Songs:Ohia – The Big Game Is Every Night
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I’m dying for someone I know to have the experience I had with this album, but I worry it’s not gonna happen. Like, you just have to sit and listen to all the words and feel all the music and do it a few times. Is anyone doing that anymore?
Anyways, it’s like a movie, like with a story that’s emotional and true (or at least feels true), and it’s artfully told, starting and ending in interesting places, and it’s vulnerable and observational and funny and heartbreaking. I literally laughed and cried and said things like, “holy shit” out loud to myself while listening to it. I don’t think that’s ever happened to me before. And the music is fucking amazing. There’s oboes.
Farewell Transmission
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No song is an island
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What happens when you truly listen to a piece of music?
The Dead Flag Blues
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Joel has said that the song reminds listeners that “you don’t have to squeeze your whole life into your 20s and 30s trying to make it, trying to achieve that American dream, getting in the rat race and killing yourself. You have a whole life to live.”
The refrain of “slow down, you’re doing fine” soothes a specific kind of Gen Z malaise, reminding k... See more
The refrain of “slow down, you’re doing fine” soothes a specific kind of Gen Z malaise, reminding k... See more
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