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Built To Spill: You In Reverse
I feel like they subtly shaped their songwriting and recording process into something a little more basic with this album and it works so well. The funny thing is I thought they had reached absolute perfection on some of their past records and this new one moves me just as much. It was inspiring to see an album that took so long to come out (5 years about) be so new and fresh.
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Two Gallants: What The Tell Tools
Duo from Bay area, this feels like poetry with scratchy guitars!
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Adam Green: Jacket Full Of Danger
The best modern crooner I've ever heard. His old band Moldy Peaches was addictive as hell, this is just as good and shows some amazing development in a cool-ass way.
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| Favorite Live Performance of 2006 |
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Built To Spill, Avalon, Boston MA 9/06<
I've seen them many times and this show was light-years better than all of them. Seeing them support their new album must have been part of it, or maybe it was watching Doug try and work a mac video projector on stage next to his amp while the audience waited in-between songs patiently.
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TV On The Radio. Paradise, Boston MA 10/06
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My Morning Jacket, House of Blues, Cleveland OH 12/06
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| Your Personal Favorite On-stage Moment/Show of 2006 |
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In June 2006, we played at Symphony Hall in Boston after My Morning Jacket did their own set with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. We were kind of like the after-show in a side room at the hall, and halfway during the set we were playing a song of ours called “Children of December.” I recognized a very particular fluffy head of hair headbanging to the beat off to the side. It was Jim James of MMJ. I was thrilled.
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| Classic Album You Discovered This Year |
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Daniel Johnston - What a gem of a songwriter. I listen to his songs over and over again especially when I'm painting.
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Kenny Roberts - He's renowned as one of the best yodelers and country singers of the 40's and 50's. I concur.
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| Best Film You Saw This Year |
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| What Song From The Past Year Do You Wish You Wrote |
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| Artist You Are Most Excited About In 2007 |
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Woody Allen - What’s he going to do next, you never know
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Apollo Sunshine - Always entertaining
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David Cross – Always entertaining
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| Your Latest Guilty Pleasure |
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| A Memorable/ Humorous/Classic Moment On The Road in 2006 |
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Just a couple of weeks ago in Omaha we were walking to a restaurant after soundcheck, I think there were three of us, and we heard meowing coming from above our heads. It was pitch dark and very cold, but we put on our superman capes and decided to help a very scared and stranded kitten in a tree. Brad [Barr] got up high in the branches of course, there was a man in the middle and I was holding him up from below. We formed a three musician chain on a real-life feline rescue mission. Brad finally got a hold of the little guy who was petrified and shaking, it was passed on down to my free hand and I let the animal scamper away into the nearby bushes. Dinner never tasted so good after that heroic moment, but the show was kind of weak. I love cats.
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