The Subways Discography Series Of Questions

Anna Gaca, Associate Editor: I actually found this track because KeiyaA covered it on her album: Princes nine-minute-long version of his song Do Yourself a Favor (first recorded by Jesse Johnson), from the 2019 super-deluxe edition of 1999.

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By Pitchfor k December 29, 2020 Facebook Twitter Pause Graphic by Drew Litowitz Facebook Twitter This year was a strange one for living, much less listening.

Even among the Pitchfork staff, we struggled to find meaningful stopgaps for live shows, to absorb new songs at the same speed without the routines of everyday life, and to feel the in-person catharsis that music can offer.

The Subways Discography Series Of Questions

In trying to make sense of this insular year in music, we asked staffers to answer a series of questions about the songs and albums that comforted them, the loss of live music, and a handful of other topics related to the past and the future.

What older music did you turn to for comfort this year Isabelia Herrera, Contributing Editor: I spent the last four months of 2020 in my mothers one-bedroom apartment in Chicago, taking care of her after a stroke threatened to take her life in September.

But after months of grief and uncertainty, the song sounded like less of a requiem and more like a song of triumph for the woman who raised me.

Philip Sherburne, Contributing Editor: In researching my Sunday Review of his 1999 album Knock Knock, I reacquainted myself with the whole three-decade expanse of Bill Callahan s back catalog.

For much of the spring and summer, I rose at dawn to take walks through the countryside bordering the subdivision where I live, Callahans music in my ears.

I ingested his records at the rough rate of one a day, first chronologically, then doubling back, jumping from album to album or song to song, weighing favorites.

With his low, conspiratorial voice close in my earscracking jokes, telling dark secretsthis immersion made for an experience both intimate and intense.

The songs became bound up with the landscape: the way In the Pines merged with the scraggly woods where I might glimpse the occasional rabbit in an overgrown field; the day I heard Teenage Spaceship while turning onto a quiet suburban street and felt a sudden and vivid empathy with the songs adolescent subject.

The one that sticks with me most is The Mackenzies, Gold Record s tale of a man who receives an impromptu invitation for supper at his neighbors place and stumbles, Twilight Zone -like, into an alternate reality of their grief.

One day I stopped on the dirt path to try to decipher the strange story and found myself choking up unexpectedly.

Alphonse Pierre, Staff Writer: It says a lot about me that in my search for soothing music this year I turned to Gucci Manes EA Sportscenter.

Theres something incredibly relaxing about hearing the ATL trap forefather go on and on about his rims and how much better his life is than yours.

Usually hell say these flexes with a basketball reference, like Tall money Yao Ming taller than Nowitzki from Sportscenter.

Hes the only one who can make something so simple this memorable.

Vrinda Jagota, Associate Social Media Manager: Like a 2015 Tumblr mood board brought to life, I made and ate spanakopita while listening to Sapokanikan by Joanna Newsom multiple times this year.

It was a joke, a party I threw myself, and a coping mechanism in a year in which very little felt beautiful.

I love the ritual of making spanakopita: You melt a stick of butter and then carefully brush it onto sheet after sheet of dough before baking it to a gleaming crisp.

It is nice to feed yourself with something that requires so much care.

Most of all, I like the combination of spanakopita and Sapokanikan because I feel like I can escape into the layers and tiny decadence of both without leaving my kitchen.

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