Today is a good day: released 10 years ago...

[Guillaume]

I have several songs that i didn't like at first, skipped them but then went on to become favourites. orange tree roads for example.

That's funny, i loved "orange tree roads" from the 1st play, it's one of my fav NMA songs, i think it's so immediate, warm, beautifully catchy..

[cthulhu]

To me now it is also funny! Really, i love that song now. But i can remember that exactly the warm and light, happy feeling was a thing at that time, that i almost only liked the melancholic and darker tunes. But to hell with that memory..;-)

[Anna Woman von NRW]

10 years really ?  Time really does speed up as you get older doesn't it 

This will always be a big album for me - conjunction with big personal shitstorm and this album was a very important part of getting  through it so a bit difficult for me to be objective. Title track is brilliant slab of power and ultimately hope in chaos. States Radio, Mambo Queen and Arm Yourself still hit the spot and other quieter tracks still kick it too. Maybe not as refined and textured as subsequent albums but for me one I always come back to.

[Guillaume]

10 years really ?  Time really does speed up as you get older doesn't it 

ha ha, so true!
yes, 10 years, in September 2009 in fact ("High" was released in August 2007, and "Today is a  good day" two years later, but in September)! 

[Johnz]

I think it's a fine album, one that I still play regularly. States Radio is one of my all-time faves as is Peace Is Only. My only minor gripe is that I find the version of Ocean Rising nowhere near as powerful as the original and I find it an odd add-on. To me it has its undisputed place on NBTS and it just seems strangely out of place on TIAGD. A bit like White Coats on the T&C CD. But each to their own.

[Whirlwind]

States Radio is one of my all-time faves

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Yes, that is a top song.

One of the few NMA songs that specifically targets America...and it sure hits a bullseye. And, yes, full respect to Justin for his clever way of using various radio stations to touch upon various aspects of American society.

I've often wondered how Justin was able to do that. How many times has he actually been to America? Not many, right? Yet, he perfectly hit our various radio stations and used them to perfectly hit the American psyche.

[Willard]

Here's an odd and random thing... I always had it in my head that TIAGD and High were released only about a year apart but after looking it up on the internet, they were just over two years apart.  I suppose some long gaps between previous albums made it SEEM sooner... or maybe that's just the old brainpan getting some rust on it!

Carnival was released September 05, High September 07, TIAGD September 09. If not September, late August each. In fact, I think the next three, four counting From Here all were (will be) released in late August or September. I’m dying for a late June release so I can enjoy a new album all summer!