harvey danger - flagpole sitta

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i loved this song then and i love it now, i like how he sings

― trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 06:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

Great internal rhymes! "Now I'm an am-pu/tee, goddam you"

― dave q, Tuesday, 23 September 2003 09:57 (9 years ago) Permalink

i honestly feel like i'm the only person on earth who loves their second album. but i can't be the only person. can i? it hit that same kinda Pinkerton nerve for me.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 September 2003 10:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

Another one I hate. Is there anything you like, trife, that isn't utter trash?

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 10:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

GREAT GREAT song

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 11:30 (9 years ago) Permalink

Andrew, you are SO WRONG. I know nothing else by this band but this song alone is pure gold.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 12:15 (9 years ago) Permalink

yup, agree.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 12:16 (9 years ago) Permalink

Is this the song with the "like [some guy] I make mad films/okay I don't make films/but if I did they'd have a samurai" verses?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 12:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

No, that's "One Week" by the Barenaked Ladies, the OTHER semi-ironic hit song of 1998.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 12:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

*pictures flat plain*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 12:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

i KNEW this would be a trife thread (altho admittedly i had just come from the 'clocks' one)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 12:44 (9 years ago) Permalink

I heart Harvey Danger. The poor man's Weezer, but this song was classic nu-alternative

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 13:28 (9 years ago) Permalink

one of the most under-appreciated alt.rock albums of the 90s. terrific!

has anyone else heard the new Long Winters album? the lead singer of H.D. is a member of the band, and it is incredible pop music.

― Sean M (Sean M), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 13:30 (9 years ago) Permalink

this song is absolutely classic, yeah! 'i just wanna publish zines/and rage against machines' ...

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

god i miss the 1990s

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

this song used to annoy me because of the line "only stupid people are breeding". i guess it was supposed to do that. the hook is pretty undeniable... it sounds like the dandy warhols with a dork from a teen movie singing, which as a concept is x1000 better than the dandy warhols.

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 15:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

Seam M OTM about the Long Winters album. Recommended power pop with some incredibly catchy choruses.

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 15:04 (9 years ago) Permalink

minna POWERFULLY OTM

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 23 September 2003 15:58 (9 years ago) Permalink

thank you so much for reminding me about this song. i once was lost but now i'm found.

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 19:52 (9 years ago) Permalink

OK it's better than any Dandy Warhols song but we don't have be hating on the Dandys. They's quite the professional and consistent combo.

I really should listen to King James Version again (I have in a big box of promos somewhere) but Sad Sweetheart Of The Rodeo was a nice song.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 02:31 (9 years ago) Permalink

This is better back to back with the Refreshments' "Banditos."

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 02:36 (9 years ago) Permalink

Please do not ever mention "Banditos" again.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 02:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

Oh, come now. My wayward youth was spent with Banditos, Harvey Danger, Marcy Playground, Tracy Bonham and all the other wonders of mid '90s commercial-alternative-radio.

I have no capacity to dislike them.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 02:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

Do you still play with action figures? Something things need to be left in the past, man. Like "Banditos."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 02:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

Do you still play with action figures?

Haha, I never did. But I do have a Dirk Nowitzki action figure on my desk.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 02:45 (9 years ago) Permalink

T/S: Marcy Playground v. the Refreshments, who is hated more

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 02:47 (9 years ago) Permalink

Marcy. Refreshments at least did the King Of The Hill theme.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 02:48 (9 years ago) Permalink

dirk nowitzki!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 06:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

get ready to replace that nowitzki figure with an antawn jamison one. the future is now in dallas! (p.s. i haven't heard this song in a while and remember it fondly [perhaps for that very reason])

― will g. (will g.), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 12:26 (9 years ago) Permalink

I'd rather have a Steve Nash figure, complete with long, greasy hair and string to hold it back.

And a Nick Van Exel figure to stand on the side and fume that he got traded to a shitty team.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 15:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

I hated this song when it came out, but now I don't.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 17:30 (9 years ago) Permalink

This song strongly irritated me at the time, and I suspect it still would.

