Special Snowflakes

Maguire wrote Pile's songs, though we did not confirm the credit for this one. Stereogum's Miles Bowe premiered it on January 23, 2014, calling it an epic and a multi-part track, and the 7-inch with "Mama's Lipstick" came out on March 11, 2014 on Exploding in Sound. Bandcamp credits it as recorded and mixed in January 2014 by Dan Angel and James Ryskalchick at the Sex Dungeon in Philadelphia, with Becker on guitar, Connery on bass, Kuss on drums and Maguire on second guitar and vocals; the single's track page names Ben Brodin as mixer, a conflict. It is not on You're Better Than This and opens Odds and Ends in 2018 at 7:18. WVAU named it its number one song of 2014, calling it their longest song by two minutes and a complex, suite-like arrangement.

Impose ran an essay on the lyrics, which we could not open; a search summary says it argues the narrator becomes a special snowflake himself by insisting he is more special than everyone else, and Allston Pudding calls it a roughly 3,000-word lyric analysis. We found no statement from Maguire on its meaning. Setlist.fm shows it as their most-played song, 86 plays, ahead of "Prom Song" (75) and "The World Is Your Motel" (74). At the Burlington Bar in Chicago on October 10, 2014, it was paired with "Pets" mid-set, and on April 8, 2026 at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston it drew a particularly big reaction. MusicBrainz lists the single (7:17), Odds and Ends (7:19), a live version at WMBR in 2015 (6:42) and one at The Sinclair in 2023 (6:45), and a demo (7:48); which one our upload is cannot be told.