Superchunk Superchunk

"When I listen to our first album now, other than cringing at some clams and the
vocals and the juvenile attitude of the whole thing... what was I angry about? You'll
have to ask 21-year-old me because in my memory, we were having fun. I hear the
accumulation of our influences, which I suppose is normal for a first albumâ??weaving
all the things you loved up to that point into your own first thing. The Buzzcocks,
Husker Du, Dinosaur Jr, and Sonic Youth are all right there and what we were
listening to. I was living in NYC finishing school when we made this record, so
rehearsals and recording were all rushed. I'm surprised we knew this many songs well
enough to record them. Twenty-seven years later, we still play at least three or four
of these songs live occasionally (one of them all the time...), which says something
good about a few of the songs, anyway! We got so much better as a band, and as
songwriters, that it's hard to even see this as any kind of template for what
Superchunk would eventually be, but it's definitely where we were at in 1989/90." -
Mac McCaughan May 2017