'Top 13 most overrated songs on the blog circuit'

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The inclusion of Hey Ya and Chewing Gum=Whatever.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 July 2005 02:25 (twenty years ago)

=so true

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 July 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

I'm not trying to start shit, but who are these people who picked out these songs? I spend A LOT of time online looking at music related blogs and I don't know any of them. Are any of you on HERE?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 July 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

democracy is wonderful.

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 11 July 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

Well that was pointless..

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 11 July 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

although wtf kind of list is this? american pie?!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 July 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

(i hadn't clicked)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 July 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

i am glad someone, somewhere, finally stuck it to don maclean

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 11 July 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

i'm so sick of american pie and freebird showing up on fluxblog!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 July 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

and jess if you're going to write about "memory" from cats one more time i'm taking you off my bookmarks file

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 July 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

bout time someone stuck a pin in the critic-inflated balloon known as U2!

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Monday, 11 July 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

i'm so sick of ~~american pie and freebird showing up on~~ fluxblog!!

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 11 July 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

this is actually really weird. i guess i am always kind of bugged out when i realize there are whole OTHER circle jerks, with whole other sets of values, etc, out there in the "blog universe" other than the one i am engaged in. (though the annie thing leads me to believe there's a little bleed over between universes.)

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 11 July 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

Freedbirdz (Tiefschwartz remix)

American 3. 1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196 4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091 4564856692 3460348610 4543266482 1339360726 0249141273 7245870066 0631558817 4881520920 9628292540 9171536436 7892590360 0113305305 4882046652 1384146951 9415116094 3305727036 5759591953 0921861173 8193261179 3105118548 0744623799 6274956735 1885752724 8912279381 8301194912 9833673362 4406566430 8602139494 6395224737 1907021798 6094370277 0539217176 2931767523 8467481846 7669405132 0005681271 4526356082 7785771342 7577896091 7363717872 1468440901 2249534301 4654958537 1050792279 6892589235 4201995611 2129021960 8640344181 5981362977 4771309960 5187072113 4999999837 2978049951 0597317328 1609631859 5024459455 3469083026 4252230825 3344685035 2619311881 7101000313 7838752886 5875332083 8142061717 7669147303 5982534904 2875546873 1159562863 8823537875 9375195778 1857780532 1712268066 1300192787 6611195909 2164201989 3809525720 1065485863 2788659361 5338182796 8230301952 0353018529 6899577362 2599413891 2497217752 8347913151 5574857242 4541506959 5082953311 6861727855 8890750983 8175463746 4939319255 0604009277 0167113900 9848824012 8583616035 6370766010 4710181942 9555961989 4676783744 9448255379 7747268471 0404753464 6208046684 2590694912 9331367702 8989152104 7521620569 6602405803 8150193511 2533824300 3558764024 7496473263 9141992726 0426992279 6782354781 6360093417 2164121992 4586315030 2861829745 5570674983 8505494588 5869269956 9092721079 7509302955 3211653449 8720275596 0236480665 4991198818 3479775356 6369807426 5425278625 5181841757 4672890977 7727938000 8164706001 6145249192 1732172147 7235014144 1973568548 1613611573 5255213347 5741849468 4385233239 0739414333 4547762416 8625189835 6948556209 9219222184 2725502542 5688767179 0494601653 4668049886 2723279178 6085784383 8279679766 8145410095 3883786360 9506800642 2512520511 7392984896 0841284886 2694560424 1965285022 2106611863 0674427862 2039194945 0471237137 8696095636 4371917287 4677646575 7396241389 0865832645 9958133904 7802759009 9465764078 9512694683 9835259570 9825822620 5224894077 2671947826 8482601476 9909026401 3639443745 5305068203 4962524517 4939965143 1429809190 (Kid 606 Remix)

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 July 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

CRISIS ON INFINITE BLOGS

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 11 July 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

there's an instability in the blogosphere!! ABORT ABORT

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 July 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

This is the worst list ever seen or written by anyone ever.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 11 July 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

There are music bloggers, and then there are music bloggers who participate or align themselves with blogcritics.org. That place is one-stop shopping for hackdom.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 11 July 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

“Just want to make you cumma”? Are they serious? Case closed.

