Comments on: No. 48: The Moldy Peaches, “Who’s Got The Crack?”

By: Great Collection of great sources

Great Collection of great sources — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:03:27 +0000

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By: oh dude no

oh dude no — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:19:32 +0000

Of course you won’t see The Strokes on this list either. I think they may too many connections for that, and they’re not that good either. These guys seem to have some nostalgic hold-over from the grunge days. They were on the Juno soundtrack?

By: MhS

MhS — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:23:19 +0000

Well then I hope to see The Strokes on the list too

By: Christopher R. Weingarten

Christopher R. Weingarten — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:59:11 +0000

The Strokes are terrible too! What are you talking about?

By: baddbob

baddbob — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:06:31 +0000

I’m not willing to go all the way to the mat for this band, but it seems like either a) you’re being too hard on them, b) you have a personal beef with one or both of the members, or c) both. Guess what: some people (me) think the singer of the Strokes is a little “grating,” especially in a live setting. I saw both bands in the same year at the same venue and the Moldy Peaches were more entertaining and endearing than the rock-by-numbers Strokes. Also, the Strokes are no muso-technicians, either. The drummer knows one beat, and that’s it.

Like I said, not fully advocating the Moldy Peaches, but to put the Strokes up as some sort of rock n roll gold-standard is laughable.

By: HUGE_Hefner

HUGE_Hefner — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:22:47 +0000

The Moldy Peaches were the greatest band in the world.
Don’t be jelous because you wasted your time learning to play instruments.

By: MhS

MhS — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:27:26 +0000

I hope there’s going to be a least one Nickelback song on this list.
Because imho “Who’s got the crack?” > the entire recorded output of Nickelback.

By: Thierry

Thierry — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:15:09 +0000

@brasstax: Would that be the one with the hidden cover of "That's The Way I Like It" feat. Biz Markie? 'Cause I think I might by the Moldy Peaches over 100 times that one.

By: brasstax

brasstax — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:26:41 +0000

@Thierry: I'd listen to the Spin Doctors' third or fourth albums (there was a fourth one, right?) a hundred times each before I'd listen to one Moldy Peaches song voluntarily.

By: elvissinatra

elvissinatra — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:16:28 +0000

Have you heard the Libertines’ cover of this? I heard that before I ever heard the original.

By: Thierry

Thierry — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:09:07 +0000

But we still have the Moldy Peaches to thank for the great Spin Doctors revival of 2002, right? Ahem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVfWANRWLr8

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:56:06 +0000

@BradNelson: It's okay. I said "bro" the other day seriously. It just slipped out there.

By: BradNelson

BradNelson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:51:35 +0000

@Lucas Jensen: Yeah, about a second after I replied I thought, "Man, Lucas probably means that other thing," so I'm sorry man, that is a totally righteous position to take. I just think that there are manifold other songs in this decade that deserve true, bottomless hate than, well, a "poopy doody drug joke" that I happen to think is quite ridiculous and fun. That says a lot about me, probably.

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:41:08 +0000

@BradNelson: I am most definitely not talking about musicianship in the chops department. I am talking about the act of being an actual musician as in an artist as in somebody who thinks more than a millisecond about what they do and what their art is about and what it is for rather than laying down poopy doody drug jokes on their four track just like hundreds of 12 year olds out there who just learned C and G on a guitar. That's what I mean by actual musicianship.

By: cryptosicko

cryptosicko — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:22:36 +0000

@brasstax: "Who's Got The Crack?" earns its > almost exclusively on the grounds that, unlike "My Humps", I've only heard it once and am unlikely ever to have to hear it again.

By: BradNelson

BradNelson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:18:57 +0000

@iantenna: Jeffrey Lewis is indeed the man.

By: MhS

MhS — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:10:40 +0000

@Christopher R. Weingarten: better than what?

By: Christopher R. Weingarten

Christopher R. Weingarten — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:07:07 +0000

@iantenna: His new album is even better!

By: iantenna

iantenna — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:59:16 +0000

the real crime here is the true genius of this stupid ass “anti-folk” scene hasn’t gotten nearly any of the recognition he deserves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSdZ_yZP8bk

By: Nicolars

Nicolars — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:56:53 +0000

Just thinking of all of the awful television commercial jingles these clowns have inspired is enough to make me want to have them erased from our collective memory.