Moxy Fruvous - Have you heard of them?

That review by Ned nails it perfectly.

Whither Corky and the Juice Pigs?

My answer: "Once I was the King of Spain, tra-la-la, Margaret Atwood etc"

http://www.fruvous.com/news/9405xxnw.html

Just "discovered" this band last year, kind of feel like I missed out in a way. I just picked up Bargainville is for some reason it makes me feel pretty nostalgic; don't know why since I'd never heard any of their music before. It just sounds like something I would have really connected with when I was like 13 or 14. I'm 24 now. I mean it's total 90's nostalgia anyway, referencing Walter Cronkite, Pat Buchanan, and Clinton, but there is something else behind it that I can't really identify. That said some of the songs are incredible - "Stuck in the 90's" and "Laika" are total classic. I picked up their follow up album Wood and couldn't remember a damn thing about it. Are any of their other albums worth picking up?

Was big on them back in high school, but haven't had any desire to dig out their CDs since. If you like Bargainville, check out You Will Go To the Moon, that was my favorite album of theirs. It's goofy like Bargainville, but the instrumentation is a lot more fleshed-out and interesting. Wood and Thornhill are both snoozers, they really don't play to what the band is good at.

One member of Moxy Fruvous, Jian Ghomeishi, is now one of the most important radio hosts in Canada. (He hosts Q, the CBC's flagship arts/culture show.)

(He is not well liked.)

why is that? is he just lame or actually controversial? because this is probably the band least likely to ever say the word "fuck" in one of their songs

I reviewed them in Spin once!

http://books.google.com/books?id=fT3PkoU5ylcC&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&dq=%27moxy+fruvous%27+spin+%27chuck+eddy%27&source=bl&ots=ZvZXnrmBXg&sig=PffU1qdiFKFI9XP7WO_U3DJmVh0&hl=en&ei=ouJrTZPPB4bPgAfJ5JXLCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

xxp: He's not? I don't really like him, but I kinda got the impression I was in the minority.

why is that? is he just lame or actually controversial?

The former.

yeah but don't canadians love that sort of personality?

There's a certain type of person who really connects with CBC radio and those folks really like him. Certainly I know lots of people that love his show. I know lots of people who are in their 40s and 50s though - the target audience. I've never heard anyone saying anything negative about him so I really don't understand where that statement above comes from.

i purely know of Moxy Fruvous as a band that only really hardcore They Might Be Giants fans ever seem to be into and their quirkiness/wackiness grates on me in a way TMBG's rarely does

i have heard of moxy fruvous

There is a significantly worse Canadian band in this sub-TMBG genre - the Arrogant Worms. If anything can make Moxy Fruvous look good it is those guys.

i would take the Arrogant Worms over Moxy any day. and this Ghomeishi info has just blown my mind.

Can you post a link to the best Arrogant Worms song? Everything I've ever heard by them is obnoxious but I'm willing to give them another chance.

My reference to Jian's reputation refers to the cultural community which Jian reports upon, not the audience he is speaking to.

i find jian deplorable. he's a solid interviewer, but he's just not critical of anything. his tastes are so MOR and if something strikes his fancy he'll just go on and on about how great it is.

yeah that's about what I expected from him. BUT before you criticize him, on average how "hard-hitting" are Canadian radio hosts on average anyway?

Ha, I loved "Stuck in the 90s" when it came out. I can't listen all the way through now, sorry.

I disliked Moxy Fruvous but think Jian is a good host. His endless sympathy for people comes off very well toward artists who are oftentimes met with cynicism in other quarters. He teased out a good interview from Vampire Weekend, for example. And handled himself admirably against Billy Bob Thornton's outright hostility.

yeah that's about what I expected from him. BUT before you criticize him, on average how "hard-hitting" are Canadian radio hosts on average anyway?

― frogbs, Monday, February 28, 2011 5:39 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark

i would say george strombo has a better presence and asks some deeper questions, although sometimes he sidesteps them entirely. he's a bit inconsistent that way, but i like his personality a lot better than ghomeshi.

gross. the only one i can tolerate is "the drinking song" and even then, it's far better when covered by miscellaneous celtic pub bands than their own version (and it helps that you be drunk yourself.)

what ever happened to brent bambury from brave new waves?

Does a boring general affairs/entertainment show on Saturday mornings on CBC. It's like the Globe and Mail Review section in audio form.

I now have their live album. For some reason I thought there would be a bunch of new stuff but it turns out that this here is a band that has track indexes for stage banter. I was hoping they actually had a song called "Kasparov vs. Deep Blue". What struck me about the whole thing was how incredibly beautiful/tearjearking "The Drinking Song" is compared to, oh, every other song they've ever done besides maybe "Fly".

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-no-longer-with-cbc-1.2813670

Question: in "King of Spain," do you imagine that the singer in fact is the King of Spain as he claims, or are we meant to take it as an ingratiating deception/Mitty-esque fantasy of the humble pizza-worker, Zamboni driver and turf-vacuumer?

/guy jamming with Moxy Fruvous?

Well, clearly that is a fantasy to which no average Joe could possibly aspire. Let's be realistic here.

He claims that his royal life was all recorded on video, suggesting that he could prove it is true if challenged.

Possibly, although one doubts he hauled all his VHS-C cassettes out of the royal chambers at his palatial palace. Likely, his peasant friend would still have them.