Defend The Cringe-Worthy: G Love & Da Special Sauce

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dan's friend sounds like har mar superstar

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

ow ow ow my sides hahahahahaha ow

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

i think i saw a new g.love caca cola commercial today, that's why i thought of him. it may have been a lookalike. that len song was genius. everyone knows that. and i didn't mind that first FLC song with the horns. their theme song kinda. but then they moved to the u.k. right? and became summershedsuperstars or something? g.love on that live acoustic show on pbs!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

give me MC 900 foot jesus any day (no, not really). buck 65 reminds me of 900 foot jesus.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

hahaha otm

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

Heheh, this thread is wending its way across a strange minefield. Donut Ferry to thread.

Anyway, whoever mentioned Basehead in comparison to the horrors above needs a beating.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

Ned, I can't remember, have you heard that Me Phi Me album?

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

Yes I have, though the memories are dim.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

it was a sunshine-pop/classical guitar/rap/black fraternity cult/krisna hybrid with a dash of honey. came out the same year as spiral walls containing autumns of light, so it ended up being one of the more normal rap albums of 1992.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

I LIKE THE COLD BEVERAGES
I LIKE THE COLD BEVERAGES
I LIKE THE COLD BEVERAGES
I LIKE THE COLD BEVERAGES

STICK IT IN MY FRIDGE IS A METAPHOR FOR SEXUAL RELATIONS

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

If you're a necrophile.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

Or dead yourself.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

well i think you know i AM

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

At least he's not Citizen Cope

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

At least he's not Scapegoat Wax

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

At least he's not Bad Ronald

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:25 (twenty years ago)

these guys might be the worst part about living in the Philadelphia area.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

Hey Ned, I liked Basehead too... I was just referring to the progression of "twang-rap".

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)

I HAVE SEEN BETTER DAYS
WHILE STARRING IN PLAYS LIKE AS YOU LIKE IT
STICK IT IN MY FRIDGE
THE PLAY

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

My Baby's got Sauce?

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

hey how about LFO (not THAT lfo)?!

i read an article about the lead guy a couple of months ago... he has cancer now!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

I kinda like Soul Coughing. Although I feel somewhat guilty admitting that, for some reason. But the heart wants what it wants.

Soul Coughing were unnaturally popular in Minneapolis. Like the Gear Daddies of rap-rock!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Soul Coughing was awesome! M. Doughty for President!

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

STEP ASIDE NED
AND LET DAN GO THRU

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

the Current plays alot of the new M Doughty solo stuff...it's not nearly as good....his new band is way boring....he still has a nice way with his wierd voice and a good line, but most of the stuff seems pretty dull....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

SUPER BON BON SUPER BON BON

El Oso was better, though.

The idea of boring new M Doughty makes me sad inside. He should have joined 808 State full time.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

He should have joined 808 State full time.

Now this I will agree with.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

One time Soul Coughing played an instore at Let It Be downtown, and me and my roommates tried to get in, but here was like 300 people trying....Don Shelby from WCCO News was there, cuz his daughter liked them....he was still wearing his suit and makeup from the 6 o'clock news, smoking a big cigar and just generally looking like Big Willie...that dude is gangsta...all the college kids were on his jock...I shook the great man's hand.

The idea of boring new M Doughty makes me sad inside. He should have joined 808 State full time.

basically, imagine taking all the weird, rappy, dancey, decent rhythm section stuff out of Soul Coughing and replace them with like Semisonic as the backing band....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

My defense of G. Love: I saw him for free at University of Maryland in '96 or '97 and:
1. He was opening for Run DMC; and
2. His bass player was this old fat guy with a really long gray beard. He looked like a truck driver and I think he beatboxed at one point.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

G. Love drank some of my 40 at a free concert at Wheaton College.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

The guy from LFO has cancer?!

I've been sampling him quite frequently....greatest lyrics of all-time!

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

i'd like to teach the world to chill

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

A zillion posts into this thread, and this will be a first:

I do not mind G. Love at all. I mind him a lot less than Jack Johnson or Donavon Frankenreiter, which is admittedly damning with faint praise, but all those people have a place in the scheme of things.

"Astronaut" was my very favorite song of last summer. Near perfect, including the fucked-up sound. What's wrong with it?

― Vornado, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

that is a really poor defense nick

anyone not from philly cannot truly feel the pain

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, it was the best I could muster.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

"I'm just droppin' in to get you back on topic, people. Now let's GROOVE."

