Rusted Root Neologisms

(a photo from the nitrous-saturated evening in question)

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idk if that first impression is accurate, it's just the way the song lives in my memory xp

i mostly hear this song now in ads for enterprise rent-a-car

i had a friend in college who exclusively listened to street rap...and this song

Sounds about right.

'I'm really into '50s ska and the song 'Detachable Penis' by King Missile. Wanna go to the quad for some ultimate?'

My wife and her sister worked in the same food coop as some of them, back in the 90s. I have been that close to genius.

It's been decades since I've heard this. It now sounds like U2's "Bad" played by the Talking Heads.

Imagine the hijinks at that coop.

'Hey, what's wrong with these carrots? The radishes are weird, too. They're all covered in something. And this cassava. If I didn't know any better...'

Whenever I hear the song 'Love Shack' in public, say at a Walgreens or the Starbucks, I like to say 'tiiiiiin Root...Rusted' real loud over the music because I love the band Rusted Root. People really dig it, I think.

It promotes awareness of Rusted Root.

I recall "Rusted Foot" being slug around by musicians envious of their fame.

Good one.

I mean 'Busted Root' is the one I just came up with in .00000000005 seconds that's a much better one, but still...good one, bands.

Whenever I hear the song 'Love Shack' in public, say at a Walgreens or the Starbucks, I like to say 'tiiiiiin Root...Rusted' real loud over the music because I love the band Rusted Root. People really dig it, I think.

― Pizza's the food that's sure to please! (Old Lunch), Thursday, July 19, 2018 9:14 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

my mom had this CD back in the 90s for some reason. the other music she liked then was linda ronstadt

this video is completely hilarious btw

"crusted boot" was mine.

Crusted Boot would have been a good name for a band from the other contingent in that co-op.

What I do enjoy about the quote; he marvels at the neologisms as though they sprung from the deep unconscious, when you know they just sounded like words he heard in South African music. Indestructible Beat of the East End of Pittsburgh.

in a moment of weakness, i listened to 1 minute and 35 seconds of this

as a result of this unfortunate lapse in judgement, i have now hired a deep web hitman to assassinate old lunch

https://images.wolfgangsvault.com/rusted-root/promo-print/memorabilia/ZZZ009697-PP.jpg

I'm pretty sure many of these vowels can't be properly transcribed in the absence of the "e with three dots" character, so I propose we suspend this poll until the Unicode Consortium stops ignoring the rightful demands of a certain lobby.

Mods, my life has been threatened by bizarro for no greater crime than exposing his ears to the transformative sounds of love and of brotherhood. I demand that you impose the strictest possible sanctions upon him, with extreme prejudice if necessary. Namaste.

I never would have imagined, of all the threads about terrible music which I start/revive, that a Root poll would've been the one to take off, but I must say I'm pleased.

Simmyommaway.

(Ommaway.)

mods, i believe i acted in the best interests of ilxor dot com and furthermore i think it’s obvious that no court would convict me for my actions

Count me as a write-in vote for "sussudio."

are these guys like phish or something

If Phish were paragons of their craft, they would be Rusted Root, yes.

Can't wait to see the Root at the state fair this summer. They're co-headlining with Sponge, Tracy Bonham, and Morcheeba. It's gonna be a slice.

Disappointed this poll doesn't include an option for the phrase that he repeats in the verse, which I believe to be ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon.

^^massive oversight imo

You are correct, of course, as that is the most epic of their neologisms. A contribution to our language which will significantly impact generations to come.

'What are you doing, my son?'
'Well, father, simply put: ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon.'
'Ah, I see. Please, carry on, my special boy. Namaste.'
'And a Namaste to you, o father.'

Trick question, because "oombayseeyou" is short for "ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon."

Fake news!

Luv this thread! Rusted Root has an extremely abbreviated Wikipedia page for a band that's been around 25+ years, and has released four major-label albums, four independent albums (one of them double-live), a "20th Century Masters" best-of, and five EPs...

not abbreviated enough imo

Hearing this song makes me feel ashamed that we beat up on "What I Am" for so many years.

The video, and every move the guy busts in it, are wonderful and hilarious.

In the interest of full disclosure, I was prompted to start this thread this morning when I heard a Spin Doctors song and my immediate thought was that the Spin Doctors were probably the favorite band of at least one member of Rusted Root.

feel like Rusted Root would predate Spin Doctors?

they feel modern rock not alternative

nah LMCBW was like '92 right?

shit I was thinking of Geggy Tah

who are even later! shit dudes my pop jam band radar is fucked

I wonder why the shot the video on such an overcast day. Wouldn't it have more impact if they were prancing on a plateau beneath a sunny, blue sky?

Spin Doctors and Rusted Root were contemporaries -- mid/late-'93 "alternative" radio was all "Two Princes," "On My Way," and the 4 Non Blondes song.

They were pretty good-looking, for a bunch of crusties.

I often find myself locked in a moment of zen-like contemplation when I realize that most bands are somebody's favorite band. Like Crazytown. Someone out there somewhere still proudly declares that Crazytown is their favorite band of all time. It's a very complex world, the one we live in.

Rusted Root's influence on globglogabgalab is undeniable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtER80sOjX4

I don't think the contemporariness of the Root and the Doctors precludes the fact that the Rusted Root fife player was a charter member of the Spin Doctors fan club.

damn i didn't realize RR's big record came out in '94. it seemed later than that.

guess it just swirled the bowl for an oddly long time before getting flushed

In addition, NASA engineers chose "Send Me on My Way" as "wake up" music for the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, for Sol 21.[19]

Welcome, ENBB. Your observations about the song and the times are accurate and relatable. But the fact remains that this is one of ilx's most epic threads, and every time I think about it, it sends me ommaway.

(Insert pennywhistle solo here, while I go get my djembe.)

I've inserted my pennywhistle, now what

Oh I see what you meant (carefully retrieves pennywhisle)

Am I insane if I don’t dislike this song?
Ommaway

Oh I see what you meant (carefully retrieves pennywhisle)

crraaaaaweeweaaaaaaaalll semme ommaway

OMMAWAY

The trick is to just keep listening to the Root until you go from SIMMYOMMAWAY to FULLYOMMAWAY.

Hey, anybody want to go play hackysack in the Quad?

Sorry, bruh, I'm gonna be restringing all my puka shells today.

Okay. My Baja shirt is a little itchy right now anyway.

Omfg i’m at a wedding and they are playing this song.

Ommaway

Dearly bedabaloved, we are gathered here to ombaseeyou off to your new lives together.

You may now ombakiss the beebadibride.

Omfg i’m at a wedding and they are playing this song.

Ommaway

Playing at the nail salon what a treat.

They would like you to reach out your hands

"I like this color. Can you put it ommanails?"

Also legit lol @ sufjan.

ommanails

thank you ilm for introducing me to this band and song I have never felt more like rush limbaugh while watching a music video

or lionel hutz

so pat monahan spent a couple of years post divorce just wandering the desert eating mushrooms and listening to putumayo compilations on his ipod and it gave him a whole new perspective on music and life and love and stuff which has very much informed train's "new direction". he says it will be his most personal album but also says it will be "for everyone"