“Here we go.” Yep. I’ve always thought the track sequencing on Surfer Rosa left something to be desired, and it’s mainly because this song early on at track 3 is really the rejoinder to the rest of the album, the song in which all the lies (Bone Machine), frustration (River Euphrates), self-deception (Gigantic), suffering (Break My Body, and a few others) and cognitive dissonance (Where Is My Mind) congeal into a singular Old Testament-style retributive rage so intense that in the end it gives way to psychosis (and thus the cycle of suffering begins again).
Probably to my mind more hard core than Husker Du, more metal than Metallica, whatever you’re feeling after listening to this, you’re likely feeling it with a gusto (and I know some who hate it). And that’s the general idea I guess.
“Here we go.” Yep. I’ve always thought the track sequencing on Surfer Rosa left something to be desired, and it’s mainly because this song early on at track 3 is really the rejoinder to the rest of the album, the song in which all the lies (Bone Machine), frustration (River Euphrates), self-deception (Gigantic), suffering (Break My Body, and a few others) and cognitive dissonance (Where Is My Mind) congeal into a singular Old Testament-style retributive rage so intense that in the end it gives way to psychosis (and thus the cycle of suffering begins again).
Probably to my mind more hard core than Husker Du, more metal than Metallica, whatever you’re feeling after listening to this, you’re likely feeling it with a gusto (and I know some who hate it). And that’s the general idea I guess.