I dunno. Is this the enemy?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 July 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

the names of the blogs involved are great

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 11 July 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

worthymusic.net

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 11 July 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

thus spake drake

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 11 July 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)

the FIOL team

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 11 July 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

"they're a street team that went bad. they are... the FIOL team"

― there are twelve people in the world the rest are haitch (haitch), Monday, 11 July 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)

they're all going to come over here and beat us up!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 July 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

earvolution!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 July 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

musicrocker!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 July 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

they're in numerical order but i don't get the impression that there was any kind of fair, systematic method of voting.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 July 2005 02:52 (twenty years ago)

my new blog thetruthaccordingtostrongo.net won't rest until we fully discredit emerson lake and palmer and michelle shocked

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 11 July 2005 02:52 (twenty years ago)

make sure you also register thetruthaccordingtostrongo.com

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 July 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

who knows what kind of hi-jinx would be afoot otherwise

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 11 July 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)

Morgan from Earvolution.com's "There are some words that do not belong in a rock song." = "I patrol the limits of my imagination with mental stormtroopers armed with Uzis and grenades."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 11 July 2005 03:01 (twenty years ago)

Who are these people?

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 11 July 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

I was gonna try to make a joke about "Thus Spake Drake" but it's too funny as it is.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Monday, 11 July 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)

haha i just keep hearing the "2001" music

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 11 July 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

the hey ya "demolition" actually had me sputtering some kind of defense of it, which is some achievement

― g e o f f (gcannon), Monday, 11 July 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

We should set up a ILx vs. blogcritics softball game to iron out our differences.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 11 July 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

THE LINE IN POUR SOME SUGAR ON ME IS "RHYTHM OF BELOW" FUCKFACE

― g e o f f (gcannon), Monday, 11 July 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)

speakinf of fuckfaces, it's "FIQL"

― g e o f f (gcannon), Monday, 11 July 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

which makes so much more sense

― g e o f f (gcannon), Monday, 11 July 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

haha i just keep hearing the "2001" music

Haha, I picture him banging a gavel after he finishes his posts.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Monday, 11 July 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

Their mission statement/tagline:

"Blogcritics.org: News and reviews of popular culture by a multitude of superior bloggers."

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 11 July 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

OMG! I didn't notice 'Rhapsody in Blog'.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Monday, 11 July 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

LATE 80S EARLY 90S WEHN DABNCEP0P WAS DYING A SLOW DEATH kill kill kill

― g e o f f (gcannon), Monday, 11 July 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

1. hollaback girl
2. trapped in the closet
3. 1 thing
4. wait (the whisper song)
5. still tippin
6. since u been gone
7. dear summer (or diamonds remix)
8. galang
9. sittin sidewayz
10. heartbeat
11. drop it like its hot
12. the corner
13. save a horse ride a cowboy

― 33, Monday, 11 July 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

haha ouch

― g e o f f (gcannon), Monday, 11 July 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

Wow. I think all those bloggers are based in CT.

(Ethan, you bitch, log yr ass in.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 11 July 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

in what universe are the fall overrated on the same level as "american pie"? i fucking wish!

― president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 11 July 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

i have no doubt that mark e. smith covering that song would be absolute shimmering brilliance.

― president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 11 July 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

worthymusic makes me want to kill myself a little bit

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 11 July 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

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I have never heard Freebrid, nor heard people yelling for it at shows.

― Baaderonixx le Belge (Fabfunk), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

Gated communities are weird.

That includes this one.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha! Dave, do you have people following you around 24/7 blasting "Freebird" like it was your theme music?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

IT'S IN MY HEAD

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

FREEBIRD!

― Baaderonixx le Belge (Fabfunk), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

can I use this space to bitch about Paul Wall?

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

NO YOU CANNOT

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

(Who is Paul Wall?)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

If I'm not mistaken he's this white dude who made grills for the Houston scene, and had a mic and a record deal thrown in his hand when they realized the scene really needed a token goofy white dude so that the crossover market would have someone to adore. He needs to collabo with Lady Sovereign.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

I may not have my facts straight, but hey.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

btw ethan's list is terrif (and I've only overpraised 3 of those tracks, I rule)

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

Tee hee.

