Word: swingingly
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...First off, let's get this out of the way: Why do you think swing is so popular...
...Whose idea was it to put all the swing songs from your previous albums and compile them on Zoot Suit Riot...
...That was actually our manager's idea. At the time, he was the guy who sold the merchandise at the shows, and he used to complain that at every gig someone would come up to him and ask him, "Which album is the swing album?" So he had this idea to take all the swing tunes of the other three records and put them onto one, so we did that, and then added four new songs--one of which was "Zoot Suit Riot." And we actually put that out ourselves--this was before we got signed, and the whole swing...
...Yeah, it was a huge surprise. At the time we wrote and recorded Zoot Suit Riot, the kind of bands on the radio were Bush and Smashing Pumpkins. Swing was the farthest thing from what seemed to be happening in pop music. We never thought this style of music would get the kind of coverage that...
...years. And then in the last couple of years it kind of died out and it really opened up a lot of space for other types of music to come through. Ska was something that was happening and that kind of blew up there, for a while...and then swing was kind of the next step. It has more horns, it's dance music...and I think also, it's kind of the antidote to grunge. It's a very different sensibility; it's musically very sophisticated, generally pretty positive, more of an exuberant vibe to it, without the self...