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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― dave q, Tuesday, 23 September 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

GREAT GREAT song

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

yup, agree.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

*pictures flat plain*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

god i miss the 1990s

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

minna POWERFULLY OTM

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 23 September 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Please do not ever mention "Banditos" again.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

dirk nowitzki!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 06:40 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

TS: Geggy Tah Vs. Harvey Danger

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha I liked Geggy Tah

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

and i dont even own a tv

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

FUCKING TERRIBLE

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

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

how'd you forget Bare Naked Ladies?

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

"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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

gay gay gay buttfucking gay vs. gay gay buttfuckin gay

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

stence smokes dope w.the pope

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

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

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

haha.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 4 July 2005 08:12 (twenty years ago)

Teaching Mrs. Tingle >>> Disturbing Behavior

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 4 July 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

It's like the Dandy Warhols, only not shit!

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Their newest album isn't so bad, either!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

still love the second album! i still wanna hear the long winters stuff too.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ hstencil's outburst

― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

anyway yeah great song

― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

A Milhouse divided says:
Like when Harvey Danger were around, i never saw the video to this song
A Milhouse divided says:
I assumed they were just an american indie band like sebadoh or pavement or something
A Milhouse divided says:
I never knew theyw ere some Ben Folds/Cake kinda thing

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

dom, get this one it's really good:

http://www.zero.co.nz/music/images/Harvey%20Danger%20-%20King%20James%20Version.jpg

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

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

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

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

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

What a terrible song/band.

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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?

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/8054/gqoe2.jpg

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

baffling at trife being the op

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

four years pass...

WTF Chappelle was in that movie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmTfAXzz3ok

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 19:01 (fourteen years ago)

one 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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

God, this is the worst song ever.

― formerly EDB (ed.b), Saturday, 25 August 2012 17:45 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

I wish it was louder..

― billstevejim, Sunday, 26 August 2012 17:28 (thirteen years ago)

some dude you misspelled "high honor"

― goole, Sunday, 26 August 2012 17:40 (thirteen years ago)

three months pass...

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

― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:01 (thirteen years ago)

oops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXn1K36w4Bk

― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:02 (thirteen years ago)

hahaha

― pandemic, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:05 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

wait, that's rachael leigh cook?

― pandemic, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:10 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

Hahahahahah

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhahahahahaha!

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

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 (thirteen years ago)

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBgmC_USeoM

― paolo, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:46 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

the circle was almost complete

― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:59 (thirteen years ago)

Great song. Fuck you trendy haters

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

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

haha i kept waiting for that line to hit

― some dude, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 21:28 (thirteen years ago)

i know! what a cop out!

― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 21:30 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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

― c sharp major, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 23:18 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

lol

― some dude, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 23:27 (thirteen years ago)

nine years pass...

this song fuckin owns

― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Monday, 23 May 2022 05:22 (four years ago)

this song sucks forever and i hate it. hated it then, and i hate it now.

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 May 2022 05:25 (four years ago)

...spoken like someone who does own a TV.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 May 2022 05:54 (four years ago)

(tbh the lyrics are bad and dumb, but i do no sing them)

― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Monday, 23 May 2022 07:32 (four years ago)

*not

― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Monday, 23 May 2022 07:32 (four years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYsMjEeEg4g

I've never seen the video before, lead singer has a somehow-even-nerdier Craig Finn stage presence.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 23 May 2022 07:46 (four years ago)

I remember enjoying this but after that viewing I'm leaning toward VG OTM.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 23 May 2022 07:47 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

This song is annoying. Also, it kicks ass. I unabashedly love it.

― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Monday, 23 May 2022 13:10 (four years ago)

IIIIIII wanna publish ziiiiiines

― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Monday, 23 May 2022 13:10 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

this song rips and i want to do it at a packed karaoke night right now

― na (NA), Monday, 23 May 2022 15:09 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

song is a congealed blockage from a deviated septum

― mookie wilson shaggin balls (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 May 2022 16:40 (four years ago)

Wish Johnny Cash had covered this one, slow and somber.

― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Monday, 23 May 2022 16:45 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

i swear they played it on morning “alternative” radio for 12 months straight

it was borderline abuse

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 May 2022 18:09 (four years ago)

"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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

song is still played on radio constantly, very much part of the oppressive 'safe list'

― dyl, Monday, 23 May 2022 19:32 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

For years I woke up every single day with this song stuck in my head.

― Lily Dale, Monday, 23 May 2022 22:20 (four years ago)

the part that gets stuck in my head is 'butnooneeverdoes!'

― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 23 May 2022 22:29 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

I mean

I love this song and always have.

― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 23 May 2022 22:34 (four years ago)

Eazy OTM about a Johnny Cash cover

― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 23 May 2022 22:35 (four years ago)

fun fact: Bean Dad was once a touring member of this band

― alpine static, Monday, 23 May 2022 22:53 (four years ago)

noooooooooo

― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Monday, 23 May 2022 22:56 (four years ago)

I really hate this song!

― brimstead, Monday, 23 May 2022 23:25 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

I would choose "Sex and Candy" over this one

100%

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 00:27 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

singer sounds a bit like darkest timeline J0hn D@rni3ll3

― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 00:38 (four years ago)

another terrible song!

― brimstead, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 01:12 (four years ago)

picking "Sex and Candy" over this is insane

― alpine static, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 01:23 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

Death is not an option.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 02:02 (four years ago)

“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 (four years ago)

i choose death

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 03:00 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

^ 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 (four years ago)

Go, my lady

― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 10:45 (four years ago)

"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 (four years ago)

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?

― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:17 (four years ago)

I like both this song and "come my lady," sorry not sorry

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:23 (four years ago)

But not "Sex and Candy" really

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:23 (four years ago)

the only Marcy Playground song worth a shit is A Cloak of Elvenkind

― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:24 (four years ago)

(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, Monday, May 23, 2022 8:12 PM

yeah, i regretted my wording as soon as i hit submit. i meant it's a good hate watch for folks like me who can't stand this song. todd is charming and informative, as always.

― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:59 (four years ago)

of course “butterfly” is better than this, that song rules!!!!

― brimstead, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 18:22 (four years ago)

Yeah, I like "Butterfly" (I don't think of it in the same "category," tho)

― Bob Dylan's iconic Ray Ban sunglasses (morrisp), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 18:23 (four years ago)

eleven months pass...

At a party the other night, we did karaoke to both “Flagpole Sitta” and “Sex and Candy” (neither was my choice). They were both pretty fun!

― Are You There God? It's a-Me, Mario (morrisp), Monday, 1 May 2023 15:46 (three years ago)

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

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, September 24, 2003 6:40 PM (nineteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

― ꙮ (map), Monday, 1 May 2023 17:37 (three years ago)

This is the thrilling conversation I've been waiting for.

― Hideous Lump, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:29 (three years ago)

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