#21
Bill Baird: We’ll Meet Again Someday, Or We Won’t”
[from Goodbye Vibrations / Self-Released] 

When I first heard “We’ll Meet Again Someday, Or We Won’t”, I was actually a little upset that the release of The Royal Tennenbaums pre-dated it by close to ten years. The wandering, walk down the steps of the scale guitar and brilliant, but tortured sad bastard vocal seem so well suited for that initial era of Wes Anderson’s film that it’s a shame Bill Baird can’t travel back in time to make his case for Ritchie Tennenbaum’s suicide scene.

On Goodbye Vibrations, Bill Baird takes a short break from his usual day job with Sunset and strips away all their well-known bells and whistles, leaving you with a collection of absolutely perfect pop songs and ballads at their bare bones best. “We’ll Meet Again Someday, Or We Won’t” is a most excellent send off that makes it terribly easy to picture the scrunched up frustration on the face of the person that “you’re leaving me, but it makes me kind of glad” is directed at.