THE TITLE!!! i was obsessed with "Dynomite" in college, so imagine my surprise when Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros came around - it gave very much Gene Belcher "this is me now!" energy haha!
A fair perspective. Without that return to the source, or at least the NPR version of the source, I'd clearly be ranking this at or near the top of the "worst" charts, but only because I'd be thinking of the absolutely horrific parent/child duet clips that began going viral based on this (and its use in ads, etc., as you note). Still, a part of the past I've largely dispensed with, like almost all of the pre-COVID world.
Thanks for clarifying. I initially hated VW based off their first two singles, thinking them pretentious douchebags, but then quickly changed when I started listening to the album.
At the start of this stupid commentary there’s an assertion that “Home” isn’t bad. I play lots of weddings - many have been where folk/roots music is requested - and now and then I’ve had to play that stupid, insipid POS song 🙄 . Huey Lewis summed it up: “Sometimes bad is BAD”.
Smug as shit knowing I’m one of the only people (the only person?) who clicked on this because I know the title reference.
that's LITERALLY why i clicked, it was so clever!
so clever! our forehead wrinkles unite us.
This is fantastic
"lifestyle content sold by intellectually bankrupt sex addicts" yeah I like rock music
I must say "40 Day Dream" is a very good store-brand Arcade Fire song.
THE TITLE!!! i was obsessed with "Dynomite" in college, so imagine my surprise when Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros came around - it gave very much Gene Belcher "this is me now!" energy haha!
A fair perspective. Without that return to the source, or at least the NPR version of the source, I'd clearly be ranking this at or near the top of the "worst" charts, but only because I'd be thinking of the absolutely horrific parent/child duet clips that began going viral based on this (and its use in ads, etc., as you note). Still, a part of the past I've largely dispensed with, like almost all of the pre-COVID world.
Two questions:
1. When you say you changed your mind about Vampire Weekend, did you start to like them, or start thinking they were nothing to get upset about?
2. Where did you go to college?
Something clicked and they became one of my favorite bands of that era; and I went to Northwestern.
Thanks for clarifying. I initially hated VW based off their first two singles, thinking them pretentious douchebags, but then quickly changed when I started listening to the album.
At the start of this stupid commentary there’s an assertion that “Home” isn’t bad. I play lots of weddings - many have been where folk/roots music is requested - and now and then I’ve had to play that stupid, insipid POS song 🙄 . Huey Lewis summed it up: “Sometimes bad is BAD”.