My Top 1000 Songs #911: Flowers

[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.]

Returning to that wonderful run of early singles from New Zealand indie legends The Clean, this time with "Flowers" off 1982's Great Sounds Great EP. It's not a radical departure from the previously-referenced "Point That Thing Somewhere Else"; more like a continuation with some minor alterations--a scrappy, almost tossed-off post-punk jam, scratched-out guitar vamping atop an insistent bass riff, this time sung by Robert Scott (later of The Bats). Casual and slack, yet an indie anthem in its own little way, setting the stage for bands like Pavement a decade later. 

Live (pretty sure I was there, just to the right of the camera):