Kickin' It Ooooooold School

I actually have one of there more recent albums, Red Letter Days, which I believe was like 2002. It's half-decent, but it can't touch their earlier stuff.

 

They had some good songs in the mid-90's, including One Headlight, Three Marlenas, 6th Ave Heartache, The Difference, etc. They were all from Bringing Down the Horse.

 

The New Kids remain Tropicana Field's biggest draw since the joint opened.

Says a lot.

 

And the only band to truly endure from that era...

Watching that, I believe, leaves little doubt as to why. The how, I suppose, was more up to them but still.

 

There just wasn't a song that wasn't above average on New Miserable Experience. Just about any of them could have been a single.

What I also found interesting was this: On "New Miserable Experience" and on the next cd "Congratulations ... I'm Sorry" each CD contained one song that I would consider country. Cheatin' on NME and Memphis Time on C ... IS. I'm not into country, but I love both of those songs.

 

if it was connected in any way to nirvana, it sucked balls.

 

We've got a thread about damn Gin Blossoms and you're complaining that Nirvana sucked?

 

yeah. you have a problem with that? or should i post only what you want posted?

 

For a young'un, you're pretty fuckin cool.

Hey Jealousy is one of my all-time favorite songs, and it always makes me a bit melancholy. That song was huge in the summer of '93, when I was getting ready to go away to school, reveling in one more summer with my best buddies, still pining for my ex and convinced we'd have one more fling (my ex and I, not my buddies and I) before I left.

Tell me do you think it'd be all right
If I could just crash here tonight
You can see I'm in no shape for driving
And anyway I've got no place to go
And you know it might not be that bad
You were the best I'd ever had
If I hadn't blown the whole thing years ago
I might not be alone
Tomorrow we can drive around this town
And let the cops chase us around
The past is gone but something might be found
To take its place...hey jealousy

And you can trust me not to think
And not to sleep around
If you don't expect too much from me
You might not be let down
Cause all I really want is to be with you
Feeling like I matter too
If I hadn't blown the whole thing years ago
I might be here with you
Tomorrow we can drive around this town
And let the cops chase us around
The past is gone but something might be found
To take its place...hey jealousy

We never had the fling, but the song still has a certain poignancy to me.

 

As much as I love "Hey Jealousy," "Until I Fall Away" and "Found Out About You," I think my favorite song off that disc would be "Cajun Song." It's just a really good, straight-forward tune.

 

Don't make me put you on blast.

 

nirvana needed to buy a coupla vowels.