Lost as Quickly as I'm Found: An Interview With Sebadoh's Lou Barlow (Part II)

"I really like being in the formula band"

Lou Barlow (Photo by Jim Bennett via WireImage)

You have an interesting relationship with emo, between the cheeky title of your solo debut and the eponymous Get Up Kids video you starred in. What's it like being told that someone named a song after you? 

It's cool, I don't know.

Were you very familiar with the band before that?

No. I'd heard of them, of course, for ages, but that's just sort of a wing of music that I hadn't really…like I ducked out of hardcore and then punk in pretty much 1984. 

I think after Blink-182, punk kind of lost me in a lot of ways.

I really enjoyed the rise of Offspring and Green Day. That's that music that I loved when I was a kid. And now it's huge, just like I thought it would be, and it is. But pop-punk, I was like,it's not my vibe. I can't…I can't.