Okkervil River - The Stand Ins (w/ guest Kate Dressed Up)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

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

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2017

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Musician Katie Miller (katedressedup.bandcamp.com) joins Bill and Brian to dive into Okkervil River's the Stand Ins (2008, Jajaguwar). Katie talks about discovering the band via Bon Iver's cover of "Blue Tulip" and how frontman Will Sheff's lyrical acumen drew her in. Bill, Brian, and Katie discuss why we chose this album over others, caring about lyrics, how Sheff's voice is on the fence of the indie-emo and indie-folk movements, Brian Cassidy's contributions as an arranger and multi-intrumentalist, dueting with Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg, Charles Bissell's guest appearance, the narrative on the nature of art and pop music that runs through the album, the option of succeeding, quitting, or dying, and much more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.4	We are talking about Ockerville River's 2008 album, The Stand-ins.
0:19.8	What we do hear every week on the podcast is take a different album of music and talk about
0:25.1	what makes it great.
0:26.9	We try to have the conversation about how and why we as fans connect with an album, and we do
0:34.1	it through a track-by-track analysis.
0:37.7	Oh, we're analyzing now, are we?
0:40.8	Well, we kind of always have been.
0:42.7	Yeah, and I want it to be known that, you know, we are going to be talking.
0:46.8	We're going to be giving our own subjective personal opinions about these songs,
0:50.5	while also talking about kind of the things that went into the making of it and all
0:55.6	of that stuff, but we're really here to talk about why we enjoy the music, why we all think
1:03.1	it's great. And I say we all, because there's me, Bill, and there's Brian over there, but we also
1:08.0	have a guest joining us today. Yeah, yeah. She'll be joining us shortly.
1:12.2	We'll bring her in, but it's Kate dressed up a South Jersey by way of Philadelphia-based
1:17.9	singer-songwriter, so we'll hear from her shortly.
1:20.5	Yeah, she's going to be kind of our avatar for the fan of the music, that we're going to
1:25.2	just have a nice good conversation about it and what she
1:29.3	enjoys about it, kind of dive into her history with the album and what she enjoys in the music.
1:35.3	Yeah.
1:35.8	So before we get to that, Brian, do you mind letting our listeners know so that we're all
1:41.3	on the same page for this conversation so that just in case a name comes up or whatever, everybody knows what the heck we're talking about. Give us a little bit
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