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Loving El Ten Eleven’s first album at the moment.
A perfect soundtrack for a lazy afternoon of writing:
Miss Hasselbacher knows her class is cheating on the English exam.
Steve, the third best player in the Miller High School football team, has been using a clever mirror contraption to look at Bobby’s paper. Not that Steve needed the device, since Bobby has been standing on his desk for the last ten minutes looking at Stan’s paper from above, and his exam has been clearly visible for Steve to copy. Stan’s been cheating with …
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I keep coming back to To Lose My Life by White Lies this week while I’m writing. I don’t think the lyrics here are anything special, but the sound is something else entirely. At times they sound like the Cure, other times Tears for Fears, perhaps even Joy Division, and then at times they are all their own. But there is something specifically Eighties about the way they sound, which is probably why I keep gravitating to the album.
If this were 1993, this album would be played in the clubs …
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First off, how is this album 10 years old already?
This week I’m listening to David Gray’s White Ladder album. This is probably my most favorite album of all time. I cannot express how much I love this album. There isn’t a weak track here, and Gray hits all the right emotional buttons to carry you through to the end. Most people know “Babylon” and “Please Forgive Me”, which not only got some radio play, but seemed to pop up in every popular show at the time. To me, the real …
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This was the album I was in love with last year. I’ve actually put this back on because I was concerned that I was going to destroy the enthusiasm for the Walkmen’s You & Me. And considering I have a writing project in mind for the album, that would be bad news indeed.
Boxer is such a great album. And now that I’ve taken the time since discovering the National to explore the rest of their work, the greatness of Boxer is not an anamoly. While some songs are better than …
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It’s easy to find good music for almost any occasion, but it’s difficult to find good music for writing. For my biographical work, sometimes the music I heard when I was experiencing the event can be helpful to recapture the mood or emotion. Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind and Radiohead’s OK Computer were particularly helpful for many of my stories from 1997.
When I’m writing in general, I prefer music that’s not too distracting, but maintains a certain sense of drama, something evoking a soundtrack. Ours’ Distorted Lullabies has this …
