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PostPosted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 10:00 pm    Post subject: I can't stop listening Reply with quote

So, over the past few months, there have been a few albums that I have managed to listen to at least once a week. I just can't get them out of my mind. I don't know whether it has anything to do with how my life is going, but all of them keep resonating in my head, and the only way I can deal with that is to listen to them again. And I fucking love every one of them. So the albums that I've totally obsessed over are:

Outkast: ATLiens
The Arcade Fire: Funeral
The Beatles: Revolver
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
Common: Be
Interpol: Antics

And it looks like Joni Mitchell's Blue and Immortal Technique's Revolutionary Vol. 2 are headed that way, but I've only had them for a couple weeks.

And the songs "Slow Jamz" by Kanye West, "The Last Goodbye" by Jeff Buckley, and "Talkin' New York" by Bob Dylan are all constantly playing on my iTunes.

It's strange, in the past I have played one album over and over and over, usually because of something happening in my life that makes the album make sense to me (Nevermind and Sea Change are perfect examples of this for me) but I have never been so into so many albums at the same time. Does this kind of thing happen to anyone else?

And does anybody else love "Slow Jamz" as much as I do? It's like honey for a sore throat.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 1:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a hard time standing anything Kanye does personally, but then I tend to base myself around the fringes of hip hop. But no, wait, fuck him entirely, really. I'm not sure I can properly express my vitriol, but it vaguely comes from a little process of
1) Make a chart topping, expressly anti-education, pro-"get rich quick as a rap superstar!" hip hop album.
2) Make a speach about how Bush doesn't care about black people.

But onward. Think positive! I can't really claim to listen to anything over and over; I'm so musically obsessed that I get restless repeating things. There are albums that I love that I haven't heard in a couple years, just cause there's too much other stuff to listen to.

New stuff that's gotten several repeats:
Bruce Springsteen: Seeger Sessions (and I can't even claim to like him on a regular basis, but this is pretty special)
Current 93: Black Ships Ate the Sky
Scott Walker: Tilt and The Drift
Juana Molina: Son

Also! I had a longer list of old favorites, but the forums just won't let me post them. Is there some listy filter in place or something?
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 2:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Make a speach about how Bush doesn't care about black people.


totally not true. i mean someone has to stand in front of the bullets, right?
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 2:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yikes, I should in no way ever be taken as an advocate for Bush! (if that's what's going on here)

But Kanye is also despicable!

Robert Wyatt - Shleep
David Sylvian - Blemish and The Good Son vs. The Only Daughter
Dar Williams - The Honesty Room and Mortal City
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness
Smog - Knock Knock
Bark ______ (the evil unspeakable word! see below!) - Hex and Codename Dustsucker

Here's my audioscrobbler, if you'd like to call me out on grounds of general Pitchforkism or something.

WHAT THE HELL? every time I try to post this word I'm getting errors?
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 5:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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But Kanye is also despicable!


from what little of his music i've heard, this has been my impression!
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 7:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

simplicio wrote:
if you'd like to call me out on grounds of general Pitchforkism or something.


I'm not sure what 'Pitchforkism' could really mean aside from giving great reviews to clowns like Cam'ron and Young Jeezy because they don't really like hip-hop all that much. Or--and this is a Gamer's Quarter cardinal sin--actually distinguishing their album scores by tenths of points, because a 9.3 record and a 9.1 record have some sort of quantifiable difference in quality. And I don't think I would accuse you of either. You haven't tattooed ads for American Apparel on yourself, have you?


Yeah, Kanye's 'George Bush hates black people' deal was entirely inappropriate, but the man's music is anything but despicable.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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WHAT THE HELL? every time I try to post this word I'm getting errors?


are you sure?
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

absolutely. even when trying to break it up with bbcode and inserting other words, spaces, underline etc into it.
psychosis

that time it worked, with every single letter broken up by code.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been alternating between classical and noise music these days, which strikes me as odd, but comfortable, with the occassional break of David Bowie, Alexander Hacke and Matmos.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 9:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dessgeega wrote:
simplicio wrote:
WHAT THE HELL? every time I try to post this word I'm getting errors?


are you sure?

