(don't you) steal my sunshine

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what happened to LEN?

― reo fordecor, Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Moka Only is in Swollen Members

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

haha that isn't even how the chorus goes

― Pabst Blue Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

i was listening to this yesterday; it's still super super great

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 24 July 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

come off it, it's bloody awful twee rubbish and I for one am glad LEN have disappeared.

― regtools, Thursday, 24 July 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

haha, pabst, if/ don't , whatever.

burger pimp forever!!!

― reo fordecor, Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

LEN: 5 minute wonder that (hopefully) saved a few pennies. (That level of cheery cheesiness was bound to grate on the public's ears, at some point)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

That song is how you should do twee, IMO. It's fucking fantastic.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

It's lyrics are so indecipherable I must assume they're in Quebonics! Either that or the guy from Cornershop wrote them.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, but I do enjoy it.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

That song is how you should do twee, IMO. It's fucking fantastic.

oh, it's wonderful. the rest of the record was great too!

― Pabst Blue Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

It still makes me happy.

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The piano line is like house music!@@ I could listen to the piano line forever.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

9 out of 10 twee-as-fuck-but-still-dope-to-da-breaka-mofoin-dawn kittens prefer Len

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

do hear the Andrea True Connection track it samples if you haven't already tho (its great tho over-long)

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Moka Only wasn't in the project, he just produced two tracks and was in the video, roit?

― Xii (Xii), Thursday, 24 July 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

The first time I heard the ATC song was on the Simpsons, and I was like "The Len song!". Yet another thing learned from the Simpsons.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 24 July 2003 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

yay, another great canadian one hit wonder!

They're kinda just like Bran Van 3000("Drinking in LA")

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 25 July 2003 07:24 (twenty-two years ago)

tracer, how could you of all ppl not know "more more more"??

― Pabst Blue Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 25 July 2003 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven months pass...

Haha, remember "Feelin Alright"? Come back LEn, I love you!!!

― Ade (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 1 July 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I still want Cornershop to cover it.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 1 July 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I fucking absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE "Steal My Sunshine". I especially like it when Karen spells out L.A.T.E.R. and references her sticky buns.

― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I miss seeing the video cause there was a quick shot of this chick with the nicest ass on the planet.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

c'mon, nobody remembers "Feelin' Alright"? there was a video and everything! it was no SMS fer sure, but still.

― Ade (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

on relistening just now, i realize it's sharon not karen.

― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember "Feelin Alright". The video was more of the same suburban silliness.
"Steal My Sunshine" is 1000000000000000000000000000 times better.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

("more of the same" = both vids were just shots of the band goofing off, but SMS is such a great song that it doesn't matter).

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

bah

i think there's a mookish kind of beauty to Feelin Alright.

― Ade (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

'Steal My Sunshine' and 'Feelin' Alright' Dust Brothers Remix tower over so much of the late 90s it ain't funny.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

so great.

― john, a resident of chicago. (john s), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

it really is. i actually found myself enjoying some of their old videos on youtube. i was always too scared to buy the whole album with sunshine on it. i had it on the go soundtrack.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

still a massively great riff, although the song sort of seems like a put-on beyond that.

― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

srsly one of the best 90's one hitters

― got so much $ can't spend it so fast (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

i liked the rumor going round at the time that the brother/sister members of len had an incest thing going on

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

even that could not kill this song's good time vibery

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Kill it? It enhanced it!

― Pier Paolo Semolina (noodle vague), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

best song ever

― you want pastrami? (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

yeah and she was all pregnant in the video. and who knew canada had beaches? not me!

there sure was mad summery one hit wonders back in those days.

i'll third or fourth the whole album being pretty good. it also had mr. dibbs on it which is really neither here nor there.

― consigliere (consigliere), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

such a tremendously perfect song. l-a-t-e-r fucking kills me every time.

― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

there sure was mad summery one hit wonders back in those days.

before global warming kicked in full blast...

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

i liked the rumor going round at the time that the brother/sister members of len had an incest thing going on

-- PARTYMAN (wt...), Today 3:37 PM. (dubplatestyle) (later)

this played out so hilariously in mtl... it was a real mini-controversy

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

lol i thought it was just something me and my friends had made up to amuse ourselves at work! how shocked i was when i found out it might be true...

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Oh nice try.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

ok, i did want it to be true

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

wait a minute, why me "of all people"??

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

this played out so hilariously in mtl... it was a real mini-controversy

-- s1ocki (slytus...), August 23rd, 2006.

was it ever confirmed though?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

i want this thread to be derailed in dark delicious ways

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.joyofbaking.com/images/chocolatemousse.jpg

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

I remember a pregnant girl in the video but it wasn't the singer.

Heres the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwtTOxouD5Q

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

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"Uh... haven't really talked to him but... he looks pretty... uh... down."
"Hahaha. 'He looks pretty uh-huh....'"
"Yeah, well... maybe we should cheer him up then."
"What do you... uh... suppose we should do?"
"Well... does he like butter tarts?"

I always thought this was a drug reference I was too young to understand, but apparently it's a reference I just don't get period.

― ILX MOD (musically), Thursday, 30 October 2008 22:23 (seventeen years ago)

is there an Idjut Boys remix of this?

― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 October 2008 22:24 (seventeen years ago)

This is a really good song.

The female vocals are very summery.

What's not to like?

― Sven Hassel Schmuck, Thursday, 30 October 2008 23:27 (seventeen years ago)

it's a great song but i can't figure out the lyrics. i think maybe i shouldn't bother, doesn't really matter what they're saying.

― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 October 2008 23:30 (seventeen years ago)

"it's a reference I just don't get period."

it's just stupid and funny

― tricky, Friday, 31 October 2008 00:02 (seventeen years ago)

is there an Idjut Boys remix of this?

yes

― Suggest Bang Permalink (haitch), Friday, 31 October 2008 00:04 (seventeen years ago)

like people know "Every Morning" without knowing "Suavecito." *shakes fist at these kids today*

Wow, I knew both songs well but never pieced it together until I saw this. I also didn't know the name of "Suavecito." I just knew it as that song on oldies radio that features Santana's brother.

― Cunga, Friday, 31 October 2008 08:13 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

I was just reminded how much I fucking love this song. Oh Len.

― EN Save-A-Ken BB (ENBB), Sunday, 5 April 2009 02:18 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Did this at karaoke last night and was pleasantly surprised that the lyrics were even more amazing and ridiculous than I thought:

My sticky paws were into making straws
out of big fat slurpy treats
An incredible eight foot heap

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 14:03 (seventeen years ago)