta-single” tradition, and he’s quite pleased with this one, enough to speak of himself in the third person. Din invites you to enjoy and share, on Bandcamp or any of the many streaming implements.

Artwork is a printout of Shannon Wheeler’s BCR logokitty, plus Din’s penmanship, then scanned to create the insta-single-cover.

Here are the lyrics and credits, because why not,

What The Universe Knows

Standing in the summer air
Thumb over the moon
Milky Way above shines
As it’ll do

Floating down the river Time
And wondering, what next
Gazing at the night sky
As one does

Since we ever had eyes
And tried to understand
With senses to perceive, and
Words to describe

I don’t know
What the universe knows
Can’t say
What the universe holds
OK, I guess we find out
Someday
Not in a hurry to know
All the universe knows
What the universe knows

Don’t mind a mystery
Always good to see
Stars from a distance
Guide us at sea

Had a dream of flying
Weightlessly rising
Fearlessly falling
And lettin’ go

I don’t know
What the universe knows
Can’t say
What the universe holds
OK, I guess we find out
Someday
Not in a hurry to know
All the universe knows
What the universe knows

Guitars, vocals, drum wrangling and hand-percussion: Eric Din

© 2025 Eric Roy Dinwiddie
King Roy Music, BMI
Berkeley Cat Records

A Beet Poetry Anthem by Eric Din Encircles The Globe at EOY

EOY? End Of Year, Eeyore, and we didn’t reeeally Encircle The Globe, but hey, truth is so Last Millennium. That too is False, and anyway, having some fun with it all, with a rockin’ summary or synopsis of the year at hand, including Vogons, who clearly are having their moment.  On Bandcamp:

And in the everywheres:

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ericdin/a-beet-poetry-anthem

Merry All The Things, and see you next year, we think.

Alles ist kaputt, according to Eric Din

Din leans in on his Schlager side, this time with a clear New Wave bent. We’ve heard plenty of ranting against Ai-Slop, appropriately so, but have you heard it in broken German-English? Germinglish, if you will. We’re pretty sure this is the premiere specimen of Germinglish General Ranting About Everything (GGRAE) in the civilized or uncivilized world today.
Many a streaming option here.

By the way, the title case is correct: Alles ist kaputt

Stylized per German standards, you see. If it were English, we’d generally capitalize each word, like Alles Ist Kaputt

But, German it is, so the stylizing is correct. WILL the Apple Music editors balk at this affront to standard practices? We’ll soon know. If that’s kaput.

“Belligerent Brain Pudding Surprise” single by Eric Din

Din’s Beet Poetry expeditions continue with this timely observation complete with organic bongos.  We include the lyrics below, for careful academic scrutiny. Beet Poetry is described by scholars as Beat Poetry only with vegetables. Everything exactly makes sense. Carpe Diem.

Belligerent brain pudding surprise
Abrupt and total demise
Cataclysmic crowd-sourced self-own
Buyers remorse, better luck next time
Belligerent brain pudding surprise
Reality, truth, are words no more
Deep fake fuckery, soft and buttery
Mmm, I’ll try!
Belligerent brain butter surprise
How many fucks does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Why did the chickens cross the aisle?

All the little fascist pigs (bong bong)
On the morning talk shows (bong bong bong bong)

Eating their young in a carnival orgy
Carnivores carney big tent cave-in
Nothing means anything
Meaning is not a thing
It was in previous centuries
Belligerent brain pudding surprise
Glean from this what you may surmise
All is lost now, that is the prize
Congratulations, be on your way

All the liberal jellyfish (bong bong)
Slurping corporate money (bong bong bong bong)

Belligerent brain pudding surprise
Our best don’t want to run for office
I asked some of them, they just scoff
I understand, for me it’s off
Sign petitions, yell at the street
In my blogs and songs I bleat
Supporting lesser evils
This is better because they’re lesser evils
Maybe write it down
Learn the lesson for next time?
I’d also like a pony
Belligerent brain pudding surprise
Oh well, whatever never mind
Mind the bollocks in the bunkers under Motel California

And if this don’t make much sense (bong bong)
It is not supposed to (bong bong bong bong)

Ask Margot Robbie in a bubble bath
She is the best explainer

© 2025 Eric Roy Dinwiddie
King Roy Music, BMI

Halloween Everywhere

Berkeley Cat Records has a Halloween song. How did it happen? Oh, mysteriously, of course, but there it is!


The download on Bandcamp there costs a whopping FREE until the day after Halloween, and then it’ll be a buck. Or an eye of newt.

Halloween Everywhere was composed and decomposed shortly before October 31, 2025, by Eric Din from an idea from Matthew King Kaufman. These two have collaborated on a number of songs along the way, but never a Halloween one, to our knowledge. In fact, this is a first for Berkeley Cat Records as well. Just in time for tricks and pies, have at it!

I Promise Not To Drunk Text Bobby About Getting The Band Back Together, by Eric Din

Berkeley Cat Records cannot verify the veracity of any of the statements herein, but we HAVE signed up diligently, for Ska Yodeling lessons.

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ericdin/i-promise-not-to-drunk-text-bobby-about-getting-the-band-back-together

Just Waiting For The Rain, by Eric Din

Our very own Eric Din is up to his record-making shenanigans again, this time in a folk-rocky mood. Per the artist, “I don’t believe I’ve made a rain song, before. Well, now I have!” We applaud this and also laud the excellent attire on Berkeley Cat himself, who adorns the cover. May the rains come when you need them, literally, metaphorically or however you like. Here is Just Waiting For The Rain