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 10:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been listening to a mix I made that includes such gems as:
Eagles - Take It Easy
Dire Straits - Walk of Life
Roy Orbinson - Drove All Night
Alan Jackson - 5 O Clock Somewhere

And so on...


When that's not on I've been playing Edan and Terry Reid a lot.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 11:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dracko wrote:
I've been alternating between classical and noise music these days, which strikes me as odd
That kind of sums up what I do too. When I'm not listening to Venetian Snares I'm listening to Bach or Chopin. Works for me.

That said, right now I'm listening to the theatrical score of the Transformers movie.

I probably shouldn't have admitted that.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 11:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I've been listening to a mix I made that includes such gems as:
Eagles - Take It Easy
Dire Straits - Walk of Life

You, sir, have impeccable taste!
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 11:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dessgeega wrote:
simplicio wrote:
WHAT THE HELL? every time I try to post this word I'm getting errors?


are you sure?


He's right. I'm getting the same error.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 12:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dessgeega wrote:
simplicio wrote:
Make a speach about how Bush doesn't care about black people.


totally not true. i mean someone has to stand in front of the bullets, right?


someone should've told my relatives this. (insert frowning face)

I got an itch to listen to Motorhead the other day, and since have had Lemmy serenade me with his gruff voice through Ace of Spades. I also made a '83-'84 Sadie Hawkins mix CD, consisting of songs that would be played at high school dances in both years, that has been getting played quite a bit, despite the fact that I don't even like some of the songs. For background music I have a random assortment that tends to include Circa Survive's Juturna and some old UGK remixed CD that contains a track with Ron Isley that I can only explain as funktastic.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 3:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dessgeega wrote:
simplicio wrote:
WHAT THE HELL? every time I try to post the word " p s y c h o s i s " meaning loss of contact with reality, typically including delusions I'm getting errors?


are you sure?

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 5:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow that is weird.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 10:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lightning bolt + boredoms = great.

if you get the chance to see eye and company play please do yourself a favor and do so.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 1:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dhex wrote:
lightning bolt + boredoms = great.

if you get the chance to see eye and company play please do yourself a favor and do so.
I have a friend who raves about both those bands. I think he even had Lighning Bolt play a show in London somewhere back when he was running a record label/store thing.

I've given the Boredoms a few listens, they never really did it for me.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 10:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Alc wrote:

I've given the Boredoms a few listens, they never really did it for me.


Don't know what you're listened to, but it may be easiest to start with later stuff, so Seadrum or Super AE or Vision Creation Newsun, or even just the OOIOO albums, and work backward from there.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 3:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I saw Lightning Bolt in Asheville and got my ribs slaughtered by moshers.

I can't quit listening to the Compulsive Gamblers.

Hey, look at this
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I adore Lightning Bolt, but my playlist lately has been:

Tokyo Police Club and Be Your Own Pet. Both. Are. Awesome.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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That kind of sums up what I do too. When I'm not listening to Venetian Snares I'm listening to Bach or Chopin. Works for me.

Venetian Snares doesn't do much for me. I really do enjoy Funk's classic-inspired Rossz Csillag Alatt Született album, and Nymphomatriarch was a devent novelty. Maybe I'm not listening to the right albums beyond those, though. I just don't find his sound subtle enough.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah, he's not subtle. i don't think it's you.

unrelated: john fahey was the fucking man.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Keep in mind by that that I don't mean I don't enjoy loud things. I enjoy Merzbow, Patton and Whitehouse as much as the next listener with dubious tastes. I just think the breakcore aspect of his stuff, which is kind of his signature, is pretty dull.

Also unrelated: So is Terje Rypdal. And Blixa Bargeld.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In no particular order (lately):
  • Shinobu
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  • The Good North (dearly departed)
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Yeah, Kanye's 'George Bush hates black people' deal was entirely inappropriate, but the man's music is anything but despicable.
Inappropriate how? From where I stand, it's an objectively true statement. Even if it were not, Kanye has a constitutionally protected right to say it.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm starting to believe that there's nothing objective about objectivety. It's becoming a fancy new form of sophistry.

