D.C.’s favorite sons The Dismemberment Plan have reunited and will play a series of highly-anticipated concerts this weekend. To mark the occasion, we’ve asked members of our staff to pick their favorite Dismemberment Plan tune and write a post about it. Today: music critic Mehan Jayasuriya on “The Other Side.” Check out the rest of the series here.

Unlike most Dismemberment Plan fans, my introduction to the band wasn’t that masterpiece of mid-twenties malaise, Emergency & I, but rather, its aptly-titled follow up, Change. Which is especially strange considering that at the time of its release, I had just graduated from high school and was still years away from being able to relate to the post-collegiate anxiety of Emergency & I, let alone the comparatively mellow resignation of Change. Nonetheless, the songs on Change resonated strongly with me, their odd time signatures, snaking bass lines and peculiar couplets rattling around inside my head during many a long walk to campus. And during those early days of my love affair with the Plan, more often than not, it was “The Other Side” that was playing on repeat in my headphones.