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"I love Fontaines, but we all got to see them play at this amazing huge theater the day after we played in London. The show was amazing, they are so good, and my favorite song on this album... there's this one song called 'The Couple Across the Way' which is this very sad accordion song that made me cry the first time I was listening to it on an airplane."Watch this moment
"And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow is absolutely beautiful."Watch this moment
"I actually grew up pretty close to the first Amoeba store and so this felt like a topical way to start things off. This came out early 1995, and it's got some really great songs, some really funny interludes, and it takes me back to high school actually even middle school. They would play a lot of E-40 at middle school dances."Watch this moment
"When I was really young, my grandma was obsessed with these B.B. King CDs... just those memories are really special, so I feel like putting this on at home will take me back."Watch this moment
"Come Away with ESG is possibly the greatest spin of all time. The Scroggins sisters kind of really epitomize New York... they do so much with just bass, drums, percussion; it just has such a coolness to it."Watch this moment
"The Great Escape has some real good classics on it. I once tried to karaoke 'Country House.' It was a flop for everyone but me, but I really enjoyed that."Watch this moment
"Why don't I just pair it with In Rainbows, which we just don't own and that seemed like a big gap."Watch this moment
"There's a beautiful shot of Meg pregnant on the front cover... I think this album deals a lot with the crazy physiological changes that come along with having creatures growing inside of you, but it's also like a pivot into some pretty beat-driven dancier stuff, which I think is kind of a cool move for them."Watch this moment
"There's a beautiful shot of Meg pregnant on the front cover... I think this album deals a lot with the crazy physiological changes that come along with having creatures growing inside of you, but it's also like a pivot into some pretty beat-driven dancier stuff, which I think is kind of a cool move for them."Watch this moment
"I love John Carpenter. I know that he made it with a man named Alan Howarth. I think they recorded it largely live watching the movie. The Escape From New York was all just make it up on the fly."Watch this moment
"I don't know why I love truck driver songs so much. I mean I grew up listening to a lot of classic country music that just puts you in a place in time to feel like you're just part of the crew."Watch this moment
"This Stupid World really hits me. Great songs on this record, a Celestine, Sinatra Drive breakdown, psych classic."Watch this moment
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