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

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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."

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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.

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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.