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.

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. We’ll have an entry every day for the rest of this week. Today: editor-in-chief Aaron Morrissey on “The City.”

Bring up about the Dismemberment Plan’s “The City,” the penultimate cut from the band’s seminal Emergency & I, and many will likely talk about the song’s emotive finale — 73 seconds in which Travis Morrison finds himself admitting “And all I ever say now is good-bye.”

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. We’ll have an entry every day for the rest of this week. Today: music editor Valerie Paschall on “The Ice of Boston.”

Virginia Beach was hardly a fertile breeding ground for cultivating an interest in independent music.

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. We’ll have an entry every day for the rest of this week. Today: film critic Ian Buckwalter on “The Dismemberment Plan Gets Rich.”

I got to know the Dismemberment Plan one afternoon late in 1999.