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Slack Motherfucker

Certain Songs #2561: Superchunk – “Slack Motherfucker”

February 27, 2023 by Jim Connelly

Album: Tossing Seeds (Singles 89-91)
Year: 1990

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OK, so a couple of things here: I’m using a couple of technicalities to start off the Superchunk posts with “Slack Motherfucker.” First, while it was the first single to be credited to “Superchunk,” it wasn’t the first single they released, as they had released a single in 1989 — which has their great version of “Train From Kansas City,” — credited to “Chunk,” an inside joke based on the name of their drummer, Chuck Garrison, being misspelled in the phone book.

Secondly, while “Slack Motherfucker” also showed up on their 1991 self-titled debut, the album to hear it is their early singles compilation, 1992’s Tossing Seeds (Singles 89-91), which I think rivals the Buzzcocks Singles Going Steady or Squeeze’s Singles 45s and Under in terms of perfectly capturing a band that left it all out there on the 7″ single.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Slack Motherfucker, Superchunk, Tossing Seeds (Singles 89-91)

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