Best/worst line on Gregg Alexander's 1992 single "The Truth"

Not so amazing when you think about it, do u see?

too much truth

Voted "I got 50 women..." but that was before I got to the end of the song where he breaks into Slow Ride. That made me laugh harder than I have in weeks, so thanks for that

this is just such a rich cornucopia

I've definitely seen worse than this being repped in all seriousness on ILX.

the song makes you hate/but AHH WEEE HA I think it's great

melroseplace-core

Given the lawsuit line and his future in the New Radicals, there's obviously some self-awareness in here. But the fact that you can't pinpoint exactly how much is what makes it so weird for me

How has Internet/meme culture not discovered this????

He's bottled it and tried to ironically distance himself from the wacky lyrics and he's fucking fell in the gap very badly

He seems like enough of a dipshit to have actually cleared the Foghat sample but still done the lawsuit line imo

also a stolen bit from the dead milkmen

How has Internet/meme culture not discovered this????

Not a single person under the age of 30 gives any shits about New Radicals.

What did I just witness

idk Johnny I don't think anyone's watching this thinking "wow! can you believe this guy wrote a hit song 6 years later!"

I'm with Whiney and listening to it a second time (lol) he seems not entirely serious BUT! It was a single! From a major label in 1992! Which means the record company thought this could get radio/MTV play! And nothing about the video or the packaging/artwork of the single and the album it came from give an indication that this is given with a wink or meant to to be some kind of novelty song. If this had come out after, say, "Detachable Penis" or "Push th' Little Daisies" it might be different but 1992 college rock was all deadly serious.

BTW the album was called "Intoxifornication" lol.

ive never heard this lmao what on earthhh

right

it's horrible and it's my new favorite thing

could not imagine a more fitting video either, this is art baby

i had to make sure it wasnt a shreds video before commenting

i cry laughing every time i get to the foghat part

christ

Holy shit, I started laughing before he even started singing. He sounds extremely constipated. This is an annoyingly huge chorus and ubiquity away from taking "What's Up" off the Mount Rushmore of musical shit.

How is this not a meme by now?

it does have that inscrutable, Tommy Wiseauian quality to it

No more lying / A wop-bom a loo-mop, this is the truth

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omfg this is astonishingly awful

can't get over his look in the video, it's p hot and i wish i had the hair or the incredibly close shaving skills to pull it off, and at the same time it seems pretty blatantly clear that the video director figured "this song is godawful but if i play my cards right, i could market this clip to some spoof film that wants to parody Val Kilmer's performance in The Doors"

voted for the Holocaust line just over the homophobia line. even WITHOUT those it's a trainwreck --- come back, Silverchair and Noel Gallagher, all is forgiven.

seriously I think the only recent-ish ILM discovery i could compare this to is when Neanderthal made us all listen to "Planes"

Please what is "Planes"?

I've always kind of loved You Get What You Give but The Truth is the awkwardness of the closing "rap" in the former blown up to song length.

Please what is "Planes"?

― chap, Thursday, September 17, 2020 9:52 AM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sensual aircraft, iirc.

Richard Marx meets Baz Luhrmann

cuz the things that make you happy make me saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaæääd

Current fave is "let it ring all month." All *month*? That's, like, 30 days of truth ringing! (but no more)

most wtf lyric in Jefferson Airplane's "Planes"

I don't think I am mentally capable of listening to this song and watching the video at the same time. Too powerful.

i'm gonna need to know which month before i vote.

honestly the lyrics are dreadful but the vocal is much, much worse

This is a great Thurston Moore parody.

The delivery on 'I ask the questions but you are the riddl-aw' is underappreciated ITT

He was just a little boy and he sat there in his school

And that boy grew up to be... Gregg Alexander. His love of planes become love of truth.

Michigan Rain rocks.

idk, right now "*whispering* You don't wanna know" is doing such a succinct job of summing all of it up.

On third watch I think the way he repeats 'ditch' may be the most cringeworthy bit.

