The Explorers Club
No. CLXVII - The Pergamon Museum, Part III: The Market Gate of Miletus & Berlin's Museum Island.







The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, "The Impression That I Get" from Let's Face It (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: No retrospective would be complete without The Bosstones' greatest commercial success. As Dicky Barrett says by way of introduction to "The Impression That I Get" on Live from the Middle East, "I think we know this fucking song."

"I never had to knock on wood,
But I know someone who has,
Which makes me wonder if I could,
It makes me wonder if I—
Never had to knock on wood,
And I'm glad I haven't yet,
Because I'm sure it isn't good,
That's the impression that I get.
…
I'm not a coward I've just never been tested,
I'd like to think that if I was I would pass.
Look at the tested and think,
'There but for the Grace go I,'
Might be a coward, I'm afraid of what I might find out."