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That's When I Reach For My... Radio Edit?

Posted at 11:00 AM on September 14, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

Mission of Burma, one of those seminal bands of the post-punk era that only managed to record one album, have reunited-- and the results have got many, many people in a positive dither.

But you know, these things don’t happen in a vacuum. When Moby recorded MOB's most famous tune, "That's When I Reach For My Revolver," a couple years ago, we were reminded of one of the great post-punk songs ever pressed on wax. Although the Great White One added nothing (and, to be fair, subtracted nothing--other than tweaking the lyrics in a kinda bizarre way: "That's when I realize it's over...") from the original, we felt we’d rediscovered a sort of personal manifesto. And we don’t even own a gun!

Elsewhere on the Instant Gratification Web:

Not A Photograph; the Mission of Burma Story, a rockumentary you didn’t know you wanted

Moby proves he has good taste/can rock in his video for "That's When I Reach For My Revolver" (Dude, the original lyric was better.)

A shaky, wrong-end-of-the-telescope video of MOB playing "Revolver" at the Pitchfork festival. Great sound though! (Dude, get steadycam.)

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