ROLLING
performed on:- INFORMATION TOUR (1987)
- DIPLOMACY TOUR (1994)
A dance song pure and simple, built from live drums and a sampler. A loop of Nick Parker singing the same line over and over (lifted from a more musical, unheard version of "Your Supervisor Steam") is gradually transformed into a robotic voice that sounds like it's running out of batteries by the end of the song.
Live, the band took this and ran with it by turning it into a way to lead into the first song of the show on the Information Tour; on the Diplomacy Tour, it even replaced "96 Tears" (or "Tighten Up") as the usual starting point for the band's beloved medleys.
No one except Plaastik seemed happy with this as a closing track for the album. "It's part of a larger song, it has chords," Jeff Jooce has said, "but I like that it's just this bizarre entity out of context. To me, it's experimental and haunting in a good way." However, some fans have argued that "when Jooce says 'a good way,' he must mean 'a boring and hamhanded way.'"
Rolling down the road
Rolling down the road
Rolling down the road
Rolling down the road
Rolling down the road
Rolling down the road
Rolling down the road
Rolling down the road
Rolling down the road
Rolling down the road
Rolling down the road
Rolling down the road