The Mighty Mighty Bosstones- "The Impression That I Get" C/D

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Because I checked and we've actually done a thread on every other crossover alt.rock/pop track of the late 90s except this.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

you know i kind of like it. the sentiment is an unusal one to hear in popular song. but kinda admirable.

― gallantseagull, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually love this song completely unironically. This is mainly due to living in Boston, I suspect.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I've heard it's about getting an HIV test?

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

In Boston!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Kind of crap.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i adore this song.

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

this song made me want to kill people when it came out. most likely due to the fact that it got played every 5 minutes in southern california.

we used to have this bosstones cd sitting in our backyard ever since we moved into our house in college. nobody bothered to pick it up or even throw it away.

― Dude, are you a 15 year old asian chick? (jingleberries), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a theory that Clueless is the high water mark of 90s culture. The Bosstones were in it!

― he does guitar with his mouth lmao mint (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I will admit to being one of those people who'd heard of but never actually heard The Bosstones until this song got huge. Anyway, it's a great fucking monster of a tune. CLASSIC.

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate this song, and the fucking pricks who loved that ska-punk shit! they all became dave matthews fans the next semester anyway.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate this song, and the fucking pricks who loved that ska-punk shit! they all became dave matthews fans the next semester anyway.

That's the thing, I guess - no one I knew in college listened to ska-punk, and I had exactly ONE friend who liked DMB, so I wasn't subjected to the Bosstones et al against my will.

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha wow I have never felt the age gap on ILM as deeply as I do now!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

You know, I quite like not only this single but the entirety of Ska Core, The Devil, And More, Let's Face It, and the live album's not too shabby either, even if the renditions are close to the originals (my mum's been playing it a lot recently). Semi-classic.

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

my mum's been playing it a lot recently

Now how old do you feel, Dan? ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

classic. skacore was the dance-punk of the 90's. hell it was more dancepunk than dancepunk is. and the bosstones were one of the best acts i had heard. their first three albums are great and this single is great, even if the album its from isn't too hot.

― brontosaur, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

not as classic as "Someday I Suppose", but classic, yes.

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

It's too low-key and smooth for the Bosstones (and the dude's voice). Their best album was the first one, which is also the roughest and most metally.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic. I thought this was a great song when it came out, especially because of the sentiment. I listened to it again a couple weeks ago and thought it held up pretty well.

― subgenius (subgenius), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I heared them do this live.

That dude has only got one singing note, hasn't he?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

This song got blanket airplay in South Florida during the fall of '97 and spring '98. Its summery sentiments were fitting.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a theory that Clueless is the high water mark of 90s culture.

No kidding...Velocity Girl and Jill Sobule were on it, too.

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, this song was the cornerstone of all anti-American NME sentiment in the late 90s. The indignation that the plucky Brits had sent over the Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers and Radiohead and you sent us THIS in return.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

well, that makes sense I guess, the UK had already been through the ska thing already.

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

This song is not about an HIV test, it is about the shootings of doctors performing abortions, which you may recall there was a rash of about 8 yrs ago or so. Or at least that is what I was told, in a convincing manner. Who knows.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate this song, and the fucking pricks who loved that ska-punk shit! they all became dave matthews fans the next semester anyway.

nope. not all of em became davefuckyous fans.

while i was never a full-blown two tone skank punk in the least - i did manage to see a bunch of ska shows(mainly cause they were all ages ) bak in like 88. and the bosstones used to put on some decent live shows. it sort of worked as a cleaner happier mode to the whole hardcore/crusty punk scene that was way too old by the late 80s anyways. i mean who brings a dog to a hardcore show?

― come on sock it to me, Thursday, 10 February 2005 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

im talkin 'bout the dumbasses i knew in high school (around 1996-98), as they prolly ruined any potential i could ever have for liking that stuff. (i also hated punk for a while because all the punks i knew were "christian punks" and straight edge fucktards, so i had a warped definition of punk as a do-gooder goody two-shoes funtime scene.)

i was also incredibly angry and depressed and having horrible emotional problems at that time (in addition to just going through plain 'ol adolescence) so i kind of associate that music with all that crap.

i know its not rational, but there it is.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 10 February 2005 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

ive never met a christian punk though, what horror.

― come on sock it to me, Thursday, 10 February 2005 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

you don't know the half of it. i live in south carolina, they have like pro-life "punk" benefit shows here.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 10 February 2005 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually almost got interview these guys in high school. The two questions I remember having prepared were "what is that blue crap that spills all over you guys in the video?" and "does the dancer get paid as much as the trombone player and do either get paid as much as Dickie?"

I like this song a lot, though to be honest I'd really rather hear "Someday I Suppose." It's been a long while.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 10 February 2005 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm backtracking on all the random songs I heard on 120 minutes in my head. I'd really hate to hear all of them in a row. FUCK royal oil.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 10 February 2005 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hell Of A Hat," "Royal Oil," "Rascal King," "Kinder Words," "Someday I Suppose," "Pictures To Prove It," bet I'm forgetting some...

I so do not miss ska.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 10 February 2005 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

ska's great! skacore otoh...

