Worst song on KROQ's 25 Most Requested Songs of All-Time (2006)

someone recommend me a Social Distortion song that is less terrible than "Ball & Chain". tia

You could try Cold Feelings.

Saw Social D at roskilde a few years back, at the second biggest stage. Such a weird booking, was ok, but nothing more, really. I did remember them doing some kind of cover, yeah, that was Ring of Fire.

just listened to "Cold Feelings", now playing "Story of My Life": okay, these are a little better... but still, it feels like some grungey extinct knuckle-dragging precursor to the melodic 90s pop-punk I actually enjoy, right down to the nasal singing. IDK, give me the Offspring any day of the week, Pretty Flyday excepted

Yeah, don't worry about it unless you plan on rolling up a cigarette pack in your shirt sleeve any time soon.

don't get me wrong, I can see the appeal of simple punk-y songs with plainspoken/relateable lyrics; I think I was just born a few years too late to ever regard Social D as anything but pastiche (which I'm guessing was not the intention, & probably isn't how the fans on this thread view the band)

What was the song that the kid in Veronica Mars plagiarized for his poetry assignment?

Oh, it was "When the Angels Sing".

I view Social D as pastiche, but I still like them, unlike some of their descendents like Offspring, etc.

re: social d: why would they convert a pool hall to a 7-11, seems like an odd choice of location for 7-11 corp

because it would presumably be quite large? Unless they knocked down the pool hall and built a smaller structure for the store and the rest was parking?

i think 7-11s are a lot smaller than pool halls though and the dimensions are all off, most pool halls seem more narrow and deep and 7-11s are more square shaped. idk, seems like a lot of work.

yeah, exactly, the only thing i could think of is that the pool hall didn't have off street parking, and they just bulldozed the lot and then built the 7-11 from the ground up rather than using the existing pool hall building. Or maybe the pool hall did have a parking lot and it was one of those 7-11's that also has a gas station

i think in that case the lyric might be 'the pool hall i loved as a kid/was bulldozed for a 7-11' instead of is NOW a 7-11, which suggests a gut rehab. though the former lyric is a bit clunky.

I think the lyric works fine in terms of how people speak about places and things. Presumably he had been gone for a while and didn't see the actual construction process.

maybe the pool hall had been built in an old 7-11 to begin w/

"I Was Wrong"...not a bad SD track, though well past their prime.

SD always seemed too cool for me, like I just wasn't greased up enough.. nonsmoker, no tats. Surprised at the mention of how "bad" the fans are, not only is that argument lame but every punkabilly SD fan I've meet has been very sweet and kind

I just said the fans I was around at the time colored my impression of the music, just being honest there. I can happily discourse on why their music is shitty, full of clunky hamfisted sentiments, songs constructed out of mind-numbingly simple chunks of barre chords (but not quite mind-numbing ENOUGH if you know what I mean), the affected gritty whine of the vocals, the total lack of anything surprising or unusual.

their sound is like some horrible punk version of George Thorogood

fuckin Orange County blech

heh, yeah, i feel you in the sense that i never ever 'got' that style of music AT ALL except for maybe murder city devils

is there an ejection button for this thread cos these SD posts are srsly hulking me out

I guess I still have lingering good will towards Social Distawshun because of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_State_of_Mind_(film)

(I do recognise that they ended up turning into something very different.)

there are a lot of ejection buttons for this thread. almost all of them will do the trick, really.

Well I'm lonely and I'm tired
And I can't take any more pain

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When I saw TSOL open for Flag I was all "damn Ron Emery looks like he should be in Social Distortion" then I looked it up later and I guess he was/is

Shakes, I don't think anyone is arguing that Social D isn't corny, but they have some jams.

LA Prison Bound is a good album if you like the s/t, transitional album into that style

cheating at solitaire is supposed to be pretty good, idk how much it departs from the SD template

I worked on a movie crew with a guy - I think he was a grip - who had a misspelled Social Distortion tattoo (I think it was 'Social Disortion') and he was already probably the toughest and scariest looking guy I've ever seen in my life but the tattoo just made him extra badass. And he was really nice probably because he knew everyone knew he was a total badass.

i think 7-11s are a lot smaller than pool halls though and the dimensions are all off, most pool halls seem more narrow and deep and 7-11s are more square shaped. idk, seems like a lot of work.

in other news, the farms of ohio weren't literally replaced one-for-one with shopping malls, it's more that landscapes that used to be dominated by farms now contain shopping malls, as well as other car-oriented retail and standalone offices

This was a Pizza Hut
Now it's all covered with daisies

Lol this 7-11 thing it's song lyrics weirdos

I fell into a
Burning ring of fire
Then they called an ambulance
To take me to the emergency room
Because I had third degrees burns

The thing is, at the point that they'd paved Paradise, it already WAS a parking lot, no further action required, except I guess to paint some lines.

unless she in fact meant "parking ramp" or "parkade"

in which case why would they need to pave it first, wouldn't they need to dig a foundation or something?

honestly the paving-&-putting-up-a-parking-lot thing has bothered me for YEARS

I feel like that song has been bait over the years for Xtian bands who want to cover or play secular music but can't find a song wholesome enough that it won't piss off their fanbase.

At a Hawaiian restaurant and Date Rape just came on lol.

Never get lei'd

Interesting account of Bean’s final morning show: https://variety.com/2019/music/news/kevin-bean-poorman-kroq-1203397135/

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/kroq-kevin-ryder-tearful-farewell-speech-radio-audio-1203538522/

Looking up some of the songs I don't recognize, I'm amazed at how many of them are completely lacking a melodic hook (Dramarama, Social Distortion) or even a chorus ("Brain Stew"). I guess they resonated with people solely on the basis of production & lyrical 'attitude'? (Cf. that recent paper on timbre as distinguishing mark for indie/alternative music)

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the fuck is this geir shit

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