If only Pinback always showed this much grit. Don't get me wrong, I love this band, and Blue Screen Life is probably one of the indie-pop records of the decade. But if you've never seen them live, you can be forgiven for not realizing how much punk they've got in their hearts. Beneath their San Diego comic book stoner groves lurks more than a little bit of Bad Brains and Big Black. Seeing them live makes this abundantly clear.
I took a former girlfriend to see them on the Abaddon tour. When they kicked into this song here immediate response was "Holy Shit, who knew these guys loved Fugazi?" Who knew, indeed.
It's nice to have the breezy charms of Pinback as they are, but seriously, when you can kick this much ass (Even while singing another nerdy song about computers) why not kick that ass as much as possible? A question for the ages.
Incidentally, I once put this song on a party playlist back to back with Slint's Good Morning, Captain hoping someone would get the joke. No one did.
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