Port O’Brien - All We Could Do Was Sing - mp3 review
My friends call me a failure and tell me that I’m overly complex, lazy, and my work is shit. I swear I don’t know what they are talking about. I would write more, but I’ve inadvertently caused the swelling of my bladder by orally consuming generous amounts of hydrogen combined with oxygen and now I’ve got to piss like a racehorse.
Port O’Brien began early in 2005, as a folk-ish duo of Van Pierszalowski and Cambria Goodwin. In the summer of 2007, the band released a compilation of previously self-released songs titled The Wind and The Swell on American Dust Records. Their latest release marks Port O’Brien’s first full band release. One half of the record was recorded at the legendary Tiny Telephone Recording Studios, where Sun Kil Moon, the Mountain Goats, and Death Cab for Cutie have been recorded. Jason Quever, of the band the Papercuts, recorded the other half of the songs at his Pan-American Recording Studios. The songs on, All We Could Do Was Sing, reflect on Van’s summer work on his father’s commercial salmon fishing boat, the Shawnee, on Kodiak Island in Alaska. Pithy lyrics and lush arrangements paint pictures of long days spent working in the freezing cold, lament for home, frustrations of accepting your fate, yet remaining inspired by the world he finds himself surrounded by. There are so many beautiful songs on this record that it was hard to choose what to post. These tracks are from their upcoming album, All We Could Do Was Sing, scheduled to be released May 13th.
I Woke Up Today
Pigeonhold
Stuck on a boat
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April 29th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Bob from some random website says:
“The first time I heard this expression, probably in the 1960s, I heard it as “I have to pee like a Russian racehorse.” Like you, I didn’t understand, so I asked the person who had used the expression what it meant. The explanation was that in Russia a racehorse’s trainer would tie a string around the horse’s penis an hour or so before the race so that the horse could not urinate. The resulting bladder discomfort would spur the horse to run faster, knowing (presumably from previous training/conditioning) that the string would be removed after the race. Even if this isn’t true — and I’m willing to be it isn’t — it’s a fine explanation.”