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Released over ten years ago, this is considered by many one of the band's best works along with "Bitte Orca".

The Getty Address is an album by American experimental rock group Dirty Projectors. It is described as "a glitch opera" about musician Don Henley, although it also explores themes like ancient Mexico, post-9/11 America, and oil. The album boasts over 25 musicians on it, most of whom contributed to the orchestral and choral backing of the album.

Although the lyrics have been described as gibberish, the words actually do tell a narrative beginning with Don Henley contemplating suicide, and ending with a new installment of Longstreth's songs involving brown finches.

Longstreth described the album's ambitious themes as examining the question of "what is wilderness in a world completely circumscribed by highways, once Manifest Destiny has no place to go - but in the end it is a love story."

The narrative was also released in video form by James Sumner.

Tracklist:
00:00 - I Sit On The Ridge At Dusk
04:56 - But In The Headlights
06:45 - Warholian Wigs
11:27 - I Will Truck
16:35 - D. Henley's Dream
20:52 - Git Gold Scabs
29:19 - Ponds and Puddles
30:09 - Not Having Found
34:52 - Tour Along The Potomac
39:05 - Jolly Jolly Ego
44:39 - Time Birthed Spilled Blood
47:42 - Drilling Profitably
52:11 - Finches Song At Oceanic Parking Lot

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