Bill Clinton loves Better Than Ezra!

Better Than Ezra: Kevin Griffin (vocals, guitar); Tom Drummond (bass); Travis Aaron McNabb (drums).

Additional personnel: Peter Holsapple (mandolin, piano, organ); Joan Wasser (violin); Anthony Dagrade (flute, clarinet, saxophone); Jamil Sharie (trumpet); Mark Mullins (trombone); Matthew Perrine (tuba); Lawrence Sieberth (piano).

Recorded at Kingsway Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana between March 25 and April 27, 1996.

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They could revamp for a comeback by renaming themselves "Bettering Ezra."

I figured that was Crowbar.

Enormous lols @ the guitar solo from "In The Blood."

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If you play each of these 8 times instead of 4 it's "Swing Swing" by All American Rejects.

So, I've been in the process of digitizing all the discs that have sat unplayed on the shelf for years and got to the first two Better Than Ezra albums and, you know, these guys weren't terrible! I mean, in a world where the Gin Blossoms can remain critic darlings in some circles, I feel like these guys shouldn't be forgotten. Sure, the lyrics could be beyond cheesy sometimes and I don't think I'll ever need to hear "Good" again, but I'll defend the first two.

Better than Ezra POX:
"Rosealia"
"Teenager"
"King of New Orleans"
"This Time of Year"
"Rewind" (despite the cheesy mixtape theme, this kind of hits a nostalgic spot for me)
"Desperately Wanting"
"Summer House"
"Normal Town"
"Return of the Post Moderns"
"Southern Girl"

There was a Halloween show at the Blue Note in Columbia MO featuring Better Than Ezra as Devo.
It's a local legend of sorts.

Okay, despite my defense of them, that sounds awful.

I wasn't there, some people say it was amazing.

listening to them for the first time in a decade cause of this bump

'good' reminds me of pixies actually

okay...these guys are no gin blossoms

I remember seeing them on tv and thinking they weren't that bad!

in a world where the Gin Blossoms can remain critic darlings in some circles

what world are we talking about here?

just because Byron Crawford votes in Pazz & Jop doesn't actually make him a critic

waaaaaaaaahhhoowwwwwwwwww

(living w/ u sucked btw)

I heard 'at the stars' at mcdonalds (I only go there for the $1 sundaes, I swear)

I think it's a good song

i should probably listen to something of theirs that isn't "good"

This song "Good" by Better Than Ezra sounds eerily similar to the song "When I Come Around" by Green Day, which came out in 1994, a whole year before "Good" was ever released, and this makes me assume that Better Than Ezra stole Green Days song and passed it off as one of their own, which in itself is a very low/ scum-baggy thing for a band to do. But then a few years later comes a song called "Closing Time" by Semisonic that is released in 1998, and this song sounds very similar to another song, "Good" by Better Than Ezra. So in the end what you get is one band (Green Day) creating an original song, then another band coming along (Better Than Ezra) and stealing the previous bands song, but then later on a third band (Semisonic) comes along and steals a song from the previous band (BTE) that had already stolen their song from the original band. So in effect one band stealing from another band, and then having their stolen song stolen by another band just creates this vicious cycle that ends up with one original song and many shitty mimic songs, that in all fuck up the music genre for everyone because of some uncreative and no talent hacks feeding off of others success. It all just really makes me sick to my stomach, because of these parasites leaching off others success.

Bill Clinton loves better than anyone.