Best/worst line on Gregg Alexander's 1992 single "The Truth"

Holy fucking shit what is this

you can't appreciate that line properly until you've heard him "sing" it

He should've given this one to Ronan Keating.

lmao

also, jfc at....all of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I58CAdlItho

lawsuit deserves 2nd place so i went with that

this might be the single worst song I've ever heard and honestly I'm pretty impressed by it

don't just read the lyrics baby you gotta listen to it, trust me

jesus fucking christ

i'll pay my brother three dollars an hour to dig my burial ditch (ditch!)

that one got my vote lol

same. had "here comes the lawsuit" and "slow ride by foghat" been one option though i would've voted for it

it's the best kind of bad when you really have to wonder what was happening that allowed this to exist

important to note that Gregg Alexander got a second chance in the music biz and made the most out of it so if you're ever feeling down in the dumps no more lying well this is the truth

Oh, it's the one on Stanley Son of Theodore. I must've always fast forwarded to Alison Moyet, unless I somehow forgot about this.

I'm noticing a theme in this dude's songs where he does lots of "ow yea c'mon baby whoa oh no" things

He was thematically consistent

music was a mistake

oh who am I kidding, this is incredible

oh that "50 women" line, holy shit

amazing to think this guy apparently got massive stage fright which is why he wore that bucket hat

Not so amazing when you think about it, do u see?

too much truth

Voted "I got 50 women..." but that was before I got to the end of the song where he breaks into Slow Ride. That made me laugh harder than I have in weeks, so thanks for that

this is just such a rich cornucopia

I've definitely seen worse than this being repped in all seriousness on ILX.

the song makes you hate/but AHH WEEE HA I think it's great

melroseplace-core

Given the lawsuit line and his future in the New Radicals, there's obviously some self-awareness in here. But the fact that you can't pinpoint exactly how much is what makes it so weird for me

How has Internet/meme culture not discovered this????

He's bottled it and tried to ironically distance himself from the wacky lyrics and he's fucking fell in the gap very badly

He seems like enough of a dipshit to have actually cleared the Foghat sample but still done the lawsuit line imo

also a stolen bit from the dead milkmen

How has Internet/meme culture not discovered this????

Not a single person under the age of 30 gives any shits about New Radicals.

What did I just witness

idk Johnny I don't think anyone's watching this thinking "wow! can you believe this guy wrote a hit song 6 years later!"

I'm with Whiney and listening to it a second time (lol) he seems not entirely serious BUT! It was a single! From a major label in 1992! Which means the record company thought this could get radio/MTV play! And nothing about the video or the packaging/artwork of the single and the album it came from give an indication that this is given with a wink or meant to to be some kind of novelty song. If this had come out after, say, "Detachable Penis" or "Push th' Little Daisies" it might be different but 1992 college rock was all deadly serious.

BTW the album was called "Intoxifornication" lol.

ive never heard this lmao what on earthhh

right

it's horrible and it's my new favorite thing

could not imagine a more fitting video either, this is art baby

i had to make sure it wasnt a shreds video before commenting

i cry laughing every time i get to the foghat part

christ

Holy shit, I started laughing before he even started singing. He sounds extremely constipated. This is an annoyingly huge chorus and ubiquity away from taking "What's Up" off the Mount Rushmore of musical shit.

How is this not a meme by now?

it does have that inscrutable, Tommy Wiseauian quality to it

No more lying / A wop-bom a loo-mop, this is the truth

https://c8d8q6i8.stackpathcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Gregg-Alexander-Contact-Information.jpg

omfg this is astonishingly awful

can't get over his look in the video, it's p hot and i wish i had the hair or the incredibly close shaving skills to pull it off, and at the same time it seems pretty blatantly clear that the video director figured "this song is godawful but if i play my cards right, i could market this clip to some spoof film that wants to parody Val Kilmer's performance in The Doors"

voted for the Holocaust line just over the homophobia line. even WITHOUT those it's a trainwreck --- come back, Silverchair and Noel Gallagher, all is forgiven.

seriously I think the only recent-ish ILM discovery i could compare this to is when Neanderthal made us all listen to "Planes"

Please what is "Planes"?

I've always kind of loved You Get What You Give but The Truth is the awkwardness of the closing "rap" in the former blown up to song length.

This is better than You Get What You Give - less boring.

feel like i can divide my life pretty cleanly into before i heard "the truth" and after

Enjoying the completely superfluous Danielle Brisebois backing vocal that pops up on the 2nd chorus

Reckon I might be able to work up the courage to listen to "Smoking In Bed" next week

This is better than You Get What You Give - less boring.

"This year's Thanksgiving? It was alright, I guess. Last year's was more memorable because I got food poisoning."

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

This is so fag v hitler v slow ride.

Wow, the look on my wife's face when slow ride kicked in changed from general annoyance with being asked to watch this travesty to revulsion bordering on horror.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

slow ride!

take it easy!

this guy wrote "the game of love"

everything deserving got a vote. you love to see it.

I saw my wife was logged into the joint Spotify at home, so I remotely played this song from my phone as a fun gift for her

regrettably due to poor 4g reception it took a while to load, by which time she had joined a work-related zoom call and couldn't figure out how to make it stop blaring out of her work computer

oh excellent

i hope everyone could handle the truth

oooof

The things that make me happy
get you saaaaaaaaaaacked

She was very acutely aware of the threat posed by the impending second verse and managed to get rid of it by then fwiw

It's been a long couple of weeks for her tbh

really hope the Foghat part didn't play, I would hate for her to get sued

lolllll sgt biscuits amazing

a friend of mine recently sent pr0n to her team by accident. this sounds several orders more mortifying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McyZ98Udek4&feature=emb_logo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McyZ98Udek4

I was coming here to post that! It lifted me out of a terrible mood yesterday.

no more lying
this is the truth

i finally watched this. dear god i tried counting the number of sexual moans and ran out of appendages

I’m holding onto the idea that someone in Biden camp is an ILX’r and helped give America the New Radicals reunion we didn’t ask for or even deserve.

Can he shoehorn Ariel Pink and John Maus into the rant at the end

the song "I Hope I Didn't Just Give Away The Ending" from the New Radicals album is kinda like a semi-decent version of this

I am not going to lie: I always thought he was kind of hot.

But apparently, I'm his Hitler, so...

slow ride

take it easy

That deep-dive video raises the question: is he singing “A-wom-a-lomp-bom-a” or “Oh, I’m a love bomber”? I can’t tell which is more egregious (and therefore more likely)

is this the reason why he wouldn't show his face

Holy fucking shit what is this

― Boring, Maryland, Friday, September 11, 2020 9:17 AM

tutti frutti

good booty

Still enjoying ditch (ditch)

from the youtube comments:

Gregg: Here comes the lawsuit baby! Slowww ride!

Foghat: Anyone know what the hell is happening right now?

lol spot on

Cos when the night is falling
You cannot see the ditch
Ditch

― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Friday, 18 September 2020 14:32 (four months ago)

lmao

Thanks for explaining fgti

Oops, totally wrong thread sorry. Oh well, good chance to revive this thread

this is the only thread

I was gonna say—i’d like to hear an explanation for this

every time I hear Machine Gun Kelly I think of this video. as though AI created an entire person using only this video as input