they're pretty lame but they get props for starting a song "Been a whole lot easier since the bitch left town"
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 3 January 2008 13:06 (sixteen years ago) link
f u
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 3 January 2008 13:38 (sixteen years ago) link
my girlfriend has an uncanny knack for asking "what time is it?" when it's 4:30, which makes me sing that stupid Spin Doctors song every time, and of course she has no idea what I'm talking about.
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 3 January 2008 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link
oh shi
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 3 January 2008 13:52 (sixteen years ago) link
anyone who posts to this thread should be required to list the number of spin doctors songs they've actually heard
― gabbneb, Thursday, 3 January 2008 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
How many are on "Pocket Full of Kryptonite"? That many.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 3 January 2008 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I have owned (and still own!) both Pocket Full Of Kryptonite and the one after that with "Cleopatra's Cat" on it (gimme a break, I was 12).
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 3 January 2008 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I also briefly considered buying their 2nd live album, Homebelly Groove.
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 3 January 2008 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
How the mighty fell.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 January 2008 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Idolator, not afraid to go after the tough targets.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 3 January 2008 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
They're perfectly harmless as a silly jammy band with dopey filler like the four-thirty thing, whatever. Meanwhile, though, "Two Princes" is one of my ten favorite songs of the decade, no question...while "Jimmy Olsen's Blues" and "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" are also both a lot of fun. Classic.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 3 January 2008 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link
"Two Princes" is one of my ten favorite songs of the decade, no question
this thread keeps getting o_Oer
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 3 January 2008 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
naw... NAWW...
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 3 January 2008 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
the naw naw part is so grating.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 3 January 2008 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
fortunately all I remember of the song is the title lyric
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 3 January 2008 19:04 (sixteen years ago) link
lol holy shit:
Ayatollah, hes hopping mad Jibber about some damn jihad Send me back to old baghdad Spin doctor its oh so sad
Well Alex...
A-WHAT TIME IT? FO'-THIRTY! IT'S NOT LATE naw... NAWW IT'S JUSTA EARLAY! EARLAY!
seriously, i bet dudes would be remembered a lot better if it wasn't for Chris Barron's nawnaws and doobitybeepbediddydees and dubbadeebladobbadobbadobbadobbadobbas
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 3 January 2008 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Something about that Two Princes riff
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 3 January 2008 19:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Cold War Kids are the new Spin Doctors. They suck in the exact same way, and the bass player wears the same stupid knit hats.
― pgwp, Thursday, 3 January 2008 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Specialists gave Chris Barron a 50-50 chance of ever talking normally again let alone singing on a professional level when he was stricken with vocal chord paralysis. After a regime of everything from acupuncture to prescription steroids and intensive vocal training, Chris Barron is fully recovered and singing better than ever, winning audiences all over again as a solo artist with his sincerity and that vocal tone that has made his voice recognizable to millions all over the world.
― chaki, Thursday, 3 January 2008 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link
good drummer. don't ever need to hear it again.
― will, Thursday, 3 January 2008 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, that Sarah Silverman bit when Metalhead Brian is found to have Spin Doctors on his iPod. I thought that was the hackiest reference imaginable, until it was revealed that "Two Princes" was the ONLY song on his iPod, and then it was funny to me.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 3 January 2008 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't have anything clever or useful to add. Just to reiterate that "Two Princes" is still the jam and even writing one good pop song makes you a hero in my book.
― DustinR, Friday, 4 January 2008 13:34 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC-KaKAmmEY
― gabbneb, Friday, 4 January 2008 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Blues Traveler were better; and THEIR own token good song was better than "Two Princes". Which I eventually grew to like, even though as "funk" it was hopeless. Somebody should've bought them some old Steve Miller Band albums.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
No. You Should ask me. I am an expert.
― gabbneb, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
They probably already had some Steve Miller records! Not saying "Two Princes" was as great as "Take the Money and Run" or "The Joker" (or the best songs off of, say, Joe Jackson's first 2 LPs), but off-hand, I can't think of another song from the '90s (or '00s) that's come closer. (Willing to hear nominations.) It was funkier than any other rock song to make it onto the radio in its decade. So cut them a break, Myonga! (And it and "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" were way better than Blues Traveler's two hits! Which were okay, I guess--or at least better than anything I ever heard by Phish of moe. I still don't understand why more jam bands didn't sell out more. Some might have been good at it.)
