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If you're anything like me (a weakling from New Jersey filled with angst and anxiety) this was a very important album growing up. I remember finding it around like 8th grade or Freshman year of high school and becoming absolutely obsessed. In my sheltered New Jersey punk mind I thought the Ergs were as big as The Beatles. I just remembered the album today and am realizing people might not actually know about it. So if you're into punky, fun, poppy sad songs from 2004 check it out.
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“First Song Side One” into “A Very Pretty Song…” is one of the best opening gambits in music history imo
Apr 6, 2024
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Kinda forgot about these guys since my Rock Band days when I used to perform vocals on I Think I'm Paranoid at the ripe age of 12 years old with my sibs. This song recently came on my radar and I'm really vibing with it, I especially love the opening.
Mar 21, 2024
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There aren’t many bands or songs out there you can point to and say “this changed my life” but this band and song did.
It contains one of the dirtiest guitar licks ever recorded, an earworm of melody and noise.
They helped me discover the Velvet Underground 🍌(and kick-started the so-called Paisley Underground movement that gave birth to the Bangles among others).
My band could even play this song and it sounded BOSS (not every cover did, ha). So simple anyone could play it; but only THEY could write it.
I wrote about the PaIsley Underground years later for Magnet: https://magnetmagazine.com/2001/05/18/one-nation-underground-the-story-of-the-paisley-underground/
God bless Steve Wynn and Co 🎶 this one's still a keeper many decades later.
It contains one of the dirtiest guitar licks ever recorded, an earworm of melody and noise.
They helped me discover the Velvet Underground 🍌(and kick-started the so-called Paisley Underground movement that gave birth to the Bangles among others).
My band could even play this song and it sounded BOSS (not every cover did, ha). So simple anyone could play it; but only THEY could write it.
I wrote about the PaIsley Underground years later for Magnet: https://magnetmagazine.com/2001/05/18/one-nation-underground-the-story-of-the-paisley-underground/
God bless Steve Wynn and Co 🎶 this one's still a keeper many decades later.
Apr 10, 2024
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🎶One of the best little twee-pop albums in existence, in my opinion. I came across the CD during a college radio dj shift and the album cover looked too cute to pass up, so I played a track from it at random. It has since become an all-time favorite of mine <3
Dec 7, 2023
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😃School made us think reading is a holy act. It is not. Its just something to do. Like watching a movie or sports. You aren’t going to be tested by anyone. Read high. Read drunk. Read 2 pages. Read half awake. Remember nothing or just some of it. It really doesn’t matter
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⭐I feel like growing up every band or musician besides super huge pop stars was just normal looking. Not weird in a cool way and not perfectly curated. Just actually weird or actually normal. I miss that. Everyone is too hot now. To quote Silver Jews,
"What's with all the handsome grandsons In these rock band magazines? What have they done with the fat ones? The bald and the goateed?"
We need more normals in music.
"What's with all the handsome grandsons In these rock band magazines? What have they done with the fat ones? The bald and the goateed?"
We need more normals in music.