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Certain Songs #1840: Real Estate – “Talking Backwards”

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Album: Atlas
Year: 2014

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Honestly, I don’t have any real backstory for “Talking Backwards,” no great introduction or anything like that. I mean, it was obviously part of my life during that terrible period where we were living in the hotel while having our house rebuilt, but I already told that story yesterday.

So, there really isn’t much to say about “Talking Backwards” — the first single released from 2014’s Atlas — except for how it’s just a perfectly-executed jangly-guitar rock song, and by writing about it, some you might hear it where you otherwise wouldn’t have.

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Certain Songs #1839: Real Estate – “Had to Hear”

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Album: Atlas
Year: 2014

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The spring of 2014 turned out to be one of the worst times of my life. On the last weekend of February, a series of torrential downpours that were seemingly centered over our house caused the back of the house to leak so much that it was basically misty by our back door. The final straw was when water started pouring through our ceiling fan onto our bed.

So for over three months, Rox and I lived a weird existence: sleeping in a Burbank hotel while supervising the teardown, mold removal and eventual reconstruction of the house we’d lived in for nearly five years, all the while fighting with our recalcitrant insurance company and a smooth-talking contractor who promised things it didn’t seem like his people were going to fulfill.

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