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

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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)

Are they regarded as deities in Philadelphia? I can see G Love's gold-plated pimpmobile rolling around downtown now on diamante rims, a cooler full of tasty cold beverages in the back. Yeah, it's that easy.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

I AM SHOOTING HOOPS YES
FOR COLD BEVERAGES LIKE BEER
AND COCA COLA

STICK IT

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

nicka, you are exempt from having to justify any g. love luv. it is understood. your corny ass is legend and i bow down before it's baffling majesty.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

MY FRIDGE IS STICKY

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

His bass player is Santa Claus.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

haha, a google image search proves that dude has since shaved

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

fucking hell his band's name is SPECIAL SAUCE

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

yeah, that coke commercial makes me embarrassed that I used to love his first CD

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

My defence of G Love : I once saw him playing one of those industry guest list type gigs at the Borderline in London (I think I paid to get in!). Everyone in the audience spent the entire set talking, but he carried on like a trooper, albeit looking a bit embarrassed. The guy's a professional!

Is that a defence or an attack? I'm not sure.

I remember that one song - "Blues Music" was it? Blues music. Yeah right.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

G Love, playin' the blues

http://www.phototalk.net/photos/data/567/2260g_love.jpg

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I remember "Blues Music" now! It actually was a pretty good jam, probably because it wasn't actually a blues song, but a song about liking blues music.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Cold drinks, music he liked to listen to, dude sure did hit on some IMPORTANT, TOPICAL shit, lyrically.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Jesus fucking Christ, google image search sure does make it hard to maintain an even slightly pro-G. stance:
http://www.hansroggen.nl/images/g-love.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Is that a G-Love RealDoll?

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Guess where you blow him up.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

"Performing" in "Amsterdam"

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Cold beverages are pretty delicious.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

What about COLD BLOOD?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if Coca-Cola tried to buy the rights to "Cold Beverages" and like Budweiser or somebody already has some kinda holding agreement with it and so they were like "okay G., how 'bout you give us a, you know, 'Cold Beverages' part TWO".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

He talked like Max Perlich.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

http://www.nndb.com/people/040/000028953/max-perlich.jpg

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

hi i havent read this thread but i opened up for g love once and he was nice.

― huell howser (chaki), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

OPEN WIDE FOR GLOVE

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

"opened up"

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

CHAKI'S FRIDGE WAS A STUCK PIG

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

i like "dont kiss and dont tell"

or i did

no one in the uk has ever heard of this band, so i dont get the over exposure coryn factor. its like listening to j-pop or something

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

does gareth like them?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

n/a lol

― huell howser (chaki), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

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