Now that we have the resources, we’re like, “Oh wow, a nice studio is pretty nice! They do have nice outboards here. It’s actually a pretty good place.” It’s funny how much changes so quickly.

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Now that we have the resources, we’re like, “Oh wow, a nice studio is pretty nice! They do have nice outboards here. It’s actually a pretty good place.” It’s funny how much changes so quickly.

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Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There’s something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.

BEN GIBBARD

Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There’s something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.
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Musical
I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my life, but they’re twirling around me at the time.
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Directly Earnest Itself Twirling
We were playing Chinese restaurants and basements and record stores and houses. We were crashing on floors and it was all new and exciting. It was like a vacation. It didn’t feel like work.

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We were playing Chinese restaurants and basements and record stores and houses. We were crashing on floors and it was all new and exciting. It was like a vacation. It didn’t feel like work.
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Basement Exciting Record Restaurant Vacation
I’m not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun.

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I’m not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun.
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Baseball
I’ve always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He’s a great vocalist.

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I’ve always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He’s a great vocalist.
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Spots Vocalist
We would scoff at the idea of a nice studio. “Why would you want to go to a nice studio? Oh wow, they have really expensive gear. Ooh, that’s really fancy. Well we’ve got an eight-track. We’ve got it going on here.”

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We would scoff at the idea of a nice studio. “Why would you want to go to a nice studio? Oh wow, they have really expensive gear. Ooh, that’s really fancy. Well we’ve got an eight-track. We’ve got it going on here.”
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Eight Expensive Fancy Studio
I don’t want to be overdramatic about it, but I’m starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.

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I don’t want to be overdramatic about it, but I’m starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.
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Starting
The Photo Album is the weakest record. For the first time in our careers, we found ourselves with an economic incentive to be on the road and to be making albums.
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Cutting Real
We always idealize the past because we don’t feel the painful stuff the way we used to.
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Feel Idealize Painful Way
You remember that stuff and laugh about it now. You don’t feel it the way you did back then when you were so scared and nervous and tired and hungry.

BEN GIBBARD

You remember that stuff and laugh about it now. You don’t feel it the way you did back then when you were so scared and nervous and tired and hungry.
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Back
I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of ‘Plans’ came out of samples and vocal lines.

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I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of ‘Plans’ came out of samples and vocal lines.
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Lines Piano
I feel like on those older records there are a lot of attempts at clever turns of phrase.

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I feel like on those older records there are a lot of attempts at clever turns of phrase.
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Attempts Older Record The Phrase
To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didnt sign to Atlantic just for the money.
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Knows Records
I don’t hear it now the way I did when I was 20. I think it is undeniable that the songs have become more instantaneously descriptive and literal.

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I don’t hear it now the way I did when I was 20. I think it is undeniable that the songs have become more instantaneously descriptive and literal.
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Descriptive Literal Now Undeniable
At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could’ve taken. I don’t think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder.

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At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could’ve taken. I don’t think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder.
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Taken
And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.

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And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.
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Tiny

Now that we have the resources, we’re like, “Oh wow, a nice studio is pretty nice! They do have nice outboards here. It’s actually a pretty good place.” It’s funny how much changes so quickly.

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