Operation Ivy: Classic or Dud?

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Classic, right?

RIGHT?

I am going to start wearing my op ivy shirt again.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Saturday, 12 June 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no, horrible memories of unsuitable women!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Saturday, 12 June 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, i wear mine with CAMOSHORTZ

― Jon in R'lyeh (ex machina), Saturday, 12 June 2004 03:47 (twenty-one years ago)

d-u-d-d DUD!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 12 June 2004 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I like select tracks like "Healthy Body, Sick Mind" and "Sound System," but they could never sustain my interest for too long. Also, dud for all the crappy bands they inspired.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 12 June 2004 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Wonderful memories of unsuitable punker girls!

I barely remember what they sounded like, but the album on Lookout mostly bored me to death. "Unity" and "Sound System" were pretty good, as was the first Suicide Machines album, where they just ripped off the good parts of OpIvy.
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― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 12 June 2004 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

all i know is that i don't know nothin'

pretty classic if yr fifteen

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 12 June 2004 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

one of the better ska classics, but who listens to any ska after 1983 who isn't in a ska band that will soon kick out their horn players to go all punky?

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Saturday, 12 June 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

My 13 year-old mind thought this was the greatest thing it had ever heard.

― Debito (Debito), Saturday, 12 June 2004 08:53 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, I reckon roger and debito are otm. I haven't listened to that album since I was in high school, but man, that was really the shit back then. Now I guess it'd be more nostalgia than anything else.

― OCP (OCP), Saturday, 12 June 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

jessie michaels dad was my favorite fiction worship professor ever! he died last year. for this reason alone OpIvy get a pass.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 12 June 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

My 13 year-old mind thought this was the greatest thing it had ever heard.

-- Debito, June 12th, 2004.

Same here, but some of their songs still rock.
Search: Knowledge, Soundsystem, Missionary, Here We Go Again, Artificial Life
Destroy: that fucking song about jumping in bushes, I can't remember what its called. (just remembered: Hedgecore. Destroy Hedgecore.)

They did have lots of dumb songs, inspired horrible bands, and losers wear their t-shirt, but damned if I don't still have a soft spot for them.

― Zach Ayres (Z_Ayres), Saturday, 12 June 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

They're great for what they were. I say classic (I'm not gonna judge a band for their shit imitators).

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 12 June 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

if this band continues to sound good after 16 you probably took a serious wrong turn somewhere

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 12 June 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

poopyhead.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 12 June 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

GOOD MUSIC TO LISTEN TO IF YOU LIVE IN YOUR PARENTS' BASEMENT

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Saturday, 12 June 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

IAN LET'S PLAY A NOISE SHOW BOTH WEARING OP IVY SHIRTS KTHX

― Jon in R'lyeh (ex machina), Saturday, 12 June 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

OPERATION WHITEY

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Saturday, 12 June 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

GOOD MUSIC TO LISTEN TO IF YOU LIVE IN YOUR PARENTS' BASEMENT

haha i DO live in my parents basement! so there ya go cochise!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 12 June 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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IAN LET'S PLAY A NOISE SHOW BOTH WEARING OP IVY SHIRTS KTHX
-- Jon in R'lyeh (○☆♥♋∼◎↑Ω...), June 12th, 2004.

OPERATION WHITEY
-- deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (ilx_omg_wt...), June 12th, 2004.

hey you guys are reaaly clever youwanna come over and play some d & d?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 12 June 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

GURPS

― Jon in R'lyeh (ex machina), Saturday, 12 June 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently Vin Diesel is a big d&d fan.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 12 June 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Gamma World

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 12 June 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"Apparently Vin Diesel is a big d&d fan. "

well, i'm not, being such a badass and all.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 12 June 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i will see your D&D and raise you a vampire: the masquerade???

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Saturday, 12 June 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

if only Vin had got his rap career off the ground in the 80s.

― jack cole (jackcole), Sunday, 13 June 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely Jon's recent R'lyeh name-change implies a fondness for Call of Cthulhu? GURPS freaks me the fuck out. Also Op Ivy > The Clash.

