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		<title>30 Days in April: Day 16 / Perfect: &#8220;Sycamore,&#8221; Bill Callahan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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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>The Greatest Band That Ever Lived (for tonight at least)</title>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim_Withington</dc:creator>
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		<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>It&#8217;s rather extr&#8217;ordinary</title>
		<link>http://hardlikealgebra.com/2008/03/its-rather-extrordinary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim_Withington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some songs really do just fix everything, always.
This is one of them.

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		<title>Spoon, &#8220;Lines in the Suit&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://hardlikealgebra.com/2008/03/spoon-lines-in-the-suit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim_Withington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around and about the fall of 2001, I subscribed to CMJ New Music Monthly, based on two things that I knew to be true:

The first issue I ever got, back in December 1994, contained a compilation that I still rank as one of the best, if not the best, compilations ever.
The issue I got before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect:  &#8220;If I Can&#8217;t Change Your Mind,&#8221; by Sugar</title>
		<link>http://hardlikealgebra.com/2008/01/perfect-if-i-cant-change-your-mind-by-sugar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim_Withington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can I explain away
Something that I haven&#8217;t done
And if you can&#8217;t trust me now
You&#8217;ll never trust in anyone
&#8211;Sugar, &#8220;If I Can&#8217;t Change Your Mind&#8221;
Typical review: witty summary, narrow it down, pick out a few songs, wrap it up in a nice bow.
Not this time.  This time, the lyrics first.  The above lyrics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surrender on Both Sides</title>
		<link>http://hardlikealgebra.com/2008/01/surrender-on-both-sides/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim_Withington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new Mountain Goats album, Heretic Pride, drops (as the kids say)(if their slang lags behind) shortly after my thirtieth birthday, and right after that the boys will be playing two shows at the best venue in the world.

If "Sax Rohmer #1," the leadoff single that the Goats made available for download recently, indicates anything (and let's face it--of course it does; main Goat Darnielle's own music fan/thinker status doesn't make me feel like he's the kind of guy to decide such a thing lightly), this album will be exactly what I've been waiting for.]]></description>
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