Everything - Hooch vs. LFO - Summer Girls vs. Crazy Town - Butterfly

“hooch” is vastly superior, the other songs are nowhere close

it could easily be a sugar ray song !

“what it’s like” would have been a better option. even though it’s also better it’s in the same wheelhouse

“hooch” more in that everclear / third eye blind axis, at least to my ears

like

If Blind Melon had written and recorded "Hooch” instead of Everything, it would have been among their best songs and greatest achievements

rewards multiple listens

i find it offensive "hooch" is even in this poll

never heard it so it gets my vote

Looks like you guys got the love. Looks like you got the freshy-freshy.

I was thinking about "Hooch" the other day! I haven't heard it since it came out, or met anyone else who remembers it; it's never been clear to me whether it was an actual hit, or just something my local top 40 station decided to push hard for a few months.

Interestingly (or not), those few months overlapped my middle school-era habit of playing Final Fantasy Tactics for six hours a day with the radio on in the background. To this day, the image that comes to my mind when I hear the chorus is Delita getting pecked by a chocobo.

only one of these bands was fronted by swole guy fieri and it wasn't everything or lfo

I just this second learned that his name is Shifty Shellshock, and that his greater claim to fame was starring in this commercial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsY-BWrvmko

If Blind Melon had written and recorded "Hooch” instead of Everything, it would have been among their best songs and greatest achievements

― budo jeru, Thursday, August 1, 2019 12:42 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Your understanding of Blind Melon is flawed.

ah ok i remember hooch now, it's that song from the waterboy

the lead singer, being rob schneider, had an inside track to that deal with the sandman

"Hooch" also in S1 E09 of NBC's "Scrubs"

Who got the Scrubs
Baby
Who got the only Braffest Zach in the world

"Hooch" also in S1 E09 of NBC's "Scrubs"

― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, August 1, 2019 9:35 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hooch is crazy!

i do not remember "hooch" at all

inclined to vote for "butterfly" which used to be the song i hated the most in the world but i've weirdly come around to it 100 years later

it's the perfect soundtrack to shifty shellshock's glistening abs

Crazy Town toured with Buckcherry, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Methods Of Mayhem for two years before this became a hit.

powerful late-90s dirtbag energy

Come my lady
Come come my lady
Come and butter up my shiny belly

Scabies rock imo

(For those already afflicted or aspiring to someday be)

to my knowledge i have never heard the song hooch by everything

so i say butterfly

You really should listen to the song 'Hooch' by Everything. Everyone should experience the wholesale collapse of all their beliefs and values at least once, it builds character.

i'm sorry but you should NOT simply listen to the song 'Hooch' by Everything. that is DANGEROUS advice from the above poster OLD LUNCH. You should first buy a dress shirt with a gigantic collar and a baggy suit. put them on. now unbutton that shirt a few buttons and pull the gigantic collar over the lapel of your suit jacket. people are going to want to see that collar. drive out to a farmhouse with a shady porch. hold a saxophone. picture tens of fans out there standing in the grass to see you play that saxophone. listen to the song 'Hooch' by Everything.

and for fucks sake fill up some of that bare neck area with a chain first

This is true, you really should go all-out when you're courting a music-induced existential crisis.

(Which largely revolves around the maddeningly-unanswered question of who exactly does have the hooch and the freshy-freshy.)

i DONT need TO walk around in circles walk around in circles walk around in

it is a great inquisitive lyrical tradition. see 'Somebody to Love'. 'Hooch' vs 'Somebody to Love' probably a better poll.

xp oh shit

There were a lot of not-great songs on the radio at that time, which I know because we always had the radio on at my place of work, but 'Hooch' really went that extra mile to stand out in the crowd. I've never donated marrow but I imagine the sensation isn't terribly dissimilar to hearing 'Hooch'.

Like 5 years ago my dad was on a work trip somewhere in eastern europe and texted me out of the blue "found myself at a crazy town concert earlier tonight... chatted a bit with shifty shellshock (singer)... did not stay long"

For causing me to receive the greatest text I've ever received, gotta vote CT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cSGGmd7f8g

the funniest joke in orange county is the recurring spontaneous synchronized dancing to "butterfly"

orange county definitely a popcorn classic btw, someone alert gregg turkington

five bags of popcorn, plus a little picture of a butterfly

I missed your italics at first and thought you were describing some kind of legit flashmob phenomenon in the OC.

