My Top 1000 Songs #757: That's When I Reach For My Revolver

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.] 

As noted previously, Boston's early post-punk pioneers Mission of Burma are one of those bands whose importance in shaping 80s indie rock can't be denied... yet I rarely play them. But they still managed two of the most incredibly impactful anthems of the era. This track (from 1981's Signals, Calls, And Marches EP) is the other one.

"Mother taught us patien...