the verses rule
― ❤ⓛⓞⓥⓔ❤ (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
good bridge! so so verses, blah chorus.
― landfill spectre (wanko ergo sum), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
"What If God...Shuffled His Feet"
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 20:41 (fifteen years ago) link
"Superman's Song" is about as good, maybe better for not having the Jerry Harrison sheen.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" is pretty remarkable for being a top-40 pop song that's entirely in the third person.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
good bridge! so so verses, blah chorus.― landfill spectre (wanko ergo sum), Tuesday, December 30, 2008 8:11 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark
I include bridge with the verses, but I thought everybody did. I could be wrong, I never asked.
― ❤ⓛⓞⓥⓔ❤ (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Got fucking sick of it, and "God Shuffled His Feet" is better. But I still kinda like it.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link
If you are drinking beer at a bar, those old time songs are just as good as the first time - and taking up a music elitist stance at a bar is stupid. I mean, I can jam out to songs that are merely 'meh' on the radio but totally love them at a bar.
― ❤ⓛⓞⓥⓔ❤ (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link
especially, if I know the lyrics
― ❤ⓛⓞⓥⓔ❤ (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
― ❤ⓛⓞⓥⓔ❤ (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, December 30, 2008 4:05 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I still can't enjoy this song much though b/c I was in lol college (freshman yr 2 B exact) when it came out so I had to hate it out of spite of its popularity with the frat crowd. (I think it's an excuable reaction for a 17 yr old)
― Fella Bleck (wanko ergo sum), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link
mmm mmm mmm mmm
― estela, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
It's one of those songs that seems unobjectionable, even great in its way, but that I nonetheless loathe. I'm not sure why: it's catchy, distinctive and clever. But I hate hate hate it.
― served by boot-face (contenderizer), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 21:23 (fifteen years ago) link
well it's mawkish (except the 'mmm mmm mmm mmm' part)
― Fella Bleck (wanko ergo sum), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 21:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Lyrically? Yeah, but no more so than lots of songs I like. Still, I think you're right. The music is even more maudlin than the lyrics, and the chorus's consolatory hum tips it over the edge, makes me ill.
― served by boot-face (contenderizer), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 2 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm not sure when the last time was that I actually heard "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" in a non-karaoke, non-Weird Al context. It's one of those hits that, after its time in the spotlight, got declared a kind of un-beloved novelty and promptly disappeared from all radio formats. I don't even recall seeing it that often in "One Hit Wonder Countdown!" type things.
"God Shuffled His Feet" really is okay though, some horrible production choices but a good hook and I think a better use of the guy's voice.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 2 January 2009 00:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Shit, this is too hard to choose.
― Girlfriend, you've been scooped like ice cream (mehlt), Friday, 2 January 2009 01:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I voted that it's a good song.
Good:- the great bridge!- maudlin top 40 hit!
Bad: - forever associated with a key scene in Dumb & Dumber- the weird mugging at the camera the singer did in the video
i owned the album and seemed to remember liking one other song it quite a bit better than "Mmm mmm mmm mmm", but after downloading the album last year I couldn't figure out which song it was - they all sounded pretty bad to me.
― fwiw (rockapads), Friday, 2 January 2009 03:41 (fifteen years ago) link
My friend idolized this band, I could never understand it.
― redmond, Friday, 2 January 2009 03:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Weird Al's Headline news, though was definitely a good song, however.
― Girlfriend, you've been scooped like ice cream (mehlt), Friday, 2 January 2009 03:57 (fifteen years ago) link
― Eazy, Tuesday, December 30, 2008 3:49 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i dunno if i feel the need to start a list thread to debunk that claim but c'mon that can't be that rare.
― some dude, Friday, 2 January 2009 04:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 3 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
That makes me oddly happy.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Saturday, 3 January 2009 08:57 (fifteen years ago) link
So my coworker proposed that this \/\/\/ is the worst song ever, and we unsuccessfully spent the entire day trying to figure out if there was something worse (I think I voted that mmmm. . . was a good song, by the way)
Really, I think this song might just be that awful.
― formerly: mehlt (Edward Saroyan), Friday, 17 April 2009 02:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh man, these guys lost it big after A Worm's Life (which I will vehemently defend)
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Friday, 17 April 2009 02:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Living in Canada and being at the age where I listened to the radio/watched music TV when this came out and was well backed by CANCON made this song particularly bad for me, admittedly.
― formerly: mehlt (Edward Saroyan), Friday, 17 April 2009 02:25 (fifteen years ago) link
reminds me of tv on the radio
― iatee, Friday, 17 April 2009 02:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Best songs these guys did - I'm thinking "2 Knights And 4 Maidens", "An Old Scab", "My Own Sunrise", "Swatting Flies", "God Shuffled His Feet", "I Think I'll Disappear Now", "A Worm's Life", "How Does A Duck Know" (that's a controversial one but I <3 it) etc - are genuinely very, very good imo and there isn't MUCH filler on those two main albums
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Friday, 17 April 2009 02:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Still the only hit song I know of with a title that can be pronounced with mouth closed.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 17 April 2009 02:51 (fifteen years ago) link
weedie 28/06/2006 01:25:45I think the girl doesn´t have birthmarks, she has burnmarks...and the child with white hair is about 60 years old when he returns to school because he was in hospital...or something elsee
I love the comments on lyrics sites.
