I can't believe no one has said anything about this track. It hit me like a train, ahaha. That was terrible.
Defeater talked about this in an interview with PitCam a few years ago. The interviewer asked why the track "ends" the way that it does and Jay explains that the sentence stops at "fami-" because "motherfucker got murked, by the train."
I never made that connection until I actually sat and read the words as I listened to the album, but when I did it fucking blew my mind. In the same interview, Jay goes on to say that if you own the album in vinyl, the record actually stops there because "On the vinyl there's a locked groove. Your needle will never pick up, because you're fuckin' dead." He then says that because they couldn't do that with a CD, they left all of the space at the end to catch the listener's attention.
This band is amazing. I cannot wait to see them in April.
I can't believe no one has said anything about this track. It hit me like a train, ahaha. That was terrible.
Defeater talked about this in an interview with PitCam a few years ago. The interviewer asked why the track "ends" the way that it does and Jay explains that the sentence stops at "fami-" because "motherfucker got murked, by the train."
I never made that connection until I actually sat and read the words as I listened to the album, but when I did it fucking blew my mind. In the same interview, Jay goes on to say that if you own the album in vinyl, the record actually stops there because "On the vinyl there's a locked groove. Your needle will never pick up, because you're fuckin' dead." He then says that because they couldn't do that with a CD, they left all of the space at the end to catch the listener's attention.
This band is amazing. I cannot wait to see them in April.