Re: Stand Up is a great album...there I said it.
Listening to this album now as a 35-40 year old married father is incredibly different than listening to it as a Senior in High School.
I personally don't think the album is great in the sense of the fluidity and scope of the music as presented (but I am glad you enjoy it - music is subjective and should have differing views) - but what I find great is the relatability and the story Dave seems to being telling throughout it.
As a 35 year old father of a younger child my head is just as jumbled as the subjects of this album - but they are incredibly understandable subjects. Marriage, old love, old friends, new friends, exploration, excitement, fear, parenting, sexual exploration, political unrest, political fear, political hope, dreams.
I appreciate that he truly wrote what was most likely going through a newer fathers head and was honest about the majority of it (hoping Hello Again isn't a true story).
The Batson Sessions (including Stand Up) will never be a great album because I have always felt they were working on SO MUCH that they had so many good ideas that were finished - but weren't completed. We are seeing that with the evolution of a lot of these songs for the better.
Old Dirt Hill is a fantastic Dave and Tim song, and has grown organically in that direction (also Out of My Hands).
It's a fun listen. It's a nostalgic listen for me for where I was at it when it came out and the feelings I had during that time building relationships while listening to that album - and then listening to it in retrospect to where I am at now.
....with that said, "Here you go you dirty girl, try to love to uhhh." gives me significantly more of a cringe factor than it did 17 years ago.
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