My Top 1000 Songs #206: Divide And Conquer

A Bob Mould track off Hüsker Dü's 1985 Flip Your Wig , "Divide And Conquer" is a thunderous, battering-ram guitar riff coupled with a bold proclamation about the splintering of society ("the police state is too busy; the neighborhood's getting out of haaaaaand!"). Mostly, though, it's a three-minute demand--absolute, undeniable demand, with which you must comply--that you test (and exceed) the capacity of your speakers while leaping willy-nilly around the room playing air drums.

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