the part that gets stuck in my head is 'butnooneeverdoes!'
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 23 May 2022 22:29 (one year ago) link
vg otm
good hate watch fodder (todd in the shadows - "one hit wonderland: harvey danger").
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Monday, 23 May 2022 22:32 (one year ago) link
I mean
I love this song and always have.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 23 May 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
Eazy OTM about a Johnny Cash cover
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 23 May 2022 22:35 (one year ago) link
fun fact: Bean Dad was once a touring member of this band
― alpine static, Monday, 23 May 2022 22:53 (one year ago) link
noooooooooo
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Monday, 23 May 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
I really hate this song!
― brimstead, Monday, 23 May 2022 23:25 (one year ago) link
Absolutely love it--had it on my decade-end list. I published a zine, I hate(d) Rage Against the Machine, I did and do own a TV.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 May 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
Reviews from 1998, the last issue of said fanzine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20001120133200/http://www.popped.com/radioon/98/ro011.html
― clemenza, Monday, 23 May 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
I can't help it and love this song. It does seem to be one of those songs that people either love or hate.
― Bee OK, Monday, 23 May 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
I didn't hate it, just thought it was "trying too hard"... I would choose "Sex and Candy" over this one (they sort of go together in my mind).
― Bob Dylan's iconic Ray Ban sunglasses (morrisp), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 00:07 (one year ago) link
See, “Sex and Candy” was one of (many songs) from that time I couldn’t stand.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 00:25 (one year ago) link
I would choose "Sex and Candy" over this one
100%
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 00:27 (one year ago) link
sex and candy...not sexy, no appearance by cameo or mandy moore, what gives
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 00:31 (one year ago) link
singer sounds a bit like darkest timeline J0hn D@rni3ll3
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 00:38 (one year ago) link
another terrible song!
― brimstead, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 01:12 (one year ago) link
picking "Sex and Candy" over this is insane
― alpine static, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 01:23 (one year ago) link
if i am chosing between those two things then my life has already gone to a terrible place so i would end it all
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 01:59 (one year ago) link
Death is not an option.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 02:02 (one year ago) link
“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice” — Geddy “Choose Yr Fake Indie Poison” Lee
― Bob Dylan's iconic Ray Ban sunglasses (morrisp), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 02:18 (one year ago) link
i choose death
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 03:00 (one year ago) link
I choose going back in time and forcing the band to I unwrite the song.
Then they release "I Don't Write the Songs" instead
― Abe Kayfabe (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 03:06 (one year ago) link
Huh, the lead singer wrote a 33 1/3 book about Joni Mitchell.
(not sure that Todd in the Shadows video is a hate watch though, since Todd seems to be on the correct side of this debate)
― enochroot, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 03:12 (one year ago) link
i saw him open for Robyn Hitchcock 12 or so years ago, he had some nice tunes and sang harmony during some of Robyn's set. Also met him years later at a book swap at a bar, iirc he brought several Philip Roth books.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 03:41 (one year ago) link
vg just be glad your brain didn't choose this song as its permanent wake-up alarm. I don't honestly think "Sex and Candy" would have been an improvement but I never got the choice.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 03:55 (one year ago) link
It could be worse, the “come my lady come come my lady” song was only a couple of years after this.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 04:01 (one year ago) link
Or the “when I’m horny like thirsty she’s a cool drink of water” song.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 04:02 (one year ago) link
A few things I didn't know...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cu3MMzfpww
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 04:21 (one year ago) link
^ Interesting.
I may not have heard this in full since before Peep Show was a thing. Watching the video now (for the first time, IIRC) I just keep hearing where the Peep Show edits AREN'T.
I really don't hate it. Judge me harshly if you must.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 06:40 (one year ago) link
Go, my lady
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 10:45 (one year ago) link
"butterfly" >> this
(not really but idk, i'm generally happier to hear it nowadays than "flagpole sitta" tho)
― dyl, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:14 (one year ago) link
what was the genre of pseudo-inspirational rock-infused hip hop that had lame rhymes that seemed like cliches out of a middle school English class?
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
I like both this song and "come my lady," sorry not sorry
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:23 (one year ago) link
But not "Sex and Candy" really
the only Marcy Playground song worth a shit is A Cloak of Elvenkind
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
(not sure that Todd in the Shadows video is a hate watch though, since Todd seems to be on the correct side of this debate)― enochroot, Monday, May 23, 2022 8:12 PM
― enochroot, Monday, May 23, 2022 8:12 PM
yeah, i regretted my wording as soon as i hit submit. i meant it's a good hate watch for folks like me who can't stand this song. todd is charming and informative, as always.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
of course “butterfly” is better than this, that song rules!!!!
― brimstead, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I like "Butterfly" (I don't think of it in the same "category," tho)
― Bob Dylan's iconic Ray Ban sunglasses (morrisp), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
At a party the other night, we did karaoke to both “Flagpole Sitta” and “Sex and Candy” (neither was my choice). They were both pretty fun!
― Are You There God? It's a-Me, Mario (morrisp), Monday, 1 May 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
My mom used to think that Marcy Plaground song said "Asthma, sex and candy".
― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, September 24, 2003 6:40 PM (nineteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 1 May 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
This is the thrilling conversation I've been waiting for.
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:29 (one year ago) link