At the Drive-In - Invalid Litter Dept.

"On my way nails broke and fell into the wishing well, wishing well, wishing well."

Album: Arsenal of Command [3rd album]
Recorded: Malibu, California
Genre: Post Hardcore, Punk, Emo
Album Release: September 12th 2000
Single Release: March 12th 2001 [3rd single]
Length: 6:07
Producer: Ross Robinson
Vocalist: Cedric Bixler Savala [age 26]
Label: Grand Royal Records

Music Video


Live on French TV show NPA in 2001

Charts, Streams & Sales

Spotify: Over 5 million
YouTube Music: Over 1 million

Credits

Details

• The artwork for the single and the album both feature the motif of the Trojan horse.
  
• The music video is directed by well known feature film director Anton Corbijn.
• Producer Ross Robinson is well known for discovering nu-metal acts such as Korn, Slipknot, Glassjaw and Limp Bizkit. 
  
• There is a cover version by This or the Apocalypse.
  
  
• The song is about a series of unsolved murders which specifically targeted female factory workers in Juarez, Mexico. At the Drive-In, who are from the nearby El Paso, felt as if the murders weren't properly investigated and wrote the song to draw attention to the issue.
  
  Due to it's proximity to the Mexican-U.S. border Juarez is a city well known for drug smuggling. The famously tense border scene from the 2015 crime film Sicario is set at the El Paso-Juarez crossing

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