Listened: Monday October 11
Odelay made people come to my office and ask me what the hell I was listening to (specifically the synthy noodling at the end of Novacane).
I enjoy this album a lot more than I used to. I acquired it sometime after its time in the sun, because, like Nevermind, I thought I should own it, as a piece of the soundtrack of my teenage years. Until the project, though, I didn’t listen to it much.
I guess I do have to give it props – it doesn’t sound like anything else. Mr Hansen might have known what he was doing.
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