Nada Surf "Inside of Love" from Let Go Live at The Annex Madison, WI Mar 4, 2006

I almost didn't go to this show, because I'm not what you'd call a "fan" of either Nada Surf or Rogue Wave -- I like some of their material, but when I saw the show announced it wasn't like the Motion City Soundtrack/OK Go show or next month's Metric show. And frankly, there are better things I could spend $13 on than shows I'm not fully committed to. The reason I ultimately went with my gut and bought a ticket was this song, the greatest indie pop love ballad since, well, maybe ever.

When I record I almost never try to get certain songs, because it's kind of annoying to do and it goes against the ethos of enjoying the shows themselves. I do, however, try to guess when certain songs are coming up in the set and base judgments about how many songs I want to record based on whether those certain songs have been played yet. In this case I wanted to get a second song but didn't really expect "Inside of Love" to be coming up. As they began playing I smiled, recorded the whole thing and pocketed the camera for the rest of the night.