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Hope
02:53
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We thought we really had something with this one, and it got a lot of singalongs at punk shows after the track was showcased on a 502 South comp. Still probably one of the better singles that Matt and I have worked up over the years.
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Fuse
03:25
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Matt wrote this awesome riff, but goddamn, did we beat it into the ground on this track. Still, a lot of people came up to us after shows and told us this was going to be a big hit. Obviously, they were wrong, but the bridge is a highlight on the EP.
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Sun Damage
04:13
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If I ranked the songs I've worked on all time, this one would be in the top 5. I love the little noodling at the beginning, how the song glides along and then how things just start to happen and then we get the Stewart Copeland style snare pop, and it just keeps building until the guitars really take off at the end. And I sang it like I really meant it, and I did. The video is one of the better ones, too.
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Arc
02:29
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I wrote this song after watching an episode of Quantum Leap.
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Sub
02:51
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I'm not going to say I predicted the future here, but I didn't not predict the future. Also the science in this song is grossly inaccurate. We added The Sundays reference at the very end and knew no one would notice or care. I love Harriet Wheeler.
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Ottawa
03:41
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Shawn insisted we do this one, and I'm glad he did. A country artist should cover this, have a hit, and send some money my way.
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Arc (band demo)
02:37
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Sub (band demo)
02:51
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Hope (band demo)
02:54
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Sun Damage (band demo)
04:20
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Fuse (band demo)
03:35
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Ottawa (band demo)
03:54
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The last song cut from the EP. This version has out-of-tune guitars we didn't care about for the band demo, and we did not record it in the studio. Looking back I wish we had, we actually opened some shows with this song, and it would have worked well on the EP.
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Early version. And holy shit, there's a whole separate part that's missing from the S/N version? Where did that go?
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Catchy but forgettable. I don't even really remember writing or recording it.
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Early version.
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Reworking of a song from the first Trackjackets EP that we would redo in this style in studio for the next EP.
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It's a little too cute.
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We once played this song at a show and the band accidentally turned it into La Bamba. That said, I always loved this one and really wanted to do it as a full band track, and it just never made it on a list to record. Was fun to sing.
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Nice version, all the building blocks were there.
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I revisited this one later with electronic apps for some reason, and it's okay. I think I just liked the main lyric, but the song is pretty uneventful.
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Always liked the acoustic version of this.
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Not sure what I was thinking here, but this is a little too serious.
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This version is nice enough in a coffee shop.
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Trackjackets passed on this song again and again, and then it became the first Readership single and Readership's most requested and most played song.
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We recorded this one at the next album sessions, and it ended up on another punk comp. There's a uke version that's pretty cute too. Fish in a barrel.
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I went to grad school for history of science, and this is what I got out of it.
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This might be the best song of the lot, and here it lies. I think I performed it once, and it's never been recorded beyond this version. "Stop saying never, and start saying yes."
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Readership reworked this quiet one as a real loud rock song called "Killer Whales Make Graves," but we did it between recordings and the song fell through the cracks again.
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Early version. Kind of neat.
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Another one that fell through the cracks on multiple projects. Trackjackets did do a version of it live, but it never got recorded in a studio. It was a little clunky though and never matched what was captured here. I always loved the lyrics to this song and actually wrote the whole thing on a fall day after tropical storm remnants came through and turned summer humidity to crisp fall in a 24 hours span.
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Adrian Morse Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Adrian creates songs stitched from historical yarns, literary scenes, and relatable blunders of personal experience. A veteran of countless musical missteps, unrealized bands, and aborted projects, his recent works include an acoustic LP and a series of increasingly unpopular releases with the power pop band Readership. He resides in Philadelphia and has a nice cat (who even has his own song). ... more
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