i think you need a comedown from cigarettes personally. it should definitely be later in the album than it is
I assume it's just a five-minute (Brothers &) Cardinals as track 2. I can't imagine not having You in January or Palm Reader on here.
Palm Reader was always one of my favorites on the og, only enhanced here. And I never liked You In January, thought it was one of their weaker “ballad” type songs, but that has changed today. The new mix just highlights all the good parts of the song so much better.
Listening to the album with Dan's alternate tracklist. Only thing I did was put C & S last after the "bonus" songs so it's still the closer. Also included Brothers with Cardinals. Definitely a good sequence.
still think the Burst & Decay version of You in January is definitive but yes, incredible song either way
Before I had a chance to listen yet and just looked at the vinyl earlier, I was a little offput by it being $60. When I finally got to listen, I made it about four songs in before I went back and couldn't click buy fast enough. holy shit this is such a huge step up on an already fantastic album. So many new things to hear and the overall balance is so good. It's crazy how much of this was lost before, this is a treasure.
Revisiting this album has been so fun. It’s also reminded me how much I dislike song for Ernest Hemingway (maybe hot take around here?)
I can't really imagine opening with t/t and then going into Brothers, feels like a hat on a hat. also splitting up IDLWIWT and Cigarettes breaking that perfect transition is... interesting
Slightly off topic, but if you guys really want to be blown away, I'd recommend investing in a really decent pair of headphones, a DAC and listening to hi-res FLAC versions of songs over Tidal or Qobuz. Guarantee your musical listening experience will never be the same again.
I really can't express enough how happy I am this album finally sounds like it should Yeah that's why I prefer the sequencing I found a few years ago that basically just sticks the first 5 tracks at the end, title track as the opener, and then shuffles the rest around a bit
nothing to add really but also want to say the remastered version sounds so good. Had to fight through the murk to love the original back in the day, this would have been so much easier
C&S is a lot like What a Catch, Donnie off of Folie to me in that it feels like the closer but also needs something after it for a comedown of sorts
Same for me. Yesterday I caught myself doing what I did when it originally came out ten years ago, which was playing that song on repeat for like an hour.
The "Bluest Things" through "Thanks for the Ride" run has always been one of my least favorite of the band's catalog, I know that's probably a fairly unpopular opinion. "Hemingway" is always one of the lower points in their live set for me, too. Equally unpopular, but I feel about "Patsy Cline" the way I see a lot of people talking about "Bluest Things." I always loved that song, and this version has me loving it even more. All of this, of course, is said with the caveat that I love all these songs and this critique, if it even counts as one, is insanely mild and I still happily listen to that run of songs and enjoy them thoroughly.