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Actually, we're both right. But tell me, which of these sounds more dimensional...? Electric Music and the Summer People ("Mutations"-era) Electric Music and the Summer People ("Odelay"-era) Oh, forget it. I love them both. Either way, it blows "Gamma Ray" to pieces!

"Impossible Germany", at Sears. Shoppers and clerks were noticeably withering during the guitar solo...

What I like about the sound of "Mutations" is the space, the sound of the room, the sound of people playing together. With what I've heard from "Modern Guilt", it sounds like a sheet of paper. Hear me out. If "Electric Music and the Summer People" (a "Mutations" outtake) equaled the earth being round, "Gamma Ray" equals...well, you know. What, or who, is to blame? Danger Mouse? iPods? The disappearance of natural reverb on modern recordings?

And I commend you for that. But if everyone did that, then we might end up with "Willenium" in the top ten... ...which would drive me jiggy.

"Z" --- Not a bad track to be found on that one. Particularly a download of "Wordless Chorus" circa early 2006, and I was amazed. I couldn't really stand "It Still Moves", but maybe I should give it another chance...

I was going to add Sand in the Vaseline, but it would have meant dropping Sentimental Journey, which I feel is a truly transcendent album. It exists apart from what it is, which could be taken as merely ex-Beatle Ringo woozily crooning schmaltzy standards with seemingly nary a single rocking bone in his body. But that kind of synopsis only makes me want to go back and listen to it again. It's amazing! See? Now I'm listening to "Whispering Grass". Oh, yes.

20 The Who - Tommy 19 Ringo Starr - Sentimental Journey 18 Various Artists - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Soundtrack) 17 Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde 16 Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert 15 The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds 14 Daniel Johnston/Various Artists - Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered 13 The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 12 The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society 11 Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding 10 The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle 09 Beck - Mutations 08 The Beatles - Abbey Road 07 Willie N

Try this: adapt or rewrite a favorite song of yours, only with new music or lyrics, simply as an exercise. Painters study the masters by copying what they see, so why not musicians in a slightly more creative and personal way?

I Want To Dance With You (Original Mix) I Want To Dance With You (New Remix) I originally recorded this with a very crude mixing program, so I chose to remix from scratch with Acoustica Mixcraft. I limited myself to sixteen tracks: a sampled drum track (sound familiar? ), a bass track, two acoustic guitar tracks, four electric rhythm guitar tracks, two lead guitar tracks, two lead vocal tracks, and four backing vocal tracks. Each track had individual compression, and the entire track was treated with brick wall limiter and small room reverb. The only thing is this: I am not thoroughly s

Tuesday Morning is quite an awesome track. Like The Answer, it reminds me of 9/11: Tuesday morning sleeping in your clothes Hiding something where no one ever goes Somewhere Somewhere it's so right Stay there Stay there In the light Red umbrella floating down the street It's raining downtown every time we meet Christmas lights hang down from empty trees In her place that no one really sees Somewhere Somewhere It's so right Tuesday morning I can't fight Remembering Everything Remembering Everything I thought i saw you in the corner of my eye Moving quickly with the people that were

Yeah, I'd say that one has legs, lyrically and musically. Does O'Rourke play on that one?

The elephant in the room I tend to see is the songwriting aspect. I'm holding out for, specifically, a Tweedy/Cline credit, so I can compare it to, well, pretty much any song from ST and YHF, give or take a few that Bennett didn't write.

Exactly.

True dat.