― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link
still the most apt description
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― veronica moser (veronica moser), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cracks (Crackity), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― daavid (daavid), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bn1 (Bn1), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link
1000 Miles rules. Lyrics are WTF, but so many lyrics are.
― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― someteenpartying (someteenpartying), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Evaluate it please in comparison to other hate pretty frothy pop songs--in which case it holds its own against anything Amy Grant or Sarah McLachlan ever did, so there.
― The Mad Puffin, Friday, 27 January 2006 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 28 January 2006 01:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 28 January 2006 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 28 January 2006 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link
Structure in mirroring lyrics shockah
― Jimmy Mod (I myself am lethal at 100 -110dB) (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 28 January 2006 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link
"Don't Ask Why"!!
Despite the Dawson's Creekization of these type of songs, I still like "Kiss Me".
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 28 January 2006 01:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 28 January 2006 02:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jimmy Mod (I myself am lethal at 100 -110dB) (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 28 January 2006 03:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 28 January 2006 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link
is this re: my post? if it is, it missed my point.
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 28 January 2006 04:02 (eighteen years ago) link
"Poor man's Sundays," though, is dead on.
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Saturday, 28 January 2006 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Love that! Her voice is grating at times (and the lyrics are a bit too saccharine) but the song is still really good overall. Also, as previously mentioned, nostalgia.
*Although if nostalgia were a valid excuse for taste than we may as well close the site down and call all music a draw.
― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 06:29 (seventeen years ago) link
heard this in the grocery store today. kinda a forgotten jam of late 90s/early 00s pop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwo-xezj7Ts
― how's life, Sunday, 12 May 2013 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
sounds like the Sundays relocating to Dawson's Creek
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), donderdag 26 januari 2006 19:07 (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^ and still
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 12 May 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i love breathe your name. i literally only hear it in grocery stores too.
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 12 May 2013 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
The intro caught my ear because it sounded like "Carry the Zero" by Built to Spill.
― how's life, Sunday, 12 May 2013 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
i'm not sure if i'd ever heard that one before. the only ones i really remembered were "kiss me" and "there she goes"
― dyl, Sunday, 12 May 2013 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
^^their version of "Don't Dream It's Over" still gets decent airplay on AC stations 'round here as well.
"Breathe Your Name" is indeed the supermarket/restaurant jam.
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 May 2013 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
i just heard this in a department store yesterday. I looked it up and it said they were Christian. I did not know that.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 13 May 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
I did not realize until just now that this thread was started by the villain from the latest Iron Man film, somewhere early in the timeline of his transformation from wounded, rejected, geeky scientist to fiery, immoral uberman.
― how's life, Monday, 13 May 2013 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks to this song, I love Freddie Prinze, Jr..
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 June 2018 01:26 (six years ago) link
it's a lovely song
― niels, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 06:36 (six years ago) link
Gorgeous song
― sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 07:54 (six years ago) link
good chord progression for beginner guitarists too.
― Ludo, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 11:02 (six years ago) link
I think a more charitable read of that one line would be “Strike up the band and make the fireflies dance. Silver moon's sparkling.” Like, these are separate ideas. The fireflies are not "dancing silver moon's sparkling". Save that shit for Owl City.
I really only know this song and Breathe Your Name, which I really love, and then several covers like Don't Dream It's Over and Dancing Queen, which are so unnecessary. Is anyone familiar enough with their albums to recommend anything further?
― how's life, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 11:22 (six years ago) link
good chord progression for beginner guitarists too.idd
― niels, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 12:01 (six years ago) link
this song is great, it imagines a slow coronal world in which the sundays got big enough in the us to score teen movies (fear excepted)
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 13:59 (six years ago) link
I was living in Sydney when this came out. It's inextricably linked with me being skint and locked out of the weightless preening narcissism of the city. I hate it.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 14:28 (six years ago) link
^ can’t blame you
― ya done (Ross), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 14:37 (six years ago) link
“... an all-purpose margarine smeared over the toast of a Clinton-era lust”(!)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link
this is a good song and I literally cannot imagine disliking it
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
Alfred, here’s what I don’t get: you recently dissed “Don’t Speak” because of what you diagnosed as (I recall) Gwen’s failure to convincingly “sell” the song; and you are similarly harsh on the vocal performance in “Kiss Me” — yet you love Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn,” whose vocal could most charitably be described as “serviceable,” and which is certainly less charismatic or “convincing” than either of these two “Worst Singles Ever.”
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
as a kid i thought the lyric was ‘sailor moon sparkling’
― flopson, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
otm
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 16:46 (six years ago) link
you love Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn,” whose vocal could most charitably be described as “serviceable,” and which is certainly less charismatic or “convincing” than either of these two “Worst Singles Ever.”
a matter of opinion! I find her winsomeness convincing.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link
Fair enuff
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
I like this song but people comparing her vocal to Harriet Wheeler are so crazy, there's nowhere near the expressiveness or frustration or wistfulness in this you can find in any The Sundays song
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
sorry i'm crazy!
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:36 (six years ago) link