― adam (adam), Sunday, 13 June 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

adam you need to put down the pipe

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 13 June 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

PUT IT DOWN

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 13 June 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

PICK IT UP! PICK IT UP! PICK IT UP! PICK IT UP! PICK IT UP! PICK IT UP! PICK IT UP! PICK IT UP! PICK IT UP! SKA SKA SKA

― Jon in R'lyeh (ex machina), Sunday, 13 June 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

XTC > TEH CLASH

― Jon in R'lyeh (ex machina), Sunday, 13 June 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember going to SMASH in D.C. and buying a Specials t-shirt, a Bosstones t-shirt, and an Operation Ivy t-shirt. Then I bought some ox-blood docs.

Does any of this mean anything to a 13 year-old today?

― Debito (Debito), Sunday, 13 June 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, the Specials invented ska -- or was it Madness?

― jack cole (jackcole), Sunday, 13 June 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

less than jake invented ska in 1994

― Jon in R'lyeh (ex machina), Sunday, 13 June 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm glad we cleared that up.

― Debito (Debito), Sunday, 13 June 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

actually it was save ferris who created it in a lab while collaborating with goldfinger. the first few tries looked like the aborted ripley clones from alien resurrection.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 13 June 2004 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)

HEY CYNICKUHL ASSWHOLES I LIVE IN A HOWSS I OWKN AND TYHIS IS THE BEST MUZIC YOU COULDD POSSIBLLY LITSTNE TO WHILST RAPING WHAT WAS A YARD INTO A BEEYOOTIFULL GARDEN ASSSHAT! HEALTHY BODDY SICK MIND TOO HECTIC TOO HETCIC WORKING OVERTIME! SO THERE!

(OMG DON"T Clikc rettrun)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 13 June 2004 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

nickalicious be on teh drugs or somesuch

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Sunday, 13 June 2004 07:49 (twenty-one years ago)

ROOM WITHOUT A WINDOW CANT SEE OUT
ROOM WITHOUT A WINDOW
CANT SEE OUT CANT SEE OUT

(AKA YOU ARE FUCKTARD LAME)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 13 June 2004 08:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow. "Gamma World".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 13 June 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

nickalicious: +2, funny

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Sunday, 13 June 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

OMG I was so drunk at 4:25 & 5:06 AM EST. CAUTION IS A WORD THAT I CAN'T UNDERSTAND.

*makes saving throw*

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Thursday, 7 September 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

OMG I'm gonna try to do this from memory:

the
po-
sition being taken
is not to be mistaken
for attempted accusation
or righteous indignation
only a [something that ends in -ation]
blah blah something
OF OUR DEGENERATION

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Thursday, 7 September 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

i think its "only a description, just an observation, of the pitiful condition"

wow this was my favorite band in 9th grade. i dont think i listened to anything else for about two and a half months. and i havent returned since.

― max (maxreax), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

apparently Rancid is now finally doing Op Ivy songs on their current tour

― pinder (pinder), Thursday, 7 September 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

That desperate now, are they?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 September 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

classic

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 7 September 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

classic.

I have been listening to Op Ivy lately which is something I haven't done since H.S. when I pretty much listened to them every single morning on the bus for my entire senior year. I think it still holds up for what it was and it's good spring/summer listening. <3

― EN Save-A-Ken BB (ENBB), Saturday, 4 April 2009 01:49 (seventeen years ago)

i like op ivy, but man o man, i was irritated in high school by the neverending parade of op ivy t-shirts. in mid-90s southern california they were standard issue. that and bad religion t-shirts. not sure if the people who wore them even owned the albums.

― tylerw, Saturday, 4 April 2009 01:53 (seventeen years ago)

hahaha. First band shirt I ever bought and yeah, that was in the mid-90s but on LI. In my girls catholic HS though I was the only one.

― EN Save-A-Ken BB (ENBB), Saturday, 4 April 2009 01:56 (seventeen years ago)

yeah i think it was a weird regional phenomenon ... like at some point kids graduated from offspring/green day shirts to op ivy and bad religion. and then maybe pennywise/NOFX. and then sublime/bob marley.

