Militia
2006
The Album
About This Album
Apparently, singer/songwriter Ronnie Day went off to L.A. to record some songs and when he came home a bit later, he found his girlfriend of three years dating someone who wasn't him. Thus, a dejected Day returned to the studio to finish what could now be his ultimate breakup album. All of this may or may not be true -- the album's quasi-road trip/relationship story arc, complete with an answering machine message from the ex and what look like staged liner-note pictures of the once-happy couple, seems a bit too perfect to be entirely real. But regardless, the resulting album, titled appropriately enough The Album, is in fact a breakup album of the ultimate kind; it begins when love was new and wondrous, then goes through the bitter heartbreak, and finally, acceptance and moving on ("I will love again whether or not it's you"). Accordingly, initial songs own that starry-eyed feeling of young love before "Written at a Rest Stop" ushers in the troubles, which then climax in "Lived Learned Love & Lost," where Day blatantly proclaims "I want the world to know that Jamie broke my heart/I guess it goes to show that good things fall apart." So yeah, he's not always the best with subtlety.
Track List (try tracks 1,3,5,8,11,12,15 and 16)

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