Project X Has Been Downhearted, Baby - Idolator Comments

Project X Has Been Downhearted, Baby

The Notorious T — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:06:37 EDT

@janine: Ah yes. Nothing like being a freshman in college and having "Freshman" seething out of every dorm room like a cloud of cheap pot smoke. Being at the University of Michigan didn't help, either. Since The Verve Pipe were from East Lansing, everyone had "a friend who totally knows those guys", adding an extra six months of shelf-life to the song that it probably didn't get in other parts of the country.

The Notorious T

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natepatrin — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:17:24 EDT

@HarveyWallbanger: The one fond memory I have of REV 105 is their end-of-'96 hip hop wrapup show: Wu-Tang's "America", De La's "Stakes Is High", Nas' "If I Ruled the World", and a bunch of other stuff that's slipped my memory. I wore the hell out of that tape, even if it suffers from the DJ (Thorn?) being crass enough to quip "not a good year for 2Pac" after playing "California Love".

natepatrin

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CharlesRockyPamplin — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:44:54 EDT

damn, i'd forgotten all about that Spacehog song. Good tune...

Is their singer still concentrating on being Mrs. Liv Tyler? actually, what do either of them do? surely the 'Armageddon'/"...Meantime" residuals can't be that much?

CharlesRockyPamplin

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HarveyWallbanger — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:31:07 EDT

A guy once offered me $25 for the Rev 105 T-shirt I wore long after its demise... this list makes me think I should have taken the cash!

HarveyWallbanger

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bcapirigi — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:34:27 EDT

i had no idea tracy bonham was that big. 1996, the year of the federal telecommunications act, was a really cool year for modern rock radio, i thought, but at the time here in providence we had a station that played tracy bonham in addition to lots of lush and that dog and velocity girl and pulp. and, you know, dog's eye view, but whatever. and it wasn't until years later that i realized that nobody else knew common people from the radio (or black soul choir by 16 horsepower. or anything off the first two jen trynin albums....)
so, mother mother was that big. weird. and it didn't age that well. still, it's kind of fun today if somebody asks how you are to pause for a second and say "i'm hungry. i'm dirty. i'm losing my MIIIIIIIIND EVERYTHING'S FINE!!!!" really. try it.

bcapirigi

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janine — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:57:48 EDT

@The Notorious T: You have to give the Verve Pipe's Freshman some of the credit too.

Thank goodness I was in D.C.; I was bombarded with Shudder to Think that year.

janine

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Rob Murphy — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:12:52 EDT

Is it wrong that I actually really liked Tracy Bonham's CD?

Also, for those who never believed it could be true, this list is time-capsule evidence that there was once a time when Gavin Rossdale was as big as Gwen Stefani.

Rob Murphy

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The Notorious T — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:12:17 EDT

Nuts to that. That top 10 is awesome!

Of course, that was my freshman year of college, so those tunes obviously soundtracked as many good times for me as they did bad times for Matos.

And even I'll admit that most suicides in 1996 were probably caused by that Oasis song. At least they stuffed the bloat at the end of Morning Glory to save us the nuisance of skipping over it.

The Notorious T

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brainchild — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:04:19 EDT

i have fond memories of 70% of those songs, as i was in high school and had not a care in the world except making it to mrs. beck's bio class on time after lunch.

brainchild