I see some hands over here...
1. Long live the Foo. Wanna watch me stick nine inch nails through each one of my eyelids? then play some NIN.
2. I have to abstain. here's why. 11th grade Sociology. We all have to pick out a song that is socially significant. One nice girl brings in "Sunny Comes Home". the very sexist and amusing teacher pretends not to understand that the song is about a woman who can't take it anymore yada yada yada. "where does it say she burns the house down?!" he asks. The girls bitch and moan the rest of the class period. how obnoxious is that. bottom line: I abstain.
3. I gave the Cure a chance here to win me over, but the song is so goddamn inspid. I don't care if he did beat Mecha Streisand. I wouldn't let Sidney Poitier or Leonard Maltin go on in this tournament either. Abstain again.
4. Chumbawamba (you spelled their name wrong - incidentally it was the 1994 world cup the other day - not '93. fact checker, Barker!). Lemonheads: Good candy, crappy band.
1)Head Like A Hole
2)Sunny Came Home
3)Save Tonight
4)Tubthumping.
Foo Fighters
Cracker
The Cure
Tubthumping - Just try spelling the group's name anywhere close to correct after imbibing a lager drink, whiskey drink, vodka drink, and cider drink.
As for the soccer match: I think Craig was right in that the U.S. upset England in the '93 US Cup (Foxboro?), which was a tuneup to USA '94 and the Colombia upset. IIRC, England failed to qualify out of the European pool, much to the relief of many commentators and law enforcement officials.
1. Foo Fighters
2. Oncoming Traffic
3. As much as I dislike both songs, given the opportunity, I would rochambeau Robert Smith for him never to write or perform again. Oh, and I'd go first.
4. Tubthumping
It's mandatory that I vote for Trent, because if he hadn't broken industrial music to a larger audience (even watered-down as it was), I'd probably be listening to "Weird Al" exclusively, and that's just not a world any of us need to live in.
Colvin. That song is so delightfully subversive, and I'm sure there are tons of people who still don't get it.
Cure. Okay, so "Friday I'm In Love" isn't as upbeat as "Mint Car," but that's a very very good thing. "Mint Car" might be upbeat, but it's also one of the most moronic things I can think of off the top of my head, even though it's entertaining to hear Smith squeal in delight right at the beginning.
When I was working at the public library several years ago, a coworker and I came up with an idea for a new television variety show that would be hosted by two of our coworkers. It would be filmed in present day, but the announcer would introduce the guests as if it were still 1975 or so; for example, "He's TV's 'Opie,' Ron Howard!" "He's the host of TV's 'Match Game,' Gene Rayburn!" You get the idea. Anyway, at the end of the show, the hosts would perform a duet, with one of them on vocals and the other playing harpsichord, and they would do their rendition of a song currently in the Top 40. (This was vaguely inspired by the godawful version of "Ghostbusters" I saw on the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon in 1984. I think it was Tony Orlando or Robert Goulet or somebody. "Who ya gonna call-a?") The one song we could envision for this hellish spectacle was "Tubthumping," so I'm voting for that.
Foo Fighters. There's going to be a lot of these being judged on the strength of their videos, fairly or unfairly. That said, FF have the better song, and the video is just the icing on the cake.
"Sunny Came Home" is the better song, but Cracker gets the vote in this "Modern Rock" tourney.
And in defiance of my earlier proclamation, 1 vote here for Eagle Eye Cherry. Like Foo Fighters above, the video does a clever job of putting multiple instances of the singer in the same place.
The song that reminds me of the good times gets beaten by the song that reminds me of the better times. Chumbawamba over Dando.
-MMM
Learn to Fly
Sunny Came Home
Friday I'm in Love
Into Your Arms
Foo Fighters.
Cracker.
The Cure.
The Lemonheads.
1) Foo Fighters
2) Shawn Colvin
3) The Cure
4) I'd pull my car into on coming traffic before stopping to listen to that overplayed Chumbawumba drivel. Abstain.
Foo Fighters. At that first Lollapalooza, the lamest act there was NIN. I'm still convinced they were lipsynching.
Shawn Colvin. Best act in the tournament so far. She rocks harder acoustically than most of the hard acts that've come up.
The Cure. If Eagle-Eye were the son of the other Don Cherry, them maybe he'd get a vote.
