Out With the Old

***Out With the Old*** is the first Moes Haven released album. Spotify lists a release date of June 10, 2004. The album is discussed on MMIP #37 "Early Moes Haven" (March 22, 2015).

## Background

Prior to 2004, Moes Haven had recorded dozens of albums together, but they generally only had two copies of each album, one for Matt, and one for Tom Scalzo. In 2004, Matt discovered CDBaby and called them to confirm that they could sell his "homemade" CDs. Finding out he could, he put together this album of most serious songs, purposefully avoiding their jokey material. The wacky songs were put on the next album, *Dislocated Songs*.

The album has 14 tracks and a running length of 41:53. The album has made less than $50 as of March 2015. On the 2015 podcast episode, Matt plays "And I Think of You", "Recognize You", "Not Dead" (which includes Chris Peterson on guitar and backing vocals), "Slow Down Baby" (which features Tom Scalzo on vocals as "Blind Vermont Jones"),

In the first two years of this album's release, Moes Haven sold one song online: a single copy of "Life Is Beautiful" from this album. The original version of this album was called *Back in Time: Celebrating 37 and 1/7 Years of Mediocrity*. It also contained the song "Dislocated Surfer", which was moved to *Dislocated Songs*.

## Reception

The album was not a hit, however good it may be. Over the course of two years after the album's release, the album had only sold a single song: "Life is Beautiful". By 2015, it had only made about $50. On July 1, 2004, *The Santa Barbara Independent* reviewed the record in their Sound Fury column, along with Wilco and The Who. Reviewer Matt Kettmann stated "there's something worthwhile here, but good luck finding it".

In March 2005, Indie-Music.com reviewed the album and praised it for being both bizarre and fun. In the March 22, 2015, Matt said that the lyrics were "trying to hard to be poetic". Matt's famous stance on poetry is that it is bad. However, in the next sentence he compares it to Bob Dylan and Van Morrison.

## Songs

### Recognize You

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The opening track on the album is about a love gone wrong ending in the narrator never being able to see their lover as the same person ever again or they do not want to see their lover again in general. It features Tom on guitar and Matt on vocals. Tom plays variations of a G chord throughout the whole track.

### And I Think of You

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Said by Matt to be Top 5 Moes Haven songs, it was also performed at the Moes Haven reunion at the 2017 Motern Extravaganza and is on the album *Live in Danvers!*. It is in the key of F# minor and is another acoustic song (Tom on guitar). The song was conceptualized the day before recording with Matt saying he wanted to write a song where every line ends with "And I Think of You".

### Not Dead

A collaboration with Chris "Pete" Peterson, the unofficial third member of Moes Haven. (Well, he was a member in early 2005, but he moved to LA shortly after). Pete does the backing vocals on this song. Matt has stated that this song was trying to hard to be poetic and that poetry is bad. The lyrics don't mean anything.

### Slow Down Baby

Sung by Tom as the character "Blind Vermont Jones" (not to be confused with Creepy Bobby). It takes the form of a blues song from the 1930s, a Robert Johnson-esque tune with Matt on piano. It should be covered by every blues band ever.

## Personnel

* Matt Farley - vocals, piano
* Tom Scalzo - vocals ("Early Mornin' Sympathy, "Slow Down Baby", "Can't Go On"), guitar
* Pete Peterson - backing vocals ("Not Dead")

## Reviews

* Sound Fury (review), *Santa Barbara Independent* (July 1, 2004)
* Indie-Music.com, by Kevan Breitinger (March 5, 2005)

***Out With the Old*** (2004) • *Dislocated Songs* (2004) • *Svetlana* (2005) • *Someone Else.* (2005) • *Explorations in Madness* (2005) • *Moe's Haven* (2005) • *Sir Paul Made Ram. We Made This.* (2005) • *Down With Memories* (2005) • *January* (2006) • *February: From the Bayou to the Barnyard and Back* (2006) • *March: of the Aliens* (2006) • *April: What A Cruel Month* (2006) • *May: I Buy You A Sandwich?* (2006) • *June* (2006) • *July: In The Sun With Me?* (2006) • *August: of Temporal Inconsistency* (2006) • *September: In Manchvegas* (2006) • *(SH)OC(K)TOBER* (2006) • *November the Tar!* (2006) • *December* (2007) • *If Not Us, Who?* (2007) • *This is My Millennium* (2008) • *Stromboli’s Alarm Clock* (2010) • *Metal Detector Maniac* (2022) • *(Several Supreme Beings Told Us To Make This) One Last Album* (2023)
**Compilations**: *Victory is Ours! (For Now)* (2007) • *It Takes a Lot of Guts!* (2009)
**Songs from Deep in the Vault (1996 - 2010)**: *Vol. 1* (2013) • *Vol. 2* (2017) • *Vol. 3* (2017) • *Unheralded Origins of Genius* (2021)