“butterfly” is like if somebody made a goatee into a song

(didn’t know what those guys looked like until just now but google image search confirmed what i knew in my heart was true regarding facial hair)

wtf @ “Hooch”

That is the appropriate response to 'Hooch'.

confession that I definitely thought "Hooch" was a Sugar Ray song all this time, even despite seeing & knowing the video

Okay, having now done some cursory research on the band Everything, I find that I was correct in my assumption that they are (ARE, not was) a group of college buddies. However, I was incorrect in my assumption that this song could only have been written by dudes sittin' around the quad, killin' time between devil stick sessions, because 'Hooch' is from their fourth album, released nearly a decade after the band's formation.

It's sick and sad and weird but I really need to hear their early work now.

(ARE, not were), rather

one of the reasons i like "butterfly" now is bc i think the chili peppers sample sounds really great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mjZ61IW-Nw

xp I'm more interested in their 1999 cover of "Young Americans" from the Drop Dead Gorgeous soundtrack, which doesnt seem to have made it to youtube

Oh my god.

Why do I need to hear that so badly? What is this illness afflicting me?

I like Summer Girls isn’t even worth discussing in this poll.

I like *how*

Old Lunch sounds like a serious case of the freshy freshy

It just occurred to me that it may be helpful to have the lyrics all in one place where we can compare the craft and artistry side-by-side.

Everything - 'Hooch'

Who got the hooch
Who got the hooch
Who got the only sweetest thing in the world

The working day was long
And the road is grinding on
And your body's winding down again
The tribal fire's here
And the circle speaks so near
And the simple truth so very much clearer

Who got the hooch, baby
Who got the only sweetest thing in the world
Who got the love, who got the fresh-e-freshy
Who got the only sweetest thing in the world

The birds and bees will sing
The jams begin to ring
The good vibes flow from me to you
The evening turns to night
The fire and moonlight
The dance of all who came before

Who got the hooch, baby
Who got the only sweetest thing in the world
Who got the love, who got the fresh-e-freshy
Who got the only sweetest thing in the world

Let's get real, let's get heavy
Till the water breaks the levee
Let's get loose, loose, who got the hooch

***

LFO - 'Summer Girls'

Yeah, I like it when the girls
Stop by in the summer
Do you remember?
Do you remember
When we met, last summer?
New Kids On The Block
Had a bunch of hits
Chinese food makes me sick
And I think it's fly
When girls stop by
For the summer
For the summer
I like girls that
Wear Abercrombie and Fitch
I'd take her if I had one wish
But she's been gone
Since that summer
Since that summer

Hip-hop mama, spic n span
Met you one summer
And it all began
You're the best girl
That I ever did see
The great Larry Byrd, jersey thirty-three
When you take a sip
You buzz like a hornet
Billy Shakespeare wrote
A whole bunch of sonnets
Call me when you miss me
'Cause I can't speak baby
Something in your eyes
Really drove me crazy
Now I can't forget you
And it makes me mad
You left one day
And never came back
Stayed all summer
Then went back home
Macualay Culkin wasn't home alone
Fell deep in love but
Now we ain't speaking
Michael J. Fox was Alex P. Keaton
When I met you
I saw my name is Rich
You look like a girl
From Abercrombie and Fitch

New Kids On The Block
Had a bunch of hits
Chinese food makes me sick
And I think it's fly
When girls stop by
For the summer
For the summer
I like girls that
Wear Abercrombie and Fitch
I'd take her if I had one wish
But she's been gone
Since that summer
Since that summer

Cherry pants Coke
Crushed rocks till I boogie
Used to hate school
So I had to play hookie
Always been hip to the b ball style
Known to act wild and
Make a girl smile
Love New Edition and the Candy Girl
Remind me of you
Because you rock my world
You come from Georgia
Where the peaches grow
They drink lemonade
And speak real slow
You love hip-hop
And rock 'n' roll
Dad took off when
You were four years old
There was a good man
Named Paul Revere
I feel much better baby
When you're near
You love Fun Dip and Cherry Coke
I like the way you laugh
When I tell a joke
When I met you
I said my name is Rich
You look like a girl
From Abercrombie and Fitch