Lemonheads. What is wrong with you people? You'd have to be in a coma not to appreciate the power-pop goodness of this song, and the Come on Feel album.
1.) This is probably my favorite NIN song; not that it says too much, but still. But the video alone for "Learn to Fly" is enough reason to vote for it. When the fat lady hallucinated that Taylor Hawkins's head was a double cheeseburger, I damn near soiled myself!
2.) This is surprisingly close for me, but I'll go with Shawn Colvin. I have fond memories of that album.
3.) And to me, at least, this is about the biggest mismatch of the tournament thus far. The Cure: good! Eagle-Eye Cherry: can you *imagine* what Simon Cowell would have said about this no-talent loser?! This song annoyed me the first time I heard it and only served to exacerbate my latent homicidal rage every time thereafter. I think the Cure takes it.
4.) The Lemonheads. I don't really remember the song that well, but when "Tubthumping" came out, I was working at one of those places that played the "ten different pop songs in various permutations all day!" thing. Shudder.
NIN. Never seen the Foo Fighters' video, and judging wholly on audio, gotta go with "Head Like a Hole."
Cracker. Very close. Cracker gets the go-ahead in the hope they're playing double-shots, and the rest of Cracker's oeuvre beats the other Shawn Colvin tracks I know.
Eagle-Eye Cherry. "Friday I'm in Love?" All together now: Worst. Cure song. Ever.. And I *have* seen the "Save Tonight" video.
Chumbawamba. I've been going through old CDs to find things to listen to at the gym, and found "Tubthumping." Y'know what? Now that it's no longer omnipresent on the airwaves, it's a good song again.
I'm not voting yet, but I just have a couple questions about earlier comments. (If the people who posted them read this or if Craig can help out.)
From yesterday:
Is "Hey Man, Nice Shot" actually about that Bud Dwyer dude?
If "Seether" isn't about what I think it's about...then what's it about?
"Sunny Came Home":
Quote from above: "That song is so delightfully subversive, and I'm sure there are tons of people who still don't get it."
What's not to get? It seems pretty straight forward to me. Or am I one of the people who doesn't get it? Would you mind explaning your take?
Yes. I am dumb.
Steve, I am pretty sure you're not dumb, because A). I don't know either, and B). Isn't music like a novel, and unless the author explicitly says so, it's open to analysis and interpretation.
Hold on... are you asking me to think for myself? Not sure if I'm ready for that....
No, no, Heaven for fend. All I am saying is that you are allowed to have an opinion on a song if the intent of the song was never made clear. Artistic interpretation?
1. "Learn To Fly"
Yes, I know, the NIN song is "better" in some critical, movement-shaping sense. But damn it I like the Foo Fighters.
2. Oncoming traffic. Or, if I'm in the Boston media market, the station playing Pink Floyd. Because in Boston, Dark Side of the Moon is played like it came out last week.
3. "Friday I'm In Love"
It's far from my favorite Cure song, but it will do, especially against the monotonous "Save Tonight."
4. "Tubthumping"
I remember fondly reading "Die Evan Dando, Die" posts on USENET. "Tubthumping" got overplayed, and got put in Jukebox From Hell, but I kinda like it.
These are the lost Sunny Came Home/Low comments that were supposed to be posted when Sunny Came Home lost. I got Dewey Defeats Trumaned.
A grad school friend of mine did a gig at a coffee house in Greensboro,
and she did "Sunny Came Home", but changed one lyric at my request:
"Get the kids and bring a sweater,
Dry is good and wind is better.
Count the years, you always knew it:
Strike a pose, there's nothing to it..."
And for those of you for whom I *didn't* just ruin that song, let me add that I've forgotten who first said -- Steinhice will claim it was him -- that the song is 87 times better if you think she's talking about Sunny Von Bulow. ("Sunny came home, with a list of names...")
Who am I voting for? Well, I'll leave it up to you, Craig. If you
decide to include these comments this time, I'll vote for Cracker. If
you don't, I'm voting for Shawn Colvin, so you'll have another chance to publish them later... (In other words, clip 'n' save!)
Yeah, I'm an idiot...
Re: Sunny: Strike A Pose
The funny thing is... I didn't even blink when I read that. In fact, I'm not entirely sure that isn't the real lyric.
Perfect.
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