Where'd You Go?

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The 1991 single “Where’d You Go?” was a breakthrough for The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. For the first time in their career, they weren't moving at their usual bouncy breakneck speed. When they slowed down, the sweetness and simplicity of their songwriting showed. “Where’d You Go” is tenaciously catchy, but just poignant enough that the melody will linger in your memory. As if to preemptively counter any accusations of going soft, the band turned the rest of the EP into an outrageous party. Though there's certainly a healthy dose of irony in the Bosstones’ covers of arena-metal deities like Aerosmith (“Sweet Emotion”), Metallica (“Enter Sandman”), and Van Halen (“Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love”), they reformatted those canonical riffs in a way that makes them sound authentically, and naturalistically, Bosstones. The mini-covers set brings to mind the best kind of encore: wild, reckless, fun. That feeling is amplified by the inclusion of “Do Something Crazy,” which served as the Bosstones’ de facto show-closer throughout the early '90s.

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