New Kids On The Block
Had a bunch of hits
Chinese food makes me sick
And I think it's fly
When girls stop by
For the summer
For the summer
I like girls that
Wear Abercrombie and Fitch
I'd take her if I had one wish
But she's been gone
Since that summer
Since that summer

In the summertime
Girls got it goin' on
Shake and wiggle to
A hip-hop song
Summertime girls
Are the kind I like
I'll steal your honey like
I stole your bike

Bugalute shrimp and pogo sticks
My mind takes me back
There oh-so quick
Let you off the hook
Like my man Mr. Limpit
Think about that summer
And I bug 'cause I miss it
Like the color purple
Macaroni and cheese
Ruby-red slippers
And a bunch of trees
Call you up but what's the use?
I like Kevin Bacon
But I hate Footloose
Came in the door
I said it before
Think I'm over you
But I'm really not sure
When I met you
I said my name is Rich
You look like a girl
From Abercrombie & Fitch

New Kids On The Block
Had a bunch of hits
Chinese food makes me sick
And I think it's fly
When girls stop by
For the summer
For the summer
I like girls that
Wear Abercrombie and Fitch
I'd take her if I had one wish
But she's been gone
Since that summer
Since that summer

In the summer girls come
And summer girls go
Some are worthwhile
And some are so-so
Summer girls come
And summer girls go
Some are worthwhile
And some are so-so
Summertime girls
Got it goin' on
Shake and wiggle
To a hip-hop song
Summertime girls
Are the kind I like
I'll steal your honey
Like I stole your bike

New Kids On The Block
Had a bunch of hits
Chinese food makes me sick
And I think it's fly
When girls stop by
For the summer
For the summer
I like girls that
Wear Abercrombie and Fitch
I'd take her if I had one wish
But she's been gone
Since that summer
Since that summer

***

Crazy Town - 'Butterfly'

Come my lady
Come come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby
Come my lady
Come come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby

Such a sexy, sexy pretty little thing
Fierce nipple pierce you got me sprung with your tongue ring
And I ain't gonna lie 'cause your loving gets me high
So to keep you by my side there's nothing that I won't try
Butterflies in her eyes and looks to kill
Time is passing I'm asking could this be real
'Cause I can't sleep I can't hold still
The only thing I really know is she got sex appeal
I can feel too much is never enough
You're always there to lift me up
When these times get rough I was lost, now I'm found
Ever since you've been around
You're the women that I want
So yo, I'm putting it down

Come come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby
Come my lady you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake
You make me go crazy
Come come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby
Come my lady you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake
You make me go crazy

I don't deserve you unless it's some kind of hidden message
To show me life is precious
Then I guess it's true
But to tell truth, I really never knew
Til I met you. See I was lost and confused
Twisted and used up
Knew a better life existed but thought that I missed it

My lifestyle's wild I was living like a wild child
Trapped on a short leash paroled the police files
So yo, what's happening now?
I see the sun breaking down into dark clouds
And a vision of you standing out in a crowd

Come come my lady
You're my butterfly
Sugar baby
Come my lady you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake
You make me go crazy
Come come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby
Come my lady you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake
You make me go crazy

Hey sugar momma, come and dance with me
The smartest thing you ever did was take a chance with me
Whatever tickles your fancy
Girl it's you like Sid and Nancy
So sexy, almost evil talkin' about butterflies in my head
I used to think happy endings were only in the books I read but
You made me feel alive when I was almost dead

You filled that empty space with the love I used to chase
And as far as I can see it don't get better than this
So butterfly, here is a song and it's sealed with a kiss
And a thank you miss

Come and dance with me
Come and dance with me
Come and dance with me
So come and dance with me

Come come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby
Come my lady you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake
You make me go crazy
Come come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby
Come my lady you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake
You make me go crazy
Come come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby
Come my lady you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake
You make me go crazy
Come come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby
Come my lady you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake
You make me go crazy

