Cool

"Cool" was the A-side of the debut single with "Dub", DB Records DB53, in 1979, with Hay, Bewley, Lachowski and Crowe. A search summary says it was recorded at Stone Mountain Studios in Atlanta with Danny Beard; the fetched article did not say so. The single runs 3:15, and MusicBrainz lists compilation versions at 3:13 to 3:24, plus "Cool (Extra)" at 3:19 and "Cool (Razz Tape)" at 3:02 on the Pylon Box. The Razz Tape was the band's first-ever recording, a demo to book gigs, named for Chris Rasmussen who recorded it on the second floor of his record store, with Hay singing in the hallway and amps facing each other under a blanket; she called it an honest picture of the sound before they formally recorded their first single. It was left off the original Gyrate, and appears on the !! EP and Gyrate Plus. Paste's Andy Beta cites it as an example of the band's focus on grooves. We found no statement on its lyric.

Setlist.fm shows 28 performances, and it opened five of the ten most recent shows, including the Knitting Factory in New York on December 15, 2008. Deerhunter covered it on a split 7-inch on DFA with Calvinist's remix of "Yo-Yo", out on June 28, 2011. It was used in a Lexus RX television ad reported in January 2016; Hay said it was not something they sought.