15% Volvo-esque stability, reliability and mid-tempo choogling
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15% Moody, semi-evocative lyrics about ... uh ... well ... you know ... stuff
[Jeff Tweedy: “I grunt and make noises and sounds that I think sound like what lyrics would sound like if I had any, and then I go and listen to them over and over and over and over again until it sounds like words, and then I write them down.”]
[MIKE: can you italicize “stuff”?]
15% Jagged tempo shifts, guitar squalls and sudden bursts of static-y weirdness
[Jeff Tweedy: “The band itself overall is populated with pretty major Rush fans.”]
14% Hatred of being labeled “dad rock”
[Glenn Kotche: “Being a dad twice over now, that phrase makes no sense ... I understand the term means complacent, middle-aged and you have a house and a luxury car, but man, being a dad? I drink 10 times more than I did before.”]
12% Social media awareness
[Jeff Tweedy: “I have no doubt that the second this record becomes available there’s somebody sitting in a basement at their computer with the word ‘meh’ already typed up, waiting to post a review.”]
11% An informed fanbase
[Jeff Tweedy: “We were waiting for some food one time at a bar ... and this guy turned around and he recognized me, and he said, “Hey, man. I really wish your records would start selling.”]
9% #humblebrag
[Jeff Tweedy: “There are gaping holes in my knowledge of literature, and at the same time I’m a big fan of Robert Walser, a semi-obscure German short-story writer.”]
5% Social democracy
[Jeff Tweedy: [“You know, I don’t think Kanye West probably hangs out with his [road] crew too much.”]
3% “ ‘M’ is for the million things she...”
[Jeff Tweedy: “My mom told me something that I struggled with my whole life: ‘You’re born alone and you die alone. So you should get used to being alone.’ And that’s just terrible advice.”]
1% Archopyrophobia
[Jeff Tweedy: “[Our worst show ever was] the first time we played the Sasquatch festival. We went on after Arcade Fire, who were just becoming huge at the time ... it was like having your ass handed to you by, like, Cirque du Soleil.”]
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15% Moody, semi-evocative lyrics about ... uh ... well ... you know ... stuff
[Jeff Tweedy: “I grunt and make noises and sounds that I think sound like what lyrics would sound like if I had any, and then I go and listen to them over and over and over and over again until it sounds like words, and then I write them down.”]
[MIKE: can you italicize “stuff”?]
15% Jagged tempo shifts, guitar squalls and sudden bursts of static-y weirdness
[Jeff Tweedy: “The band itself overall is populated with pretty major Rush fans.”]
14% Hatred of being labeled “dad rock”
[Glenn Kotche: “Being a dad twice over now, that phrase makes no sense ... I understand the term means complacent, middle-aged and you have a house and a luxury car, but man, being a dad? I drink 10 times more than I did before.”]
12% Social media awareness
[Jeff Tweedy: “I have no doubt that the second this record becomes available there’s somebody sitting in a basement at their computer with the word ‘meh’ already typed up, waiting to post a review.”]
11% An informed fanbase
[Jeff Tweedy: “We were waiting for some food one time at a bar ... and this guy turned around and he recognized me, and he said, “Hey, man. I really wish your records would start selling.”]
9% #humblebrag
[Jeff Tweedy: “There are gaping holes in my knowledge of literature, and at the same time I’m a big fan of Robert Walser, a semi-obscure German short-story writer.”]
5% Social democracy
[Jeff Tweedy: [“You know, I don’t think Kanye West probably hangs out with his [road] crew too much.”]
3% “ ‘M’ is for the million things she...”
[Jeff Tweedy: “My mom told me something that I struggled with my whole life: ‘You’re born alone and you die alone. So you should get used to being alone.’ And that’s just terrible advice.”]
1% Archopyrophobia
[Jeff Tweedy: “[Our worst show ever was] the first time we played the Sasquatch festival. We went on after Arcade Fire, who were just becoming huge at the time ... it was like having your ass handed to you by, like, Cirque du Soleil.”]