Doctor Casino at 8:20 17 Sep 20

it seems pretty blatantly clear that the video director figured "this song is godawful but if i play my cards right, i could market this clip to some spoof film that wants to parody Val Kilmer's performance in The Doors"

Cos when the night is falling
You cannot see the ditch
Ditch

the weird thing about this song is that it sounds like an outrageous parody, but one that isn't even funny.
how did such a terrible thing get written, performed and released without everyone involved saying "you know what, this really isnt working"?

voted for "Cause the things that make you happy make me me seeeeaaaaaaagghhhhd" bc the way he sings that last word is like nails-on-a-chalkboard annoying

did they not have multi-take editing back then or?

I was gonna say—i’d like to hear an explanation for this

every time I hear Machine Gun Kelly I think of this video. as though AI created an entire person using only this video as input

youtube resurfaced this in my recs today

If he were really "new" or "radical" he would have performed this at the Biden inaugeration

The Middle-Aged Moderates

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omfg, someone I've been listening to a lot recently has been using the 'here comes the lawsuit baby' sample all over their work and i never thought I'd find out where it came from

(Ditch)

i really should'nt have been surprised by this song. a fresh listen to "Someday We'll Know," the New Radicals' abandoned second single, is nothing but warning signs, in hindsight.

Tbh the album makes me sad

Ditch
(Ditch)

Holy fucking shit what is this

― Boring, Maryland, Friday, September 11, 2020 8:17 AM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I almost don’t want to listen to it, the thread makes it seem so mysterious and exciting

I thought I might be crazy, but when I hear Cameron Winter/Geese songs I can’t help but thinking that it sounds like Gregg Alexander singing through some fucked up filter. But then I saw this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QcWaSEkjUw

okay listening to the New Radicals album in full for the first time since I was maybe 14, right away on the first track "Mother We Just Can't Get Enough" you can totally tell it's the same guy as "The Truth", so many baffling decisions at the end, it's a way better song though

Oh yeah, the album has so many wtf lines, like “We made a porno tape for coke— I hear I’m big in Japan!”

first three songs actually all end in really weird ways. "I Hope I Didn't Just Give Away the Ending" he's doing what, an Isaac Brock impression? and yes the lyrics are all wtf. he's such a weirdo. taking all these great songs and stepping on them. I mean "Jehovah Made This Whole Joint For You" is such a great power pop song and then it ends "it's so wonderful...it makes me feel like crying...crying...crying...DYING...DYING!!!" and the last song was "I Don't Want To Die Anymore"!! this dude really was one of a kind.

never listened to this album before and wow... this is nuts. almost makes The Truth sound normal in a way. just from "Mother..." and "I Hope I Didn't Just Give Away the Ending," this is like someone skipped straight past the tidal wave smash debut, to the coke-fueled maximalist personal idiosyncracy version of a New Jersey. it's wrapped up in an airy prettiness you usually don't encounter on those types of albums but there's NO filter on this guy!

obviously wouldn't have gotten this the first time around but the chorus on "Mother" is just Depeche Mode's "Just Can't Get Enough"....here comes the lawsuit baby!!!

the New Radicals album connected with me in a bizarre way that no other album could the year it came out, was 18 graduating high school and in my feels and for some reason this weird fuckin collection of songs just did it for me.

I tried to cover "I Hope I Didn't Just Give Away the Ending" once and then kept hemming and hawing as to *how* to do the first part where he's basically slurring consonants over jazz chords

i really want to see the Sony/Epic promo packet that came with this CD—what market was it aimed at?

also, how did he get away with including no fewer than five songs from his previous album, three of which are the EXACT SAME RECORDINGS from his first album, on A & M no less not some self-released thing

You're talking about his second solo album, not MYBBT, right?

oh I see you guys were talking about the New Radicals album

yeah I was talking about Intoxifornication

as a "You Get What You Give" hater this is sweet bias confirmation