 The final song of the album , " Good Morning Captain " , is a tribute to the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner . The song features a two chord guitar structure , a " spindly , tight riff " from the rhythm section and a " jerky " beat . During the recording of the song 's final chorus , McMahan became physically sick due to the strain of yelling over the guitars . David Peschek of The Guardian compared " Good Morning Captain " to Led Zeppelin 's " Stairway to Heaven " , writing that " the extraordinary Good Morning Captain is [ Slint 's ] Stairway to Heaven , if it 's possible to imagine Stairway to Heaven bleached of all bombast . " 
