Now I'm right back in the Lizard lounge again. When this came out it just sounded so different to everything else. In reality it was mining the same sort of down on one selves attitude that was everywhere at the time. Thanks mostly to Nirvana who made it cool to hate yourself. Not that it mattered when music was as good as their stuff or Beck or Radiohead.
I first heard this song on a Thursday night at the Lizard. Thursday nights at the Lizard went through the roof after we made it a free night. When we first started we were charging $5 but no one was coming so we decided not to charge and offer cheap drinks. From then on it was packed equalling our Saturday nights for popularity. The Thursday night DJs and regulars would argue that it surpassed Saturdays but I don't hold to that opinion. What it did do is make the Lizard a top indie nightspot from Thursday to Saturday.
Thursdays was also a training ground for new DJs. DJs were hired for their enthusiasm to play rather than any past skills. That's why we got some really different music coming on. One night I went down there and they were playing The Gambler by Kenny Rogers and it worked really well. But not a song we would play on Saturday night.
Loser however became massive. A real crowd pleaser.
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