The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

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

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2017

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian go sans guest for the first time in months to discuss an album that came to us around the same time back in our college days, The Shins' Chutes Too Narrow (2003, Sub Pop). The band formed as primary songwriter James Mercer's new project out of a band called Flake Music back around the turn of the century. Quickly signed to indie Sub Pop, the band had modest success with their first album, 2001's Oh, Inverted World. With Chutes Too Narrow, they gained some buzz and finally broke through after actor/filmmaker Zach Braff featured their song "New Slang" in a key scene in his 2004 film Garden State. Bill and Brian discuss discovering the band early in 2004, being a little underwhelmed by their live show, Brian's summer memories as an unwilling participant at Otacon, Brian's summer memories of his family trying to set him up with a pretty girl, Bill nerding out over utopias and dystopias, and more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the great album's podcast. I'm Bell. And I'm Brian. And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.5	2003's Shoots Too Narrow by the Shins.
0:13.8	What we do here every week on the podcast is talk about a different album of music and what makes it great.
0:21.3	We have the kind of conversation that happens around being a fan of the music.
0:26.3	We're going to talk about how we got into the band and the album, what we think is cool about it,
0:31.8	and do a track-by-track review.
0:34.1	Ooh, all right, let's do it.
0:36.6	And so then we're talking about the shin shoots too narrow this week, and we're actually
0:40.7	doing it by ourselves, Brian.
0:42.3	I know, right?
0:43.1	Like, we don't have a guest, and this is weird, because it's funny.
0:46.9	When we started out, we were always like, oh, yeah, you know, like when we would book
0:51.9	guests, it was always like, oh, yeah, no, let's set aside like a couple weeks or a couple episodes where we don't have guests.
0:59.2	It's like, oh, yeah, getting a little too guest heavy.
1:01.7	And now it's like there's a guest basically every week.
1:04.6	Like a guest has become our thing.
1:07.4	And it's cool how the show has evolved like that.
1:10.2	We're, you know, bringing in that third or sometimes third and fourth perspective adds a bit of value.
1:18.7	Well, and I think that you and I maybe have kind of gone through most of, not all, but most of, like, the albums that we share together and the ones that are huge to us that we really, like, need to talk about, you know, and that we could just have the conversation.
1:37.2	And honestly, I think that this one is one of the few that's still left.
1:42.7	Yeah, this has been a long time coming because we both came to this particular album,
1:48.6	give or take, you know, a couple weeks, months, whatever, right about the same time.
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