https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP4qdefD2To
― markers, Thursday, 1 August 2013 03:52 (ten years ago) link
i like this
"slide" was overplayed as shit at the time but a few years ago, after not hearing it for a long time i decided i really like it. also "black balloon" retrospectively became one of my favorite singles of the late 90s, altho that one didn't get as much radio play.
― dyl, Thursday, 1 August 2013 13:02 (ten years ago) link
YES
― markers, Thursday, 1 August 2013 17:15 (ten years ago) link
IT'S LEGIT GOOD
if i were this dude
― markers, Thursday, 1 August 2013 17:16 (ten years ago) link
and my kid came up to me and was like, "dad sorry but i broke the tv"
i'd go
YEAH I'M GONNA LET IT SLIDE
maybe it's finally time to express my appreciation for gutterflower
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 August 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
maybe not tho
the whole record? i have never listened to a whole goo goo dolls record.
i must've heard iris a million times when it was on mtv tho. they played that a lot.
― markers, Thursday, 1 August 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
my first girlfriend had a huge crush on rzeznik. gutterflower came out during a time i've described in retrospect as a 10-month-long breakup. maybe that accounts for it
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 August 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
this is a really gorgeous song imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oF0iY0z_Bs
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 August 2013 17:25 (ten years ago) link
i get this song in my head whenever i read about the record label big machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l3reTBiLeY
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 August 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
listened to dizzy up the girl today for the first time since... high school? this song is astounding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2truqp9nf8U
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 October 2014 23:33 (nine years ago) link
Sorry for oversharing but today I was at a party and cried to fucking “Iris”.
This review from a user on rym actually resonates a lot with me:
So I guess the big question, not just for this song in particular but basically for my entire existence, is this: how can I keep pretending to be a distant, hardened cynic when it turns out that every single fibre of my being, even bone and sinew and organ, is set ablaze and torn asunder by shit like this? Fuck the 'I just want you to know who I am' lyric, I'm not even sure I know who I am anymore
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 12 March 2022 08:06 (two years ago) link
“name” is really good
― brimstead, Saturday, 12 March 2022 16:39 (two years ago) link
The way you overcome the feeling that you are a wimp or simpleton for liking "Iris" is that it is in a very unusual guitar tuning. Tada! Instant hipster snobbery.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 March 2022 16:49 (two years ago) link
the albums Jed, Hold Me Up, and Superstarcarwash are great. so is A Boy Named Goo, albeit it's more commercial.
then they broke up and some adult contemporary band reformed with their name
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 March 2022 16:51 (two years ago) link
i think they annoyed me (more out of ubiquity than anything) at the time, but i've come around on Name and Iris. and as goofy as it is p sure i stanned Slide from the jump
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Saturday, 12 March 2022 17:30 (two years ago) link
hehe that's a beautiful find moka
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 14 March 2022 11:34 (two years ago) link
a lot of their songs including the big hits had weird guitar tunings iirc
my favorite is "black balloon" but i also think "slide" and "name" are classics as well. "iris" too but less so than the others for me, tho i understand + support others getting blubbery for it
― dyl, Monday, 14 March 2022 19:16 (two years ago) link
these guys made solid albums up to and including gutterflower
after that though, yikes
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 14 March 2022 19:24 (two years ago) link
of course i'm all over this thread lol
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 14 March 2022 19:25 (two years ago) link
I remember getting a promo cassette of Jed at my college paper and listening to it mostly because they were from Buffalo (I grew up outside Rochester). I liked that they were obviously indebted to the Replacements but were at that point more scrappy and punky than the Mats had grown up to be. Never occurred to me they'd be anything more than a bar band from Buffalo, much less end up having the big hits Westerberg never managed.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 14 March 2022 19:50 (two years ago) link
I've forever been a big fan of "Slide," because I have a soft spot for songs that use "marriage" or "wedding" in the lyrics despite never having been or even really wanting to get married.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 14 March 2022 19:54 (two years ago) link
Band gets less and less recognizable to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESIEG6gFcsQ
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 4 December 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
Like you're not Mel Torme Johnny
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 4 December 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
"Fallin' Down" is very good and should be mentioned here at least once. So yeah, there it is. The guy loved Westerberg.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 4 December 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link