Back in 1994, They Might Be Giants added extra musicians to their group and focused on a more guitar-heavy sound. This was seen by some fans as blasphemous and detrimental to their, then current, minimalistic style.
These fans are idiots.
To say that something is bad because it is different is the same as saying blacks are terrible people because their skin is different than white people’s skin (oh, I went there).
So what I guess I’m trying to get at is that a certain section of TMBG fans are hardcore racists.
…..Wait, what? Yes No.
::shifts eyes:: Here’s “Snail Shell” off the extremely underrated album John Henry. ::slowly backs out of room::
Raekwon’s “Ice Cream” off OB4CL is a heartwarming tale of lyrical poetry, love, redemption, and family values….actually it’s about bitches and ice cream.
WeezerWheatus. Teenage Dirtbag. WHEATUS WROTE AND PERFORMED TEENAGE DIRTBAG.
Back in the early 2000s, around the time of Napster, their song “Teenage Dirtbag” got picked up on that and other peer-to-peer sites and was erroneously attributed to Weezer.
As big of a music junkie as I am, Wheatus had managed to completely slip under my radar this whole time until I had heard of this snafu a few years ago.
After listening to “Teenage Dirtbag” I can safely say that any fan of either band who gets this confused with Weezer probably isn’t an actual fan of their respective band and should be rightly called-out and humiliated in front of a large crowd of friends.
While I’ll confess that the guitars could be mistaken for early-2000s Weezer, those vocals are a complete dead-giveaway.
I mean, Rivers Cuomo doesn’t have the manliest voice in the world, but the dude can belt out a song. Brendan B. Brown on the other hand has this weird squee to his voice; It’s kind-of hard to describe, but listen closely to his Es, Is, and As during the high-notes of the chorus and you’ll hear what I mean.
The video is pure early-2000s candy-coated nostalgia. The whole vibe reeks of that time between 1999 and right before 9/11 (when America changed forever) when everything was this perfected vision of high school, everyone wore desaturated colors with some kind-of striped shirt variant, and Jason Biggs was a thing.
You watch Burn Notice, right? Well fuck you, it’s a great show and you should be watching it because human-self-parody Bruce Campbell is in it and a group of people are trying to get him to host SNL. At least it’ll be better than that episode where they spent an hour and a half getting Betty White to curse.
11/11/11: It’s cryptic alright, but I really could care less. Perhaps you will take up my lack of caring?
The Heidi Montag sex tape officially has 100% less Spencer Pratt and 100% more Playboy Playmate. Interested yet?
One of the bright spots in The Strokes‘ underrated 2006 album “First Impressions Of Earth” is the excellent song “You Only Live Once,” with it’s straightforward and catchy guitar-work that The Strokes are known for.
Showing that the band is WAY ahead of the curve on global affairs, the video lampoons the BP oil spill by having the band slowly drown in oil inside of a tanker as they play.
OH WAIT! It’s The Hives! Oh early-2000s Garage-Rock, you’re so very similar.