Come and dance with me

All of the lyrics on display are very special, but LFO's seem like the product of someone learning to write and organize their thoughts again after suffering a traumatic brain injury.

i finally got around to listening to 'hooch' and it's now official that, between this and rusted fucking root, old lunch has now introduced me to two of the most appalling songs i've ever heard in my entire life

The great Larry Byrd, jersey thirty-three
When you take a sip
You buzz like a hornet
Billy Shakespeare wrote
A whole bunch of sonnets

this is otm

wait hold up wtf TWO members of lfo are dead?

i'm unwilling to do any further research into this so i assume they were killed by chinese food, rip to a couple of real ones

i finally got around to listening to 'hooch' and it's now official that, between this and rusted fucking root, old lunch has now introduced me to two of the most appalling songs i've ever heard in my entire life

― Criss Angel Raw: The Mindfreak Unplugged (bizarro gazzara), Friday, August 2, 2019 7:59 AM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

America, let me show it 2 u.

"Summer Girls" lyrics have always reminded me of a hastily-written song from a school assembly, like the student council wrote a rap to sing underneath the slideshow at graduation, with references to each depicted student & teacher

America, let me show it 2 u.

sam_neill_in_event_horizon.jpg

There is a regional jam band that used to come through my college town all the time named

(please sit if you aren't already)

əkoostik hookah

I never saw them but I'm willing to bet they are tapping a similar vein of good-time mellow-groove rock and roll music.

i see that everything's 2006 magnum opus in the juju underworld was released on the ecolon / zebralution imprint, whose name seems to come straight from the same diseased place as rusted root's neologisms

There is a regional jam band that used to come through my college town all the time named

(please sit if you aren't already)

əkoostik hookah

I never saw them but I'm willing to bet they are tapping a similar vein of good-time mellow-groove rock and roll music.

― COOL DUDE'S ONLY, NO NERD'S ALOUD (Old Lunch), Friday, August 2, 2019 6:09 AM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

unfortunately i was drinking coffee while reading this post

Reminded how the recent oral history of "All Star" talked about the band listening to all the songs that were in the top 10 and trying to mash them together into a new song...and these songs are definitely the sauce that went into that one.

https://miro.medium.com/max/1380/1*wiuBE2BwOi8SQaBmW19jxg.png

Pictured (l to r): In the Juju Underworld, 'moobahdesee, moobahdeyah', BOB

When I was watching the "Hooch" video I kept thinking "these guys MUST be from the St. Paul suburbs"

jam band culture is uniquely upsetting to me

these disgusting wasters need to shape up and get a fuckin job tbh

xxp hoochbiquity was the appeal

my high school group of friends regularly listened to an ekoostik hookah song on purpose

song was called 'Loner' and the lyrics will blow your mind

Hookahville

Hookahville is a semi-annual music festival featuring performances from many local and regional bands and usually hosted and headlined by əkoostik hookah. Formerly located at Legend Valley in Thornville, Ohio or at Frontier Ranch in Kirkersville, Ohio, it was moved to Zane Shawnee Caverns in Bellefontaine, Ohio in 2017 where Hookahville 50 was held in September 2018 and was ekoostik hookah's reunion show with EH2.0. Hookahville 51 was held at Brushy Fork Phamily Ranch in Newark, OH in May 2019. Hookahville 52 will be held at Clear Fork Adventure Resort in Butler, Ohio where EH2.0 will return for one more performance. Spring Hookahville is held the weekend before Memorial Day weekend; the end of summer version is held during Labor Day weekend.

look i'm not saying that one misplaced hellfire missile loosed at a particular spot in ohio on a particular day could measurably improve american culture

however,

That scenario would probably be one of my top five guesses re: the nature of hell.

It can't be emphasized enough that this is a festival comprised mostly of lower-tier jam bands who presumably lack the chops and polish and restraint of the headliner, əkoostik hookah.

