Umm maybe Juicy (remember Rocketboy?)
Not a genre I thought I would ever hear about again...
Cuddlecore? Whats Next? Sensitive War?
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Posted by tgl on 2005-02-22 19:25:50 +0000
Compassionate Conservative.
Posted by frame609 on 2005-02-22 19:31:49 +0000
Juicy was pretty good.
Posted by rladew on 2005-02-22 20:09:42 +0000
touche!
Posted by pamsterdam on 2005-02-23 14:39:10 +0000
Bunnygrunt, Tummy Ache, Tully Craft, Cub, Grover, Pest 5000, the Softies, Emily's Sassy Lime, the Rickets, Delightful Little Nothings, Heavenly and Strawberry Story. But you should've paged Matt Saunders (the bushy-eyebrowed, stripey-shirted eternal teenager who exclusively dated actual teenagers) or Mike "Roy" Sullivan (the tall stringbean with the pouf of curly hair on top who became the radiogrrrls' male mascot). They were the real cuddlecore fans. I just liked their singles. God, remember Cub? I used to loooove that song:
[i]NEW YORK CITY
You called me last night
On the telephone
And I was glad to hear from you
'Cos I was all alone
You said it's snowing, it's snowing
God I hate this weather
Now I'd walk through blizzards
Just to get us back together
We met in the springtime
At a rock'n'roll show
It was in the Bowery
When it was time to go
We kissed on the subway
In the middle of the night
I held your hand, you held mine
It was the best night of my life
'Cos everyone's your friend
In New York City
And everything looks beautiful
When you're young and pretty
The streets are paved with diamonds
And there's just so much to see
But the best thing about New York City is
You and me
Statue of Liberty, Staten Island ferry
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Central Park, Brooklyn Bridge
The Empire State where King Kong lives
Coney Island and Times Square
Rockefeller Centre
Wish I was there...
You wrote me a letter
Just the other day
Said springtime is coming soon
So why don't you come to stay
I packed my stuff, I'm on the bus
I can't believe it's true
I'm three days from New York City
And I'm three days from you
And everyone's my friend
In New York City
And everything looks beautiful
When you're young and pretty
The streets are paved with diamonds
And there's just so much to see
But the best thing about New York City is
You and me...
You and me...
You and me...
You and me...[/i]
Oooh, and this other Cub song too, which I also totally loved back in the day:
[i]TOMORROW GO AWAY
No we never talk of love
'Cos we're much too cool for that now
And you fuck me on the floor
'Cos there's no room for a bed
And you only give me flowers
If they're standing in a closet
And we eat lunch with your parents
While you're wishing I was dead
No we never sing of peace
'Cos hope is just for children
And I never hear the choirs
'Cos the music hurts my head
And we cloak the illusions
In our pretty conversations
And I just can't seem to find out why
My toothbrush smells like dread
Standing in the rain
Everything's the same
Wish I could make tomorrow go away
But we never cry for mercy
'Cos we know there are no angels
But you only talk in whispers
'Cos there's things you could've said
We refuse to do the laundry
That is breeding in the hallway
And the cards are laid for solitaire
In piles of black and red
Standing in the rain
Everything's the same
Wish I could make tomorrow go away
Standing in the rain
The same, the same, the same
Wish I could make tomorrow go away
Wish I could make tomorrow go away[/i]
Wow, Mike, you're taking us back in the Rock'n'Roll Time Machine to 1996 - the year we both turned 23 (which is universally agreed to be the The Golden Year of anyone's lifetime). Shazaam!
Posted by pamsterdam on 2005-02-23 15:26:24 +0000
Oh, and over the weekend I saw the video for "Miss You" and [url=http://www.starshop.de/bilder1/rcmppr3140p.jpg]Keith Richards[/url] was just so damned hot that I nearly passed out.
Not pertinent to Cuddlecore, but certainly pertinent to any discussion brought about by the Rock'n'Roll Time Machine.
Posted by frame609 on 2005-02-23 19:09:12 +0000
Awesome!
Ever hear the story about how Chris Steinmetz payed like twnety bucks for a Cub t-shirt?
Posted by bizquig3000 on 2005-02-24 01:03:15 +0000
I have a copy of They Might Be Giants covering the NYC song. It's okay.
Posted by pamsterdam on 2005-02-24 13:42:31 +0000
I didn't - tell! tell! I once paid 15 Euro for a "Ninja DJs" baby tee, and realised once I got it home that it barely covered my tatas. Note to self: baby tees are for flat chicks. Damn!
Posted by tgl on 2005-02-24 15:04:33 +0000
Steinmetz is a flat chick. Ha haa.
