the highs are so high on we were dead. march into the sea and parting of the sensory are among their best.
bout ten years ago i spent every waking minute listening to that comp. inject every second of workin on leavin the livin into my veins.
I like LCW and TMAA roughly the same amount but TMAA was, like, more ~revelatory~ to me and clicked way sooner (like a 3 or 4 year difference) so I have more memories attached to it. oddly tho, I think I am more likely to throw on stuff from Good News or LCW if I am gonna casually listen to MM, so Moon doesn’t get visited as frequently as those two records. it’s just one of those records I feel compelled to listen to front to back every time I put a song from it on.
"World at Large" is one of the most perfect things I know I like songs about drifters, books about the same...
The View is underrated af and might have imo the single most powerful/poignant lyrical stanzas Brock ever wrote imo “if life’s not beautiful without the pain, well I’d just rather never even see beauty again.” oh, and The Good Times Are Killing Me is my all-time favorite MM song.
hot take: p much every song on that record is good or great and a few are masterpieces. it is perhaps the most perfect leap to a more tangibly “radio-friendly” sound that I can really think of.
Blame It on the Tetons & One Chance too. Hmm. It might be my favorite release of there's actually. Always thought my answer was We Were Dead
Published a week late but here’s my retrospective review on The Moon & Antarctica! retroview: the moon & antarctica (2000) — :-)
Current outdoor spring ~mm playlist - Guilty Cocker Spaniels Here It Comes Invisible Wild Pack Of Family Dogs Cat Faces Florida Pups To Dust Here's To Now The Best Room Never Ending Math Equation Out Of Gas Jesus Christ Was An Only Child The View Custom Concern Diggin Holes Night On The Sun