We Do It Better

009 - Midtown (Save the World, Lose the Girl)


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...on a very special episode of We Do It Better...


First of all, thank you so much for your patience and your patronage. We are sincerely blessed for the love and support you've shown us. We hope that you continue to enjoy, as Den put it, the woefully inept content you can expect from us. We know we sure as heck love making it for you. I will do time codes --I promise-- but for now here's a list of things we talked about:


  1. Cobra Starship
  2. Cobra Starfish
  3. Head Automatica
  4. Living Well is the Best Revenge
  5. Forget What You Know

  6. Cupcake Fest
  7. Club Krome & Club Bene (IYKYK)
  8. Birch Hill Night Club
  9. The 9:30 Club
  10. Warped Tour
  11. Sacrifice of Life EP
  12. Mark Trombino
  13. Justin Beck
  14. Autopilot Off
  15. Where Are Your Boys Tonight? The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
  16. Garnier Fructis
  17. Pinky Dexterity
  18. Let Go "video"
  19. Punk Goes Acoustic, vol. ONE


OK fine, time codes:

00:00:00 - Intro, Banter, Chicanery

00:11:40 - Loooong Intro sorta like a Midtown solo!

00:16:14 - Origin Stories

00:29:00 - Research, Tours, The Scene

00:55:45 - Just Rock and Roll

01:02:40 - Direction

01:08:05 - Recluse

01:12:20 - Another Boy

01:19:30 - Let Go

01:31:10 - No Place Feels Like Home

01:48:50 - Such a Person

01:55:30 - We Bring Us Down

01:57:40 - Knew It All Along

02:02:45 - Come On

02:16:10 - Resting Sound

02:21:00 - Frayed Ends

02:28:10 - The Questions, Superlatives, Miscellany

02:38:30 - It's Time For LETTERS... and voicemails!

02:47:40 - Denouement, Next Time On...

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We Do It BetterBy Dave Gross, Brian McDonough, Dennis Ryan