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

What's that easy, I wonder. Seething hate?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

He kicked my friend's band off a bill in Florida because the owner didn't tell him there was an opener.

They got drunk and keyed WHITEY GO HOME on the side of his van!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

hahahaha

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

I remember not having an opinion on G-Love one way or the other until I saw them live. It's kind of hard not to feel contempt for someone who exudes self-satisfied "Oh yeah, I AM ROCKING YOUR WORLD; you've heard me on the radio" vibes when they are performing on a stage three feet off the ground in the middle of a tiny, tiny patch of grass. Plus, instead of rocking my world they were lulling it to sleep with boring boring music.

I half-expected dude to whip out his cock, cum on the three people dancing in front of the stage (as opposed to the 20 standing around drinking the free beer and the 300 who walked onto the quad, looked at the band and turned away with the most priceless "OH HELL NO" faces ever pulled) and shout "THIS IS WHAT GOOD MUSIC TASTES LIKE, BABY!" but that would have been interesting and I could see three minutes into the set that "interesting" just wasn't on the cards for that day. When the ad-hoc student band puts on a more engaging and professional show than you do, it's time for some healthy self-examination.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

I love you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

I know.

― The Ghost of Han Solo (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

It's going to take some doing to fit me into that damned bounty hunter disguise.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

At some point I realized that G Love's vocalizations sounded just like Eddie Murphy's Buckwheat impression...RAPPING.

Then, my reasoned hatred became crystallized and clear.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha (to be continued...)

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

I used to like them.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, It's That Easy is a very good album.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

The very last song on it about moving out of mom's house for the first time is a total fucking classic.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

I actually hate how good that album is compared to everything that has come since.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

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Cold Beverage!

― admrl, Sunday, 20 June 2010 02:10 (sixteen years ago)

This stuff sounds less bad than it did 5 years ago

― admrl, Sunday, 20 June 2010 02:11 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

Come on guys

Think of the worst band in the world and then listen to the first two records by G Love. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. He just wants you to be happy!

― Ian svenonononius (admrl), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:24 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6CKkd-RLXw

― Ian svenonononius (admrl), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:25 (fourteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Plenty of hate upthread -- c'mon; these guys have plenty of fine tunes.

Electric Mile is a fine album that gets my most replays -- most noted is the variety of styles and the always engaging contributions on the Hammond from John Medeski (and far funkier than Dr. John delivered on Yeah, it's that Easy).

As for the "arrogance" everybody seems to be clamoring about, his genesis is rooted in Hip Hop, and self-aggrandizement is a near prerequisite. BFD.

But i understand he's a polarizing figure; hell, his best bud, Jack Johnson one of the most cringe-worthy musicians i've ever heard.

― bodacious ignoramus, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:05 (thirteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/G._Love.jpg/800px-G._Love.jpg

― ḉrut (crüt), Friday, 17 May 2013 02:00 (thirteen years ago)

two years pass...

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13173763_10154772690942137_7660389115411301112_n.jpg?oh=8d5594ce7f603ebbfe6ea3c4886f3281&oe=57DD3CEC

― scott seward, Thursday, 12 May 2016 16:09 (ten years ago)

2015-style...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buzZ-47S7Mg

― scott seward, Thursday, 12 May 2016 16:15 (ten years ago)

no one in the uk has ever heard of this band

This is probably not strictly true - I had the misfortune to walk past them playing the main stage at Glastonbury festival one year, somebody must have heard of them.

― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 12 May 2016 16:19 (ten years ago)

My first time seeing this thread, tip o' the hat to JJJ for this lol:

Guess where you blow him up.
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), August 17th, 2005
At his anatomically correct self-importance nozzle?
― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:55 (10 years ago) Permalink

― Double Nickels on the Pecunidigm (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 12 May 2016 16:20 (ten years ago)

He has a signature guitar.

http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/airline-59-custom-3p-dlx-g-love-signature-black-and-blue/

― how's life, Thursday, 12 May 2016 17:31 (ten years ago)

Today they are played by people like David Bowie...

― scott seward, Thursday, 12 May 2016 17:33 (ten years ago)

I just wanted to mention that the dude from my story waaaaaaaaaaay at the beginning of this thread is currently playing keyboards with Chic

― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 12 May 2016 17:41 (ten years ago)

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