I jammed "floored" pretty regularly growing up :/
― Face Book (dyao), Sunday, 23 May 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
love hearing "fly", "every morning" while at the hardware store or whatever. the video for "fly" kind of warms my heart for some reason.sugar ray's stuff with metal guitars is really bad, though.
i like the dark frosty stuff on the "alien fetus" sigur ros album. not at all into the whole heavy orchestra syrupy Sound of Music thing.
so i pick sugar ray, because i rarely hear a bad song of theirs in public. sigur ros's whole rep now is due to their andrew lloyd weber style that i abhor so greatly.
― hobbes, Sunday, 23 May 2010 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
replace "andrew lloyd weber" with "orchestras and emotive cooing" there
― hobbes, Sunday, 23 May 2010 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Sugar Ray singles (never heard anything else tbh) were all really good by the standards of the era. Sigur Ros has bored me.
― Cunga, Sunday, 23 May 2010 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
In 2000, Sugar Ray did a cover version of John Cale and Brian Eno's "Spinning Away" for the soundtrack to "The Beach".
Wait -- what?
― Cunga, Sunday, 23 May 2010 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
not a bad looking soundtrack there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_%28film%29#Track_listing
― hobbes, Sunday, 23 May 2010 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a pretty decent cover but can't compare w/ original
― iatee, Monday, 24 May 2010 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
"When It's Over": the soundtrack to American innocence in the days before 9-11. After that the world was too cynical and world-weary for a man like Mark McGrath to flourish in it.
― Cunga, Monday, 24 May 2010 00:18 (thirteen years ago) link
It's surprisingly terrific, actually. McGrath nails the vocal.
And, yeah, The Beach soundtrack was essential for me in the pre-Napster days when all I wanted was the new New Order song, Orbital, and UNKLE.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 May 2010 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
McGrath is flourishing as a host for Extra or Entertainment Tonight these days, isn't he?
― hobbes, Monday, 24 May 2010 00:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i doubt that Jonsi would be a good TV show host, at least not after Sigur Ros's infamous NPR interview.
― keine Macht für dich mehr! (Eisbaer), Monday, 24 May 2010 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
iirc Mr. McGrath did not do poorly the time I watched his performance on "Celebrity Jeopardy."
― frozen cookie (Abbott), Monday, 24 May 2010 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
you mean "rock n roll jeopardy?" i think it saw that one.. he was wayyy schooled, iirc, like he killed the competition.
― hobbes, Monday, 24 May 2010 01:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Some fake Jeopardy for good-looking, well-known people, yeah.
― frozen cookie (Abbott), Monday, 24 May 2010 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I need to get on that one then.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 May 2010 01:56 (thirteen years ago) link
mcgrath has def spent his career - I dunno if 'playing dumb' is the right way to put it, but...
― iatee, Monday, 24 May 2010 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link
sugar ray probably could never make a credible appearance on "game of thrones."
― 빨간 럼 ఎరుపు రమ్ רום אדום (Eisbaer), Monday, 11 April 2016 20:09 (eight years ago) link
If that sack of turds that call themselves Coldplay could, anyone can.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 08:20 (eight years ago) link
This is actually a hard question.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 10 February 2019 05:38 (five years ago) link
"All around the world statues crumble for me" is a great opening line
― brimstead, Sunday, 10 February 2019 05:50 (five years ago) link
Sugar Ray and it’s not close.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 10 February 2019 14:33 (five years ago) link
i don't recall sigur ros releasing work as essential as "someday" and "when it's over"?
― dyl, Sunday, 10 February 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
what the hell pic.twitter.com/hJ4qk0QlyP— stefan heck (@boring_as_heck) August 30, 2018