1. This collection changed my music life. I remember listening to it over and over thinking, "How is this possible? How have I missed this music all my life?"
2. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Radiohead's "Gagging Order" is frighteningly brilliant.
3. I love Okkervil River.
4. Sparklehorse's "Gold Days" is the soundtrack to every dream I've ever had and every dream I ever will have--from the terrifying to the sexy.
5. If Will Oldham can do it, I can do it.
6. Low: Almost thou persuadest me to love slow-core. "No more airplanes."
7. Two thoughts from "Los Angeles I'm Yours": 1) Colin Meloy=pervert ("I can see your undies..."), and 2) worst...harmonica...solo...ever. EVER. It makes me feel like I'm getting hit on by some guy named Bliss in the back of some side-street barber shop called Whisper Cuts in 1983; what I was doing there in the first place I'll never know.
8. "The Best of Jill Hives" is the best of GBV I've heard. I totally would've put this song on a mix tape for (name omitted for privacy) in the spring of 1995. It would've been even COOLER if her name would've been Jill.
