With extras-packed reissues of Green Mind, Where You Been, Without a Sound, and Hand It Over out now, the singer-guitarist looks back on the band’s unlikely commercial peak
Oh, yeah. He’d always keep painting over things. His paintings were really thick. He’d just keep painting over ’em. He showed me a painting and I liked it but then he kept painting over it and I didn’t like it as much. So we tried to get the head from a picture I’d taken of the painting before and it kind of spliced it in to the painting now., you’ve said you were pretty depressed around this time.
On the opening track, “Feel the Pain,” you sing, “I feel the pain of everyone and then I feel nothing.” What’s the story behind that song? Right around when “Feel the Pain” came out, it was on MTV, which was still happening then. If you had a video on, suddenly you were way bigger than you had been. So yeah, you could definitely tell. It was cool at the time. We weren’t huge but we’d gotten a bit bigger. Then after the next album, all the MTV kind of fans were gone.
What did you want to do differently on the albums credited to J Mascis and the Fog? Did you approach them differently?
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