So in yesterday’s post about Soulja Boy–whose album, you may recall, has his official Web site’s URL as its title–one of our favorite commenters replied, “www.websitesarenotappropriatealbumtitles.yesiamadinosaur.blogspot.com.” Which could only remind me of one thing: the track “www.nevergetoveryou” by the Canadian cartoon act Prozzak, which got a fair amount of airplay on MuchMusic US back in the pre-Fuse days. I have an incredible amount of affection for this track because not only does it have a malformed URL as its title/hook, its chorus is punctuated by … the “new message” sound from ICQ! If only they’d remixed the track every time some new innovation in instant messaging had made its way out to the world.
Prozzak – www.nevergetoveryou [YouTube]
Prozzak [Official (mothballed) site]
I. HAD. FORGOTTEN ABOUT THIS.
Damn. you.
Damn you to hell.
Man, that was some bad shit. Wow.
There was some really bad post-Prodigy late 90′s techno rock act that I remember having an album called http://www.theirbandname.com, except, hilariously, they didn’t even have that domain registered and the official band site was some geocities-type shit. Anyone have any idea who I’m talking about? I can’t for the life of me remember their name.
PITCHSCHIFTER! I remembered it literally less than 5 seconds after hitting ‘send’ on the last message.
In the same hall of shame: Alan Jackson’s “www.memory.” Dot what, Alan, dot what?
Trick Daddy pre-dated all of that w/ http://www.thug.com which had possibly the worst album cover ever:
[ecx.images-amazon.com]
@GovernmentNames: In Pitchshifter’s defense, their early heavy-as-sin industrial metal was both stupendous and apparently fairly influential. Chances are messrs. Howlett and Flint took more than a few cues from Pitchshifter’s pre-www.yourerighturlsshouldneverbeusedforsongandoralbumtitles.com era.
@Adam Bernard: Nope! Pitchshifter got there 4 months before Trick.
Also “Sucks To Be You” is the only Prozzak song I remember.
@Woodwater: Also: Prozzak was fucking great, dude. Don’t hate.
I don’t think I’ve thought about Prozzak in about 10 years. Wow.
IT SUCKS TO BE YOU! (I know, I know…)
Somebody should’ve told R. Kelly this rule back in 2000, before he named an album TP-2.com.
I have “Sucks to be You” on 12″ somewhere, featuring the radical DJBJ mix.
Didn’t they have to use the name “Simon & Milo” in the states?
Terror Squad has you all trumped here:
[wc06.allmusic.com]
Although I’m not sure what’s worse: naming a song “www.that’smyshit.com” or the fact that http://www.thatsmyshit.com is not only registered, but redirects to a seemingly-legit site: [www.nyc.com]