Spin Doctors! vermin or vice?

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I hate to admit it, but I still kinda like Jimmy Olsen's Blues(Although I like it so much I am not even sure what the name of the song actually is).

I thought everything else was vomit tho.

this song falls into the guilty pleasure catagory along with Steal My Sunshine and all Blink 182 singles.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 17 March 2003 23:25 (10 years ago) Permalink

I actually heard the Len album for the first time at a sub shop today and there is NO reason to consider that a guilty pleasure. It's innocent and fun. It's what Moby's Play SHOULD have been.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 17 March 2003 23:28 (10 years ago) Permalink

actually, on second thought I may well have heard a mix-CD with Len on it rather than the full length album (unless it has songs that sound like techno remixes of Simon & Garfunkel), but either way "Steal My Sunshine" is innocent and fun.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 17 March 2003 23:29 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Two Princes"/"Little Miss Can't be Wrong", which sounds more like Joe Jackson or Steve Miller than like the Grateful Dead or the Chili Peppers, was possibly my favorite two-sided single of the '80s. They had a couple other good songs, too -- "You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast" on their second (full) LP comes to mind. Almost everything else was crap, of course. But I'll take the drums alone in "Two Princes" over any beats I've ever heard Dave Grohl or Janet Weiss come up with.

― chuck, Monday, 17 March 2003 23:49 (10 years ago) Permalink

I meant of the '90s, of course, not '80s.

― chuck, Monday, 17 March 2003 23:50 (10 years ago) Permalink

chuck, if I had a dollar, I might a give a you ninetynine.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 17 March 2003 23:52 (10 years ago) Permalink

ok i heard some sad news recently. the singer of the spin doctors got throat cancer and cant sing anymore is that true?

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 17 March 2003 23:53 (10 years ago) Permalink

I actually heard the Len album for the first time at a sub shop today and there is NO reason to consider that a guilty pleasure. It's innocent and fun. It's what Moby's Play SHOULD have been.

The Len album is really cool- especially the part with the German guy talking about making love to his comp. And the "Shop Around" samples!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 17 March 2003 23:55 (10 years ago) Permalink

chuck, if I had a dollar, I might a give a you ninetynine.

Ninety-nine bucks? I like the way you think. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 00:03 (10 years ago) Permalink

Ned, evidently you don't speak Jam. That's cents (or so I assume the Spin Doctor was implying). And I might even through in the the goddamn drummer from the Spin Doctors if he makes Chuck so damn happy.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 00:07 (10 years ago) Permalink

got a pocket full of crap tonite

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 00:07 (10 years ago) Permalink

obligatory Outhere brothers post.

"You Let Your Ass Go To Fast"
"Little Ass Can't Be Wrong"
"Cleopatra's Ass"
"The Longer I Ass, The Harder I Cry"
"What Ass Is It?"
"Jimmy Olsen's Ass"
"Ass Princes"
"Refrigerator Ass"
"Big Ass Funky Ass Booty Ass"

I was impressed that their last single "The Longer I Shit, The Harder I Cry" or whatever sounded like Fastball. A mild improvement.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 00:11 (10 years ago) Permalink

Christ I forgot all about Len I'm a few hours from the beach and that song played constantly from every beach bar and radio one summer and without an iota of shame I hummed along merrily

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 00:39 (10 years ago) Permalink

I don't think they were a great band or anything, but I own all of their albums through Turn It Upside Down (which might be their best) and like probably 60%+ of their songs.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 01:33 (10 years ago) Permalink

Chaki - paralysis of vocal cords, which Greil "I felt like smashing up babies at Winterland" Marcus thought was great, cuz he objected to a lyric or something

― dave q, Tuesday, 18 March 2003 10:42 (10 years ago) Permalink

My high school band covered Two Princes for a battle of the bands. Yup, we did.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 14:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

9 years pass...

Bump.

― Jeff, Saturday, 5 May 2012 01:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

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