Nada Surf - The Weight Is a Gift

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2018

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Bill and Brian get into the indie-pop bliss that is Nada Surf's The Weight Is a Gift (2005, Barsuk)! Bill talks about this album accompanying him on long drives home in NJ, and Brian breaks down his new knowledge about guitar effect pedals. And of course we have a track by track review, discussing this work by Matthew Caws, Daniel Lorca, Ira Elliot, Louie Lino, and Chris Walla.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill.
0:02.7	And I'm Brian.
0:03.8	And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.8	We're talking about 2006's The Weight is a Gift by Not a Surf.
0:30.6	The Wait is a Gift by Not a Surf. The world's locked up in your head, you've been pouring in a concrete bed. Your habits are to fry, you don't realize you're fried You're so fried
0:40.1	To find someone you love
0:45.0	You gotta be someone you love
0:47.9	What we do here every week on the podcast
0:50.9	Is take an album of music
0:52.2	And talk about what makes it great. We try to have the
0:54.8	conversation around the music that fans do having a conversation, not the conversation. And
1:03.2	we cap it all off with a track-by-track review. No, we don't. Stop lying, Bill. We don't do that.
1:10.3	Or in the very least, we spend the majority of the episode with a track-by-track review
1:15.7	and then cap it off with like 10 seconds of, you know, BS.
1:19.9	I think it's more than 10 seconds.
1:21.2	It's probably five minutes.
1:22.6	Okay.
1:23.3	Fair enough.
1:24.0	But I'm just, I'm here to check facts.
1:26.5	That's all I'm here to do today, guys.
1:28.7	Oh, you're, you're, you're letting it out early or you're letting the cat out of the
1:33.4	bag about how this is my pick right here.
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