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

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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)

I don't remember agreeing that yeah, it really was that easy.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

So was it, in fact?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

I think, in the following years, yes, it did prove to not be that easy for Mr. Love.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Jason Mraz is way worse than G Love though...wow I saw him on Austin City Limits and what a self-satisfied smug lil' bastard he is....I wish someone would take a dump on his knit cap.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

I do enjoy a good sauce, though not anything cream-based. If it's tomato stock, I'm down with it.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

It's difficult not to admire a man who wrote an entire song about how he enjoys liquid refreshment if chilled to a below-average temperature. He should have called it "Thumbs Up for Refrigeration!"

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

I can't remember anything off of that first album except the hook of "Cold Beverages", but I know for a fact I listened to it on a near daily basis in that summer between high school and college when I got royally wasted on a nightly basis with this gaggle of supreme bitches that were all from this rich people McNeighborhood across town.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

It was like hanging out with 7 Parker Poseys from Dazed & Confused.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

This record made me want to wear(/be?) a wifebeater.

Actually, my wife quite likes them!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

What a weird summer that was. I like cold beverages.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

YOU ARE ALL EVIL

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

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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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