GET DOWN WITH THIS



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Seemingly the prime example of a track the band enjoys playing far more than the audience enjoys hearing. It's a funk instrumental, ranging in length from two minutes to over half an hour, derived from a performance of "Tighten Up" in an oldies medley at the first Plaastik show. It premiered on its own two weeks later and the band never toured for long without pulling it out until the 1994 Diplomacy tour, which saw the band more intent than ever on pleasing its fans and phasing out some of the dance-oriented shades of their work. The Science Tour was a complete reversal, at times verging on disco performance values, so "Get Down with This" was a natural inclusion at many of these shows. It was the only song performed at the 11/19/01 show that had been played before on the Science Tour.

The most notorious version of "Get Down with This" is the ass-thrashing forty-minute rendition from a boisterous Information Tour show on 9/24/87.The audience evidently was unresponsive and largely drunken, and the band rewarded them with a completely insane version of this obscurity that just kept going until giving way to a nightmarish wail of feedback, itself extending for well over twelve minutes. The ultimate test of Plaastik fandom is how much of this one can stand.

One of the samples in the song "Science" is claimed by some to be a backward extract from a studio version of the song recorded during the SCIENCE sessions; that version was released as the b-side to "Walking Distance" in September 2004.