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Necessity Is the Mother of Invention (Interview)

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On iTunes Originals

2008 · 79 tracks

01iTunes Originals0:26
01iTunes Originals0:06
01iTunes Originals0:18
02Celebrity (iTunes Originals Version)3:28
02I Can't Remember Ever Recording It Acoustically1:23
02The Horizon Has Been Defeated2:33
03Two Keg Flyers (Interview)2:43
03Steve Meets Ed9:27
03P*****g In a River (iTunes Originals Version)4:41
04It Was Our Most Popular Song2:55
04If I Had $10000004:27
04Flake4:39
05Because the Night3:22
05Recording "Gordon"4:26
05Hendrix, Hip-Hop and the Hawaiians (Interview)2:29
06It Was Written In Memory of the Hopi Indians1:29
06Taylor3:59
06Crazy4:49
07Be My Yoko Ono (iTunes Originals Version)3:05
07Ghost Dance (iTunes Originals Version)4:29
07Documenting In Song (Interview)2:45
08F-Stop Blues3:10
08I Was Walking By the Sea Thinking of Him1:11
08Stepping On Pins & Needles1:31
09Where the Jimmy Buffett Cover Came From (Interview)1:25
09Frederick3:02
09Brian Wilson4:44
10In the Face of Loss We Have to Be Strong2:09
10A Pirate Looks at Forty (iTunes Originals Version)2:53
10A Song About Longing1:04
11A Plane That Had Gone Past the Sun (Interview)1:56
11Am I the Only One?4:49
11About a Boy8:15
12A Poem for Oliver Ray1:43
12Our Black & White Album2:19
12Traffic In the Sky (iTunes Originals Version)3:35
13It's Everybody's Fault (Interview)1:10
13Beneath the Southern Cross4:34
13Alternative Girlfriend (iTunes Originals Version)4:03
14Cookie Jar (iTunes Originals Version)3:05
14Feeling Twitterpated0:37
14I Wanted to Sing It the Way I Ride a Horse1:31
15In the Drink (iTunes Originals Version)4:44
15Eventually the Safety Valve, and Everything Moves On (Interview)2:13
15Midnight Rider (iTunes Originals Version)3:55
16My Inspiration Was Mother Teresa1:34
16Fall Line / Where Do the Children Play? (iTunes Originals Version)3:45
16We're Doing Something Right1:21
17One Voice4:04
17Making "Gone" (Interview)1:33
17It's All Been Done (iTunes Originals Version)3:19
18Gone2:10
18I Always Look to William Blake When I'm Having a Difficult Year1:49
18Trying to Match Wits2:32
19The News / Natural Mystic (iTunes Originals Version)3:44
19One Week (iTunes Originals Version)3:29
19My Blakean Year5:14
20A Favourite Lyric0:37
20Music Is Pure Fun (Interview)1:14
20This Song Came to Mind2:17
21Tara / Peaceable Kingdom (iTunes Originals Version)6:33
21Pinch Me (iTunes Originals Version)4:40
21Tomorrow Morning2:50
22Necessity Is the Mother of Invention (Interview)2:16
22We Became Instant Friends2:15
22For Skaggs2:15
23For You (iTunes Originals Version)3:40
23Dreams Be Dreams2:12
23Gloria: In Excelsis Deo (Live)6:50
24It's a Very Alive Song1:11
24A Mosquito On My Nose (Interview)1:35
24Suicide Songs2:03
25War On Drugs (iTunes Originals Version)5:32
25Soul Kitchen (iTunes Originals Version)4:03
25Symbol in My Driveway2:48
26The Most Emotional Song On the Record3:38
26Downhill from Here2:10
27Smells Like Teen Spirit (iTunes Originals Version)6:54
27I Can I Will I Do (iTunes Originals Version)3:06