― xhuxk, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
..Phish or moe., I meant.
funkier than any other rock song to make it onto the radio in its decade
Mmmm...maybe there is some hair-metal straggler from 1990 (by Warrant or somebody) that could give it competition? Or something by Stone Temple Pilots? But I don't think so. (Oh wait -- "Mas Tequila" by Sammy Hagar was 1999, right? So maybe that one...)
― xhuxk, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Or...how funky was "Sister Havana" by Urge Overkill?
― xhuxk, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
omg, i can't believe that sammy hagar had a solo hit in the 90s, which was a theme song for his brand of tequila, and that I actually remember how it goes. i can, however, believe that xhuxk thought it was funky.
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I do have to concede in retrospect that Spin Doctors, like Dave Mathews, are much more hated for the manner in which they were listened to than for the inoffensive and sometimes catchy songs themselves. But I still don't need to hear them ever again.
I'd like xkuxk to compare and contrast "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" and the Black Crowes' version of "Hard to Handle," since to me they seem to have basically the same virtues.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 4 January 2008 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
It was funkier than any other rock song to make it onto the radio in its decade.
Should we open this to a new thread? I'd be willing to see what ILX has to say on what song would be funkier...
"Sexx Laws" for starters...
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
make it so
― blueski, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
'sexx laws' -- hell of a rock song
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link
lol, "the manner in which they were listened to"
― gabbneb, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
the manner in which to which they were listened???
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 4 January 2008 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
mow b'jow
― gabbneb, Friday, 4 January 2008 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
The Spin Doctors were the J. Geils Band of the '90s: a boogie bar band whose live shows were insanely popular up and down the east coast before hitting big with pure radio/MTV pop. I don't think they had the talent of J. Geils, but their East Coast, big city funk shtick and silly fun is very much in that vein. In high school we always had fun when the Spin Doctors came to town. Those were good times. I haven't listened to that stuff in years, but I could never muster any hatred for them.
Maybe the "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" video, with all its flying paint, is a direct homage to "Freeze Frame"?
― QuantumNoise, Friday, 4 January 2008 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd like xkuxk to compare and contrast "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" and the Black Crowes' version of "Hard to Handle,"
"Hard To Handle" is a great song to shoot pool too! And yeah, it definitely does give "Two Princes" a run for its funk money, come to think of it.
― xhuxk, Friday, 4 January 2008 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
"Two Princes" may have been the hugest slice of funk to make it on rock radio in the '90s by default - I wouldn't really know for sure, having listened so infrequently and rarely by choice. All I ever got out of "Two Princes" was a fussy, hi-res unvarying drum pattern that sounded like hardcore-jungle slowed down and very little sense of forward motion. Running in place. If that was the biggest groove rock radio had to offer, then the decade was even more dismal than I assumed!
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 4 January 2008 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link
They are playing right now at a two star hotel on a Hawaiian beach. Just walked by on way home from dinner and heard a lengthy drum solo.
― it's a meme i made and i like (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 21 August 2011 07:41 (twelve years ago) link
^^Nice work if you can get it. They came through town not too long ago to do a theatre show w/Rick Springfield.
― Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 21 August 2011 08:14 (twelve years ago) link
Just got a Collector's Choice catalog in the mail and guess what? Sony's putting out a 2-disc "20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition" of Pocketful....
― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 06:04 (twelve years ago) link
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― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 06:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2011/10/03/03_chrisbarron-silo.o.PNG/a_250x375.pngthis guy really cleaned up his act. proud of you dogg.
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 October 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC7zZMj4aNg
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 6 October 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
just re-listened to Two Princes on Youtube. Singer sounds like kinda Evan Dando. Never noticed that before. Not listening to any other SD songs to find out if he sounds like him elsewhere as well.
― chromecassettes, Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Two Princes is one of my guiltiest pleasures. I secretly think it's one of the best songs of the 90's.
― Moka, Friday, 1 June 2012 05:36 (eleven years ago) link
There's a great Sarah Silverman episode where they discover that her gay friend who listens to tons of doom metal on his ipod actually only has one song on repeat-- "Two Princes."
― Poliopolice, Friday, 1 June 2012 12:32 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, nice
― calstars, Thursday, 12 January 2023 13:53 (one year ago) link
Bidibidibip
― everybody was tofu fighting (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 12 January 2023 14:04 (one year ago) link
I asked him what to expect from the show.His answer: “greatness”
LL, thank you for reporting this charming exchange. Instant classic.
