Mark Yarm
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Exec ed, features, PCMag🎃adjunct, Columbia Journalism School🎃bylines: the New Yorker, NYT Mag, Flaming Hydra🎃formerly: BuzzFeed News, Input, Blender🎃author, EVERYBODY LOVES OUR TOWN🎃markyarm@gmail.com🎃https://markyarm.journoportfolio.com
![[The Breeders] cover of Sebadoh's "Freed Pig" originally wasn't meant to be recorded, and was something they'd learned as sort of an ironic joke. The Head To Toe EP was produced by J Mascis, and "Freed Pig" was written by Lou Barlow about his troubled relationship with Mascis while he was in Dinosaur Jr.., so the band thought it would be funny to use it to warm up in the studio. When Mascis walked in on them playing the song, he wasn't familiar with it, assumed it was an original, and was confused by the band's laughter when he said they should record it. Once the band explained, Mascis still liked the song, so he had it recorded anyway.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h5ipn66nwhss44ni2xthtok6/bafkreigjmo74leipqnbl5hwh3e53chnvwwfrltfw27wnr6mnviskeqrynq)