Posted by pamsterdam on 2005-02-24 16:48:58 +0000
That's pretty high praise coming from you, Grand High Master Poobah of the Rock. Those Lincoln boys used to be so pretty.
Posted by rladew on 2005-02-24 17:27:50 +0000
WHERE is Chris these days?
Ambah Portah?
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Posted by frame609 on 2005-02-24 18:26:22 +0000
Chris went to see Cub play at the Elvis Room, right, and was starstruck because Ronnie from the Muffs played in Cub, as well. (For the record, the Muffs were never cuddlecore, but ruled.) So Chris went over to talk to Ronnie Muff and basically got bamboozled into buying a shirt he didn't want for like sixteen bucks. He wore it every day for a few weeks in protest.
I haven't seen Chris in a while. Amber went to see the Pixies with us on my birthday.
Posted by tgl on 2005-02-24 20:08:28 +0000
Overheard at 3 Wadsworth: "Yeah, I got The Beatles 'Revolver'. It's okay."
Posted by bizquig3000 on 2005-02-24 21:44:25 +0000
Actually, I'll go on the record that "They Might Be Giants," "Lincoln" and "Flood" are all great, great records. Totally underappreciated because they always got either the "novelty" or "children's music" tags. To which I say: bullshit.
TMBG lose me fast after these albums. One of those CDs has that Cub cover. That cover is, I believe, the only memorable thing about that CD.
Posted by bizquig3000 on 2005-02-24 21:44:57 +0000
Mike said that. BQ and Stoops already knew it was the shit.
Posted by frame609 on 2005-02-25 07:31:35 +0000
Hey, I don't have 'Revolver.'
Posted by pamsterdam on 2005-02-25 09:02:37 +0000
WHAT? WHAT? OMG, I'm having palpitations.
Mike, do not pass Go - proceed directly yo your local rocord store and purchase *Revolver* and *Rubber Soul* immediately. They should be experienced as one cohesive album, and are - as such - the greatest record ever made.
I have to go lie down now.
Posted by pamsterdam on 2005-02-25 09:16:44 +0000
I agree with you completely. TMBG before Flood were fantastic, and then pretty much ceased to appear on my radar afterwards.
It's kind of like my theory that sometimes there's a consistently amazing band which releases an album that is so monumetally good that the Rock Gods said, "Right, you've had enough genius. Now you have to be 'just okay' like everyone else." Kind of like The Cure with Disintegration. And... (now this is where I risk being made a Rideside pariah)... The Pixies with Doolittle. Alright, I finally said it.
Posted by frame609 on 2005-02-25 09:16:55 +0000
But I heard it's just okay.
Posted by frame609 on 2005-02-25 09:18:03 +0000
A note- I just got done writing about how 'Bloodflowers' was/is very much underrated, a victim of the hype of being held up to the perfection of 'Disintegration.'
Posted by pamsterdam on 2005-02-25 09:18:30 +0000
I think you just gave me a brain hemorrhage.
Posted by pamsterdam on 2005-02-25 09:27:51 +0000
Look, it's a nice album and everything, and Mark tried his damnedest to get me to like it, but... it's just not very high quality Cure. I mean, it's nice - I'd listen to it. But their albums from 1991 and before were challenging, varied, conceptually innovative... Wish has some nice Hendrix-style rock moments, and Bloodflowers is pretty, but... When I listen to Disintegration, Head on the Door, The Top, Pornography, Faith, Kiss Me... I get a lump in my throat. Maybe I fell out of love with them when I heard Wish, I don't know.
Posted by bizquig3000 on 2005-02-25 17:48:53 +0000
Funny... Rory and I think "Tromp Le Monde" is the Pixies' high water mark. Not many of us in that camp.
Posted by pamsterdam on 2005-02-26 09:00:39 +0000
I have learned that Edwyn Collins (Orange Juice, "A Girl Like You") really has had a [url=http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=217212005]brain hemorrhage[/url]. I feel terrible.
Posted by rladew on 2005-02-26 21:33:33 +0000
Anyone hear the Meatmen song that has the lyrics to the extent of "1 Down, 3 to go... Fuck fuck Fuck Fuck The Beatles.?" (I think the Meatmen wrote it in the early Eighties before Harrison's demise...
Wouldn't it be kind of funny if Ono and Mccartney and Michael Jackson all snuffed it? Then we'd have Ringo in charge of everything! O What a Crazy World we live in!
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Posted by frame609 on 2005-02-27 00:54:48 +0000
The Meatmen were a seminal part of my youth, even though I have never heard a single note of thier music.