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Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails, 2008
Written by Steve Wynn
I love Steve Wynn, one of the all-time overlooked indie greats. Just a brilliant songwriter. I love this whole album. Written from the point of view of Ted himself, as he resents the praise Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, and Duke Snider (whom I've never heard of) and wanting more glory heaped upon himself. "I gotta give the Duke a hand / But there's nothing that he can do better than I can." Only someone of Wynn's talent could take this simple idea and turn it into something catchy, a fun singalong, rather than a throwaway.
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