Resigned by Michael Penn

Resigned, from 1997, was Michael Penn's third album, following March and Free-for-All, and Brendan O'Brien produced it.

Its calling card is the opening song, "Try", and the video Paul Thomas Anderson made for it. Penn had written the score for Anderson's Boogie Nights, and the director shot the clip with the film's crew and some of its cast while the movie was still in post-production: a single unbroken take of more than three minutes, following Penn as he strides down a hallway in downtown Los Angeles said to be the longest in North America, more than a quarter-mile of it. Along the way he passes little tableaux nodding to Boogie Nights and vintage pop culture, including a dance marathon straight out of They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, and Philip Seymour Hoffman pops up twice, first handing him a microphone and a guitar, then dangling a boom mic in front of him.

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