I cannot believe that there is no thread dedicated to the song "Summer Girls" by LFO (aka the Lyte Funky Ones)

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PappaWheelie 2 (PappaWheelie 2), Sunday, 25 June 2006 03:12 (seventeen years ago) link

This thread made me revisit some other songs from the Summer of 1999 and I must say I still enjoy Tal Bachman's She's So High.

Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 25 June 2006 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link

always confuse this song with "summertime" :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMvLwKli6bU

mts (theoreticalgirl), Sunday, 25 June 2006 05:18 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.candywrappermuseum.com/cx_likmaid.jpg

Carlos Keith (Buck_Wilde), Sunday, 25 June 2006 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link

six months pass...
I downloaded this the other day and realized I hadn't actually heard it before, I'd just read about it. Pretty sweet.

I think around the time this song came out, Abercrombie and Fitch was definitely a hot brand, what with the controversial near-naked catalogue models, and partially because of that, it began to stand for a whole class of preppie teen fashion. So it doesn't seem all that implausible that a guy would be attracted to an "Abercrombie girl" -- I remember referring to people that way myself in the late '90s.

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

jaymc do you live in an ice cave on pluto?

acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Jess, I spent much of the late '90s listening exclusively to indie rock, post-rock, and IDM. I was in college and either too busy or too much of a snob to pay attention to anything on the radio. I currently refer to this as my dark period.

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

i suggest you download "mambo no. 5" next

acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

and the collected works of shawn mullins

acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha, I've heard both of those. Well, only "Lullaby," I guess.

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

what about eagle eye cherry?

acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

What was his song?

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

"zoot suit riot"

acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been trying to set up an interview with the lead singer of LFO for the past few months, and they keep pushing it back. He's supposedly working on some big project that will BLOW YOUR MIND.

Tape Store (Tape Store), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Eagle Eye Cherry Poppin' Daddy Yankee

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Here's a good example, though: I pretty much missed the entire career of DMX. I've been informed that he was ubiquitous at one point.

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I remember the video for "Party Up." It's also on a few of my old mix cds, sprinkled with Evan and Jaron and Shaggy tracks.

Tape Store (Tape Store), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

1999 in a nutshell:

1 Genie in a Bottle Christina Aguilera 3:38
2 (God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You *NSYNC 4:40
3 Summer Girls LFO 4:18
4 C'est La Vie B*witched 2:53
5 Steal My Sunshine Len 4:10
6 Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...) Lou Bega 3:40
7 Angel of Mine Monica 4:11
8 We Can't Be Friends Deborah Cox 4:43
9 24/7 Kevon Edmonds 4:34
10 Lullaby Shawn Mullins

acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You

I still have trouble believing this is really the title to a song.

baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I've heard Xtina, LFO, Lou Bega, and Shawn Mullins. I must have downloaded "Steal My Sunshine" at some point -- esp. if there was some ILM 90s Poll -- but I couldn't hum it for you.

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU

acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

"Steal My Sunshine" is still great.

Tape Store (Tape Store), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of NKOTB, "Give It To You".

That's the second time I've linked to that song in the past twenty minutes.

Tape Store (Tape Store), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, "Steal My Sunshine" is on my iPod! Listening now.

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I like this. Still pretty sure I didn't hear it until 2004 at the earliest, though. iPod has it tagged as being from the "Go OST."

http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/84/140784_thumb.jpg

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

(Which, come to think of it, I saw in the theater, so maybe I did hear the song in 1999.)

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

This is one of those songs where I just couldn't get past the image of them. The whole "spoiled rich kid driving daddy's car" look.

Viz (Viz), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

i will never grow weary of mambo No 5.

jambalaya backgammon (grady), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I used to hear that fucking cowbell from "Steal My Sunshine" in my nightmares.

baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I mentioned "Mambo No. 5" in this article.

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

what was the grungey-poppy-punk song where the guy kept saying he was sorry for a whole laundry list of things?

jambalaya backgammon (grady), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I had no idea B*witched were even heard of in the States

Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Puddle of Staind "I'm Sorry I Forgot To Do The Laundry"

baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

"Sorry 2004," by Ruben Studdard

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

it included:

1) getting drunk at an innapropriate time
2) having sex with the sister of whomever he was apologizing to
3) crashing through a window of some sort

i also seem to remember a lyric about a biker/motorcycle gang but its possible i'm making that up.

jambalaya backgammon (grady), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

and possibly some mention of seafood of some sort, possibly in the same line as motorcycle gang/ bikers.

jambalaya backgammon (grady), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I dunno, but that sounds awesome.

