― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 September 2004 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 25 September 2004 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 September 2004 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Tantrum The Cat, September 25th, 2004.
especially when the song fashions itself as either a judgement or a self-aggrandizing "it-could-have-been-me" ode, which makes it UberDud. it's like an Ur text for duds. of course, it's also the gist of the American remake of Traffic.
no low spark for me.
― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Saturday, 25 September 2004 13:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Clearly it's opposite day.
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 25 September 2004 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link
I never thought the song was particularly judgemental either way. I haven't seen either version of Traffic so I can't comment on that.
Also:
SEX AND DRUGS ON THE RADIO OMG WTF
It's too bad there's already TV On The Radio (who are awesome), because Sex And Drugs On The Radio is a face-rockingly good band name.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 25 September 2004 13:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 25 September 2004 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link
don't give steven s0d3rb3rgh any "new" ideas!
― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Saturday, 25 September 2004 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― cindy williams permafrost (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 10:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Jim Derogatis' interview/dis of Stephen Jenkins is one of the meanest, most self-serving pieces of journalism I've read in recent years.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link
(dud....)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link
Not classic.......but still seems to hit me on a level most rock music fails to reach.
― PB, Sunday, 29 May 2005 02:06 (nineteen years ago) link
dont they have a new album coming out?always had a spot for them
― Kevin Keller, Thursday, 13 November 2008 07:03 (fifteen years ago) link
yes and it's called "Ursa Major", speaking of Superdrag
― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 13 November 2008 12:53 (fifteen years ago) link
ha, the single
― cutty, Saturday, 22 November 2008 03:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't stand the affected English accent but when "Semi-Charmed" or "How's It Going to Be" come on the radio I'm glad. I'm gonna pull a Nostradamus and predict that late 90s alt-grunge-make-out-rock ballads like the aforementioned "How's It Going to Be" or the Goo Goo Doll's "Iris" will eventually become the "Don't Stop Believin'" are-we-being-ironic-or-not-i-dunno anthems of a future generation.
― Cunga, Saturday, 28 March 2009 05:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I couldn't never get past my impression of Jenkins as a sleazy perv. 'Semi-Charmed' just confirmed all my suspicions to a catchy beat and as a band they just give me a mental block. my first thought is always "Erg! Yuk!"
― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 28 March 2009 05:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think the aforementioned songs (which I really like) are the right combo of ridiculous+good to become are-we-being-ironic classics.
'I Want It That Way' has already earned a place in that canon though.
― iatee, Saturday, 28 March 2009 05:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm sure there are some others. That might be a good thread idea.
"How's It Going to Be" probably not, but I easily see a song as well known and over the top as "Iris" as taking a spot up there some day (the epic cheese factor for some 90s songs has yet to fully set in - we're still hearing it with somewhat fresh ears i.e. 1997 wasn't too long ago for many). And you should start the thread, would be fun to think about.
― Cunga, Saturday, 28 March 2009 05:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, maybe Iris. And 3eb are ridiculous...just not ridiculous in the right way. I'll make the thread.
― iatee, Saturday, 28 March 2009 05:36 (fifteen years ago) link
undeniably classic. first album is completely unfuckwithable, love songs here and there thereafter as well.
― knive k (k3vin k.), Saturday, 28 March 2009 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
this guy's pop culture references are always so uncomfortable and awkward
yet i still think this band is great, didn't like them first time around in the 90s, now their nostalgia factor is pretty ridiculous
― cutty, Thursday, 13 August 2009 01:24 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah those singles have aged well imo, "Graduate" is the shit
― nutsih the clown (some dude), Thursday, 13 August 2009 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link
New album isn't out yet, is it?
― we make rub' dongs from 4" to 6" (k3vin k.), Thursday, 13 August 2009 05:24 (fourteen years ago) link
it's not out, but it's good and i don't know why
― cutty, Sunday, 16 August 2009 11:52 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah it's leaked, im really excited to listen to it
― pr que (k3vin k.), Sunday, 16 August 2009 13:12 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm just sayin
i'm imagin harmony notes
and they're right
<3
― some droopy HOOS in makeup (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 18 October 2010 08:32 (thirteen years ago) link
http://o.onionstatic.com/images/articles/article/17198/blind_jpg_445x1000_upscale_q85.jpg
― hated old moniker, too tired to think of a clever new one (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:55 (thirteen years ago) link
dud
― my downeaster ilxor (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:55 (thirteen years ago) link
when did Matt Damon join?
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
"I just joined a shitty alternapop band. Howdya like THEM apples?"
― my downeaster ilxor (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:58 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I've always wanted to start a Third Eye Blind tribute band called Third Nostril Anosmic. maybe now's a good time?
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Thursday, 9 June 2011 03:00 (thirteen years ago) link
with hit single "Misplacing a Whole 6 Months"?
― my downeaster ilxor (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 June 2011 03:02 (thirteen years ago) link
song should really have been titled "Losing a Whole 3-½ Minutes" out of sympathy for its listeners.
