What sort of expectations were on the band after the success of "Runaway Train?" Uhh�write another song like that one, pretty much. I was like, I already wrote that one. I think some of the material I wrote for Let Your Dim Light Shine is some of the best material I've ever written, and none of it ended up on the record because they just-I didn't really understand at all what the hell was going on but, in retrospect maybe it's completely obvious, or maybe I was just stupid or na�ve or something. I had no idea what the f-k we were doing. But they signed us because we knew what we were doing.

It came time to make the follow-up record to that, they were like, "Blah blah blah, Butch Vig wants to work with you now�" Actually I'd known Butch Vig for quite a long time but�I guess the point is I wanted to expand in a way that nobody understood. So I was writing all this really, really good material in the natural direction I was going. I wasn't really terribly aware of like, 'Oh, there's these expectations happening.' But with Let Your Dim Light Shine, the weirdest thing about it is there's this like, heavy stuff going on. And those were chosen because Alice in Chains and bands like that were selling records. I made songs like that too, but I wrote like, I don't know, 60 songs for that record.

So I ended up with "Misery" and "I Did My Best" and I think that those were the songs they were looking for apparently. Personally, songs like "String of Pearls" were more like the direction I was trying to go, and I don't know, I wrote some really interesting songs for that record that nobody gave a s-t about and were like, what the hell was that? Even the guy who was my champion over there, who signed me to the label, who was like 21 at the time, he was in tune with what I was doing but I think he got fired over it. The label was just like, [affects K-Tel commercial announcer's voice] "More smash hits! What the f-k is this?"

The songs that got cut from it that you really liked, are those ever gonna see the light of day or have they surfaced?: Umm�no, I've pretty much completely lost track of them. They're recorded on a cassette tape somewhere�I don't know where they are anymore.