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― irrigation can save your people (irrigation can save your peopl), Monday, 18 April 2005 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Overrated thread
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 17 March 2008 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
i like to think that this is still ILM's favourite single of the 00s
― blueski, Monday, 17 March 2008 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
wow, people really had their heads way up their asses here
― The Reverend, Monday, 17 March 2008 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I've actually ADDED this into my rotation of iPod tracks as of a few months ago. Why the hell was I so down on this song???
― Tantrum The Cat, Friday, 12 September 2008 05:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Not enough flanged guitars in this track
― Fer Ark, Friday, 12 September 2008 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link
The two big influences on this song according to Andre 3000? The Ramones and the Buzzcocks' Singles Going Steady album.
I remember that piece of trivia from an EW interview with the band around the time the song was blowing up.
― Cunga, Monday, 11 January 2010 06:50 (fourteen years ago) link
No wonder it was so beloved by college radio types.
― viborg, Monday, 11 January 2010 07:06 (fourteen years ago) link
The definitive version of Hey Ya can be found at 1'43'' here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItMJtA8vfpw&feature=player_embedded
― Alba, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, that would be excruciating enough if they could sing.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont like the song very much. i agree with trife regarding the flaming lips comment. but i also think it has initiated some really interesting discussions regarding tokenism etc, and the people who like the record have said interesting stuff as wellthe song also seems kind of mid-late 090s, that genre-hopping thing, 'eclecticism' etc (the bane of the 90s sadly, making everything a muddy nothing, the excreble Beck etc), so in a way this record seems kind of quaint now, a throwback to that time, and, of course, also a throwback to 1970s sitcom music, which is what this sounds like to me.
1970s sitcom music can be a good thing, but i would say not in the case of this record, which feels too much like a spoof of some unknown american comedy show which never travelled across the Atlantic
― gareth (gareth), Thursday, January 1, 2004 6:36 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this is kinda otm.
first time i heard this song i pictured it getting MTV2 rotation for a few weeks and zero radio play before they came with some bigger better follow-up hit, still kind of bitter that that didn't happen.
― some dude, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link
this song's time signature is soooo visionary
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link