More like drum ellipses amirite

Do u even hack, bro

əkoostik hookah released an album called 'dubbabuddah' in 1994, strengthing my increasing suspicion that jam band culture is underpinned by a pontypool-style virus which erodes the language centres of the brains of those affected

does phish have any defenders on ilx?

oh dear lord

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k03_M_XMz2k

At first I was like 'okay, they aren't nearly as terrible as me and my snarky college friends had built them up to be' and then the vocals happened.

I had no actual desire to click on that link and yet I still eagerly dove after it like a dog seizing a bone. I really should get a professional diagnosis for whatever this is.

eight hundred and sixty seven əkoostik hookah live shows! put it in my veins!

https://archive.org/details/EkoostikHookah

Whenever we go to like an antique store, my gf will make a game of trying to figure out which utterly repellant and unsalable objets d'art I will gravitate to. This disorder expresses itself in a myriad of ways.

30 seconds into that video and wow that guy with the acoustic guitar is really having a hard time strumming that opening chord

he is the guitarist and singer for band that headlines its own festival, huh

xpost i'm sorry, EKOOSTIK guitar

Sigh...it's 'əkoostik' for the love of pete.

Jam bands are basically the only sound argument against the legalization of marijuana.

that video is so crazy

why doesn’t he know how to play his guitar

is this real ohio

Ooooooh ooh ooh ooh I just remembered the other tremendously-named jam band that used to make an endless loop through my college town: Umphrey's McGee. We should do them next.

Jam bands were made for people who resent having been born with the ability to hear and want nothing more than to punish their ear drums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46fXwwTY5Uo

This is really a special day, getting my first actual taste of these bands whose flyers made me giggle fifteen years ago.

love how they have a guy to specifically play congas and dude on the acoustic guitar just fucks up his flow by banging on his guitar like it’s a drum

In the world of jam there are no rules except 'do whatever terrible thing you're doing for longer than any rational person would ever want you to do it'.

Hey, that guitar-wheedling you got going on really sucks shit, could you maybe keep it up for thirty-five minutes while I whale on this triangle?

guess i’ll just share that those videos surprised me and i always assumed that like lower tier jam bands that can still somehow sell out first avenue are not just actually shitty and totally incompetent, what a wild world

i don’t know what this has to do with “hooch” (which i might continue to half-heartedly stick up for idk) but those jam band videos, man

they blew my mind in a way the band definitely did not intend

I think the general theme running through 'Hooch' and the various digressions into jam-ville is 'what if you made the conscious decision to perpetuate for decades the poor decisions you made in your early twenties?'

Joining a drum circle during sophomore year: okay, whatevs
Still touring with your drum circle at age 37: uhhhh

Favorite əkoostik hookah anecdote:

This band, who I've never actually heard, was the breaking point for my wife's jam band era. I think she might have ended seeing them with the hippie roommates and fucking hated it so much that it made her suddenly and jarringly realize how dumb so much of that shit was and how obnoxious and idiotic and mindless and snobby all the hippies who frequented her house were.

She used to sing the line "take the train to HOOKAVILLE" to me as shorthand for "my hippie roomates did something stupid or irresponsible again" or to make me mad but it would fill her with shame to do so and she'd get angry at herself about it.

PS. I still love the Dead and refuse to strongly denounce Phish.

― joygoat, Friday, July 20, 2018 3:59 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Anyway, I always used to get Everything

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Everything-bandlogo.jpg

mixed up with Mark Everett

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_Called_E#/media/File:A-man-called-e.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ee/A-man-called-e.jpg

I also just feel like this needs to be stated for the record: "Everything" has got to be one of the dumbest band names of all time.

idk at the end of the day it’s like, on a board where people enthusiastically and unironically embrace fatboy slim, third eye blind, and limp bizkit, maybe it’s not super weird to suggest that “hooch” is a more or less cleverly constructed pop tune and i sort of get that it’s funny to be histrionic and pretend to faint when you hear it bc it’s the worst thing ever and the lyrics are a crime against humanity but actually there is just so much worse music (two in the poll, two vids in thread)

and i realize this thread is supposed to be fun sry

'Everything' is no 'Hoobastank' but it holds its own.

budo, it's cool to like things that are garbage (god knows I love my own share) but 'Hooch' is unquestionably dumpster runoff.

