damn i haven't heard or thought of this song in MANY years. it's SO good -- i would put it in the second half of the album because i always thought those songs were kinda boring.
my head is spinning because the only reason i know this song is because this guy who stalked me left the 100% CD single on my car as a gift and i was conflicted because i loved this song so much (and 100% but Genetic was magically good) but i was in my first year of college, recovering from a long slide of bad events, and this dude's letters and unwanted attention were the last thing i needed. so confusing.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 19 October 2017 12:55 (six years ago) link
wow I totally forgot about this song. I also heard it on the CD single. I dunno. I'd have bumped Nic Fit for this definitely. Nic Fit seems like the ultimate b side.
― akm, Thursday, 19 October 2017 13:13 (six years ago) link
Put it at the start. I'd happily go further and erase '100%' and 'Swimsuit Issue', such that it goes immediately into 'TSW'. It would indeed have "affected the sound of the album". I might even have refrained from selling it!
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Thursday, 19 October 2017 13:19 (six years ago) link
Thurston Moore in talking shit shocker
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 19 October 2017 14:09 (six years ago) link
First track. It's more of a middle of side 1, perhaps side 1 closer, but I really, really dislike "100%" and "Genetic" just fucking rules.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 19 October 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
i can imagine bob mould singing this on an album i would never hear. until the patented youth drift at the end there.
― scott seward, Thursday, 19 October 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
otm
― flappy bird, Thursday, 19 October 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
i never listen to genetic
i also require performance of the original album to be on period-authentic instruments
― j., Friday, 20 October 2017 02:36 (six years ago) link
Original baseball bat from Letterman U&K
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 20 October 2017 02:39 (six years ago) link
Next up: Where would you have put "I Promise" on "OK Computer"?
― Mark G, Friday, 20 October 2017 08:46 (six years ago) link
this song has been stuck in my head ever since i saw this thread. over and over and over that one part -- "i see it, i believe, somehow i know it's true"
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 20 October 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
xp no way. Lift, maybe
― flappy bird, Friday, 20 October 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 26 October 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
a worthy winner there.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 13 October 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
i loved genetic when it came out. still got it on orange concentric groove vinyl which skipped between tracks (cos it was concentric grooved).
― Fizzles, Sunday, 13 October 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link