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@ZachBuckner2 @FranziaMom Honestly, the whole catalog is so consistent. AMAZING GRACE and SONGS IN A&E don't do much for me, but the last 3 records have also been really great.

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@FranziaMom Faraquet

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@PaulValleIII The one consistent through line of much of what Manfred does or says is his contempt for the game, its most invested fans, and the players. They are all obstacles to him making baseball into something else that might make more money!

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@FranziaMom Both are incredible, but I prefer S/T over For Your Own Special Sweetheart. S/T showed they could do anything and everything.

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@FranziaMom Love the Tubs, Dead Meat was my favorite album from 2023, but I actually preferred this year's Ex-Void album to Cotton Crown

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@FranziaMom Impossible choice, but seeing "The Moon and Antarctica" performed in full a few weeks ago, might tip me to Modest Mouse. Sometimes I can't fathom how that album exists, let alone that it was their major label debut. There's nothing else like it.

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@benjpalmer Do you have any faith that he would’ve developed as well on the Orioles?

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@FranziaMom So Sumday is your favorite?

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@FranziaMom Amazing album- first became aware of them by seeing them open for the Dismemberment Plan several times in the early 2000s!

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@EsotericCD @Steven_Hyden Actually prefer Raditude. It’s terrible in such a bizarre, inconceivable way that I almost appreciate it (though I don’t care to listen to it). Whereas Make Believe is such a cynical, soulless record that makes me think Rivers can’t decide who he hates more: his fans or himself.

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@FranziaMom Agree with much of this and especially like the placement of Red which has always been unfairly maligned. But I loathe Make Believe (which always felt not just cynical but a subconscious attempt to make fans reconsider their love of the early albums).

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@FranziaMom 1. A Fine Day For A Parade
2. Amity Gardens
3. Barbara H
4. Troubled Times
5. Hackensack
6. Sick Day
7. Joe Rey
8. Strapped For Cash
9. The Summer Place
10. Please Don’t Rock Me Tonight

The middle of Utopia Parkway is their career high point for me (if you couldn’t tell).

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@EsotericCD @KnowMySongWell Agreed. The depth of the future Bootleg Series releases make it easy to not focus on this one anymore, but it really set the stage for everything to come.

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@EsotericCD @KnowMySongWell Also “Abandoned Love”!

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@Steven_Hyden I hate to be that person, but no "Autumn Almanac"? For me, it's the perfect Kinks song. It encapsulates everything that makes Ray Davies great.

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@EsotericCD Greatest rock vocal performance of all time

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@SeanTrende Also remember after 2004 there was talk of Republicans getting to 60 seats in 2006.

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@PaulValleIII Also, the Yankees and Red Sox moves all add up to a coherent strategy on how they felt they could make their teams better. The Orioles moves just feel like a bunch of one-offs for guys who happened to be available.

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@Steven_Hyden The Destroyer album where Bejar writes his version of Carl Newman songs.

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@MattGlassman312 My recollection from 2020 is Dave Wasserman reporting that both parties internal House polling was too bearish on Republicans. Republicans spent heavily on races they won comfortably and didn’t spend in races they barely lost.