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 10 February 2005 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

they were way more heavy metal than ska really.

― come on sock it to me, Thursday, 10 February 2005 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i think skacore may have tainted my ability to appreciate ska.

anybody remember MTV's Skaturday hosted by a pre-TRL Carson Daly? Played all these videos (including Specials' "Message To You Rudy") with Carson decked out in two-tone garb at the MTV Beach House while skanks skanked.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 10 February 2005 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

actually I think, more specifically, 1997 may have tainted my ability to appreciate ska.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 10 February 2005 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha otm i forgot that there was a time when ska was gonna be the "new grunge".

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 10 February 2005 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

ska punk is an evil that ensnares the suburbs of southern england

― elwisty (elwisty), Thursday, 10 February 2005 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

1997 -yeah thats like at least a decade late.

they used to play to like 50 people --grey haired rasta dudes and skaters --at 2 in the afternoon on a sunday, -but i never thought they would 'make it' onto mtv. live, they were like hi we're plaid and drunk and screamo power chord with rasta-dub horn breaks and ben would dance straight throught the whole show, and the sweat, and yeah, all of it sounds so awful now. please forgive me. im gonna go watch wallace and jack white chew it up. see 60minutes just called jack white a punk rocker. what the fuck. oh and 1997 makes me think of that 'show me that colgate smile' song that i really liked for a few weeks there

― come on sock it to me, Thursday, 10 February 2005 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

You call this piece of shit ska??? This song doesn't sound a fucking thing like 2 Tone!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 10 February 2005 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i love this song.... i interviewed dickie barrett when it came out, for melody maker, he was, like, my third ever interview, and we just ended up talking about how much he oved madness, and how when they first came to the US, he travelled from boston to NYC with his buddies to watch them film SNL, and that he met them and they were cool.

― stevie (stevie), Thursday, 10 February 2005 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

You call this piece of shit ska??? This song doesn't sound a fucking thing like 2 Tone!!
-- Mr. Snrub (mistersnru...), February 10th, 2005.

really what we're talking 'bout here is ska-punk or skacore or whatever. basically shitty pop-punk with horns.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 10 February 2005 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

It was on the soundtrack to an old football game I had.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 10 February 2005 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Interesting that most of the people who liked the Bosstones knew about them before 1990. YOUNG WHIPPERSNAPPERS JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 10 February 2005 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I always associate this with the shite "ska-punk half hour" that rock/indie discos get plagued with every time in Britain. So while it isn't a bad song per se, it conjures up images of dickheads skanking badly (not that you can necessarily skank well). And (spunge), Reel Big Fish and Goldfinger songs. Shite.

― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Thursday, 10 February 2005 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The song the Bosstones played in Clueless was much, much worse.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 10 February 2005 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I have never in all my indie disco days noticed this "ska-punk half hour".

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 10 February 2005 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't forget that that Bosstones also played in the Matt Stone, Trey Parker magnum opus BASEketball.

This song brings back so many memories. Especially the word "poser" which was for people who dressed ska/punk, but didn't listen to ska/punk.

As in "Corey is such a poser." It was always Corey. Or Todd.

It reminds me of BMXing in the summer and making our own jumps that were way too high and scary, and staying up REALLY late at night, and ordering out pizza. And talking to girls and then telling all your friends you talked to girls. Being trapped in our little area of the suburbs because we only had our permits and all the cool places were too far to walk or ride. Renting games for Playstation and almost beating them before you have to return them. Swimming to the floating dock in the middle of the lake.

This song reminds me of that.

― David Allen (David Allen), Thursday, 10 February 2005 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

"Poser"! God forgot all about that.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 10 February 2005 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

fourteen years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNA0owbJb2g

― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 28 June 2019 11:52 (six years ago)

― Rory end to the lowenbrow (Noodle Vague), Friday, 28 June 2019 12:33 (six years ago)

the midwest emo one gave me so much joy

― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 28 June 2019 13:22 (six years ago)

lmao

― call all destroyer, Friday, 28 June 2019 13:25 (six years ago)

one year passes...

So I guess they did a George Floyd tribute?

― Joe Bombin (milo z), Thursday, 20 May 2021 15:23 (four years ago)

Don't forget that that Bosstones also played in the Matt Stone, Trey Parker magnum opus BASEketball.

That was Reel Big Fish!

― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 May 2021 19:32 (four years ago)

I listened to Let's Face It again recently, and while I can't stand up for most of the third-wave ska I bought in high school, that album is honestly great. Even their other albums don't do much for me

― Vinnie, Thursday, 20 May 2021 23:58 (four years ago)

They are in Clueless

― PaulTMA, Friday, 21 May 2021 10:50 (four years ago)

eight months pass...

Whoops.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-mighty-mighty-bosstones-break-up-1291565/

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 January 2022 00:50 (four years ago)

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones With Rome
— brad shoup (@bshoup) January 28, 2022

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 January 2022 01:08 (four years ago)

Bet he's wishing he had knocked on that wood after all

― zacata, Friday, 28 January 2022 04:35 (four years ago)

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