X.Y.U.

GS: Are you ever inspire to write something by the sound of a certain guitar?

Billy: I've pretty much gotten away from looking for a second to inspire me. That one song on the record where that happened is "X.Y.U." There was something about the main lick that was very menacing, so everything I wrote around it goes with that same menace. That's a live take, with the whole band playing the same room, loud as hell

-1996-Guitar School

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"I think basically everyone's happy with the record, and it's probably the best record we've ever worked on," he murmurs, staring transfixed at the screen. "A lot of it had to do with Flood and the way we went about recording the thing - at the base of it, there's a rock band, and Flood really wanted to emphasize that end of it. Ahhh, fuck it! I just blew it!" Iha slumps down in his chair as his Doom character explodes, the victim of faster pig-faced aliens. He reappears on screen for one more attempt, and Chamberlin - who's been watching the whole time - begins barking directions: "Go back! Go back! Yeah, that's right! Go in there!" Happy with his new armor vest, Iha continues. "So we did live recordings, like the song 'X.Y.U.' - everything is live on it, including, the vocals."

1995-CMJ