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Sexy Ankles – 1999, Electrical Audio, with Jim O’Rourke. Appears on the Hello Hawk CD5.

Jon: From the Come Pick Me Up sessions. A Chunk rarity in that it is a shuffle. It’s a shuffle, isn’t it? What’s a backbeat?

Jim: When we wrote this, we joked about how it would be our entry in the then burgeoning swing revival sweepstakes. I can’t for the life of me figure out what the hell we were thinking. A personal favorite of mine, nevertheless.

Mac: Again, our attempts at delicacy don’t completely pan out, but I like this song. Jim O’Rourke went home early one night to write string charts; when he returned the next morning we had added some Doobie Bros–style electric piano to the second verse. He approved, of course. I really did have nightmares about waking up out in the yard burying something, too many episodes of Night Stalker maybe.

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Formed in 1989 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Superchunk is Mac McCaughan (guitar, vocals), Jim Wilbur (guitar, backing vocals), Jon Wurster (drums, backing vocals), and Laura Ballance (bass, backing vocals). Since releasing their first 7-inch in 1989, Superchunk has run the gamut of milestone albums: early punk rock stompers, polished mid-career masterpieces, and lush, adventurous curveballs. ... more

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