1. Uncertain Smile
2. Out of the Blue (Into The Fire)
3. December Sunlight
4. This Is The Day
5. The Whisperers
6. Boiling Point
7. Sweet Bird of Truth
8. Slow Emotion Replay
9. This Is The Night
10. Bluer Than Midnight
11. Helpline Operator
12. Lonely Planet
13. August & September
14. The Sinking Feeling
2. Out of the Blue (Into The Fire)
3. December Sunlight
4. This Is The Day
5. The Whisperers
6. Boiling Point
7. Sweet Bird of Truth
8. Slow Emotion Replay
9. This Is The Night
10. Bluer Than Midnight
11. Helpline Operator
12. Lonely Planet
13. August & September
14. The Sinking Feeling
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Re: Favorite Tracks
Tue, May 25, 2004 - 8:39 AMNo particular order:
*august and september
*bluer than midnight
*uncertain smile
*true happiness this way lies
*the violence of truth
*gravitate to me
*beyond love
*helpline operator
*this is the day
*december sunlight
*weather belle
*the sinking feeling
*another boy drowning
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Re: Favorite Tracks
Tue, May 25, 2004 - 11:08 PMHey, you have some good tracks in there! -
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Re: Favorite Tracks
Wed, May 26, 2004 - 9:50 AMthanks. heh!
i absolutely love all of those songs. granted, i think everything matt writes and sings is brilliant but those songs-----well, let's just say i can listen to them endlessly on repeat! -
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Thu, May 27, 2004 - 12:22 PMYeah, I've got my Matt Johnson playlist for my crappy Musicmatch Jukebox program.
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Re: Favorite Tracks
Fri, May 28, 2004 - 2:00 PMlove is stronger than death.
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Re: Favorite Tracks
Fri, May 28, 2004 - 3:10 PMme too.
i love his voice on that song.
i had an uncle who died a few months before dusk was released and when i first heard that song..i couldn't stop crying.
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Re: Favorite Tracks
Fri, May 28, 2004 - 3:34 PMi don't know what this one is called, but i love it. very dark.
i see an old man fingering his perishing flesh
he says he was a good man and he did good things
amused and confused by life's little ironies
he reaches for his bottle of distilled damnation
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Re: Favorite Tracks
Fri, May 28, 2004 - 4:21 PMoh what a perfect day...
it's called perfect.
i love it.
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Fri, May 28, 2004 - 6:31 PMit's hard to make a list. each album was its own movement. they felt like complete bodies of work. and they landed in my life in a particular way. at a particular time. some tracks certainly stand out- but in the days before ripping, burning and short attention span theater, i *always played them from beginning to end. i rarely do that anymore with other music.
so in no particular order:
time again for the golden sunset
another boy drowning
uncertain smile
beyond love
out of the blue
slow train to dawn
sweet bird of truth
this is the day
august and september
the violence of truth
gravitate to me
the beat(en) generation
twilight of a champion
giant
*with infected, i always skipped the track infected.
i am totally and completely nostalgic right now and all my the the is in san francisco. [need a fix]
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Re: Favorite Tracks
Sat, May 29, 2004 - 3:31 AM"Come my love
with your desire
out of the blue
and into the fire..."
Matt Johnson rocks...and I can't believe I forgot to mention "Love Is Stronger Than Death"! But I guess that I would have to say that "Dusk" is my favorite The The album. The least listenable was "Hanky Panky", but it was still good in its' own way...
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Re: Favorite Tracks
Sun, May 30, 2004 - 10:57 PMi need a fix of san francisco!
i miss that place so much.
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albums
Mon, May 31, 2004 - 7:52 AM'burning blue soul' feels like exactly what it is-- a young raw matt. it is honest and dark. the outpouring of a brilliant, angsty 19-yr-old. my favorite albums are definitely 'soul mining' and 'infected'. minus the track infected, of course. i met a bunch of people during college who were heavily and spiritually into the the. we *all* skipped the first track coincidentally. maybe because it wasn't the same mood. maybe because it had radio play. -
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Re: albums
Mon, May 31, 2004 - 8:40 PMI do agree with you in that all of his albums are truly thematic. I especially like the titles of his songs because they also seem to exemplify a feeling, a thought... -
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Re: albums
Wed, June 2, 2004 - 8:29 AMi have alway seen his songs as stories..little vignettes.
the man is amazing!
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Mon, August 2, 2004 - 10:32 AMprobably this is the day and gravitate to me...
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Re: Favorite Tracks
Tue, October 12, 2004 - 1:18 PMHello all;
Thanks for creating a The The tribe; seems everytime someone asks who my favorite artist is and I say The The they say "the who?".
Here are my Favorites (really in no order, it changes daily)
1. Bluer than Midnight
2. August and September
3. This is the Night
4. This is the day
5. Happieness this way lies
6. Sweet Bird of Truth
7. Kingdom of Rain
8. Armageddon Days
9. Dogs of Lust
10. Gravitate to me
11. Love is stronger than death
12. Weather Belle
13. Jealous of youth
14. Another boy drowning
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Re: Favorite Tracks
Thu, August 3, 2006 - 9:31 AMoff the top of my head....
Kingdom of Rain
This is the Night
This is the Day
Slow Emotion Replay
GIANT!!!!!!
Uncertain Smile
SOul Mining
Out of The Blue (into the fire)
Slow Train to dawn
Red Cinders in the Sand
Another Boy Drowning
The River flows east in Spring
Can't think of anything from NakedSelf right now....
Soul Mining was always my favorite, and Dusk,
but lately I'm really into Mind Bomb....
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Mon, November 6, 2006 - 8:56 AMoh, and
"jealous of youth"
and the live version of
"another boy drowning"
from naked self,
"December Sunlight"
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