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Here’s Mac McCaughan playing the Superchunk track “Detroit Has a Skyline” at Housing Works Books in New York during a reading of the new Merge retrospective book Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label that Got Big and Stayed Small.

Superchunk was one of those bands that I kinda missed the boat on. I knew a lot of people (mostly dudes who worked in record stores with me, go figure) who were really into them but I just never dug that deeply into their catalogue. I thought the songs were fine but I never really got the hype. Now, years later, I wish I would have given them more of a chance back then. I realize that Superchunk is fucking awesome and I really missed out by not listening to them.

I guess the up side is that now I get to enjoy all that shit for the first time whereas everyone else has grown tired of them. Hence, I win.