I blame Ayn Rand.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I'm starting to believe that there's nothing objective about objectivety. It's becoming a fancy new form of sophistry.

I blame Ayn Rand.
By objectively, I mean that it can be supported by actual facts.

By facts, I don't mean talking points.

I'm no fan of Ayn Rand. Talk about someone who was completely unable to look at things objectively...

I guess if I was a pampered rich child of merchant class parents who had their property stripped from them by a popular uprising, then I'd have a beef against communism too though. Well, maybe not as big a beef as Ayn...

And talk about a one-trick pony.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Central Park is a teenage gothic hang-out?
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Yeah, Kanye's 'George Bush hates black people' deal was entirely inappropriate, but the man's music is anything but despicable.
Inappropriate how? From where I stand, it's an objectively true statement. Even if it were not, Kanye has a constitutionally protected right to say it.


Inappropriate is a word I use when I think the message does not fit the context, not that it isn't true or is against the law, so please don't blow anything out of proportion. He said it during a hurricane relief telethon. I can think of countless more appropriate situations during which to make that kind of statement.


J.Goodwin wrote:
I guess if I was a pampered rich child of merchant class parents who had their property stripped from them by a popular uprising, then I'd have a beef against communism too though. Well, maybe not as big a beef as Ayn...


Nabokov handled this beef maturely in his literature. Of course, he claims to be upset with the communists not because they took away his property, but because the necessary emigration before the revolution permanently separated him from any physical reminder of his childhood.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

And Nabakov, contrarily to Rand, knew how to write.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dracko wrote:
Alc wrote:
That kind of sums up what I do too. When I'm not listening to Venetian Snares I'm listening to Bach or Chopin. Works for me.

Venetian Snares doesn't do much for me. I really do enjoy Funk's classic-inspired Rossz Csillag Alatt Született album, and Nymphomatriarch was a devent novelty. Maybe I'm not listening to the right albums beyond those, though. I just don't find his sound subtle enough.
Generally, he isn't subtle at all. Rossz-whatever is easily my favourite, although his recent album Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore is slightly more textured than earlier stuff.
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unrelated: john fahey was the fucking man.
I enjoyed the collaboration with Cul de Sac, but the other couple of records I got seemed kind of unremarkable. Maybe I should give them another listen.
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unrelated: john fahey was the fucking man.
I enjoyed the collaboration with Cul de Sac, but the other couple of records I got seemed kind of unremarkable. Maybe I should give them another listen.


With headphones and the lights off.

I'd recommend starting with Red Cross, really (it's his last one), as it might be the most apparent piece of his catalog.
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This reminds me: Anyone heard Scott Walker's latest, The Drift? Just like his last, Tilt, it makes for very interesting, alienating listening.
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i more or less listen to blind joe death on repeat. it sounds nice. good driving through the mountains music. or whiskey drinking in the evening.
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Amen to that wonderful activity.
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Brand New- Deja Entendu (My favorite Album)
Thursday- A Ctiy by The Light Divided
Underoath- Define the Great Line (Quite the change of pace.)
The Stalin- STOP JAP

There is an amazing amount of musical tastes here. It's great to see that.

I like Kanye West, I really do though. That must make me seem like an ignorant asshole though. I like a lot of his material off of "Late Registration". I also completely acknowledge the fact that he is amazingly arrogant and thinks way to highly of himself. To each their own, that's really the point though. I'm still just shocked about how many different tastes there are here. It's refreshing.
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I've been listening to the latest Zao CD almost constantly. It's the most poppy brutal metal I've ever heard!

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I've been listening to the latest Zao CD almost constantly. It's the most poppy brutal metal I've ever heard!

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Oh man, no way you listen to Zao? That band has had like 16 different members, I don't think there is an original member left actually. My friend used to be obsessed with the band a good year ago or two. Insanity I tell you!