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Thursday, 9 June 2011 03:04 (thirteen years ago) link
f u
― positive rapper (k3vin k.), Thursday, 9 June 2011 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
John Vanderslice with wisdom. The trick: it's not so much the song as a key member of the band.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
That was a fun read.
― Shock G Mo Collier (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
yeah that was awesome. exactly how i picture jenkins lol
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
this is also one of the more insane-o fandoms i've ever semi-engaged with
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
* cues "Never Let You Go" *
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
sometimes you're looking for any news of a new record and you see a bunch of fanboards where jenkins' lawyer is referred to by first name
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 16:59 (ten years ago) link
The creative mind at work:
We took a car. The thing that Hwin was keen for me to understand about his life that week was that it wasn’t really his. For the past several days, he’d been doing a “life swap” with Stephan Jenkins, the lead singer of the alternative-rock band Third Eye Blind. Jenkins has a large and lovely house in Pacific Heights, but his charmed life in San Francisco’s old-money district wasn’t helping him write fresh and edgy music. So Hwin would occupy Jenkins’s Pac Heights studio for a while, and Jenkins would inhabit Hwin’s small, dormlike room in the Sub. (“It’s at the intersection of the gentrification on Valencia and the gritty, hard, dug-in city life,” Jenkins said. “People are walking around with knives.”) Hwin asked me whether I wanted to maybe head over there—it was a pretty sweet place, and Jenkins had hella guitars and shit—and I said sure...“Look at the water!” Johnny Hwin said, squinting at the bay as we crested Pac Heights and drove west, toward the Presidio. It was the kind of day that kicks aside the quilt of summer fog, and every detail of a northern coast of the bay showed clearly in the late-afternoon light. We stopped in front of a white house set back slightly from the street. Hwin paid the Lyft fare on his phone, and we headed down an alley passage to a back patio. It was breezy, and it smelled of jasmine, and the movement of palm leaves overhead stippled everything with small feathers of shade. Hwin led me behind the house, where Stephan Jenkins had set up his music studio. Part of the idea of the life swap was that Jenkins and Hwin would share what they had written in each other’s homes. Jenkins had already drafted a song inspired by the Sub, Hwin told me, titled “Back to Zero.”“Welcome to the spaceship!” he said as we entered. Hwin calls most rooms spaceships, but the term seemed apt here. Jenkins’s studio had the air of a man cave that had been subjected to a decorator’s polish. Its walls were covered in a dark-brown acoustic fabric, with cheery, stylishly contrasting green curtains. In the middle of the room was a gigantic mixing board, with a computer at its center.We surveyed Jenkins’s large cache of guitars. “Stephan was just like, ‘Yeah, man—I have the best fucking setup, bro,’ ” Hwin told me, running his fingers up the neck of an electric model. “It’s like, Dude, you do! You do!” He twanged the guitar’s open strings. “Literally, there’s a room dedicated to miking these bad boys.” He twanged again.
“Look at the water!” Johnny Hwin said, squinting at the bay as we crested Pac Heights and drove west, toward the Presidio. It was the kind of day that kicks aside the quilt of summer fog, and every detail of a northern coast of the bay showed clearly in the late-afternoon light. We stopped in front of a white house set back slightly from the street. Hwin paid the Lyft fare on his phone, and we headed down an alley passage to a back patio. It was breezy, and it smelled of jasmine, and the movement of palm leaves overhead stippled everything with small feathers of shade. Hwin led me behind the house, where Stephan Jenkins had set up his music studio. Part of the idea of the life swap was that Jenkins and Hwin would share what they had written in each other’s homes. Jenkins had already drafted a song inspired by the Sub, Hwin told me, titled “Back to Zero.”
“Welcome to the spaceship!” he said as we entered. Hwin calls most rooms spaceships, but the term seemed apt here. Jenkins’s studio had the air of a man cave that had been subjected to a decorator’s polish. Its walls were covered in a dark-brown acoustic fabric, with cheery, stylishly contrasting green curtains. In the middle of the room was a gigantic mixing board, with a computer at its center.
We surveyed Jenkins’s large cache of guitars. “Stephan was just like, ‘Yeah, man—I have the best fucking setup, bro,’ ” Hwin told me, running his fingers up the neck of an electric model. “It’s like, Dude, you do! You do!” He twanged the guitar’s open strings. “Literally, there’s a room dedicated to miking these bad boys.” He twanged again.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 October 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
They deserve each other, really.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 October 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
'his charmed life'
― just sayin, Monday, 7 October 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
LONDON
― brimstead, Thursday, 28 March 2024 01:47 (two months ago) link
Top ten 90s album easy
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Thursday, 28 March 2024 03:41 (two months ago) link
god wait’ll you hear “thanks a lot”
― ivy., Thursday, 28 March 2024 03:57 (two months ago) link
God of Wine <3 <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2024 04:02 (two months ago) link
Those last three songs on loop for life
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Thursday, 28 March 2024 04:04 (two months ago) link
otm
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2024 04:53 (two months ago) link