@nichobert said:

I dunno why i get so tickled when people still say "Fuckerpants"

The genesis of the nickname seems to make sense, as people weren't into this random 3 minute songlet that popped up incessantly in 95

But once they expanded it for the first time at Melkweg, it probably should have lost the stigma, no?

I guess I just don't get why it seems less popular than Bug, despite them having relatively identical jams and Bug having lyrics that were probably written the same day as Sand and Jennifer Dances... AKA: The least inspired day Trey ever had where he still wrote 3 songs!
I kid i kid.. Kinda.

I'll always be a Caspian fan. Trey has done some excellent noisy/textural solos in it, and Page is always doing something gorgeous.

I remember someone once wondering why Trey 'treats' Caspian like Wharf Rat. That has resonated with me; where it falls in sets, the tune just seems to lack that emotional oomph.

Like you say, Trey has certainly used the song to make some cool noise. The Darien '00 version is cool in that regard, in that the playing informing the show to that point doesn't dissolve with the introduction of those few chords. And of course this has happened a number of other times as well. Back then I'd get a feeling akin to when I hear BDTNL emerge today. Trey loves both songs, so that is cool. And I like both songs. But I do wish, in the moment, that they'd gone in a different direction.