Favorite album, that is.
I think I sometimes project an "anti-pop" image, which is so far from the truth. Many friends have expressed embarrassment about my pop tendencies, but I think they're just a bit small-minded. I've been fighting my The Prodigy/Def Leppard urges for the past few days (yes - make sense of that one if you can) and have found that the one pure solution? Good, old-fashioned, 90's pop. Post-grunge pop-punk. (EBPM, anyone? And whoever says that P is "punk" is an ignorant motherfucker and just plain wrong. Or delusional about what punk means.)
And the best album from that era is of course Moz's preferred Born to Quit by Smoking Popes. You may or may not know of the song "Need You Around" - it was on the Clueless soundtrack.
It may seem surprising, but this is probably on my top 25 all-time favorite songs ever list. There's something so classic and melancholy about it. It's the best love song I can think of, depending on what you would consider a love song. Josh Caterer has the perfect voice for this kind of music. And I love the fact that the album can't really exist anywhere but in the mid-90's - it's as if a grunge hangover seeped into the pop. There's that oh-so-Seattle existential crisis and despair, but not in such a depressing way. Now that they're sort of back together, I think I need to see them.
My other favorite song from the album is "Rubella" - he's just so Moz-y in both voice and cadence. With that excellent pop-punk background. It's kind of perfect. And less depressing than some of the other stuff. Sort of. I'd be interested to be that girl to someone, but I think were it to happen I'd be grossed out. Let's be honest.
This all seems strangely appropriate, like a good hair of the dog to the melancholy rain music I've been listening to over the past week. It's certainly a better cure and smoother transition than the aforementioned Def Leppard and The Prodigy.
I think I sometimes project an "anti-pop" image, which is so far from the truth. Many friends have expressed embarrassment about my pop tendencies, but I think they're just a bit small-minded. I've been fighting my The Prodigy/Def Leppard urges for the past few days (yes - make sense of that one if you can) and have found that the one pure solution? Good, old-fashioned, 90's pop. Post-grunge pop-punk. (EBPM, anyone? And whoever says that P is "punk" is an ignorant motherfucker and just plain wrong. Or delusional about what punk means.)
And the best album from that era is of course Moz's preferred Born to Quit by Smoking Popes. You may or may not know of the song "Need You Around" - it was on the Clueless soundtrack.
It may seem surprising, but this is probably on my top 25 all-time favorite songs ever list. There's something so classic and melancholy about it. It's the best love song I can think of, depending on what you would consider a love song. Josh Caterer has the perfect voice for this kind of music. And I love the fact that the album can't really exist anywhere but in the mid-90's - it's as if a grunge hangover seeped into the pop. There's that oh-so-Seattle existential crisis and despair, but not in such a depressing way. Now that they're sort of back together, I think I need to see them.
My other favorite song from the album is "Rubella" - he's just so Moz-y in both voice and cadence. With that excellent pop-punk background. It's kind of perfect. And less depressing than some of the other stuff. Sort of. I'd be interested to be that girl to someone, but I think were it to happen I'd be grossed out. Let's be honest.
This all seems strangely appropriate, like a good hair of the dog to the melancholy rain music I've been listening to over the past week. It's certainly a better cure and smoother transition than the aforementioned Def Leppard and The Prodigy.
You mean, like getting called out for loving Britney Spears?
Yeah, or worse.