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Before The Cool Done Run Out

I heard this song for the first time on Sunday night. Some of my very most musical friends put it on for me.

I think cool people are supposed to think it's cheesy or dorky or something.

I love it.

I'm Yours is track 2 on We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things.

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Two Dimensions Are Better Than One

Safely distant in Beijing, I heard whispers from the States in the summer of 2006 that the cool kids had come to a consensus. They'd decided that all rock and roll lies somewhere along the U2-Radiohead continuum.

U2 is a pole. Radiohead is a pole. Every other band or musician, emotionally, walks somewhere on the tightrope in between.

Summer 2006 happens to have been the time the Crash Test Dummies finally clicked for me. And, cool kids or no cool kids, Crash Test Dummies do not live on that line.

And nor do Ween. Or Tenacious D. Or Phish. Or the Talking Heads.

I'm pretty sure the cool kids now consider summer 2006 the distant and unenlightened past, but, just in case, Just Shoot Me, Baby.

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Before The Cool Done Run Out

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