In one of the early, pivotal moments of BlackBerry, a dramedy biopic about the implosion of the once-beloved smartphone that screened at SXSW Monday, Mike Lazaridis (Jay Baruchel) and Jim Balsillie (Glenn Howerton) sit in silence in a yellow cab. They are en route to the most important business meeting of their lives. On the radio—improbably—plays a song that a certain group of post-rock, ’90s midwestern emo-lovers know well: “Good Morning, Captain” by Slint, a group of 21-year-old Kentuckians that broke up just before their only record was released.
“Good Morning, Captain” has earned legacy status for, in part, its haunting backstory. The recording session for the song, the final track on Slint’s first-and-last album Spiderland, was such a visceral experience that lead singer Brian McMahan got physically ill after they finished. But the song is most memorable for its incredible ending. Six-and-a-half minutes into the nearly eight-minute piece, McMahan’s mumbled vocals become painfully clear: “I’ll make it up to you,” he sings. “I’ll make it up to you.”
Then, a painfully long build-up toward those final three words, which McMahan screams at the top of his lungs: “I miss you!” Over and over again, “I miss you.”
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