""Circumstances" is a Captain Beefheart song that Ivo (4AD's Head Honcho) always wanted Throwing Muses to cover. It was insanely difficult to learn, even for people who had been in Throwing Muses for a number of years. Learning it hurt our fingers and our brains and made us want to hurt "Captain Bee-Fart". I sang the vocals into a bullet mic so that nobody could hear them and put a blanket over my head so that nobody could see me...it ended up being not much fun...sort of a "work in progress" that never progressed. So we put it away and forgot about it until, a few years later, Billy found this screaming off what he thought was a blank DAT. Now I think it sounds really cool...a great, big math problem of a song."

But not as bad as those old people do