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

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.

Please what is "Planes"?

― chap, Thursday, September 17, 2020 9:52 AM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sensual aircraft, iirc.

Richard Marx meets Baz Luhrmann

cuz the things that make you happy make me saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaæääd

Current fave is "let it ring all month." All *month*? That's, like, 30 days of truth ringing! (but no more)

most wtf lyric in Jefferson Airplane's "Planes"

I don't think I am mentally capable of listening to this song and watching the video at the same time. Too powerful.

i'm gonna need to know which month before i vote.

honestly the lyrics are dreadful but the vocal is much, much worse

This is a great Thurston Moore parody.

The delivery on 'I ask the questions but you are the riddl-aw' is underappreciated ITT

He was just a little boy and he sat there in his school

And that boy grew up to be... Gregg Alexander. His love of planes become love of truth.

Michigan Rain rocks.

idk, right now "*whispering* You don't wanna know" is doing such a succinct job of summing all of it up.

On third watch I think the way he repeats 'ditch' may be the most cringeworthy bit.

Doctor Casino at 8:20 17 Sep 20

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"

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

the weird thing about this song is that it sounds like an outrageous parody, but one that isn't even funny.
how did such a terrible thing get written, performed and released without everyone involved saying "you know what, this really isnt working"?

voted for "Cause the things that make you happy make me me seeeeaaaaaaagghhhhd" bc the way he sings that last word is like nails-on-a-chalkboard annoying

did they not have multi-take editing back then or?

the weird thing is this song is not that far away from "you get what you give" which i love

it really isn't. there are loads of lyrical similarities. luckily he worked out how to sing a bit better by 1998

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.

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