― tylerw, Saturday, 4 April 2009 01:59 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

classic, but the moment Brad Nowell heard them and went "y'know, I think I can do this too", Tim Armstrong shoulda sent him in a pane of glass into outer space

― Neanderthal, Sunday, 7 August 2011 03:59 (fourteen years ago)

whatever, dude

this album is great tho ive been revisiting it lately & surprisingly still so great

― uh oh whats your fantasy (flopson), Sunday, 7 August 2011 07:54 (fourteen years ago)

"Take Warning" is awesome

― Neanderthal, Sunday, 7 August 2011 16:45 (fourteen years ago)

Classic, and I agree with the folks upthread saying they fit almost perfectly when you're in your mid-teens. Prone to digging out the odd song during fits of nostalgia still.

― Mr Andy M, Sunday, 7 August 2011 18:58 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

ALL I KNOW IS THAT I DON'T KNOOOOOW

ALL I KNOW IS THAT I DON'T KNOW NOTHIN

ALL I KNOW IS THAT I DON'T KNOOOOOW

ALL I KNOW IS THAT I DON'T KNOW NOTHIN

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 19:22 (eleven years ago)

i was listening to this this morning on my way to work iirc and I do

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 19:30 (eleven years ago)

i was just going to post about getting an OI shirt HS but I see upthread that I did that FIVE YEARS AGO OY

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 19:31 (eleven years ago)

oi oi oi

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 19:43 (eleven years ago)

everybody otm in this thread on listening to em on the bus when yr 13

― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 20:34 (eleven years ago)

four years pass...

skanking hard rn ty strongo

― j., Friday, 10 May 2019 14:54 (seven years ago)

one month passes...

op ivy is a wonderful band, revisiting and feeling enriched as a former angsty teen who needed to hear music like this

― global tetrahedron, Friday, 28 June 2019 18:26 (six years ago)

everyone who shit on op ivy in this thread are a jerk and can't remember what it's like to feel like you belong as a stupid high school kid who was in band (so ska is what you thought was cool)

― global tetrahedron, Friday, 28 June 2019 18:36 (six years ago)

stop calling ska punk "ska"

but yeah Op Ivy is good ska punk tbf

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 28 June 2019 18:46 (six years ago)

five months pass...

ALL I KNOW IS THAT I DON'T KNOOOOOW

ALL I KNOW IS THAT I DON'T KNOW NOTHIN

ALL I KNOW IS THAT I DON'T KNOOOOOW

ALL I KNOW IS THAT I DON'T KNOW NOTHIN

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, September 30, 2014 2:22 PM (five years ago)

― j., Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:33 (six years ago)

two years pass...

TFW you listen to the Op Ivy S/T again for the first time in a few years, and open this thread to find your 17 y-o self rolling his eyes at your 13 y-o self. Anyway, I'm pretty sure this is the true core, heart music. Should we poll this?

― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Thursday, 27 January 2022 15:57 (four years ago)

dude, i wear mine with CAMOSHORTZ
― Jon in R'lyeh (ex machina), Friday, June 11, 2004 11:47 PM (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I feel seen.

― peace, man, Thursday, 27 January 2022 16:52 (four years ago)

https://vanyaland.com/2022/02/06/an-operation-ivy-mini-reunion-broke-out-at-a-specials-show-in-los-angeles/?fbclid=IwAR35DI67sRFYBevZYvmFPuZEbBtwDsB41O1dIE9r5atzI5ijQFXgTn6r-0E

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 7 February 2022 19:36 (four years ago)

jesse's voice sounds like it held up pretty well

― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 00:26 (four years ago)

That rules.

― peace, man, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 13:56 (four years ago)

xp dude is still at it, you know!

https://classicsoflove.bandcamp.com/releases

― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 13:57 (four years ago)

yeah i'd listened to common rider back in my ska punk heyday, probably worth giving this a shot

― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 14:08 (four years ago)

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