And there a few reasons for this. Obviously a song where someone shouts "I'm not working for you! Slack Motherfucker!" in the middle of it is pretty bad ass. But the song title and anthemic chorus are the cherry on the top of this amazing song. The real innovation in songwriting here, the thing that really makes you take notice, occurs within the first second of the song. This song is is all built around the "SUPERCHUNK CHORD": a conventional power chord where you drop yr index finger a fret to get that cool dissonant sound. I'm sure someone else in the history of music played this sort of chord sometime before this song, but no one had ever really showed off its TOTAL AWESOMENESS. This chord is all over lates 90s/early 00s emo, and its all because of this song.
Here's a list of other great things in this song: the bass/snare hit to start things off; the ringing out E chord during the verses combined with the COMPLETELY UNINTELLIGIBLE LYRICS; the droney notes in the "I'm working part" and the way the song goes from being loud to QUIET without ever slowing down or losing its intensity; the guitar solo, I think, switches between the two guitar players with one of them playing the first part (which is TERRIBLE and really SKRONKY and totally great) and the other one taking over for the second part (which sounds more like a typical Superchunk solo to me)---in fact, the chord progression REVERSES itself halfway through the solo when the switch (maybe) takes place. I dunno if there's a switch or not, really, but I kind like the pretend there is because it makes me think of Slayer; the pickslide going into the final chorus!
Song structure: ABACDABACDEFCDCD
(A=Intro, B=Verse, C="I'm workin...", D="Slack Motherfucker!",E=Solo1,F=Solo2)
It seems really complicated for a three minute punk song!
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