Rusted Root Neologisms

my mom had this CD back in the 90s for some reason. the other music she liked then was linda ronstadt

this video is completely hilarious btw

"crusted boot" was mine.

Crusted Boot would have been a good name for a band from the other contingent in that co-op.

What I do enjoy about the quote; he marvels at the neologisms as though they sprung from the deep unconscious, when you know they just sounded like words he heard in South African music. Indestructible Beat of the East End of Pittsburgh.

in a moment of weakness, i listened to 1 minute and 35 seconds of this

as a result of this unfortunate lapse in judgement, i have now hired a deep web hitman to assassinate old lunch

https://images.wolfgangsvault.com/rusted-root/promo-print/memorabilia/ZZZ009697-PP.jpg

I'm pretty sure many of these vowels can't be properly transcribed in the absence of the "e with three dots" character, so I propose we suspend this poll until the Unicode Consortium stops ignoring the rightful demands of a certain lobby.

Mods, my life has been threatened by bizarro for no greater crime than exposing his ears to the transformative sounds of love and of brotherhood. I demand that you impose the strictest possible sanctions upon him, with extreme prejudice if necessary. Namaste.

I never would have imagined, of all the threads about terrible music which I start/revive, that a Root poll would've been the one to take off, but I must say I'm pleased.

Simmyommaway.

(Ommaway.)

mods, i believe i acted in the best interests of ilxor dot com and furthermore i think it’s obvious that no court would convict me for my actions

Count me as a write-in vote for "sussudio."

are these guys like phish or something

If Phish were paragons of their craft, they would be Rusted Root, yes.

Can't wait to see the Root at the state fair this summer. They're co-headlining with Sponge, Tracy Bonham, and Morcheeba. It's gonna be a slice.

Disappointed this poll doesn't include an option for the phrase that he repeats in the verse, which I believe to be ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon.

^^massive oversight imo

You are correct, of course, as that is the most epic of their neologisms. A contribution to our language which will significantly impact generations to come.

'What are you doing, my son?'
'Well, father, simply put: ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon.'
'Ah, I see. Please, carry on, my special boy. Namaste.'
'And a Namaste to you, o father.'

Trick question, because "oombayseeyou" is short for "ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon."

Fake news!

Luv this thread! Rusted Root has an extremely abbreviated Wikipedia page for a band that's been around 25+ years, and has released four major-label albums, four independent albums (one of them double-live), a "20th Century Masters" best-of, and five EPs...

not abbreviated enough imo

Hearing this song makes me feel ashamed that we beat up on "What I Am" for so many years.

The video, and every move the guy busts in it, are wonderful and hilarious.

In the interest of full disclosure, I was prompted to start this thread this morning when I heard a Spin Doctors song and my immediate thought was that the Spin Doctors were probably the favorite band of at least one member of Rusted Root.

feel like Rusted Root would predate Spin Doctors?

they feel modern rock not alternative

nah LMCBW was like '92 right?

shit I was thinking of Geggy Tah

who are even later! shit dudes my pop jam band radar is fucked

I wonder why the shot the video on such an overcast day. Wouldn't it have more impact if they were prancing on a plateau beneath a sunny, blue sky?

Spin Doctors and Rusted Root were contemporaries -- mid/late-'93 "alternative" radio was all "Two Princes," "On My Way," and the 4 Non Blondes song.

They were pretty good-looking, for a bunch of crusties.

I often find myself locked in a moment of zen-like contemplation when I realize that most bands are somebody's favorite band. Like Crazytown. Someone out there somewhere still proudly declares that Crazytown is their favorite band of all time. It's a very complex world, the one we live in.

Rusted Root's influence on globglogabgalab is undeniable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtER80sOjX4

I don't think the contemporariness of the Root and the Doctors precludes the fact that the Rusted Root fife player was a charter member of the Spin Doctors fan club.

damn i didn't realize RR's big record came out in '94. it seemed later than that.

guess it just swirled the bowl for an oddly long time before getting flushed

In addition, NASA engineers chose "Send Me on My Way" as "wake up" music for the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, for Sol 21.[19]

nasa engineers are assholes apparently

Laughing @ this thread has been a threat to my continued employment all day. My most recent half-stifled fit of titters was triggered by realizing this stupid thing has already exploded to 70+ replies.

I thank you all.

are these guys like phish or something

― brimstead, Thursday, July 19, 2018 2:27 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Phish neologisms include: trune, taboot, blastoplast, jibboo... that's just off the top of my head. there are probably more that I'm forgetting.

There are few things a jam band can't effortlessly ruin imo.

Anybody here have some salient facts about əkoostik hookah? All I know is that we used to get a kick out of very enthusiastically bellowing their profoundly stupid name in the midst of an ultimate sesh in the quad every time they rolled through my college town.

Man, I miss ultimate in the quad. And devil sticks in front of the Rathskeller just before going to see the local Sublime cover band.

I have to literally walk away from my desk rn because the phrase 'ultimate in the quad' is making me lose the last of my composure.

I guess I was vaguely aware that this band existed. I must have seen posters or CDs or t-shirts or something. But I am very happy that I had not knowingly heard even a single djembe-slap-worth of their alleged "music" until now.

There were probably people on the periphery of my social circle who were into this sort of thing (baja shirt, hacky sack, Birkenstocks/huaraches, pennywhistle). But my truest droogs and I were mainly getting high and listening to Residents, Beethoven, Modern Jazz Quartet, and old-tymey 78s during those years. We were aware there was such a thing as radio, but as far as we were concerned it may as well have been broadcasting solely to the moon.

I wonder why the shot the video on such an overcast day?

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

This thread is currently the third most read on the site, just behind the US and UK politics threads.

I could cry.

a lot of interesting ideas and feelings in this song. and wow, a drum circle as the rhythmic backing, cool!

i started to write out the lyrics but my fingers started to hurt

would like to reach out my hand
on myself, i want to tell you to run
mobadasay, mobadayoung
well pick me up with golden hand
on myself, i wanna tell you to run
mabadaysay, mobadayoung,

well i would like to hold lighted hand
maybe i’ll cry
i would like to hold my hand
how we will cross, how will cross
send me on my way

Fun fact: there are as many emotions in this song as their are instruments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7lfPc_ewxQ

Ommaway

Feel like that guy took the assignment way too seriously - like anyone was going to care that he learned it just it like the record. He shoulda just... grooved with it, man. More ommbasayou, less bubadeyon.

Does anyone else suffer this affliction I have had for many a year: anytime I’m meeting up with someone, and the person texts “on my way” (or even worse, “omw“), I invariably both a) get this song stuck in my head, and b) have to fight the urge to inexplicably text them back “ommaway” followed by any number of other RRNs discussed in this thread

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YouTube is not so disrespectful to Röötness as to try to define the spirit of ommaway in mere captions.

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The music video on YouTube now seems to have the full lyrics as subtitles, apparently the line is "You know what they say about the young" but come on now

Lmao

Those youngsters, with their serapes and pennywhistles

They didn't put him on the guest list! Never trust a hippy.