but i too have been badgered by aero for daring to suggest that an enduringly popular song has a lousy hook so you have my sympathy
― some dude, Friday, 11 July 2014 01:47 (ten years ago) link
... okay I just listened again to refresh memory (sorry i'm also a little drunk) & I wouldn't have been nearly as harsh on the song if it didn't feel like one long verse spent waiting for a chorus that never arrives. So really my reaction is less "I hate it!" and more "... is that all there is?"
― bernard snowy, Friday, 11 July 2014 01:48 (ten years ago) link
It reminds me of some Afghan Whigs song that I actually dig, is about the best thing I can say for it
― bernard snowy, Friday, 11 July 2014 01:49 (ten years ago) link
No afghan whigs song is that catchy
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 July 2014 01:51 (ten years ago) link
yeah always found it more tiresome than hateable and have always taken KROQ's decades-long refusal to retire it from playlists as an endearing local quirk.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 11 July 2014 01:53 (ten years ago) link
"ball and chain" is a total singalong song, very catchy if nothing else
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 July 2014 01:56 (ten years ago) link
the whole self-titled Social D album is an awesome hit parade
― some dude, Friday, 11 July 2014 01:58 (ten years ago) link
too close.
OTM
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 11 July 2014 02:56 (ten years ago) link
can only assume that 40 ILXors have not heard "date rape" by sublime
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 11 July 2014 03:11 (ten years ago) link
The Dramarama song (which I love) goes with Sex Dwarf and the Oingo Boingo tunes as KROQ staples that were played literally almost every single day on Richard Blade's Flashback Lunch for (at least?) all of the '90s - as well as things like "88 Lines About 44 Women" and "Nobody Walks in L.A."
― Walter Galt, Friday, 11 July 2014 09:41 (ten years ago) link
37 ilxors do not know how to skank and or pick it up.
― how's life, Friday, 11 July 2014 09:49 (ten years ago) link
This is pretty surprising:
23. Blink-182 - Dammit 0
― skip, Friday, 11 July 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
― some dude, Thursday, July 10, 2014 6:58 PM (Yesterday)
It really is!
― sarahell, Friday, 11 July 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
That's another SoCal thing, right?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 11 July 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
Social D was pretty big in the Twin Cities too IIRC
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 11 July 2014 18:44 (ten years ago) link
yeah that social D album is pretty damn good, 'ball and chain' is just a really great tune imo.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 11 July 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
also 'under the bridge' isn't that bad i guess, kiedis as usual is the worst thing about the band though (excepting that brief period w/navarro)
Yeah, they got tons of airplay in Baltimore. Huge influence on 90's punk and rockabilly. Don't really like them these days but I listened to them a ton when I was a kid.
― how's life, Friday, 11 July 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
i voted for 'girls' because i figured it needed a hate vote, i knew 'date rape' was gonna take the poll.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 11 July 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
Huh, apparently Social Distortion was bigger than I realized.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 11 July 2014 18:49 (ten years ago) link
What was the song that the kid in Veronica Mars plagiarized for his poetry assignment?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 11 July 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
hazard a guess that social d is equally norcal as socal xp
― mattresslessness, Friday, 11 July 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link
Social D is an abomination wtf at the defenders in this thread
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 July 2014 18:54 (ten years ago) link
just the worst of cliched greaser punk schticks some kind of ur-text for that scene
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 July 2014 18:55 (ten years ago) link
no doubt is one of the only bands from this time and place i would probably not change the dial on, depending on who was in the car i guess.
xp we're familiar with your strange moral calculus for bands
― mattresslessness, Friday, 11 July 2014 18:56 (ten years ago) link
Social D singer is a hero for learning how to sing through his nose after he lost the use of his mouth.
― An Ice-Cold Glass of Frothy, Delicious Milk (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 July 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
cliched schticks with good tunes and solid hooks -- that album came out when i was in high school, right around the time i got my drivers license, it was a great car tape
― sarahell, Friday, 11 July 2014 18:59 (ten years ago) link
otm
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 11 July 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
I was just listening to the s/t last week for the first time in ages. I like it more now than I did in 1990.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 July 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
Not that anyone really cares how I voted, but my loathing for Under the Bridge is now in its 3rd decade so ...
― sarahell, Friday, 11 July 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
TAKE ME TO DA PLEHS I LUHHV
― mattresslessness, Friday, 11 July 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Friday, July 11, 2014 2:55 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm. When I saw Neil Young & Crazy Horse (early 1991), SD were one of the openers. Nothing noteworthy about their set at all, really bland, by-the-numbers, etc. Some kids in front of me were freaking the fuck out over them, singing loudly along with every song, just generally going nuts. After their set, the kids left -- they didn't stay for Neil.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 11 July 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
See I saw SD headline at some semi-divey club that had all ages shows and I slam-danced with a bunch of guys and it was rad.
― sarahell, Friday, 11 July 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link
^ in early 1991
― sarahell, Friday, 11 July 2014 19:10 (ten years ago) link
i have such good taste in music overall i can allow myself a little social d, it's like having an extra doughnut because i ate 2 salads for lunch this week
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 July 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
I admit that my disdain for them is colored by the fans of theirs I knew in their heyday, which were some of the most aesthetically conservative, blinkered, macho shitheads imaginable
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 July 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link
"Ball and Chain" and the "Ring of Fire" cover are the only SD songs i've heard to my knowledge
― guwop (crüt), Friday, 11 July 2014 19:34 (ten years ago) link
sonically they're like a slower, dumber version of the Ramones with all the interesting stuff stripped out and replaced by the most conservative straight while male hagiography imaginable
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 July 2014 19:37 (ten years ago) link
IMAGINABLE
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 July 2014 19:38 (ten years ago) link
steady diet of social d songs on any rock-identifying radio station in vegas, so i've probably definitely heard the major singles off of each record innumerable times. brief moment in 2004 when "reach for the sky" got played every hour it seemed.
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 11 July 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
relistening to "story of my life" right now and despite my own oversaturation it's pretty great idk
the most conservative straight while male hagiography imaginable
i think you suffer from a failure of imagination
― sarahell, Friday, 11 July 2014 19:52 (ten years ago) link
someone recommend me a Social Distortion song that is less terrible than "Ball & Chain". tia
― bernard snowy, Friday, 11 July 2014 19:59 (ten years ago) link
You could try Cold Feelings.
― how's life, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:02 (ten years ago) link
Saw Social D at roskilde a few years back, at the second biggest stage. Such a weird booking, was ok, but nothing more, really. I did remember them doing some kind of cover, yeah, that was Ring of Fire.
― Frederik B, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
just listened to "Cold Feelings", now playing "Story of My Life": okay, these are a little better... but still, it feels like some grungey extinct knuckle-dragging precursor to the melodic 90s pop-punk I actually enjoy, right down to the nasal singing. IDK, give me the Offspring any day of the week, Pretty Flyday excepted
― bernard snowy, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:09 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, don't worry about it unless you plan on rolling up a cigarette pack in your shirt sleeve any time soon.
― how's life, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
don't get me wrong, I can see the appeal of simple punk-y songs with plainspoken/relateable lyrics; I think I was just born a few years too late to ever regard Social D as anything but pastiche (which I'm guessing was not the intention, & probably isn't how the fans on this thread view the band)
― bernard snowy, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
Oh, it was "When the Angels Sing".
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 11 July 2014 20:23 (ten years ago) link
I view Social D as pastiche, but I still like them, unlike some of their descendents like Offspring, etc.
― sarahell, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:24 (ten years ago) link