― Candicissima (candicissima), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

I MAY NOT HAVE MY FACTS STRAIGHT is a mothertruckin' understatement.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

My aunt used to play "Memory" on the piano whenever she'd get near one back in the day. Even then, when i was twelve, it was pap. Little did I know what Andrew Lloyd Weber would contribute to the world later.

― p.j. (Henry), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

I have a soft spot for "Memory".

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Oh man, I met the guy who runs Earvolution - I was on this panel thing a few months ago, and he dominated the whole thing, never shut up, just relentlessly lame. He was bragging about blogging live from a Sevendust show. He is also the guy behind that Blog Ads company.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

*insert erection joke here* (NB: I like "Memory", it's just that the phrase "soft spot" screams for an erection joke.)

Re: Ethan's list: It's funny because I out-and-out adore six of the songs on it, to the point where I could easily listen to them on repeat for the rest of my life (which is a good thing considering how overplayed some of them are). "Wait" is massively overrated, though, like to the point of ludicrousness. (For some reason I still haven't heard any of "Trapped In The Closet"; I don't know that Boston radio is playing it and I haven't been actively seeking it out.)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

I like Paul Wall! Because he is goofy.

ACTUALLY NUMBER THIRTEEN WAS RELEASED LAST YEAR YOU FOOL!!!!

I cant help but think the "sittin sideways" mention is a dig at me, i don't remember many people on here even mentioning it, but maybe I'm wrong.

― deej.., Monday, 11 July 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

I cant help but think the "sittin sideways" mention is a dig at me

Blogga please!

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 11 July 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Blogga please!

Yay! New t-shirt idea!

― Candicissima (candicissima), Monday, 11 July 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

yes well i'm being stupid.

its an on-point list.

"group of people in having some consensus shockah" though.

― deej.., Monday, 11 July 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Chevy levee etc.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 11 July 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

I cant help but think the "sittin sideways" mention is a dig at me, i don't remember many people on here even mentioning it, but maybe I'm wrong.

http://sfj.abstractdynamics.org/archives/004384.html

http://lemon-red.blogspot.com/2005/03/trunk-bump-like-chicken-pox.html

http://riogood.blogspot.com/2005/05/every-section-where-my-connection-lies.html

http://idleatwork.blogspot.com/2005/06/single-serving-paul-wall-sitting.html

http://governmentnames.blogspot.com/2005/06/swishahouse-paul-wall-mixtape-gotta.html

http://blogs.sohh.com/videos/throwbacks/2005/06/paul_wall_feat.html

http://www.radiovolta.org/dj/reverb/20050523.shtml

http://www.catchdubs.com/old/2005_05_01_index.html#111653839420660065

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/tracks/05-06-20.shtml

http://supposedtobubble.blogspot.com/2005/05/peoples-champ.html

http://jeromebaker.blogspot.com/2005/06/war-to-be-rap-legend-has-just-begun.html

http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2005/06/some-songs.html ("I didn't really expect to see a Paul Wall track reviewed by Pitchfork, and positively reviewed at that. But apparently he is adored by gangsters AND hipsters alike. Anyway, this track is some straight southern (via Houston) hip hop. Not a genre I'm usually that fond of, but Paul Wall's got something going here. What it do.")

http://www.themack.org/2005/07/mia-bucky-done-gun-tsar-band-girls.html

http://myhiphop.blogspot.com/2005/06/lol-nice-read-third-coast-rap-h-towns.html

http://torontocreamteam.blogspot.com/2005/03/i-love-toronto.htm

http://skeetonmischa.blogspot.com/2005/06/going-back-to-cali.html ("does anybody wonder if paul wall, the peoples champ, asked paul giamatti to cameo in his video for the single, "sittin sidewayz"? you know a nod to the nerdy rock kids who are down with screwed up music. how funny would it be to see paul giamatti in some caddy, wearing a giantic pink 'free pimp c' shirt, drinking a bottle of wine.")

