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These guys any good? My girlfriend says she heard them in a store and liked them.

― Corporal Vagisil, Monday, 10 October 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

at first i was like, cute. the cuteness started rubbing up against my leg like a cat, over and over again, and i was still like, aw, that's still kinda cute. but then ultimately it left a open sore with cat hair coming out of it -- rubbed the wrong way.

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Favorite band of 2005. The cuteness has a dark side. I love that Warner Bros. took a chance on them; I love that someone thinks this is marketable pop music.

I think there's an L.A. equivalent to the San Francisco scenes of Devendra, Newsom, and Jolie Holland -- it's a little more grounded in early Hollywood glamor than a forest or a shack. The Ditty Bops, Eleni Mandell, Jesca Hoop -- they're the starlet side of what's going on further north, and they're as hands-off and inpenetrable as their predecessors.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

New album, "Moon Over The Freeway", flapper jazz pastiches with country swing influences. Kinda fits in with the current vogue for faux-1920s pornography, I feel. I like.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

The name is certainly DUD.

― Sam Silvers, Tuesday, 23 May 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't "diddy bops" a nasty racial reference in Richard Price's "The Wanderers"? (Caveat: Long time since I last read it.) I'm NOT accusing this band of anything -- the descriptions above make me think I'd dig them -- just wonder if they know . . .

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

If that's the case I change my plea.

― Sam Silvers, Tuesday, 23 May 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

DUD

GIRL MUSIC

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

the latest album has a neat pop-up graphic in the CD, though they lost the album art Grammy to Metallica.

― Jesus Christ, Chiropractor at Law (res), Thursday, 18 June 2009 19:08 (sixteen years ago)

they are sweet! dug their bike tour story.

― i'm at the combination burger king/conoco (Tape Store), Thursday, 18 June 2009 19:18 (sixteen years ago)

don't remember much about the music, though

― i'm at the combination burger king/conoco (Tape Store), Thursday, 18 June 2009 19:18 (sixteen years ago)

it's kind of samey to me. i went to one of their shows recently, and one of them was a total bitch onstage, which really had a negative impact on my perception of them.

― Jesus Christ, Chiropractor at Law (res), Thursday, 18 June 2009 19:26 (sixteen years ago)

I like 'em a lot.

― Eazy, Friday, 19 June 2009 19:17 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

That show left a lasting negative impression in my mouth.

― /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\||||||( *__* )||||||/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ (res), Friday, 7 January 2011 06:19 (fifteen years ago)

um, taste

― /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\||||||( *__* )||||||/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ (res), Friday, 7 January 2011 06:19 (fifteen years ago)

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