4 Non-Blondes "What's Up" vs Edie Brickell "What I Am"

xp to aero: but dog is god backwards DO YOU SEE

yeah it was baby spices first solo song

tarfumes i dunno it and these 2 songs are well known all over the western world (which is why black velvet beat life is a highway)

even if "what's up" wasn't my least favorite song of all time (w/ "zombie" and "breakfast at tiffany's" right behind it) and even if "what i am" didn't quote popeye i'd still give it to brickell. she's capable of making steve martin laugh apparently which is something. plus there are other edie brickell songs i very passively enjoy in a shopping for produce and listening to solo natalie merchant way. otoh linda perry has actually been involved w/ a number of actually great songs. but none of them were by 4 non-blondes.

like i couldve chosen toploader or that dodgy song but only the brits would know that

these are both great songs everyone is just jealous of how catchy they are!

ohh yeah zombie coulda been a contender for whats up

Edie Brickell is easily explained when you realize she is super fucking stoned

Nothing can explain Linda Perry

she's mad at grandma

"What's Up?" is a hideous misconception of a song from top to bottom and is only halfway listenable because the overwrought, wholly out-of-place vocal screeching

"What I Am" is basically what Phish would sound like if they didn't want me to punch them in their phishy phaces

― THE WORINÐLVE (DJP), Monday, August 5, 2013 12:49 PM (13 minutes ago)

^^Truth.

I just keep imagining 4 Non Blondes as a band in the studio, putting down the backing tracks, and then Linda says "welp, time for me to BLOW SOME MINDS" and picks up the mic and screams into it while the anticipatory smiles on the faces of the rest of the band freeze and then become incredibly strained because they all remember what happened to Becky

In Flight is a really nice album

one thing i do really really really hate about 'what i am' though is how radio stations don't play the radio edit (probably don't have it in their library anymore) and so you have to hear brickell scat over a longer bridge leading up to that solo. tbh kinda really hate this trend of stations not playing radio edits of songs that really really worked better on the radio as radio edits (ie 'little red corvette' not 'sweet child o mine'). and despite this trend i somehow heard a radio edit of 'golden slumbers/carry that weight/the end' on the radio the other day - if you're going to play it at all why in god's name would you play an edit??? krs-one was right.

ok this is a semi final the other one is
Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany's Vs Cranberries "Zombie"

The Crimes of Linda Perry is probably worth a thread.

Points in her favor for "Beautiful," America's Sweetheart, and maybe some of the Pink stuff but for the most part it's a trail of smoking craters and James Blunt.

song about a psychotic lady who starts screaming outside her door every morning

vs.

song about a crazy recluse pondering about the metaphysics of cereal boxes

at the end of the day, only one of these songs contains a section that goes "ooh/OOH"

omg is there footage of Linda Perry singing "Beautiful"

and so you have to hear brickell scat over a longer bridge leading up to that solo

oh witchy wah oh (???)

haha dan i had forgotten 'ooh/OOH'. god what an awful fucking song. all of these songs are so much worse than alannah myles and poor tom cochrane.

dan the internet is here for you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLMnV0suyZ8

from the comments, i learn things:

this song was meant for herself before then P!nk said she wants it but linda refused, insisting it for herself but the nXtina come along with her on the Stripped sessions and Linda let her listen to the song and then Christina want to record it too so Linda finaly let go

Religion is a smile on a dog"

OMIGOD is that what she says????

"I'm not aware of too many things" indeed

choke these two women in shallow water

Where was the edit in the Abbey Road medley?

Golden Slumbers always seemed to get to the chorus much faster than I remembered it, but when i listened to the album, it was like that all along.

Weird to look at radio edits - how on the album they were 4:16, but the radio edit was 3:42. I guess that's one more thirty for Sam's Transmission, but hell, was it really worth dropping that guitar solo?

I just keep imagining 4 Non Blondes as a band in the studio, putting down the backing tracks, and then Linda says "welp, time for me to BLOW SOME MINDS" and picks up the mic and screams into it while the anticipatory smiles on the faces of the rest of the band freeze and then become incredibly strained because they all remember what happened to Becky

http://airstre.am/dopamine72/Nicolas%20Cage%20Laugh.gif

Both sets of lyrics are equially fucking hideous

Only one of these songs has "horrible" music though.

i'm not aweer of too many things

At least she admits it

guys

Edie Brickell and Paul Simon are still married.

Imagine what lyric writing conversations around the breakfast table are like.

Paul probably just advises her to hire Los Lobos for sessions and then steal their material.

omg Linda Perry has the dulcet tones of a sick cow

Almost every Paul Simon song is way worse than either one of these songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMLUkYUULuo

WTF^^^^^

That is not OK to link asshole

this will probably be my only opportunity to say: waterface otm

(oops xpost so otm minus the "asshole" part but f'rills)

djp killing it lately

Can someone please delete that

you don't like paul simon, wf?

more like wtf

waterface is waterface
are you what you are or what you are and

AG you are ruining my day with these. ugh.

What's up, my dick?That is all

so otm

the My Dick Band has permanently elevated the 4 Non Blondes song into the upper echelon of lol

― tight in the runs (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, August 5, 2013 1:50 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Edie Brickell is easily explained when you realize she is super fucking stoned

Nothing can explain Linda Perry

― THE WORINÐLVE (DJP), Monday, August 5, 2013 2:03 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dying

yo waterface I'm vegetarian for 20 years now, check out my advanced kata of not clicking on the YouTube

if it auto-linked that'd be one thing but as it is it's on you if you listen

yo underrated I didn't click on it
I am still offended
just sayin',

WF

^^ this. Waterface going for a "omg that's terrible remove it TEACHER LOOK WHAT THIS GUY DID! BAN HIM!" is nagl

xp

idk if he needed to write on the moderator thread, but that video -- even if u don't click it -- was kind of unchill, especially to people who are sensitive to animal rights. i don't think wf is out of line here.

I didn't say ban him, I just said remove it. Don't put words in my mouth

^fav Nirvana b-side

4 Non Blondes - What's Up (Official Music Video)
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grocery store last night, place is basically two big rooms/areas and i guess they have two different sound systems. "What's Up?" was coming out of the speakers in the frozen/meat room; near the front, by the juice bar, another speaker was pumping out something where the lyrics got muffled out by the aisles of canned goods, but this chunky, thunky beat was coming through --- the kind of thing that 90s Yamahas keyboards would include as a "rap" or "hip-hop" beat, like bassy RZA drums with no spooky samples. anyway they were really locking together well, the BPM didn't synch completely so not everything worked but it sorta grounded and slowed down "What's Up?" in a way that i think really helped it a lot. maybe the best it's worked for me in years.not sure "What I Am" would be susceptible to this process, as its coffee-shop rhythm section is so much a part of the songwriting itself.

The unusual name of the band came from an experience the group had in the Bay Area with a blonde family. According to Christa Hillhouse, "Right next to us, there's a trash receptacle with a piece of pizza on top and the kid wanted to pick it up. The mom said, 'No, it's probably dirty, what with the pigeons and people.' And she stared right at us. We were Non Blondes."[8]

The experience and the name became a symbol that they didn't fit the California stereotype.

not sure "What I Am" would be susceptible to this process

just came across the existence of this thanks to an aside in David Cavanagh's Creation book

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq3RJaAgh3U

great find. wow the Mad Magic DJs really burned the midnight oil on that one, huh?

hell yeah, balearic my friends