http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2005/06/first-half-of-05albums1.html

http://thesilentbarn.blogspot.com/2005/05/rustling-sound-in-shed.html

etc etc etc etc etc etc etc

― 33, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

also in unlinkable sidebars on http://noixe01.blogspot.com/ and http://differentkitchen.blogspot.com/ and http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~hhsu/blog.html and http://urbanhonking.com/brokenlanguage/

― 33, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure that proves anything, considering there are so many fucking blogs out there now that you could probably find an equal number of rave reviews for Lean Cuisine Creamy Basil Chicken, too.

nb: I haven't heard "Sitting Sideways."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

nah ur right i just tht it wd be funny to google blog + paul wall and see what comes up!! but like every white rapper hes overrated by white folks and thanx to that & NYC's current houston dickriding you will find alot more references on blogs to sittin sidewayz than other south or regional rap singles

― 33, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

"But apparently he is adored by gangsters AND hipsters alike." -- 1 outta 2 aint bad

― 33, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 10:46 (twenty years ago)

Wait, Paul Wall's white? Seriously?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)

Crimony, I'm out to lunch.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

10. “Totally Wired” - The Fall

Trailblazing indie rock sacred cows the Fall are generally lauded as cooler than anybody. Well, 50,000 Fall fans can kiss my ass. Sure, Pavement's first album is a wholesale appropriation of the Fall's sound. But Pavement moved on to different sonic pastures on four subsequent records, while the Fall have recorded over forty albums of this annoying claptrap. If being the first band to combine stunted chops and speaking lyrics because you can't sing makes you unassailable musical pioneers, then bravo to the Fall.

Now I wanna do some violent crimes.

― nicholas de jong (nicholas de jong), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

Lean Cuisine Creamy Basil Chicken had a lot going for it at first, sure. But over time I was shocked as to how popular it got with a group of people that used to treat me poorly in high school. It's like, hey; that's MY Lean Cuisine Creamy Basil Chicken. But who listens to little, lowly, underpaid old me, eh? So over time, I've come to hate Lean Cuisine Creamy Basil Chicken. If she won't be mine, she'll be no one's, do you hear me? NO ONE'S.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Someone get me a motherfucking Chingo Bling tamale!!!!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

haha whoa yeah pd I was thinking that list was referring just to ILM, not our blogosphere world, which is why i said i was being stupid afterwards, but yeah whoa. Thats quite a list. You are on point.

― deej.., Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Hi guys! Uao from Freeway Jam here. Glad our little article got such a good discussion started.

I just popped in to reassure you all, we are not all from CT. Not sure any of us are, in fact.

Best wishes;

Los Angeles, CA

;-)

― uao, Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)

Back in May the British selected "Bohemian Rhapsody" as their "favorite single of all time."

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 21 July 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

GREAT JOB, GUYS.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 21 July 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

I like Paul Wall! Because he is goofy.

And for everything he's done for the internets.

And for rhyming "nuts" with "nuts".

"I got the internet going nuts/
But T. Farris got my back so now I'm holding my nuts"

― Rob Uptight (Rob Uptight), Thursday, 21 July 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

But T. Farris got my back so now I'm holding my nuts

nice image

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 21 July 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

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― cvs pharmacy, Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

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― jermaine (jnoble), Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

i buy candy at cvs

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

The fuck!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

worthymusic is absolutely killing me

"...and I at this point I'm beginning to wonder if another album will come along this year and overtake the top spot on my Most Worthy 2005 list... or if I should just go head and cement this one in that slot. It's going to be a tall order to surpass this one this year. Definitely the one to beat, in my humble opinion."

― chrisco (chrisco), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Um, he rhymed "goin nuts" with "holdin my nuts."

― Gavin, Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Um, he rhymed "goin nuts" with "holdin my nuts."

Congrats -- you just salvaged Paul Wall's verse!

― Rob Upt1ght., Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

honey roasted cashews at cvs normally like 5 or 6 bucks 2.99 right now

― 3, Friday, 29 July 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

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Test (sorry): Has this thread been locked?

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

only to unregistered users. it was becoming a crazymad spamtrap!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

I think it is spammers trying to improve pagerank.

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Friday, 29 July 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

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