Someone's really missing a beat not putting together a Marcy Playground/Harvey Danger/Tracy Bonham tour.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 23 May 2022 07:52 (two years ago) link
This song is annoying. Also, it kicks ass. I unabashedly love it.
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Monday, 23 May 2022 13:10 (two years ago) link
IIIIIII wanna publish ziiiiiines
Hasn't enough time passed that we can all relax the cringe and just luxuriate in the awesomeness of this song. If you're bored then you're boring.
― enochroot, Monday, 23 May 2022 13:47 (two years ago) link
this song rips and i want to do it at a packed karaoke night right now
― na (NA), Monday, 23 May 2022 15:09 (two years ago) link
I've never seen the video before, lead singer has a somehow-even-nerdier Craig Finn stage presence.
I remember at the time thinking that he reminded me of Steven Page of Barenaked Ladies.
― MarkoP, Monday, 23 May 2022 15:27 (two years ago) link
song is a congealed blockage from a deviated septum
― mookie wilson shaggin balls (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 May 2022 16:40 (two years ago) link
Wish Johnny Cash had covered this one, slow and somber.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Monday, 23 May 2022 16:45 (two years ago) link
had to stop the video at curves of your body / feel a bit naughty 🤢
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Monday, 23 May 2022 17:17 (two years ago) link
i swear they played it on morning “alternative” radio for 12 months straightit was borderline abuse
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 May 2022 18:09 (two years ago) link
"Run it up the flagpole" is such a 90s ad agency / James Carville phrase (appropriately played with in this song).
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Monday, 23 May 2022 18:18 (two years ago) link
don't wanna think about that lead singer playing with anything
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Monday, 23 May 2022 19:18 (two years ago) link
song is still played on radio constantly, very much part of the oppressive 'safe list'
― dyl, Monday, 23 May 2022 19:32 (two years ago) link
When this song comes up, I think of the review (Charles Aaron in Spin?, who knows) that had a line like – "He claims 'I don't even own a TV,' which means he must have copped those Elvis Costello moves while doing laundry at his parents' house."
― Bob Dylan's iconic Ray Ban sunglasses (morrisp), Monday, 23 May 2022 19:41 (two years ago) link
i have now got this bile stuck in my head on repeat but in the same way it always used to be which is (on a loop)“paranoia paranoia everyone is coming to get meeee / dat da data dat da data data da da da daaaaaada (but in like a Jerry Lewis bellhop nasal whine) kill me god
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 May 2022 20:51 (two years ago) link
For years I woke up every single day with this song stuck in my head.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 23 May 2022 22:20 (two years ago) link
the part that gets stuck in my head is 'butnooneeverdoes!'
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 23 May 2022 22:29 (two years ago) link
vg otm
good hate watch fodder (todd in the shadows - "one hit wonderland: harvey danger").
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Monday, 23 May 2022 22:32 (two years ago) link
I mean
I love this song and always have.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 23 May 2022 22:34 (two years ago) link
Eazy OTM about a Johnny Cash cover
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 23 May 2022 22:35 (two years ago) link
fun fact: Bean Dad was once a touring member of this band
― alpine static, Monday, 23 May 2022 22:53 (two years ago) link
noooooooooo
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Monday, 23 May 2022 22:56 (two years ago) link
I really hate this song!
― brimstead, Monday, 23 May 2022 23:25 (two years ago) link
Absolutely love it--had it on my decade-end list. I published a zine, I hate(d) Rage Against the Machine, I did and do own a TV.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 May 2022 23:29 (two years ago) link
Reviews from 1998, the last issue of said fanzine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20001120133200/http://www.popped.com/radioon/98/ro011.html
― clemenza, Monday, 23 May 2022 23:32 (two years ago) link
I can't help it and love this song. It does seem to be one of those songs that people either love or hate.
― Bee OK, Monday, 23 May 2022 23:57 (two years ago) link
I didn't hate it, just thought it was "trying too hard"... I would choose "Sex and Candy" over this one (they sort of go together in my mind).
― Bob Dylan's iconic Ray Ban sunglasses (morrisp), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 00:07 (two years ago) link
See, “Sex and Candy” was one of (many songs) from that time I couldn’t stand.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 00:25 (two years ago) link
I would choose "Sex and Candy" over this one
100%
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 00:27 (two years ago) link
sex and candy...not sexy, no appearance by cameo or mandy moore, what gives
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 00:31 (two years ago) link
singer sounds a bit like darkest timeline J0hn D@rni3ll3
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link
another terrible song!
― brimstead, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 01:12 (two years ago) link
picking "Sex and Candy" over this is insane
― alpine static, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 01:23 (two years ago) link
if i am chosing between those two things then my life has already gone to a terrible place so i would end it all
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 01:59 (two years ago) link
Death is not an option.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 02:02 (two years ago) link
“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice” — Geddy “Choose Yr Fake Indie Poison” Lee
― Bob Dylan's iconic Ray Ban sunglasses (morrisp), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 02:18 (two years ago) link
i choose death
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 03:00 (two years ago) link
I choose going back in time and forcing the band to I unwrite the song.
Then they release "I Don't Write the Songs" instead
― Abe Kayfabe (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 03:06 (two years ago) link
Huh, the lead singer wrote a 33 1/3 book about Joni Mitchell.
(not sure that Todd in the Shadows video is a hate watch though, since Todd seems to be on the correct side of this debate)
― enochroot, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 03:12 (two years ago) link
i saw him open for Robyn Hitchcock 12 or so years ago, he had some nice tunes and sang harmony during some of Robyn's set. Also met him years later at a book swap at a bar, iirc he brought several Philip Roth books.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 03:41 (two years ago) link
vg just be glad your brain didn't choose this song as its permanent wake-up alarm. I don't honestly think "Sex and Candy" would have been an improvement but I never got the choice.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 03:55 (two years ago) link
It could be worse, the “come my lady come come my lady” song was only a couple of years after this.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 04:01 (two years ago) link
Or the “when I’m horny like thirsty she’s a cool drink of water” song.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 04:02 (two years ago) link
A few things I didn't know...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cu3MMzfpww
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 04:21 (two years ago) link
^ Interesting.
I may not have heard this in full since before Peep Show was a thing. Watching the video now (for the first time, IIRC) I just keep hearing where the Peep Show edits AREN'T.
I really don't hate it. Judge me harshly if you must.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 06:40 (two years ago) link
Go, my lady
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 10:45 (two years ago) link
"butterfly" >> this
(not really but idk, i'm generally happier to hear it nowadays than "flagpole sitta" tho)
― dyl, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:14 (two years ago) link
what was the genre of pseudo-inspirational rock-infused hip hop that had lame rhymes that seemed like cliches out of a middle school English class?
― GymnopĂ©die Pablo (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:17 (two years ago) link
I like both this song and "come my lady," sorry not sorry
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:23 (two years ago) link
But not "Sex and Candy" really