Taking Sides: ODB's "I Can't Wait" vs. Ween's "Push th' Little Daisies"

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In particular the similarly outrageous third-choruses from each song.

GO!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 5 January 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I once had a dream that I was the producer in a Ween/ODB joint recording session. It took place in a church, too, and ODB was dressed like a preacher man. I had to kneel on a kneeler in front of the mixing board.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 5 January 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

four weeks pass...

Oh man, this is a hard one. I'm going to have to say Ween just because Push th' Little Daisies explains everything wrong with eighties synth rock without having to be blatant about it (something that even Frank Zappa could never really do, for some reason). Plus how can you go wrong with a line like "PUSH THE LITTLE DAISIES UNTIL THEY COME UP"?

― Stiv (Stiv), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

Wow, that's a really tough choice. In the end, I would have to sadly leave "I Can't Wait" behind and go with "Daisies," although "I Can't Wait" wins in the outrageousness contest.

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

That's a hard contest fought though, innit?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

"push th' little daisies" gets a very slight edge only because of the "funky drummer" remix on the cd single.

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

ODB, obv. Ween are poseurs.

I ain't no actor my shit's for real

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Ween? Poseurs? Interesting analysis...

Seriously though, "Push th' Little Daisies" = Yin, "I Can't Wait" = Yang.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

why did this thread die?!?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 25 January 2007 05:39 (eighteen years ago)

at my favorite pdx strip club, both these songs get played a lot, so this is funny to me.

i think that is the best thing ween ever did, aside from all the under the counter "drugs" (dudes were seriously into scotch guard acc. to kramer) they did as young ones, which made them what they are today.

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 25 January 2007 05:51 (eighteen years ago)

"I Can't Wait" may be one of the worst Neptunes beats, ever (sorry, I don't dig the whole newsreel sound of it), yet it also may be ODB's all-time craziest song. I love Ween, but they've got a bunch of songs I like more, and despite my dislike of the beat I still love "I Can't Wait" due to said insanity, particularly the shout-outs (how could one not like them?). ODB wins.

― Adam Harrison-Friday (AdamFriday), Thursday, 25 January 2007 06:08 (eighteen years ago)

ODB, and i really dig the weener number - dude just takes it at "army, navy, submarines"

― LO-NRG (teenagequiet), Thursday, 25 January 2007 06:39 (eighteen years ago)

at my favorite pdx strip club, both these songs get played a lot, so this is funny to me.

!!! this would be the greatest strip club ever!

anyway, i vote for "push th' little daisy" -- "i can't wait" is kinda low on the list of ODB's great songs.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 25 January 2007 06:50 (eighteen years ago)

It's not Neptunes it's Irv Gotti iirc

― 808 the Bassking (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 25 January 2007 08:58 (eighteen years ago)

And it's fantastic, it wins.

― 808 the Bassking (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 25 January 2007 08:59 (eighteen years ago)

x-post on portland strip club, here is a SFW photo:
http://www.xmag.com/archives/11-08-feb04/images/columns/magic-top5clubs.jpg

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 25 January 2007 09:11 (eighteen years ago)

Oops. It is Irv Gotti. My fault.

― Adam Harrison-Friday (AdamFriday), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

yeah dude i used to open every radio show i did one semester with i cant wait

― 69 (plsmith), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Oh my God, the Magic Gardens... bless you.

― Davey D (Dave Depper), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

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