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Great fucking song. Thanks, I hadn't heard this in a billion years.

Posted by Jeff | June 19, 2008 1:01 PM
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IMHHHHHO driveway to driveway is tops, second only to 100,000 fireflies WHICH i didn't know was a magnetic fields song until THIS YEAR.

that "why do we still live here/ in this repulsive town" lyric was my anthem when i was hating kirkland so hard in high school

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Posted by ndrwmtsn | June 19, 2008 2:46 PM
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I hate using comments threads to semi-publish post-script like this, but fuck it, here's why "Detroit has a Skyline" rules hard today:

The phrase, "Played track 6 / Track 7 / Again and again." It's a line about obsessive, emotionally invested music listening in a song that totally invites such a relationship. Say this song is stuck in your dome, you find yourself hitting that line over and over, and it's like some kind of fractal, or a needle spiraling inward on some infinite record. Again and again. More than any Art Brut song, that line just makes me so stoked to have/be so much wrapped up in pop songs.

Posted by Eric Grandy | June 19, 2008 4:43 PM

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