"Cattle & The Creeping Things" is a lot of The Hold Steady's fans' favorite songs, featuring Biblical allusions, world building, tight songwriting, and some of the sharpest and harshest instrumentation on the band's discography. As we find out on this episode, however, not everyone feels that way. We unpack the song to figure out why it rocks so hard, and whether it is, somehow, too much.

Shawn Westfall, Mike Taylor, and Daniel Shvartsman break it all down.