Sixpence None The Richer's 'Kiss Me'

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(what's with all the OMC hataz? I mean in NZ they were around for ages & "How Bizarre" wasn't really typical - early stuff like "We Are The OMC" or, say, "Land of Plenty" from the album are U&K, but um everyone overseas seems to refer to OMC as some sort of dilution of something unspecified (um even Tom in yr 90s singles I think?). . .)

(& "Kiss Me" is v.nice but I haven't listened to it in ages)

(but seriouslly, OMC as Beck-lite?!?!?!)

― Ess Kay (esskay), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 09:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

OMC weren't in my 90s singles though they were very good.

I'm saying Beck-lite is a good thing in this case Reclaim! "lite" from the hataz!

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 09:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

"How Bizarre" is as good a single as Beck ever released and I like Beck

― James Blount, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 09:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Both my uses of 'lite' were positive here, I love that 'How Bizarre' track, and it had a great drawling quality which reminds me of about what I liked about Beck (I felt he went pants with Odelay bar a couple of great singles)

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 19:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Listening to it right now: "Destination un-noooowe-unn", great stuff.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 19:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

OMC vs. The Streets

― James Blount, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 19:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I just saw the ad for "How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days" and it features a cover of "Don't Dream It's Over" by Sixpence! Covers for movie soundtracks might be where this band is heading.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 15:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Good grief.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 16:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 30 January 2003 02:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

re: Starry Sarah, last night I tried to look for the Vanessa Carlton song by typing biddley biddley boo into iTunes. Obviously it didn't find it cos I got the spelling wrong.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 7 February 2003 14:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

i adore this song. it sounds like something from loveless without all the noise!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link

so a really weak song, then?

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link

sounds like the Sundays relocating to Dawson's Creek

still the most apt description

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

heard this song the other day in the store. i have to say, i dont mind it, it's an ok pop song.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

always thought it was lovely…

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll defend this one. Lovely song.

― Cracks (Crackity), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I liked it the first time I heard it. Now...not so much. I liked the Sundays better, althought they haven't aged that well either. There's tons of twee that's much better that this.

― daavid (daavid), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha, just the other night my friends were looking at using this song for their wedding reception dance and I mocked them so viciously they decided not to use it (though they're likely to pick something equally vile).

― Bn1 (Bn1), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I like it when it comes on, but I've never suddenly wanted to hear it.

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

like it

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Love this song. Shamelessly.

― someteenpartying (someteenpartying), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link

It's catchy, I'll give it that. For this kind of sound, I still like Innocence Mission's 'Glow' best of all.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I liked it at one time but 2003 is way too late not to be tired of this song, to say nothing of 2006. Subject yourself to one 'soft hits' radio station, people.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, for heaven's sake. It's a pretty frothy pop song. If you hate pretty frothy pop songs, news flash: you'll hate it. And you don't get any astuteness points, or whatever, from saying so, or noting that it isn't fecking "Anarchy in the UK."

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

I dislike 'Kiss Me' for the simple reason that I don't like the melodic formula at the beginning of several phrases within each verse -- the single note, repeated, and isolated from the rest of the melody, and the annoying way she sings it all swoopy. For me that detail becomes a marker for how over-repetitive the song as a whole is (although I'll grant that 'There She Goes' is a much worse offender when it comes to over-repetition).

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 28 January 2006 01:12 (eighteen years ago) link

everything i've ever heard by this band has been gorgeous. this sort of pop is a total guilty pleasure for me.

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 28 January 2006 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link

my favorite is the "don't dream it's over" cover.

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 28 January 2006 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link

(although I'll grant that 'There She Goes' is a much worse offender when it comes to over-repetition).

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

i adore this song. it sounds like something from loveless without all the noise!

"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

can someone do a rough guide to songs that sound like this? not dawson's pop as a whole, just this kinda english-major/quasi-pastoral strain of it. obv 10,000 maniacs would be on there.

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 28 January 2006 02:30 (eighteen years ago) link

The Sundays to thread

― Jimmy Mod (I myself am lethal at 100 -110dB) (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 28 January 2006 03:04 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, that's another obvious one. cocteau twins too?

― 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

tremendoid: no. More to stuff upthread along the lines of "I hate inoffensive music." Okay, well then, fine for you, but not much help in talking about songs that people are trying to make sound pretty rather than nonpretty.

"Poor man's Sundays," though, is dead on.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Saturday, 28 January 2006 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Umm: "Kiss Me" sounds like the Sundays relocating to Dawson's Creek

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

six years pass...

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

still the most apt description

― 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

five years pass...

Thanks to this song, I love Freddie Prinze, Jr..

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 June 2018 01:26 (five years ago) link

it's a lovely song

― niels, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 06:36 (five years ago) link

Gorgeous song

― sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 07:54 (five years ago) link

good chord progression for beginner guitarists too.

― Ludo, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 11:02 (five 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 (five years ago) link

good chord progression for beginner guitarists too.
idd

― niels, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 12:01 (five 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 (five years ago) link

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Sixpence None The Richer's 'Kiss Me' - who else loves it?