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The Crane Wife 3
The Decemberists
2006

We got ourselves a bit of recency bias; some prisoner of the moment stuff going on with this one. This song was nowhere close to my top 100 when this journey started. Have always loved this song but just hadn’t given it its proper due. Then my bro Brandon put it on his list of 20 tracks a few weeks back and I was like, oh yeah, I forgot about this ditty! Then, in what will not be my last reference to this show, it came up on a Season 2 episode of The Bear that I watched recently. Listen, if you take nothing else from this list, do yourself a favor and go watch The Bear. Best show on television, hands down. Best show on television for a long time, for that matter.

But back to this song: I really wanted to like The Decemberists more and just have not been able to get into them, but this song is great. You know how like there are some songs where you put headphones on and you're walking in the city and you feel like you’re in a movie? Well this song is…wait, what’s that? Oh yeah, me neither.

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