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Verse by Verse

by The Caribbean

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    2001 release by The Caribbean. Their first full-length.

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1.
I'll Simplify My Life (in Fremont) 02:11
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2.
Front Row at the Rodeo 03:26
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3.
Help Would Only Confuse Me 02:22
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4.
Verse by Verse 02:40
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5.
Have You Thought About Turning Pro? 03:06
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6.
Knife Replaces Blade 02:50
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7.
To Call Your Very Own 03:51
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8.
I Am the Mosque 04:00
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9.
What Would Jane Jacobs Say? 02:54
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10.
The Mancunian Candidate 03:30
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11.
Girl at Fairgrounds 01:04
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about

Recorded at the National Crayon Museum, Washington, DC by Dallas Kentucky, 1998-2000.

Mixed & assembled at Inner Ear by Don Zientara, July 2000.

Mastered by David Torrey at DRT, Petersborough, NH, August 2000.

credits

released January 9, 2001

Operating Theater:

Michael Kentoff
Matthew Byars
Tony Dennison

Triage:

Rich Albert
Don Campbell
John Foster
Greg Jones
Maureen Kentoff

All visual:

John Foster

Published by You Have That Lost Look Again, ASCAP

Colour photography:

Maria Tessa Sciarrino

Sample loop larceny victim (song 2) portrayed by Talking Heads

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The Caribbean Washington, D.C.

They’re taking Brill Building songs and writing them in invisible ink, turning jazz standards into Twilight Zone episodes, turning folk songs into clouds of fog.

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