"Heavy Metal Drummer" (Wilco)

I read an interview with Wilco's frontman Jeff Tweedy some years ago (if I can locate it again online, I'll post a link) that "Heavy Metal Drummer" was about him and his buddies going to a place called Laclede's Landing on the riverfront in St. Louis in the late 80s/early 90s, where they'd basically spend summer evenings getting hammered and making fun of guys and gals with big hair and acid washed jeans.  The twist was, looking back on those days years later, Tweedy realized they'd wasted all that time poking fun and being miserable while the rockers were there having a blast, reveling in the glammy cheesiness of it all.  Which explains why the song has a sunny air of nostalgia about it.
It's one of the few Wilco songs that really captures Tweedy's sense of humor and heart at the same time.  It also combines a bubbling stew of influences--all of which, curiously, have nothing to do with heavy metal (that Tweedy sense of humor coming through again); there are Kraftwerk-like buzzing synths and Bomb Squad-like sampled drum breaks that pop up throughout.  It almost feels like a long-lost collaboration between Brian Eno and David Byrne that wasn't finished in time for Remain in Light.
The song is the perfect mood shift after the emotional "Ashes of American Flags" on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and just the perfect track to evoke carefree, teenage summers.