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		<title>Stereo, my baby baby baby baby baby</title>
		<link>http://hardlikealgebra.com/2010/09/stereo-my-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In which Pavement transforms from the cool older brother to Beck in his "Loser" stage into Radiohead's dreamy good looking cousin]]></description>
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		<title>Murmurs</title>
		<link>http://hardlikealgebra.com/2010/03/murmurs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim_Withington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I searched for years for a vinyl copy of the first R.E.M. LP, Murmur, on vinyl.  My requirements were: I wanted it to be cheap, and I wanted the original release (partly because of my Hi-Fidelity-style collector&#8217;s mentality). Or at least not a remastered or fancy resissued version (though, y&#8217;know, the recent fancy reissue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever and Ever Amen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim_Withington</dc:creator>
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I finally got my copy of the re-issue of the incredible Ben Folds Five album Whatever and Ever Amen the other day, after watching it rot on my Amazon Wish List for years. It&#8217;s so cheap now that it&#8217;s  insulting, for such a great album to be bargain-binned out like this.
This album exists on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEVEN DAYS OF THE NEW MOUNTAIN GOATS ALBUM: DAYS 4 AND 5</title>
		<link>http://hardlikealgebra.com/2009/10/seven-days-of-the-new-mountain-goats-album-days-4-and-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim_Withington</dc:creator>
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Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheilatostes/ / CC BY 2.0
Avoiding listening to anything else but this album has been one of the more fun/kinda silly conventions I&#8217;ve set up for this week. 

I mean, I probably would have done this anyway&#8211;to a certain extent&#8211;because the Mountain Goats mean that much to me. Even when they put out albums [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEVEN DAYS OF THE NEW MOUNTAIN GOATS ALBUM: DAY 2</title>
		<link>http://hardlikealgebra.com/2009/10/seven-days-of-the-new-mountain-goats-album-day-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim_Withington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SOME BULLETS IN WHICH I FIRE OFF SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS HERE THE LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME BUSINESS]]></description>
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		<title>30 Days in April: Day 16 / Perfect: &#8220;Sycamore,&#8221; Bill Callahan</title>
		<link>http://hardlikealgebra.com/2009/04/30-days-in-april-day-16-perfect-sycamore-bill-callahan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim_Withington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Callahan, "Sycamore." I’ve got about 10000 songs in iTunes, and about ten of them have made the “Perfect” playlist. This is one of them.]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Albums of 2008</title>
		<link>http://hardlikealgebra.com/2008/12/top-ten-albums-of-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 06:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim_Withington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s year end list posed a problem that seems to be happening more an more in music writing-dom:  with a few exceptions, I just don&#8217;t feel like I listened to full albums this year.  The singles list (that I hope to write soon) will probably feel more comprehensive and emblematic of 2008 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Band That Ever Lived (for tonight at least)</title>
		<link>http://hardlikealgebra.com/2008/07/43/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim_Withington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You guys, I am seriously in one of those music-devouring phases again (yes  know, hard to believe, but they really are phases, it&#8217;s not a constant thing) and the devouring has come from two sources, one of them fairly unlikely.
The real source was a recent Sound Opinions episode, during which they covered their Best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect: &#8220;Dry Your Eyes,&#8221; The Streets</title>
		<link>http://hardlikealgebra.com/2008/04/perfect-dry-your-eyes-the-streets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim_Withington</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hardlikealgebra.com/?p=24</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm not so great with memorizing things, but somehow music makes such an impression on me that I've got a nearly savant-like ability to remember the dates when albums were released. It makes sense I suppose: I'm a musical learner after all, and so it checks that I could remember that that STP album was 1993 and that Soul Asylum one was 1992 and that Flaming Lips album was 2002.

This carries over to mean that I have to filter through what music was playing at the time in order to remember personal dates. So, I know that we were living in the house we built in Marengo because of the fact that I can remember listening to "Black Gold" while cleaning the garage. I know that 8th grade was 1991 because, hello Nirvana (plus Nate listening to Nine Inch Nails from the year before).

So, that means that songs get tied to relationships, of course, of course. There are albums or songs that just naturally end up solidly meaning that person at that time in that place, and there's nothing I can do about that (nor would I want to, even). I remember how appalled I was when a friend said to me, "you can't do that you know." I can't not do that -- I can't fathom memories not filtered in this way. Maybe that's another reason why music just means so much.

I'm a veteran of a few long-distance relationships, too, and those songs mailed off to each other, postage to other countries or continents? Even more weight.

This also means, as you might imagine, when a relationship goes south, and stays there, whole albums or songs have to get deleted from the hard drive, figuratively and literally. This doesn't happen often, though it can be pretty significant.

The Streets' "Dry Your Eyes" loosely fits in this category.]]></description>
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		<title>Rachel Taylor Brown: layering, piano, god</title>
		<link>http://hardlikealgebra.com/2008/03/rachel-taylor-brown-layering-piano-god/</link>
		<comments>http://hardlikealgebra.com/2008/03/rachel-taylor-brown-layering-piano-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim_Withington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
If you spend a lot of time reviewing local music, you hear a lot of the Chris Cornell guy singing over a &#8220;dunh dunh dunh!&#8221; guitar line, or those screamer-Kinney female vocalist clones, or the keyboard duos that Just! Want! Dancing!
As such, when something different comes along, it merits a further look.
So, what exactly is [...]]]></description>
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