Jake Cinninger of Umphrey's McGee is a very skilled guitarist. UM just have extremely corny ideas and are allowed to make money that way because jamband people love corny ideas.

OL, please listen to the album 'Zonkey'

i guess we just set our boundaries differently !!

xp

The album entitled Zonkey by the band Umphrey's McGee has at least two very decisive strikes against it right out of the gate, and I will let you guess what those strikes are.

(I will give you a hint: earlier today, upon learning that the band under discussion has a song called 'Wappy Sprayberry' I wappy sprayberried my breakfast all over my workstation.)

this is tip o' the iceberg shit, man. you need to dig deeper.

If I really wanted to shed the last vestiges of my humanity as I plunge into a nihilistic void I can think of much more enticing ways to do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz8nglWZL-U

Dang, I should've known The Why Store would kill this thread stone dead.

Just as Grateful Dead followers were coined "Deadheads", avid Moe fans embrace the term "moe.rons."

lmao

on a board where people enthusiastically and unironically embrace fatboy slim

Everything Fatboy Slim has released under his moniker post-YCALWB has been bad to terrible

The most embarrassed I've ever been for another person was when I heard someone proudly refer to himself as a Hazelnut (aka a fan of the band Sister Hazel). It was like I absorbed all of the same that he should have been feeling but totally, totally wasn't.

SHAME that he should've been feeling etc

secondhand embarrassment is real

Everything Fatboy Slim has released under his moniker post-YCALWB has been bad to terrible

― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, August 2, 2019 1:09 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

certainly didn’t mean everything he’s every done

It may be a truism that if there is a quasi-official name for fans of a given band, the band in question is a bad band that should not have fans.

always wondered if fatboy slim is actually fornicating up there or just emphatically in heaven

a second grader definitely lip synced 'praise you' at the school talent show that year, and it was extremely painful.

There's never a bad time to repost this video but because it seems to capture a vibe intrinsic to the broader discussion itt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3DllvVSsLc

That vibe being something akin to 'the cultural interests and practices of people who have wasps in their brains'.

I posted that video on facebook when it first came out and my father-in-law replied "What was that, a bunch of gay guys?"

And did you reply 'no, it's a bunch of Three-Elevengers'?

I replied something like "I hadn't considered that they might be gay. I just thought they were dorks!" to which my FIL replied "so did those two guys in the window."

my favorite Fatboy Slim thing is that insanely loud accelerating noise on "The Rockafeller Skank" which still stops the room cold

Mea culpa: apparently 311 fans are known as 'Excitable Ones' or 'Excitables' for short.

Of course they have a name. Of course. Of course.

Wow! That's news to me.

311 vid is right up there with the animal collective wedding video

311 member, "P-NUT", lives in town. my 311 loving family member was excited to meet him by chance at brunch on a visit.

I'm sorry, the Animal Collective what

It looks like one of those things from a kids movie where their little brothers hypnotize them and plays it during their big presentation to the board of directors, causing them to suddenly lose control and start doing that and it's so embarrassing but there's nothing they can do until the song stops. Then they get fired.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UwkgPlROr8&t=74s

^ any excuse to post

oh my god

Doesn't work for me?

somewhere nearby a field of cows is stampeding, attempting to save their wounded brethren

this is my first time ever hitting Flag Post

evan plug "Michael + Heather's Wedding! (My Girls - Animal Collective)" into YT and dance along

Okay, that

Um

Ah

What?

Ohh, wait...that's supposed to be dancing?

Have they seen dancing before?

Apparently they have seen elephants before

Michael, you're my dearest friend, and I'm so honored that you chose me as your best man, but no. Absolutely not.

