Hanson's "mmm bop" - cool or stool?

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Yes, that's exactly why I like the record: they played their own instruments.

Emo band play their own instruments too. Does that make them good?

― paul cox (paul cox), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 14:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sorry, Paul: I was being sarcastic. I should have used a sarcastic emoticon.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 22:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

Now you see the troubles I have, Martin.

Just make me think of a time and place now, 1996 or whenever. That weird mid-nineties pseudoglow. I feel nothing more than that either way.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 January 2003 02:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

I remember that right when the video came out, my (male) friend asked me if the fact that he was attracted to the blonde girl made him a pedophile. Oh, if only it were that simple.

― Chris H., Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

What the fuck does a sarcastic emoticon look like anyway? They never offer what I want - I rarely wink at people IRL either. Grr. (And what is an angry one?!)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 16 January 2003 21:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

would have been cooler if they had medlyed it with 'sweet jane'

― ddd, Thursday, 16 January 2003 21:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

three years pass...

I heard "Mmm Bop" in the grocery story today. When this occurred, I had just picked out fennel seeds to place in my cart, and was trying to locate red pepper flakes.

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 03:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Grocery store, that is

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 03:51 (eighteen years ago) link

You do realize you are now obligated to write a shopping-list-cum-rap entitled "Grocery Story", don't you?

― Okeigh, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 04:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh dear. When one says that word in conversation it comes across as a sign of mild erudition, or at worst pretension; when typed out on the internet it looks decidedly unsavory. I did intend it to be pronounced "coom".

― Okeigh, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 04:38 (eighteen years ago) link

we had a disagreement at work the other day about the exact meaning of the latin cum. i started to google it and then realized that was a bad idea.

mmmbop, of course, is classic.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 05:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Come come, don't be silly

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 10:40 (eighteen years ago) link

It's a pity "cool or stool" didn't stick.

Mmmbop is a perfect slice of pop pie.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 11:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I was always convinced it would make a brilliant mashup with 'Bugged' by Head Of David.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 11:48 (eighteen years ago) link

cum

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link

i used to live just up the road from chorlton-cum-hardy.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link

I read that as chorlton-cum-in-handy.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Whoa, I was just reading this thread and got up to get something to drink, looked at the TV and saw Hanson on MTV Cribs. Weird.

Also, their crib sucks (and so do you)

― Guy Incognito (Guy Incognito), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 03:29 (eighteen years ago) link

They are not a one-hit wonder...They made it on two "Now" albums ("MmmBop" and "This Time Around")!

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 03:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Didn't Marilyn Manson once say that he found Hanson to be 'disturbing'?

― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link

MmmBop
Middle Of Nowhere
Where's The Love
I Will Come To You
Weird
This Time Around
If Only

All charted in the Top 40.

― Vg (1411), Thursday, 23 February 2006 06:27 (eighteen years ago) link

mmmbop was aaiiight, I always thought of it as one of those songs that serves no other purpose, no 'identity' other than announcing the band to the world, which is probably exactly how I'm supposed to process it. 'Lost Without Each Other' is fantastic however. Did they do anything else as good?

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 23 February 2006 06:36 (eighteen years ago) link

wow, respect to alex in nyc for digging this song!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 23 February 2006 07:07 (eighteen years ago) link

'Thinking of You', the other Dust Brothers production, is truly fantastic.

― BARMS, Thursday, 23 February 2006 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Hi guys. I just came across this page and I decided to reply after reading everyone elses. Ive been a Hanson Fan since the very beginning, and Im still going strong! Ofcourse, most people hated the boys but I never quite understood why...Every song they have written has made me extremely happy...kinda like an anti-drug. LOL.
I guess the makes me uncool, but hey...I can admit my faults.

― Cretha, Monday, 6 March 2006 01:00 (eighteen years ago) link

six years pass...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-18340256

― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:33 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

I guess the makes me uncool, but hey...I can admit my faults.

― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Saturday, 15 February 2014 05:15 (ten years ago) link

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