If you're going to get angry in a song this is the way to do it. It reminds me of Positively Fourth Street by Dylan in a lot of ways but this one just rocks like a locomotive. And it still stands up many years later. I don't need to be angry to listen to it, mind you. It works on its own level as a great driving song. Although with songs like this I do tend to drive a little faster. It would have been a good song to play at the Lizard Lounge but when this came out we were really in the last days. Although we had closed two years earlier the owners of the hotel were half heartedly trying to resurrect the place. I just came in for a few hours at the start of the night and played stuff that was easy to dance to. I thought I was keeping my hand in but it wasn't fun. One night I got dizzy and fainted. Never went back after that. And the times I've DJed since then can be counted on my fingers. If it's not fun best to get out. Playing in a band again and regularly as been great though. I'm loving it. Tonight we rocked at the Great Britain in Richmond. We were tight. People danced. Compliments were thrown our way. Brilliant.
But of course I digress. The Rat by The Walkmen. A New York classic.
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