"Yes, indeed, in fact, I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then"
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The phrase “go out of our way” is the tell. Fidelity here is labor, not accident. It implies restraint: resisting newer tools, newer tastes, newer selves. Young’s focus on “sonic and musical pallet” (misspelling aside) frames the band’s past as a deliberate canvas, something authored and therefore worth preserving. That’s a subtle flex. He’s not saying, “We used to sound like that”; he’s saying, “We chose to sound like that.” The past becomes craft, not mere era.
The subtext is the anxiety of legacy acts: how to keep touring, reissuing, or revisiting material without sounding like a tribute band to your own catalog. “Original feeling” is also code for the hard-to-measure stuff fans police most aggressively - the thickness of guitars, the dryness of drums, the space around the vocal - the emotional math of a record that got fused to someone’s adolescence.
Young’s intent, then, is reassurance with a side of authorship. He’s signaling that the band understands what listeners actually miss: not just the songs, but the texture of the time.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Young, James. (2026, February 18). Yes, indeed, in fact, I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/yes-indeed-in-fact-i-would-tell-you-that-we-go-90298/
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Young, James. "Yes, indeed, in fact, I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then." FixQuotes. February 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/yes-indeed-in-fact-i-would-tell-you-that-we-go-90298/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Yes, indeed, in fact, I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then." FixQuotes, 18 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/yes-indeed-in-fact-i-would-tell-you-that-we-go-90298/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
