Spin Doctors? c or d

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"Two Princes" is the jam.

Yes, it's great.

sike

Classic: "Two Princes"
Dud: Everything else by Spin Doctors

Yea one two princes near before you.....

fuck that's KNEEL before you.....

they're pretty lame but they get props for starting a song "Been a whole lot easier since the bitch left town"

f u

my girlfriend has an uncanny knack for asking "what time is it?" when it's 4:30, which makes me sing that stupid Spin Doctors song every time, and of course she has no idea what I'm talking about.

oh shi

anyone who posts to this thread should be required to list the number of spin doctors songs they've actually heard

How many are on "Pocket Full of Kryptonite"? That many.

I have owned (and still own!) both Pocket Full Of Kryptonite and the one after that with "Cleopatra's Cat" on it (gimme a break, I was 12).

I also briefly considered buying their 2nd live album, Homebelly Groove.

How the mighty fell.

Idolator, not afraid to go after the tough targets.

They're perfectly harmless as a silly jammy band with dopey filler like the four-thirty thing, whatever. Meanwhile, though, "Two Princes" is one of my ten favorite songs of the decade, no question...while "Jimmy Olsen's Blues" and "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" are also both a lot of fun. Classic.

"Two Princes" is one of my ten favorite songs of the decade, no question

this thread keeps getting o_Oer

my girlfriend has an uncanny knack for asking "what time is it?" when it's 4:30, which makes me sing that stupid Spin Doctors song every time, and of course she has no idea what I'm talking about.

naw... NAWW...

the naw naw part is so grating.

fortunately all I remember of the song is the title lyric

lol holy shit:

Ayatollah, hes hopping mad
Jibber about some damn jihad
Send me back to old baghdad
Spin doctor its oh so sad

Well Alex...

A-WHAT TIME IT?
FO'-THIRTY!
IT'S NOT LATE
naw... NAWW
IT'S JUSTA EARLAY! EARLAY!

seriously, i bet dudes would be remembered a lot better if it wasn't for Chris Barron's nawnaws and doobitybeepbediddydees and dubbadeebladobbadobbadobbadobbadobbas

Something about that Two Princes riff

Cold War Kids are the new Spin Doctors. They suck in the exact same way, and the bass player wears the same stupid knit hats.

Specialists gave Chris Barron a 50-50 chance of ever talking normally again let alone singing on a professional level when he was stricken with vocal chord paralysis. After a regime of everything from acupuncture to prescription steroids and intensive vocal training, Chris Barron is fully recovered and singing better than ever, winning audiences all over again as a solo artist with his sincerity and that vocal tone that has made his voice recognizable to millions all over the world.

good drummer. don't ever need to hear it again.

Also, that Sarah Silverman bit when Metalhead Brian is found to have Spin Doctors on his iPod. I thought that was the hackiest reference imaginable, until it was revealed that "Two Princes" was the ONLY song on his iPod, and then it was funny to me.

I don't have anything clever or useful to add. Just to reiterate that "Two Princes" is still the jam and even writing one good pop song makes you a hero in my book.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC-KaKAmmEY

Blues Traveler were better; and THEIR own token good song was better than "Two Princes". Which I eventually grew to like, even though as "funk" it was hopeless. Somebody should've bought them some old Steve Miller Band albums.

No. You Should ask me. I am an expert.

They probably already had some Steve Miller records! Not saying "Two Princes" was as great as "Take the Money and Run" or "The Joker" (or the best songs off of, say, Joe Jackson's first 2 LPs), but off-hand, I can't think of another song from the '90s (or '00s) that's come closer. (Willing to hear nominations.) It was funkier than any other rock song to make it onto the radio in its decade. So cut them a break, Myonga! (And it and "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" were way better than Blues Traveler's two hits! Which were okay, I guess--or at least better than anything I ever heard by Phish of moe. I still don't understand why more jam bands didn't sell out more. Some might have been good at it.)

..Phish or moe., I meant.

funkier than any other rock song to make it onto the radio in its decade

Mmmm...maybe there is some hair-metal straggler from 1990 (by Warrant or somebody) that could give it competition? Or something by Stone Temple Pilots? But I don't think so. (Oh wait -- "Mas Tequila" by Sammy Hagar was 1999, right? So maybe that one...)

this duder is playing the venue attached to the restaurant where i work TONIGHT
and i am working so I will get to peek in if I feel like it/we're not too busy

i saw Spin Doctors at an amusement part with Material Issue when I was in early high school and secretly thought they were pretty good even though I did not become a fan.

also COMPLETELY forgot about
what time is it?
4-thirtay

Plate of shrimp. Wapo columnist Alexandra Petri is a rather niche "Two Princes" parody gift link

*um, "has"

It's supposed to say "Spin Doctors and Puppet Show."

while we're issuing corrections:

amusement *park

Geauga Lake to be precise

what time is it?
4-thirtay

it's not late. naw. NAW.

my brother and I liked them as kids and he saw them play a hotel a few years ago and he had a blast, though 75% of said blast was pure nostalgia and not because he loved "Cleopatra's Cat boopadobepbepbehbep"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ql1eThR0aQ

Maybe I will employ this "what time is it" joke at work tonight and see if anyone gets it. as always, our reservations at the restaurant are directly related to who's playing.

