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- (STRUMS CHORD)
- # Sometimes the bad guys
# Come out on top
# Sometimes the good guys lose
- Well, it feels great looking back.
We had no plan whatsoever,
as I think our parents were constantly reminding us.
This record, Fade, it's not like we sat down and had a plan
for what kind of record we wanted to make.
We just wrote some songs and,
you know, they do, kind of, one leads to another,
and just let the record kind of form itself.
Recording in Chicago was a big change.
We, for the last 20 years,
had been recording with the same producer, Roger Moutenot,
who used to live around the corner from us in Hoboken
and then moved to Nashville.
We just had the notion of maybe this was the time
to do something different.
We got in touch with our very old friend John McEntire
of the bands Tortoise and The Sea And Cake,
who's produced lots of great records.
- # Hold me in your arms
# Be still, be there
- I think you're just influenced by your life and the world around you
and the music you like and the music you don't like
and something you read about and have a notion of what that might be.
Since Fade came out, there's a lot of quiet songs on that record,
so we started doing two sets where we played quietly
for 45 minutes or so,
and then actually reset the stage,
we play kind of different drums and different keyboards.
And then the stage is struck and we come back and play electrically.
- # So say good night to me
# And lose no more time
- I have to be boring and say The Go-Betweens because...
..cos it's the right answer.
- # Resisting the flow
I hope that all our shows are special in a certain way,
that there's, you know, no sets ever the same.
We have a low threshold of what we feel qualifies as knowing something.
We can make our way to the end of quite a few of our old songs,
so we keep them all circulating.
So we never know until the night.
- # Resisting the flow
# Resisting the flow
# Resisting the flow #