Which is to say: at core, Black Flag, say, or a thousand other bands of that era, were essentially emotional entities. Black Flag traded on rage; Saccharine Trust favored gloom and desperation; 45 Grave, God bless and keep them, were years ahead of the ironic-distance curve. Mission of Burma, aside from the climactic parts of "That's When I Reach for My Revolver" and some other scattered incidences, are not and were not an emotional band. By which I mean: they were, and are, quite emotional indeed. Just not in the same way, or about the same things, or toward the same ends, as emotionalism in music is usually is. "Unemotional" and "different in their expression of emotion" shake out the same way on the field of play. We find ourselves feeling lost, or adrift, or afloat.