Chris Barron was one of the most prominent dudes from the early 1990s who made it seem normal to grow a gross-ass beard. Here I am circa 1993 wearing a bucket hat that had been autographed by the Spin Doctors' rhythm section.

https://i.imgur.com/Pw6uDWT.jpg

i honestly assumed this revive was because of that Alexandra Petri piece, which, I'm utterly surprised whenever she's able to publish something this obscure

Are the lyrics to 430 a joke - like did he just take a massive bong rip 10 minutes prior and was just trying to ad lib

great photo, peace, man

"4-thirtay" gets a lot of love on the "60 Songs That Explain the 90s" episode on "Yellow Ledbetter," overall a pretty good episode IIRC.

Is there a substantive difference between "dud" and "flash in the pan"?

TS: Spin Doctors vs. Dave Matthews Band

Xp

i honestly assumed this revive was because of that Alexandra Petri piece,

Omg what a funny night. The tour manager sat in my section and I asked him what to expect from the show.
His answer: “greatness”
I asked him to be more specific and he said audience would hear all the hits.
I asked “even 4:30?”
He said “4:20?” And i was like no
Four THIRTAY
And we loled and then after my shift as I was about to hop on my bike and merch guy (who was at my table w manager) asked if I wanted to meet him (Chris B) and at first I was like I’m good then I changed my mind.
He did not remember playing at the amusement park w Material Issue but we had some real lols and I got him to say four thirtay and took a selfie. Decent and very normal guy.

I was at the show (a friend I was meeting up with anyway suggested going), and it makes me want to see more lead singers/songwriters of multi-platinum bands perform solo shows. It was dark!!

(Also was very happy to run into La Lechera!)

very glad y'all had a good night :)

Wow, nice

Bidibidibip

I asked him what to expect from the show.
His answer: “greatness”

LL, thank you for reporting this charming exchange. Instant classic.

Barron on the solo tour: "This solo project is really about learning and just expressing the broadness of my musicality. Because as a composer and a lyricist, I can’t fit everything I do into the Spin Doctors.”

You nerds are pretty much the only thing in the world that could come close to giving me FOMO for missing a Chris Barron solo show. But even then just barely.

gained some respect for this guy after his tweet about the origin of little miss can't be wrong (posted upthread)

Chris Barron was one of the most prominent dudes from the early 1990s who made it seem normal to grow a gross-ass beard. Here I am circa 1993 wearing a bucket hat that had been autographed by the Spin Doctors' rhythm section.

that's what I say now!

lol wtf I forgot I was the one who started this thread

i love that Jimmy Olsen is carrying around a pocketful of kryptonite like he doesn't realize it affects non-Kryptonian humans in harmful ways too.

p sure ol' Jimmy was speaking metaphorically there

xxpost You were an eetface, now a Neanderthal. Evolution.

xxpost so the kryptonite is his dick?

no, that'd be a euphemism, not a metaphor. uggh ogg ork

I remember playing it to my uncle Phil, "why is he going to murder Superman?"

Better days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC-KaKAmmEY

I’ll note that I saw exactly 0 of the show and heard none of the above details bc I was working in a different part of the building. I always walk thru venue to leave and that’s when my interaction described above occurred.

I hope he isn’t reading this?

(I made my first-ever mod request to pull the post if possible. Otherwise, delist it, maybe?)

thank you -- not because you're not allowed to have your observations and share them, of course you are. but i am posting about workplace and i post here so i keep it out of the public eye for the most part. i would never put this on social media aka public -- here i have a pseu8donym!

i regretted reviving and posting but i had to tell SOMEONE lol

Personally I feel like the world needs more Behind the Music-style details, not fewer. Inquiring minds want to know about the inner life of the head Spin Doctor.

aka Chief of Medicine at Spintown Memorial.

If only we knew as much about the making of, say, Cracked Rear View or Gordon.

It's all in the songs, man.

Gotta love it
It's my du-tayyyy
It's a big fat
Funky bootayyy

Dammit Alfred you have me humming the Cleopatra's cat song now

I was just talking to my teenage kid about how Spin Doctors are one of the most startling passages from absolutely ubiquitous to completely forgotten.

pretty much by their second studio album, too.

I got Turn It Upside Down on release date and I really feel like the only song I heard on the radio was "You Let Your Heart Go Too fast" and that was only around the week it was released.

Yo ma, Yo pa, yo greasy grandma
She got a big behind like frankenstein
She go beep beep beep down Sesame Street

...

Uh that's not the spin doctors

i guess they didn't come up w/ it but it features in "Yo Mama's a Pajama". must be a playground thing I never experienced

Bizarre - because I thought it was just this

https://genius.com/Daphne-and-celeste-ooh-stick-you-lyrics

Spin doctors false flag vibe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ql1eThR0aQ

If you
Want to call me, baby