RFI: Rooney?

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Don't know jack diddley about them, but I quite like the single ("Blueside"). I know there's some dubious Phantom Planet/Coppola/"Rushmore" connection or something, but a good single is a good single. Are they aspiring to be the new Badfinger or something? Please illuminate.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 3 July 2003 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually there's a moment in "Blueside" that was bugging the hell outta me as it reminded me of something I couldn't quite put my finger on....until now......"Coming Right Along" by the Posies. Not that they sound alike, but the singer pulls a remarkably simillar vocal turn at one point.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 3 July 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know anything about them other than my, uh, superior/mentor/antagonizer has pushed at least two copies of this disc on me, which means either he likes it a lot or somebody at their record label does.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 3 July 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The album is a whole bunch of songs that sound exactly like, but aren't quite as good as, Blueside.

― David Allen, Thursday, 3 July 2003 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

it is a really nice single. it moves nicely from faint menace to the copacetic chorus. also a dumb but very nice solo.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 3 July 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"nice" is so nice i had to say it twice and then once again.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 3 July 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

the single is kinda catchy. it has more of that 60s/70s vibe, but i saw a little featurette on them, and their other songs sound more like Weezer. bleh

― JasonD (JasonD), Thursday, 3 July 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i concur - the single is the best thing. the rest - meh.

― doom-e, Thursday, 3 July 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

thoroughly mediocre

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 3 July 2003 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Why can't anyone come up with decent names for bands anymore?

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 3 July 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Good question.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 3 July 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Imagine WBS's above question as said by:
http://www.newseum.org/warstories/interviews/images/jpages/hs/rooney.jpg

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 3 July 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

(cuz it's exactly the sort of thing he'd say)

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 3 July 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.mickeyrooney.com/images/rooney03a.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 3 July 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

http://ibelgique.ifrance.com/cinedestin/films/b/ba/barfly4.jpg

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 3 July 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I had seen the video and the commercial (!?) for the album, and I had no idea anyone took them seriously. Later, during a serious music conversation with a friend I dropped a joking "So then, what do you think of Rooney?" To which he responds, shockingly, "They're okay."

The song went in one ear and out the other, and the video is embarrassing.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 3 July 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

Revive! Despite the comments above, I am still curious about this album (which I have not heard). What's a better album, the Rooney album or the last Shins album?

― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 4 May 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

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