Pomona, CA

Become What You Are: Interview Disc (with Ed Nimmervoll)

Tracklist

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Q: Okay, well to start off with, I guess we should...
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Q: But people who listen to your records now, how much ...
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Q: And what happened to The Blake Babies?
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Q: Was that difficult?
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Q: Your new album starts off with a song called Supermodel...
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Q: On your last album, there's a song called Ugly...
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Q: Did you have to go through any of that, record companies...
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Q: Have they ever tried? Even in the Blake Babies stage?
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Q: Right, the next song's Sister, do you want to talk...
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10
Q: It's an idealsitic look at a sister, it's a sister you wished you had...
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Q: What was your own childhood like? Did you grow...
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Q: I've found in talking to other people, when ...
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Q: That brings us to This Is The Sound. That's an appropriate...
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Q: Yeah, and this set of songs, we reached before...
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Q: The thing I noticed watching you live is that there's two sides...
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Q: And you like the tougher sound on guitar?...
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Q: Do you miss another voice on stage? You seem to do...
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Q: I think your songs so beg for that don't they?
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Q: For The Birds?
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Q: Did you, as you say in the lyric, actually see a little baby bird...
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Q: Do you have pets?
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Q: You talk about being withdrawn and that's what you say...
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Q: And do you remember where you were when you wrote that song?
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Q: Okay, the next one is Mabel...
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Q: No, it portrays someone that is homeless, maybe...
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Q: In your song who is it that's saying look at her?
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Q: Do you know a 'Mabel'?
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Q: Did watching the movie set you off on this course...
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Q: Well the next one, A Dame With A Rod...
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Q: It's about a woman taking revenge?
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Q: Is this once again your sort of depair at this state of the world...
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Q: Is that a reality? Is that a fear? A reality? Or is it just...
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Q: Addicted. Is it addiction to music you're talking about?
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Q: When you say 'addicted' people instantly think 'drugs'...
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Q: Writing a song like that, does that help you get over an addiction...
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Q: When you write something about yourself do you then cover...
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Q: Can you write a very personal song?
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Q: And when you do, do you then try and generalise...
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Q: Was it hard for you in the beginning to do something personal...
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Q: Well, lot of people say exactly that thing, they're just mediums...
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Q: Massachusetts, Feelin' Massachusetts, that's obviously where...
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Q: Was it a small town you needed to escape from?
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Q: And is it just boredom like you express in the song...
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Q: What sort of reaction have you had from the home town...
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Q: Could you settle in Boston eventually? After you've done...
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Q: Spin The Bottle, that's actually my favourite song on this record...
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Q: Is it a game you used to play when you were a young...
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Q: But the game itself is supposedly an innocent game...
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Q: Cause the spinning is innocence as chance but...
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Q: Is that how you see the world in general too?
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Q: President Garfield, do you want to talk about that?
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Q: You want to be like that person?
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Q: And is this your most personal song?
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Q: And did that person disappoint you?
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Q: And has that person heard the song? Do they know...
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Q: That's the song where you say I'm not a singer isn't it?
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Q: Like Ugly, it's a little bit of a put down on yourself...
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Q: But I mean, you have got a style of you own and you...
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Q: You mentioned Nirvana. You've also worked with Belly...
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Q: Evan was on your last record. Is there anyone else...
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Q: And you got a different producer this time...
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Q: Whos' also an R.E.M. associate...
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Q: Did you want to get away from the Hey Babe sound...
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Q: What was that like, once you put all that in place...
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Q: What did you say to him that you wanted?
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Q: Was there one song that you were recording when...
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Q: Little Pieces is the next song. Is that just 'little pieces of thought'?
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Q: Is that something you've felt over the years?
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Q: When you get away from music and the band...
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Q: Would you, if you were given 2 months away from music,...
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Q: I Got No Idols, I wonder if that song came out of people...
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Q: The 'model' thing. It's a different kind of worship...
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Q: That's what I meant. You open with shallowness then you...
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Q: Did something happen to you to make you think about that?
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Q: Do you have 'idols'?
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Q: When you think about this set of songs, what do they represent..
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Q: Are they I want to write a good song of that type...
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Q: And how successful do you think you've been...
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Q: If you were able to wave a magic wand and Juliana Hatfield's...
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Q: I don't necessarily mean goals. Do you want people...
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