― one art, please (Trayce), Friday, 17 April 2009 04:04 (fifteen years ago) link
mrs_orlando_bloom 16/06/2004 00:37:01Ya if you've ever seen the movie Stephen King's It and you remember Henry Bowers he was so scared his hair turned white, in the sewer when It takes that one kid and Henry sees the Death lights...What is UP with the last stanza though? They shook and lurched all over the church floor? Is this band trying to confuse the hell out of the listeners?Oh and by the way I just have to say SING PROPERLY!!! grrrrrrr its soooooooooo annoying! And this song is about some kids whose lives basically suck and the solution is MM MM MM MM. It was really poor planning on the part of the crash test dummies because if they're at a concert its really hard for fans to yell WE WANNA HEAR MM MM MM MM!
― one art, please (Trayce), Friday, 17 April 2009 04:05 (fifteen years ago) link
new screen name "the solution is MM MM MM MM"
― one art, please (Trayce), Friday, 17 April 2009 04:06 (fifteen years ago) link
the solution is nom nom nom nom
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 17 April 2009 12:42 (fifteen years ago) link
lol @ mrs_orlando_bloom
― call all destroyer, Friday, 17 April 2009 13:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link
And when they finally made her . . . They saw . . . birthmarks all over her bo-d-iee.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i came here just to post this!
JUST KIDDING. what's remarkable is that poll result.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 04:50 (fourteen years ago) link
once there was this kid whohad something really weird wrong with hi-um
― andrew m., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 04:51 (fourteen years ago) link
It was really poor planning on the part of the crash test dummies because if they're at a concert its really hard for fans to yell WE WANNA HEAR MM MM MM MM!
mrs_orlando_bloom droppin a truth bomb. How did this work? It hurts my teeth even to hum along to the song itself.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:18 (fourteen years ago) link
The wordless bridge/coda is stuck in my head today. Kinda good, kinda bad.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 1 March 2013 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
love this version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IhhdsKXAQ
― jamiesummerz, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
^^^
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
First time I heard it, I thought it was Iggy Pop
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
lol
― andrew m., Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
That version's halfway to Giant Sand.
(Record produced by Jerry Harrison btw)
― Eazy, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
ew ew ew ew
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 May 2018 01:47 (six years ago) link
Surely one of the weirdest 90s hit singles (though still not any good).
― incel elgort (cryptosicko), Friday, 4 May 2018 02:15 (six years ago) link
I’ve never actually heard this song (it came out during the year of the ’90s that I “missed”)... I’ve heard maybe a few seconds of the chorus, as part of video montages.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Friday, 4 May 2018 02:35 (six years ago) link
My first few years of college, I had no access to MTV; wasn’t listening to the radio or reading about new music; and basically spent my time making cassettes for friends with Portishead on one side and Massive Attack on the other (“you’re gonna love this!”).
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Friday, 4 May 2018 02:49 (six years ago) link
I love this song
― well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Friday, 4 May 2018 07:36 (six years ago) link
I remember having a very strong emotional reaction to this track as a kid. It reminds me of being 9 and being driven to soccer practice on a winter night. It’d be played regularly on a rock radio station that cycled through all the other generic 90s crap rock, and this always stood out to my childish ears as being particularly sad and beautiful. I also kinda felt this way about What It’s Like by Everlast though, so...
― triggercut, Friday, 4 May 2018 10:48 (six years ago) link
Winter Song is nice
https://youtu.be/5UUQOw-reV4
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 4 May 2018 11:24 (six years ago) link
This song brings to mind XTC's "Dear God" in its earnestness and oddness. No wonder they covered "Peter Pumpkinhead".
I listened to the source album recently and still mostly like it, though the debut is better what with a great cover of The Replacements "Androgynous".
If you hate Brad's voice, none of it will work of course.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 4 May 2018 13:24 (six years ago) link
What is this song saying? I always assumed it was meant to be a bit tongue-in-cheek or absurd. The earnestness in the message of "Dear God" is really obvious to me.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 4 May 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
fun fact: in canada crash test dummies had 6 top 10 hits, this wasn't one of them
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 4 May 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
I am more familiar with Superman Song than I am with this.
― MarkoP, Friday, 4 May 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
Weird al version ftw
― Main man (Ross), Friday, 4 May 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
In case anyone missed it, Brad tried falsetto later on.
― everything, Friday, 4 May 2018 18:52 (six years ago) link
I am very familiar with at least two CTD albums. This is not one of their best songs
― imago, Friday, 4 May 2018 18:57 (six years ago) link
I think I disagree with virtually all of Alfred's opinions on music.
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Friday, 4 May 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
*raises glass*
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 May 2018 19:00 (six years ago) link
Best songs these guys did - I'm thinking "2 Knights And Maidens", "An Old Scab", "My Own Sunrise", "Swatting Flies", "God Shuffled His Feet", "I Think I'll Disappear Now", "A Worm's Life", "How Does A Duck Know" (that's a controversial one but I <3 it) etc - are genuinely very, very good imo and there isn't MUCH filler on those two main albums
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Friday, 17 April 2009 02:35 (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
would I stand by this now? yeah mostly. surprised I didn't mention I'm A Dog either
― imago, Friday, 4 May 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
I vote "They shook and lurched all over the church floor."
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 4 May 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link