Superchunk Here's To Shutting Up

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• To write the songs for Here’s To Shutting Up, we met a few times a week in Jim’s garage (he lived way out in the woods) for what seemed like months.

  We started from scratch, with no demos or concepts, and just played instrumental music with our usual gear plus a Casio. Sometimes one of us would play the keys instead of his normal instrument, or Jon would sit down on guitar and we’d use the Casio drum machine for the beat. We ended up with a lot of ideas and a lot of good names for it: “Frank’s Bath”, “There’s Something About Marvin” and “Bestial Warning”, to name a few. We’d record the exercises on MiniDisc or cassette, and I’d drive around listening to these demos and making up words. Looking back, the themes have a lot to do with touring and travel (“Out on the Win