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Flag, I will totally give you a pass on the Suburbs, but really, some of the comments here are baseless. Judging Trip Shakespeare on the work of Semisonic? How is that even fair?

I can also attest that closing time was a song written far earlier but adapted to Dan's wife giving birth. It's a song about getting out of the womb.

Heard of Prince? Heard of the Replacements? Heard of Husker Du? Heard of the JayHawks? Heard of Low? Heard of the Suburbs? Heard of the Andrews Sisters? OK…How about Bob Dylan?

Semisonic does not = Trip Shakespeare. So many daft morons here.

Elaine's only singing lyrics: "I wheel"

I can guarantee you that Cat Stevens was not in their LP collection.
Their songwriting was intelligent. Just listen to "Applehead Man" and then "Are you Shakesperienced." Listen to each of those albums 2 times and then form an opinion. Don't judge Trip Shakespeare by the later work of Dan in Semisonic. No offense to…

I am from that area. Their music was intelligent. and "feeling Strangely Fine" is not Trip Shakespeare, that is a spinoff…Semisonic. How can you judge Trip on Semisonic's material? Dan was never in Trip Shakespeare at the start. It was Matt, Elaine, another guy who left and then Dan entered. Matt Wilson is one of the…