Just look at the list of collaborators on this one. You got Aimee Mann, Peter Buck, Ted Leo, Aimee Mann, Will Sheff, Aimee Mann, Mitch Easter, Aimee Mann, and even Aimee Mann.
I've tried repeatedly to write about their music and what it means to me and why you should listen, but I can never put my words down on paper properly. Someday I'll get there but for now you'll just have to trust me. Sometimes I'm convinced that I'm the world's biggest Scott Miller fan under 40, which just means I'll have to work even harder at being his ambassador.
A song from my pal Britt Daniel about being logical in a relationship, but nothing is really logical. Trying to do something to be at least conventional or rational, but failing in that effort. Emotion and heart ❤️ always wins out.
“No more riding the brakes.”
TUFF. A musical beast. It’s like twice as long live and often an encore or last song of the regular set.
I have a working theory that any song over five minutes is almost always really fucking good. Not a single melodic second is wasted in this one. No words are spoken, yet so much is said.
It's just like John Swartzwelder said:
"Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible […] Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done."