Mixed by the Dust Brothers, and yeah, there's definitely some producer style on this thing.
Also I just realized that I usually email you about it when a TMBG album is coming out. hunh! Sorry, I'm slouching on the job.
I love "Climbing the Walls," the "Bee of the Bird of the Moth," "The Mesopotamians," (which is built to be catch/hooky just like any "Hey, we're The Band" song, but features actual Mesopotamians) and I've heard and enjoyed "Contracoup" before (from an official podcast, and we talked about here) and this version has a bit more to it than before.
Also, "I'm Impressed" is a great opener. But, I gotta say, either I'm falling out of *heart* with the band, or maybe they're getting weaker. Some of the DAS/Podcast songs were stronger ("We Live in a Dump," "Why did you grow a beard" and the rockin' "Vestibule,") than some of the album tracks.
I'm sure this'll grow on me, but none of these songs are grabbing me like They used to.
By the way, "Greasy Kid Stuff" is a song that TMBG wrote for a radio show of the same name-- it's a Saturday Morning Radio show in Portland, OR (until last year it was in WFMU, the alt-pub-radio station in Jersey that broadcasts over NYC) for kids and their adults. You can listen online (http://www.947.fm/pages/146945.php?contentType=4&contentId=257612) and in your case benefit from the fact that instead of listening at 8AM Pacific, you can listen at the more reasonable hour of 11AM Eastern time. Jorie's probably too young to appreciate it, but it might be worth a shot.
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Also I just realized that I usually email you about it when a TMBG album is coming out. hunh! Sorry, I'm slouching on the job.
I love "Climbing the Walls," the "Bee of the Bird of the Moth," "The Mesopotamians," (which is built to be catch/hooky just like any "Hey, we're The Band" song, but features actual Mesopotamians) and I've heard and enjoyed "Contracoup" before (from an official podcast, and we talked about here) and this version has a bit more to it than before.
Also, "I'm Impressed" is a great opener. But, I gotta say, either I'm falling out of *heart* with the band, or maybe they're getting weaker. Some of the DAS/Podcast songs were stronger ("We Live in a Dump," "Why did you grow a beard" and the rockin' "Vestibule,") than some of the album tracks.
I'm sure this'll grow on me, but none of these songs are grabbing me like They used to.
By the way, "Greasy Kid Stuff" is a song that TMBG wrote for a radio show of the same name-- it's a Saturday Morning Radio show in Portland, OR (until last year it was in WFMU, the alt-pub-radio station in Jersey that broadcasts over NYC) for kids and their adults. You can listen online (http://www.947.fm/pages/146945.php?contentType=4&contentId=257612) and in your case benefit from the fact that instead of listening at 8AM Pacific, you can listen at the more reasonable hour of 11AM Eastern time. Jorie's probably too young to appreciate it, but it might be worth a shot.