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{{Featured song MP3 headline Youtube|https://youtu.be/HqiSdUculn0|Colorado}} | {{Featured song MP3 headline Youtube|https://youtu.be/HqiSdUculn0|Colorado}} | ||
{{Featured song artwork|Rentals-colorado-artwork.png|Colorado}} "'''Colorado'''" is a single by [[The Rentals]] released on [[September 27]], 2008 as a precursor to ''[[Songs About Time]]''. | {{Featured song artwork|Rentals-colorado-artwork.png|Colorado}} "'''Colorado'''" is a single by [[The Rentals]] released on [[September 27]], [[2008]] as a precursor to ''[[Songs About Time]]''. | ||
The song was written during {{PN|Matt Sharp}} acoustic solo career, and he performed it many times while on tour. As Sharp explained in a [[A few words about Colorado from Matt & The Rentals|2008 letter to fans]], the song received a full-band arrangement when he was approached about contributing a song for a compilation. The song became "a test run" for the forthcoming ''Songs About Time'', featuring the nontraditional recording methods and ambitious artistic premises that would come to define the project. The song features drum beats programmed into a keyboard as well as percussion sourced from drum sticks drumming on the floor of the studio they recorded in. The [http://vimeo.com/2735285 second video] released in the ''SAT'' project shows the band recording the song. | The song was written during {{PN|Matt Sharp}} acoustic solo career, and he performed it many times while on tour. As Sharp explained in a [[A few words about Colorado from Matt & The Rentals|2008 letter to fans]], the song received a full-band arrangement when he was approached about contributing a song for a compilation. The song became "a test run" for the forthcoming ''Songs About Time'', featuring the nontraditional recording methods and ambitious artistic premises that would come to define the project. The song features drum beats programmed into a keyboard as well as percussion sourced from drum sticks drumming on the floor of the studio they recorded in. The [http://vimeo.com/2735285 second video] released in the ''SAT'' project shows the band recording the song. | ||