You're right though, amazing "pop" metal.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dracko wrote:
This reminds me: Anyone heard Scott Walker's latest, The Drift? Just like his last, Tilt, it makes for very interesting, alienating listening.


And I love them both dearly.

Dracko, you've heard Current 93's Black Ships Ate the Sky, right? Cause if not that's your next destination.

And I'm still listening to White Flight's self titled on a nearly daily basis, which is extremely rare for me. It's just all over the place (in a good way) and I can't quite put it down.

I picked up some old Oval (alright, though 94 Diskont is not the masterpiece I'd been lead to believe; too straight-up loopy for my taste but I can respect it given its era and creative method.), Alejandra & Aeron (like what, somewhere between Jackie-O Motherfucker and Set Fire to Flames?) and the Dolls over the weekend.

Now, perhaps some of our friendly neighborhood commie-philes can give me advice. The Wire ran a cover story a couple months ago on AGF aka Antye Greie , a musician from former East Berlin (and a member of The Dolls), and the discussion there of innocence and isolation and censorship and the creative process really struck a chord in me. Can anyone recommend me further writings on a similar subject?
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

this past wire has a great interview with david tibet from c93. i'm kind of partial to their more folky albums, especially of ruine or some blazing star.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Dracko, you've heard Current 93's Black Ships Ate the Sky, right? Cause if not that's your next destination.

Noted. The only Current 93 I've listened to at lengths were the two songs featuring Nick Cave and Crowleymass. I'll have to give them a further chance.

I found this Eye interview of Blixa Bargeld, which is quite interesting.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been listening to a lot of The Clash lately, mainly their London Calling album. I've also been listening to The Misfits's Collection I album and some Dresden Dolls stuff that a friend of mine burned me earlier this summer.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

keep in mind crowleymass is a joke song. a very funny song, especially when he yells about kids getting no presents..."they just get....THE BOOK OF THE LAW!"

man, liber al isn't much of a gift.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm aware. That's why I find it fantastic. It's the last thing I'd expect to hear from what little I know of Current 93.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

TheRumblefish wrote:
I like Kanye West, I really do though. That must make me seem like an ignorant asshole though. I like a lot of his material off of "Late Registration".


I have not been sarcastically campaigning for him on this thread. The high(est) points of "Late Registration" (Touch the Sky, Gone(!), Crack Music, both Diamonds from Sierra Leone cuts, and the way Heard'em Say ends) are phenomenal.


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I've been listening to a lot of The Clash lately, mainly their London Calling album.


I listened to this one three times in a row this weekend because I forgot to put my CD case in the car. I love that it proved that songs about the Spanish Civil War can kick ass long before Christopher Guest ventured into that territory.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

OtakupunkX wrote:
I've been listening to a lot of The Clash lately, mainly their London Calling album. I've also been listening to The Misfits's Collection I album and some Dresden Dolls stuff that a friend of mine burned me earlier this summer.
I love Dresden Dolls. Seeing them live is definitely an experience. It's too bad that most of the country has had to sit through Nine Inch Nails afterward.

If you don't have tracks from their Yes, Virginia album, I'd be happy to email a couple your way.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

helicopterp wrote:
I listened to this one three times in a row this weekend because I forgot to put my CD case in the car. I love that it proved that songs about the Spanish Civil War can kick ass long before Christopher Guest ventured into that territory.


Word.

That whole CD's just amazing. It's one of the only albums I can listen to while I'm going to sleep (the other being Katamari Fortissimo Damacy)

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I love Dresden Dolls. Seeing them live is definitely an experience. It's too bad that most of the country has had to sit through Nine Inch Nails afterward.

If you don't have tracks from their Yes, Virginia album, I'd be happy to email a couple your way.


A girl I work with (actually, the one that got me listening to them in the first place) won tickets for their concert in Houston not too long ago but the tour manager forgot to notify her that she won so she wasn't able to go.

I think that's actually the album of theirs that I have. I'll have to ask her which one she burned me...
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