"I have a question about this song; would you like for me to sing it, moan it, or mewl it?"
"... Could you do a combination of all three?"
"DONE AND DONE"

correct me if I'm wrong but isn't My Girls supposed to be about little girls, like daughters. or is it just about adobe slaps

Where's Taylor Swift when you need her?

forgbs its about not caring about material things, like a social status

correct me if I'm wrong but isn't My Girls supposed to be about little girls, like daughters. or is it just about adobe slaps

― frogbs, Friday, August 2, 2019 12:00 PM (three minutes ago)

it's about his partner and his daughter

I am giggling hardcore at "adobe slaps"

ah got it. I remember someone once describing what it's like to hear someone speak to you right after you've had a stroke, where you recognize someone is speaking English to you but you can't parse any of the words, and I'm like yeah I know that feeling I've heard Panda Bear sing

https://www.idolator.com/5139817/why-the-worst-lyric-on-merriweather-post-pavilion-is-resonating-with-everyone?chrome=1

really should be a "steve martin's christmas wish" version of that song

and that version should have been the one they made and released

The purview of this thread keeps expanding in ways that are surprising but also most welcome.

Puka Shells and Polo Shirts: A Journey Into the Dark Heart of America

Oh wow, people actually like "Hooch"? You learn something new every day.

When I think about jam bands I immediately think about what their fans do for a living. I know what a cappella fans and metal fans and EDM fans and Jimmy Buffett fans do. I have no idea where jam band fans work.

I think they organize and staff jam band festivals, primarily. With a little composting consultancy on the side, maybe.

i know one that has a phd in əlectrical əngineering

a phd in fresh-E fresh-E

Submitting for consideration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BXzphHiHD8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCSJzw6QM_Q

on a board where people enthusiastically and unironically embrace fatboy slim, third eye blind, and limp bizkit

sounds like budo jeru knows what is what, but they don't know what is what, they just strut


Everything Fatboy Slim has released under his moniker post-YCALWB has been bad to terrible

no he got good again after he went to rehab and stopped releasing albums! Eat Sleep Rave Repeat and Boom Fucking Boom and Where U Iz are dumb fun bangers, and Get Naked is ...fine.

before this thread I had never heard of Hooch, and I have been maintaining a boycott against Summer Girls for two decades, to be upheld until they get their own name

so, Butterfly

Okay, having now done some cursory research on the band Everything, I find that I was correct in my assumption that they are (ARE, not was) a group of college buddies. However, I was incorrect in my assumption that this song could only have been written by dudes sittin' around the quad, killin' time between devil stick sessions, because 'Hooch' is from their fourth album, released nearly a decade after the band's formation.

It's sick and sad and weird but I really need to hear their early work now.

― COOL DUDE'S ONLY, NO NERD'S ALOUD (Old Lunch), Friday, August 2, 2019 8:23 AM bookmarkflaglink

I forget what college scene Everything came from, but I had a friend who attended that college, and made me a mixtape which included a few tracks from one of their first release.
One was called "SLWB" which stood for... well, I'll just let you listen to it, because it's on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GclzttprPU
(i'm not even going to pretend that 20-year-old me didn't love this jam)

SLWB

She, like, was bearded

If I’m not mistaken they were from Virginia. I could be wrong but I think this because a friend of mine from college was hometown friends with them and was their tour manager for a while after graduation. During this time I was at NYU and they opened for Hootie so he got us in for free. My dad’s best friends are really close with DR and all the BF because they went to college with them so after the show I would up hanging out a bit with some of the guys I knew and DR and I remember my very very stoned friends standing there looking at me like Dude, is she talking to Hootie? I hate all these songs but that was one of the weirdest nights of my life so everything have a special place in my heart.

That should have said my dad’s best friends sons are close with HatBF not my dad’s best friend. That would be weird.

Just remembered they also played a party my college friend threw at our small school Upstate and they were really nice guys.

can i just:

The birds and bees will sing
The jams begin to ring
The good vibes flow from me to you

i'd much rather listen to hootie than any of these songs btw

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i laugh whenever i think of the name "lyte funkie ones" so i guess i'll vote that

Everything are from VA. my station played "Hooch" a LOT and before I even knew they were local, I suspected they were, given the song was one of those bland, low-effort songs that only gets play cuz the band has local fans. This is the first time I realized the song was bigger than our area, which is baffling. I don't think I've heard it since the last century

I have no recollection of ever hearing “hooch” in my life. The Sugar Ray comparison is otm. I don’t hate it but it’s sort of unremarkable. LFO also kind of reminds me of Sugar Ray. I feel like ‘crazy town’ is the odd one in here.

