Monthly Archives: February 2012
Thunderegg History Unit #1: Complete
Every Monday and Thursday for seven weeks, there was a new Thunderegg History Lesson: a song from the vault accompanied by a story. (For optimal results, listen and read simultaneously.) There are now fourteen, representing a song from each Thunderegg … Continue reading
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History Lesson: Skeletons
“Skeletons,” from Line Line (2011; recorded 2006) I had arrived in Richmond Friday evening. The rest of the band drove all night from Connecticut for our weekend session at Sound of Music: Over the previous two years, adhering to our … Continue reading
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History Lesson: The Mighty Battlecat
“The Mighty Battlecat,” from Thunderegg (1997) I sometimes think that the five months between getting accepted to writing school and actually starting writing school—April to September 1997—may have been the single period in my life when people thought I was … Continue reading
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History Lesson: I Don’t Want to Stay Here (with Me)
“I Don’t Want to Stay Here (with Me),” from Where Are the Cars (2008) For about one week of the summer that I lived in my parents’ empty house—not coincidentally, a week when my father was home for meetings—I took … Continue reading
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History Lesson: “Keep It with You (demo)”
“Keep It with You (demo),” from Powder to the People (1998) I was in graduate school for fiction, writing short stories like I was supposed to. I hadn’t managed any songs in a few months, but I had a cute … Continue reading
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History Lesson: Conversation Hearts
“Conversation Hearts,” from Universal Nut (1995) Every Valentine’s Day, my mother used to send me a card and a little box of Necco Conversation Hearts. My senior year of college, I spread out the chalky candies on the bedspread in … Continue reading
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History Lesson: I Felt Wonderful
“I Felt Wonderful,” from This Week (2007) Elliott Smith is said to have frequented O’Connor’s when he lived in Brooklyn, but Farrell’s, in Windsor Terrace, is the only bar where you can actually write a song. There is no jukebox … Continue reading
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History Lesson: Retarty
“Retarty” (explicit), from Platinum (2009) And so after writing an enormous number of songs—sometimes I claim 350, 400, but it’s probably more like 200 if you don’t count the snippets and re-recordings, the experiments and the foolishness—Thunderegg finally hit the … Continue reading
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History Lesson: This Is Just Like California!
“This Is Just Like California!,” from In Yanistin (2000) That February, my gamble at adulthood—living with my girlfriend in Westchester County—proved to be not very well thought out, and I finally caved and slunk home to my parents’ house to … Continue reading
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