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From the album Songs in the Key of X (1996) Recorded during the tumultuous sessions of the band's second album, Irresistible Bliss, Unmarked Helicopters is prototypical Soul Coughing and an achievement in "slacker jazz." That intra-band strife of the time seems to help this song, better than any other, capture the zeitgeist of The X-Files, the feeling of alienation and suspicion that the show projected. The intro borrows from of the ...

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Back in 1998-1999, when the mp3 file trading scene really was like the wild wild west, no one really had much idea how to treat the phenomenon. Sure, labels and artists weren't keen on infinitely duplicatable copies of their music being sent around, but there was also a free wheeling sense to see what would become of the phenomenon, even among established acts. Take Soul Coughing. For several months during ...

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All the band's work is brilliant, but Screenwriter's Blues is transcendental. [audio:060908ScreenwritersBlues.mp3]

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a solid 3 hours and 40 minutes in today, which doesn't seem long enough to have covered all the items below. but a lot of them are singles, just 2-4 songs each, plus i don't actually list an album here until i've played all its songs. i had 6 songs left in the soul coughing show and only the last 2 of sigur ros' (). so those didn't make ...

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One of the effects of loading the iPod alphabetically by album is that I'm getting a refresher course in live music. The tagging scheme I use for live performances looks like this: year.month.date venue, city Thus, all the shows are listed chronologically. As far as iTunes is concerned, each show is just an album that starts with a number. Today found me listening to a 1995 Soul Coughing show in New York ...

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