Come to think of it I don’t hate either of these three songs but I also have no desire to ever listen to them again.

All three songs are dumb. "Hooch" is the dumbest.

"Summer Girls" is overrated, but it's good and dumb.

"Butterfly" wins my vote because I will never dislike the Flea sample.

Hooch is dumb masquerading as merely mediocre. A true lowering of the bar.

Summer girls is dumb, but knows it's dumb, which is the next best thing to being stupid on purpose.

The Pretty Little Ditty sample in Butterfly always pisses me off, because that's probably the best RHCP song (both on its own as an objectively pretty little ditty, and by virtue of the Keidis Omission). Plus every time I hear it I can't help but imagine the thousands of seductions that have been set to this tune. It doesn't matter that it is totally bad; "Sexy, sexy pretty little thing/fierce nipple pierce/you got me sprung with your tongue ring" is enough to turn up the heat for some. At the meat market. At the frat party. On the way home from seeing American Pie in the back of a 1996 Chevy Cavalier. I want people to enjoy their sexuality. I want people to listen to stupid popular songs. But this combination just makes me squirm.

All this talk about "Butterfly" piqued my curiosity enough to finally listen to the song, and...
of right, I've heard this a million times, but for some reason I always assumed this was Limp Bizkit.

Now I guess I have to go listen to LFO for completeness...
and, wow, those lyrics are somethin else. This is the best of the batch by a country mile. It's basically a Kidz Bop re-write of LL Cool J's "I Need Love", with a whole slew of non-sequiters to pad out the rhyme scheme. Respect.

No, my friend, this is the Bizkit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-EdCNjumvI

Butterfly is clearly the best

cant wait to find out which one of these three gems got the freshy freshy

Please don't wait if you find yourself overcome with the urge to get real or heavy.

"Hooch" is on the soundtracks for both Scrubs and The Waterboy.

I wasn't going to vote but I suddenly got scared that "Butterfly" wouldn't win

You would vote against fierce nipple pierce you got me sprung with your tongue ring?

thinking about all three of these songs in succession has activated some kind of ptsd

Poll at last fulfills its intended purpose.

"Butterfly" def my 'favourite' of these. Had no memory of "Hooch" even though I know I've seen that season of Scrubs more than once.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

lol hooch

The hooch brings you back
I ain't tellin' you no lie

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come my lady
come come my lady

i’m shell shocked pic.twitter.com/BxWeh5GSBJ

— catatonicyouths (@catatonicyouths) March 14, 2023

WOW

I thought that was Colin Mochrie for a second.

Love that they flew that guy in from 2001

why does a guy that young sound like a 200 year old Lee Scratch Perry

outstanding

he looks like Flea if he was in an Arkansas hip hop duo

Shifty Shellshock,[10] is an American musician, best known for being a co-founder and front man of the rap rock band Crazy Town, known for their hit song "Butterfly". He has also had a solo music career and appeared in the reality television series Celebrity Rehab 1 and 2 and Sober House 1 and 2.

dudes had a rough four seasons of television

who the FUCK would watch "Sober House"

ooooh look out for these wild cards!!!! they're not afraid to speak their minds and they won't apologize for nothin'!! now just imagine them all...completely sober!!

this guy's sobriety is sponsored by

Natty Ice

also this guy got a DUI last year

you can now get Prolonging the Magic by CAKE on vinyl. its true they just reissued it. thought that would be of interest to all readers of this thread

https://pitchfork.com/news/lfo-singer-brian-brizz-gillis-dies-at-47/

what the hell?? that band was cursed

https://www.nme.com/news/music/crazy-town-singers-filmed-beating-each-other-up-after-on-stage-row-3435857?

they were subsequently kicked off the tour because this behavior was a bridge too far for hed P.E.

Shifty bragging about how much he boxes and how he could fuck up his friend 'if he wanted to' slightly reminds me of the time that one of the members of grindcore band Are You God? got into a fist fight with another bandmate, then logged onto the message board that they both were a part of and started a thread called "I BEATED BERNARDO UP"