Marcy Playground, on the other hand, had a few good tunes.

― Sam J. (samjeff), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 17:31 (9 years ago) Permalink

My mom used to think that Marcy Plaground song said "Asthma, sex and candy".

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 17:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

That is so much better. Wheezing, Kit-Kats and gettin' it on!

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 18:07 (9 years ago) Permalink

TS: Geggy Tah Vs. Harvey Danger

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 21:16 (9 years ago) Permalink

ha ha I liked Geggy Tah

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 21:26 (9 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

and i dont even own a tv

― 3333333333, Sunday, 3 July 2005 08:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

FUCKING TERRIBLE

and since when did milo have a "desk"?!?!???!?

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 3 July 2005 09:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

how'd you forget Bare Naked Ladies?

― nicholas de jong (nicholas de jong), Sunday, 3 July 2005 15:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

I lost my Dirk action figure when I moved and there's still no greasy Nash figure. Boooo.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 3 July 2005 15:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

i loved this as a kiddy, still like it now. i have the 7", i think.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 4 July 2005 07:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

YOU COULDN'T BE GAYER IF YOUR NAME WAS ETHAN PADGETT

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 4 July 2005 08:02 (7 years ago) Permalink

yeah, this song is all right! i sometimes see one of the guys from harvey danger at shows in chicago. i guess he lives here now.

an interesting taking sides might be this vs. "semi-charmed life."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 4 July 2005 08:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

"semi-charmed life" is a perfect example of a song i probably "hated" when it came out because i thought i was supposed to or something, but really sounds great now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 4 July 2005 08:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

i don't think i ever actually hated "flagpole sitta," tho, because i was able to appreciate it as a novelty/one-hit wonder (whereas third eye blind signalled the horrible mediocrity of mass culture, i guess?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 4 July 2005 08:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

gay gay gay buttfucking gay vs. gay gay buttfuckin gay

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 4 July 2005 08:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

i also enjoyed the three seconds of "flagpole sitta" featured in the film disturbing behavior (which i saw at the dollar theater becuz i had a crush on katie holmes).

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 4 July 2005 08:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

no one commented on the ashton kutcher dream i had last night.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 4 July 2005 08:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

stence smokes dope w.the pope

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 4 July 2005 08:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

if you like katie holmes, you're gay (HELLO TOM CRUISE)

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 4 July 2005 08:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

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i have never seen the video but now that i know they look like Ben Folds Cake i will be sure to continue this

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:28 (6 years ago) Permalink

dom, get this one it's really good:

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

haha i love this song. it's so fun.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

WTF @ U ALL. this thread is a joke right?

― am0n (am0n), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

What a terrible song/band.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:51 (6 years ago) Permalink

you know what? the song/band ain't so bad. Harvey Danger was alright; not the greatest, but far from terrible. this song ruled alternative radio's playlist (along w/ the irritating "Rockefeller Skank") the summer it came out (1998). it was probably the last time that alternative music was fun and not-so contrived. not long after that things went bad; very bad in fact. Korn, Limp Bizkit, and all that horrible shit took over (at least here in LA on KROQ). w/ the exception of The Strokes/White Stripes explosion, things haven't been so fun since. give me Harvey Danger or Marcy Paygorund over Korn and Limp Bizkit (or Fallout Boy) any day.

― Robert Acosta (Rob 77), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

give me Harvey Danger or Marcy Paygorund over Korn and Limp Bizkit (or Fallout Boy)

Five terrible bands.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

LOL at the juxtaposition between this thread and the Ott vs Decemberists Girlfriend thread

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

I remember some review that claimed "Flagpole Sitta" was a grunge version of The Association, which is a fine way to define the genius of the track.

― The Dusty Baker Selection (Charles McCain), Friday, 17 November 2006 00:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

Cool lyrics too. Forgot about the masturbation ref in the first verse.