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i ask because i remember it being all over the radio around the same time.

it sounded like a much more radio-friendly NOFX or Ugly Kid Joe ten years later.

jambalaya backgammon (grady), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

i also ask because the lyrics were horribly catchy and annoying but much preferable to summer girls.

jambalaya backgammon (grady), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

A-ha!:

Nerf Herder, "Sorry"

Sorry we broke up, sorry I missed you
Sorry I wanted only to kiss you
Sorry I promised to love you forever
made you feel guilty, oh when you left me
Sorry I showed up at your party
Sorry I drank up all the Bacardi
Sorry I puked up on your bedspread
Sorry I wanted to be your boyfriend again
(chorus) What can I do?
It's over, it's over, it's over, it's over
What can I do? I am the loser.
Sorry I saw you and I heard birds sing
Sorry I touched you and I heard bells ring
Sorry I jacked off outside of your window
while you were sleeping
I thought you'd never know
Sorry I showed up at your wedding
Sorry I tried so hard to get in
Sorry I screwed up your picture
Sorry I had sex with your sister
(chorus) What can I do?
It's over, it's over, it's over, it's over
What can I do? I am the loser.
Sorry we broke up, sorry I missed you
Sorry I wanted only to kiss you
Sorry I promised to love you forever
made you feel guilty, oh when you left me
Sorry I showed up at your dinner
Sorry I said those things to your father
Sorry I crashed through your window on acid
Sorry I made a mess, sorry I bled to death
(chorus) Repeat 2x

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

haha fucking NERFHERDER

baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

When I start to think about how it seems like all bands these days have shit names, I need to remind myself, "hey, self, remember the 90s".

baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

NO BIKERS EATING SEAFOOD NO CREDIBILITY.

jambalaya backgammon (grady), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

and it was from 1996!

jambalaya backgammon (grady), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

wikipedia lists genre as: Geek Rock

jambalaya backgammon (grady), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, Evan and Jaron. I had forgotten about them. I still have no idea what they sounded like. I'm assuming sensitive blandness.

clotpoll (Clotpoll), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

Tynan Delong was an asshole.

This is a big karaoke tune for me.

Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 14:03 (fifteen years ago) link

And, I think, for the world at large.

Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 14:03 (fifteen years ago) link

I was going to say, a truly classic Tynan post upthread.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link

You are the worst breed of fong.

Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link

I know ;_;

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/9934,217217,8002,22.html

"Girl On TV" was good, too.

xhuxk, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link

how is this song not already a lyrics poll

Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah this was easily top 5 karaoke performances ever for me

impudent harlot, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link

"Chinese food makes me sick"

Really -- why share that with the world?

Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

I'm sure there was a poll about this, wtf was the thread called though?

Doctor Casino, Monday, 29 December 2008 01:35 (fifteen years ago) link

aha, burned by punctuation. thanks!

Doctor Casino, Monday, 29 December 2008 01:41 (fifteen years ago) link

Listening to the song now, it seems self-evident that it was the template for the (inferior but still charming) "Not The Greatest Rapper In The World" by 1,000 Clowns.

Doctor Casino, Monday, 29 December 2008 01:47 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

RIP guy who sang this song ;_;

o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Thursday, 9 September 2010 02:18 (thirteen years ago) link

ARE YOU SERIOUS

teledyldonix, Thursday, 9 September 2010 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link

:(

teledyldonix, Thursday, 9 September 2010 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link

RIP

classic joint

J0rdan S., Thursday, 9 September 2010 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link

he wrote it too

RIP

maura, Thursday, 9 September 2010 06:05 (thirteen years ago) link

that's some bullshit :(

billstevejim, Thursday, 9 September 2010 06:28 (thirteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

Last surviving LFO member has some thoughts about how talented rapper Rich Cronin was:

The In Memoriam montage in the following year’s Grammys did not include a mention. “I don’t like to focus on those who don’t respect us, I like to focus on the fans,” Fischetti says. “But it hurt. Rich Cronin was literally one of the best rappers alive, which is not to say he’d beat Eminem in a freestyle battle. But if you gave him a mic and beat, he could hold his own with anyone, with Biggie, anybody. That kid was so creative.”

soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 30 April 2021 21:45 (two years ago) link

It was all a dream
I used to read Tiger Beat magazine

Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Friday, 30 April 2021 21:46 (two years ago) link

Cronin could hold his own with Biggie
At night, I like to get into my Snuggie

Vinnie, Friday, 30 April 2021 23:13 (two years ago) link

this song makes me 15 and playing dreamcast with my schoolfriends again

imago, Saturday, 1 May 2021 00:09 (two years ago) link

Nintendo Gamecube, Sega Dreamcast
When I hear "Summer Girls", man, I can't believe that guy passed

maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 1 May 2021 00:21 (two years ago) link

Instead of Indian say Native
That kid was so creative

frogbs, Saturday, 1 May 2021 00:33 (two years ago) link

Remember Rappin’ Duke? Da hah Da hah
The General Lee was the Duke Boys’ car

Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Saturday, 1 May 2021 00:35 (two years ago) link


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