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January 1979 is the second track from the 2004 album 'catch for us the foxes'. The song title referees to Aaron Weiss and former bassist Daniel Pishock's date of birth and it is thought that the song is themed around Aaron Weiss's failure in life as a human. The line "My ear pressed against the past / like a glass on the wall of a house in a photograph" closely resembles a line in Richard Brautigan's novel "So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away".