I had visions, I was in them
I was looking into the mirror,
To see a little bit clearer,
The rottenness and evil in me,
Fingertips have memories
Mine can't forget the curves of your body,
And when i feel a bit naughty,
I run it up the flagpole and see,
Who salutes(But no one ever does)

I'm not sick but I'm not well,
and I'm so hot, cause I'm in hell!

Been around the world and found
That only stupid people are breeding,
The cretins cloning and feeding,
And I don't even own a TV
Put me in the hospital for nerves
And then they had to commit me,
You told them all i was crazy,
They cut off my legs now i'm an amputee,
(God damn you)

I'm not sick but I'm not well,
And I'm so hot, cause I'm in hell
I'm not sick but I'm not well
And it's a sin to live so well

I wanna publish zines,
And rage against machines,
I wanna pierce my tongue
It doesn't hurt, it feels fine,
The trivial sublime,
I'd like to turn off time
And kill my mind,
You kill my mind,

Paranoia paranoia!
Everybody's coming to get me,
Just say you never met me,
I'm runnin' underground with the moles,
(Digging holes)
Hear the voices in my head
I swear to God it sounds like they're snoring!
But if you're bored then you're boring,
The agony and the irony, they're killing me

I'm not sick but I'm not well
and I'm so hot cause I'm in hell
I'm not sick but I'm not well
and it's a sin to live this well

One, two, three, four!
(Guitar Solo)

― The Dusty Baker Selection (Charles McCain), Friday, 17 November 2006 00:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

I always get this song mixed up with The New Radicals' "You Only Get What You Give", and then I'm really disappointed when the line about Beck and Hanson never comes.

― Good-Time Slim, Uncle Doobie, and the Great 'Frisco Freak-Out (sixteen sergeants, Friday, 17 November 2006 00:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

when I was younger and I heard this on the radio is made me cringe in a similar way that the hold steady does now.

― pernicus (pernicus), Friday, 17 November 2006 01:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

Marcy Playground??? Is it POSSIBLE to get worse than "Sex and Candy"? Coz like, Korn and LB and them, they make really really really really godawful music, but they're still (debatably) like actual songs.... "Sex and Candy" was some guy playing the laziest drum beat ever and a guy just mumbling on top of it; and somehow it got major radio airplay most likely for being about sex. And candy. Which all people love.

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

when I was younger and I heard this on the radio is made me cringe in a similar way that the hold steady does now.

EXACTLY

..grunge version of The Association, which is a fine way to define the genius of the track.

so how's that job at GQ going Charles?

― am0n (am0n), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:28 (6 years ago) Permalink

baffling at trife being the op

― am0n (am0n), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

4 years pass...

WTF Chappelle was in that movie?

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 19:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Kind of wondering if the arrival of "Peep Show" on Netflix streaming in the US will re-spark interest in this song? I don't quite know how, but I managed to *never* hear it until a few months ago. Catchy. I do remember seeing the first CD in used bins all the time, but that's it.

― dlp9001, Saturday, 25 August 2012 17:05 (8 months ago) Permalink

the stations that played the song in the '90s still play it all the time, although people don't listen to them as much anymore.

― 7 years of pussy for prison riot (some dude), Saturday, 25 August 2012 17:12 (8 months ago) Permalink

It's really pretty decent. Dandy Warhols were both smarter and stupider at the same time, which is a neat trick to pull off. Semisonic vs. Harvey Danger? Though Semisonic's best album doesn't come out until a few years later.

― dlp9001, Saturday, 25 August 2012 17:39 (8 months ago) Permalink

God, this is the worst song ever.

― formerly EDB (ed.b), Saturday, 25 August 2012 17:45 (8 months ago) Permalink

it came on the radio while we were driving home like an hour ago and my wife said "i should buy this song for my ipod" and i looked at her with mild horror

― some dude, Sunday, 26 August 2012 00:39 (8 months ago) Permalink

Maybe it depends on whether you associate the song with late 90's alt rock or with the best sitcom (apparently) in the history of the world? I dunno, but I like it...

