Here's Lance's comments:
"If you bought One Mississippi on CD, I feel a little obligated to give you some sort of instructions or at least some kind of disclaimer. You see, we really meant for this album to be a double album. The way this record works is particular to that format. Sitting through 26 straight songs of the same band just isn't natural. One Mississippi is meant to be listened to in little 20 minute blocks. I don't mean to get too pretentious, but each side has it's own… uh… "perso...
Here's Lance's comments:
"If you bought One Mississippi on CD, I feel a little obligated to give you some sort of instructions or at least some kind of disclaimer. You see, we really meant for this album to be a double album. The way this record works is particular to that format. Sitting through 26 straight songs of the same band just isn't natural. One Mississippi is meant to be listened to in little 20 minute blocks. I don't mean to get too pretentious, but each side has it's own… uh… "personality" and flows as such. From No Jazz to Your Mother is one side. Try to listen to it like it's one thing. Next time, listen to She Says through I Reach For Her Hand. Part 3 is The Doctor through The Devil And I. Finally, the last section is Rich And Young And Dumb through Stars Are Exploding.
"Now, I could say something really stupid, like "each side is a different season" or "each compartment represents an age in the author's life" or some other bullshit to justify this. No, it's four separate "sets", if you will, and the songs were selected in the same way we put together a set to perform live. Each side is it's own entity. That was the intention, I guess."
The samples in Stars Are Exploding are from the Conet Project, a multi-CD set of intercepted recordings of 'number stations' - shortwave radio transmissions from around the world that are reputedly run by various intelligence agencies. For more information visit the Conet Project home page and/or this informative review of the CDs.
Although the album had the working title The Horror Of Life, it ended up being named after the place it was recorded. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
