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
naw... NAWW...
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, January 3, 2008 1:58 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― 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
Destroy, destroy, destroy. They were inescapable my freshman year of college and remind me of my tragic first apartment roommate, a hippie from PA who only listened to Spin Doctors and Blind Melon and thought being "a DICK" was the worst thing anyone could be, man.
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Friday, 1 June 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
Reading peoples' defenses of "Two Princes" really brings home to me how other people feel when I stan for "You Oughta Know."
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 1 June 2012 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
― Poliopolice
lol I have a friend who is exactly this guy. Loads of doom metal on his ipod and suddenly you bump into random eurodance and corny hits from the 90s (e.g.: Two Princes, Paradisio's bailando, Real Mccoy's Another Night...).
― Moka, Friday, 1 June 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
Graham played Spin Doctors at us on Tuesday.
http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/spin-doctors-pocket-full-of-kryptonite-round-32-grahams-choice/
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 13 July 2012 12:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://popdose.com/in-defense-of-the-spin-doctors/
Lol at the "Two Princes" chords spelling D B(m) A G.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 3 May 2014 01:29 (ten years ago) link
hahaha
― some dude, Saturday, 3 May 2014 11:23 (ten years ago) link
classic
― Szechuan TV (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 March 2016 15:18 (eight years ago) link
Marry him, or marry me
― Neanderthal, Friday, 26 August 2016 06:05 (seven years ago) link
kinda love the guitar and drums on PFoK. whiney otm itt tho too many weird grating choices with his vocals.
my sleeper jam on here is Refrigerator Car which is m/l a Clutch song
― Spottie, Friday, 26 August 2016 07:17 (seven years ago) link
I went to college with a guy who looked just like the singer (shaggy red hair, bushy beard, etc). People would always go up to him and say "Hey, what time is it?" He'd play along and say "Four thirtay," but I always secretly hoped he'd punch these people out.― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, May 10, 2004 10:25 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, May 10, 2004 10:25 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ha! I just remembered this guy, and now I'm listening to the first Spin Doctors album and I'm mad at myself.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 30 October 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
I just realized that 430 is about being high
― calstars, Sunday, 30 October 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link
The My Dick version of 'Two Princes' really gets to the very heart of the track.
― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Sunday, 30 October 2016 21:22 (seven years ago) link
lol where art thou My Dick?
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 30 October 2016 21:37 (seven years ago) link
My stepmom told me I’d be a janitor [nothing wrong with that] and live in the basement of a school and play guitar for the rats. I wrote a song about her. It’s called Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong. It’s been played on the radio three million times.— Chris Barron (@thechrisbarron) August 10, 2019
― j., Saturday, 10 August 2019 22:34 (four years ago) link
Three million and one, and I heard it on the radio this weekend.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 August 2019 03:14 (four years ago) link
Was shocked and appalled to discover this week that there's a Two Princes sample in Orbital's Sad But True.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Sunday, 11 August 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
Lol flashback : roommate's crusty bf in college was a fan of these guys. Used to rock the yoga pants like the lead singer. Friggin' '90s, dude...
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 11 August 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
err...Dud.
that's what I say now!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 11 August 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
When they were big -- I was like 11 or 12 -- I thought the singer and Alexi Lalas were the same person. I think they just melded in my mind as an archetypal "90s college kid," the kind of older guy who wore CO-ED NAKED t-shirts, played hacky sack, and practiced with devil sticks.
― Sam Weller, Monday, 12 August 2019 08:43 (four years ago) link
umm they actually are the same person
― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 12 August 2019 09:04 (four years 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