― dlp9001, Sunday, 26 August 2012 01:08 (8 months ago) Permalink

I like it -- the combination of nerdgoof 90s style plus loud distorted guitar and bass noise going on constantly in the background appeals to me. The lyrics might be harder to swallow if the guitars weren't so noisy, but that not being the case, this is a very cool and unique pop song.

― Three Word Username, Sunday, 26 August 2012 09:53 (8 months ago) Permalink

Never heard it before Peep Show. Was incredibly drunk on my birthday last year and went to a US vs UK 90s night (it was awesome) and they played this and I was in such a state that I couldn't work out why they were playing the theme music to the best sitcom in the history of the world :D

― kinder, Sunday, 26 August 2012 13:51 (8 months ago) Permalink

There's a feedback/noise solo buried during the last chorus that no one's mentioned yet... prolly my favorite part.

― billstevejim, Sunday, 26 August 2012 17:27 (8 months ago) Permalink

I wish it was louder..

― billstevejim, Sunday, 26 August 2012 17:28 (8 months ago) Permalink

some dude you misspelled "high honor"

― goole, Sunday, 26 August 2012 17:40 (8 months ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

oh sweet christ
http://youtu.be/yXn1K36w4Bk

― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:01 (5 months ago) Permalink

oops

― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:02 (5 months ago) Permalink

hahaha

― pandemic, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:05 (5 months ago) Permalink

so many beautiful girls in a state of undress in my apartment...and yet i'm not happy. diddums.

― pandemic, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:07 (5 months ago) Permalink

unless all those people are dead and he's killed them and is now feeling a little regretful.

― pandemic, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:09 (5 months ago) Permalink

wait, that's rachael leigh cook?

― pandemic, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:10 (5 months ago) Permalink

haha, yes! i kept getting emails from a pr flack saying "video for "Flagpole Sitta" starring Rachael Leigh Cook" and i finally watched it. what a world.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:16 (5 months ago) Permalink

now i'm almost tempted to re-watch 'she's all that'. Not sure I can take prinze jnr's hacky sack demo tho.

― pandemic, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:24 (5 months ago) Permalink

Hahahahahah

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhahahahahaha!

― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:26 (5 months ago) Permalink

OK I've never actually heard the whole song but ever since Peep Show started up again I've been singing the parts of it that are featured on that programme over and over again. I'm going to go and check out the full version right now

― paolo, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:36 (5 months ago) Permalink

Well that was pretty much what I expected. I imagine it would be a lot of fun to dance drunk to

― paolo, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:46 (5 months ago) Permalink

was gonna say wasn't "Flagpole Sitta" in the trailer for a Rachael Leigh Cook movie but i guess i confused Antitrust with Disturbing Behavior

― some dude, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:58 (5 months ago) Permalink

the circle was almost complete

― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:59 (5 months ago) Permalink

Great song. Fuck you trendy haters

― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 21:19 (5 months ago) Permalink

trendy haters! i actually am ok with the song, just think a slowed down, super sensitive version is hilarious.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 21:22 (5 months ago) Permalink

It really suffers from not having the "I wanna publish zines and rage against machines" couplet.

― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 21:24 (5 months ago) Permalink

haha i kept waiting for that line to hit

― some dude, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 21:28 (5 months ago) Permalink

i know! what a cop out!

― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 21:30 (5 months ago) Permalink

My rage was probably directed at self only Tyler. No offence. I returned to their second(?) album recently thanks to a mention upthread. It sounded decent.

― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 21:36 (5 months ago) Permalink

jesus what is this please tell me it's a joke

― c sharp major, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 23:18 (5 months ago) Permalink

this is seriously the first thing i've seen in a long time where i can't really tell whether it's funny on purpose or not

― some dude, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 23:22 (5 months ago) Permalink

i also enjoyed the three seconds of "flagpole sitta" featured in the film disturbing behavior (which i saw at the dollar theater becuz i had a crush on katie holmes).
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, July 4, 2005 8:10 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Running underground with the moles
Digging Holmes

― your damn bass clarinet (Eazy), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 23:26 (5 months ago) Permalink

lol

― some dude, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 23:27 (5 months ago) Permalink

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