― everybody was tofu fighting (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 12 January 2023 14:10 (one year ago) link
Barron on the solo tour: "This solo project is really about learning and just expressing the broadness of my musicality. Because as a composer and a lyricist, I can’t fit everything I do into the Spin Doctors.”
You nerds are pretty much the only thing in the world that could come close to giving me FOMO for missing a Chris Barron solo show. But even then just barely.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 January 2023 14:23 (one year ago) link
gained some respect for this guy after his tweet about the origin of little miss can't be wrong (posted upthread)
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:40 (one year ago) link
Chris Barron was one of the most prominent dudes from the early 1990s who made it seem normal to grow a gross-ass beard. Here I am circa 1993 wearing a bucket hat that had been autographed by the Spin Doctors' rhythm section.
that's what I say now!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:42 (one year ago) link
lol wtf I forgot I was the one who started this thread
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:48 (one year ago) link
i love that Jimmy Olsen is carrying around a pocketful of kryptonite like he doesn't realize it affects non-Kryptonian humans in harmful ways too.
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
p sure ol' Jimmy was speaking metaphorically there
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 12 January 2023 16:40 (one year ago) link
xxpost You were an eetface, now a Neanderthal. Evolution.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 January 2023 16:43 (one year ago) link
xxpost so the kryptonite is his dick?
no, that'd be a euphemism, not a metaphor. uggh ogg ork
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 January 2023 16:50 (one year ago) link
I remember playing it to my uncle Phil, "why is he going to murder Superman?"
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 12 January 2023 16:58 (one year ago) link
Better days:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC-KaKAmmEY
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Thursday, 12 January 2023 17:03 (one year ago) link
I’ll note that I saw exactly 0 of the show and heard none of the above details bc I was working in a different part of the building. I always walk thru venue to leave and that’s when my interaction described above occurred. I hope he isn’t reading this?
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 January 2023 17:29 (one year ago) link
(I made my first-ever mod request to pull the post if possible. Otherwise, delist it, maybe?)
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Thursday, 12 January 2023 17:34 (one year ago) link
thank you -- not because you're not allowed to have your observations and share them, of course you are. but i am posting about workplace and i post here so i keep it out of the public eye for the most part. i would never put this on social media aka public -- here i have a pseu8donym!
i regretted reviving and posting but i had to tell SOMEONE lol
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 January 2023 17:40 (one year ago) link
Personally I feel like the world needs more Behind the Music-style details, not fewer. Inquiring minds want to know about the inner life of the head Spin Doctor.
aka Chief of Medicine at Spintown Memorial.
If only we knew as much about the making of, say, Cracked Rear View or Gordon.
― everybody was tofu fighting (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 12 January 2023 17:42 (one year ago) link
It's all in the songs, man.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 January 2023 17:48 (one year ago) link
Gotta love itIt's my du-tayyyyIt's a big fatFunky bootayyy
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Saturday, 18 February 2023 02:38 (one year ago) link
Dammit Alfred you have me humming the Cleopatra's cat song now
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 01:37 (one year ago) link
I was just talking to my teenage kid about how Spin Doctors are one of the most startling passages from absolutely ubiquitous to completely forgotten.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 18:50 (seven months ago) link
pretty much by their second studio album, too.
I got Turn It Upside Down on release date and I really feel like the only song I heard on the radio was "You Let Your Heart Go Too fast" and that was only around the week it was released.
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 19:35 (seven months ago) link
Yo ma, Yo pa, yo greasy grandmaShe got a big behind like frankensteinShe go beep beep beep down Sesame Street
...
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 18 February 2024 21:14 (two months ago) link
Uh that's not the spin doctors
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 18 February 2024 21:21 (two months ago) link
i guess they didn't come up w/ it but it features in "Yo Mama's a Pajama". must be a playground thing I never experienced
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 18 February 2024 21:26 (two months ago) link
Bizarre - because I thought it was just this
https://genius.com/Daphne-and-celeste-ooh-stick-you-lyrics
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 18 February 2024 21:29 (two months ago) link
Spin doctors false flag vibe
― calstars, Sunday, 18 February 2024 21:40 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ql1eThR0aQ
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 18 February 2024 21:41 (two months ago) link