Tugboat

Recorded at their first session with Kramer in February 1988 and pressed in a run of a thousand copies, it was built on a simple two-chord pattern played until a song came out. Wareham wrote that they had no idea how to record, that he was given one take, and that Kramer drenched his voice in reverb and echo. He has called it a sliver of a song whose recording has something magical. It is often said to nod to the Velvet Underground's Sterling Morrison, who became a tugboat captain, though the band have not said so.

Stereogum ranked it their best song. It was used in The Perks of Being a Wallflower in 2012, and has been covered by Submarine, the Jazz Butcher, British Sea Power and Joanna Gruesome among others.

Live

It opened the band's set at CBGB in December 1988, supporting Sonic Youth, now an official live album. Galaxie 500 played it at least a dozen times; Luna and Wareham's later bands have played it hundreds more.