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Old is the seventh studio album by alternative rock band Starflyer 59. It was released on May 20, 2003 by Tooth & Nail Records. Developed as a concept album, Old examines themes such as aging and mortality, difficulty in the music industry, and cultural issues regarding marital infidelity and increasing rates of divorce.

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Old is the seventh studio album by alternative rock band Starflyer 59. It was released on May 20, 2003 by Tooth & Nail Records. Developed as a concept album (like previous studio album Leave Here a Stranger), Old examines themes such as aging and mortality, difficulty in the music industry, and cultural issues regarding marital infidelity and increasing rates of divorce.

Old Demos, the fifth EP album by Starflyer 59, was released in 2003 by Velvet Blue Music. It was available via mail order for purchasers of Old, where it features early versions of three tracks.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Jason Martin.

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.

Starflyer 59

Jason Martin – guitar, vocals

Jeff Cloud – bass guitar

Richard Swift – keyboards, backing vocals

Frank Lenz – drums, backing vocals

Production

Aaron Sprinkle – production, recording, mixing

Artwork

Michael Christian McCaddon – art direction and design

Management

Brandon Ebel – executive producer

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Notable quotes

“When an untaught, run-of-the-mill person, himself subject to aging, not beyond aging, sees another who is aged, he is horrified, humiliated, & disgusted, oblivious to himself that he too is subject to aging, not beyond aging. If I – who am subject to aging, not beyond aging – were to be horrified, humiliated, & disgusted on seeing another person who is aged, that would not be fitting for me.”
— Gautama Buddha, Aṅguttara Nikāya 3:8 as translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
“All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?”
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Ponkapog Papers (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1903), "Leaves From a Notebook", p. 29
“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”
— André Maurois, The Art of Living (1940), chapter 8, p. 282–83, as translated by James Whitall.
“On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathæna.”
— Athenæus, Deipnosophists, XIII. 46.
“Thyself no more deceive, thy youth hath fled.”
— Petrarch, To Laura in Death, Sonnet LXXXII.
“The years of old age are stalls in the cathedral of life in which for aged men to sit and listen and meditate and be patient till the service is over, and in which they may get themselves ready to say "Amen" at the last, with all their hearts and souls and strength.”
— William Mountford, p. 439.

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