"New Age Girl" by Deadeye Dick

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I discovered this early-90s novelty hit rather late in the game, not ever hearing it until I learned that a local karaoke DJ opposed with a passion. Now, obviously, it's quite annoying in some ways ("but she sure likes the bone") but there's something beautiful to those "Mary Moon, Mary Moon" sub-Mike Mills backing vocals, and the use of "septuagenarians" somehow manages to NOT feel like "ooh, we're using a fifty-cent word, this is good for a wink and a laugh." My vote's Classic; what's yours?

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 3 November 2005 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

Dud. Crimes? Spin Doctors lite; the aforementioned "don't eat meat/sure likes bone" couplet; being the lead single for the Dumb and Dumber soundtrack. This is an instance of catchiness being used for evil instead of good.

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 3 November 2005 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

i love this song so much. Doctor Casino totally OTM.

my ex-girlfriend hated it though, and made me feel bad for liking it.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Thursday, 3 November 2005 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

huge dud.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 3 November 2005 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

I always thought this song was by They Might Be Giants, and I like TMBG a lot. I'm really glad it isn't. Dud-erino.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Thursday, 3 November 2005 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

I've got a new age girl
(Tell us what she's like)
An environmentalist girl
(Does she ride a bike)
She has crystal necklace
(She spend a lot of cash)
Though her vibes are rather reckless
(She's heading for a crash)
Oh her flowing skirt is blowing in a transcendental wind
And she wonders without knowing where did she begin..

Mary Moon.. she's a vegetarian
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon.. will outlive all the septuagenarians
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Oh, she loves me so
She hates to be alone
She don't eat meat
But she sure like the bone

RAH

You knew she drives a wind car
(How does she like it)
It doesn't get her far
(Why doesn't she bike it)
But it gets her to where she's going to
(I don't know, I don't know, I don't know)
Where that is, I wish I knew
I don't know where she's going
And I don't know where she's been
All I know that loving her has gotta be a sin

(Chorus)

RAH

Mary Moon will you hesitate
Don't segregate your thought from your emotions
I know that devotion isn't way up there

RAH

Mary Moon.. she's a vegetarian
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon.. will outlive all the septuagenarians
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon.. She's an intellectual
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon.. Despite that fact remains quite sexual
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon.. She's the one for me, me, yeah

RAH

― Confounded (Confounded), Thursday, 3 November 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

Dud. One of my friends thoughtfully gave me the single as a birthday gift, which includes the "Dervish Mix." Horrible, horrible, horrible . . .

― ajlee, Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

Man, this song blows ass.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

really, one of the worst of the 90s.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

a top candidate for worst single of the '90s, and certainly one of the worst of any era

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

I'd have to be SOOOO drunk to like this song - that moment where my ironic tendencies have blown into the red and all stimuli inspire the same goofy grin and frenetic boogaloo.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, just thinking of that context makes me like the track more. It's "Banditos" by the Refreshments that seems insufferable in any context.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

is that the "Jean Luc Picard" song? i've got the pistol so you keep the pesos or whatever?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

One of the worst songs ever.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

My wife has this friend, and he showed up late to this party last year...I asked him why he'd been late and he said, "Oh well, I wanted to come earlier but I went to the Fine Line cuz my favorite band was playing"

Me: "Oh really? cool...what band?"

Him: "Dada"

His favorite band is Dada. Huh. Didn't see that coming.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

whoa - i totally cannot understand all the hate here (at ILM of all places)... this was one of the first five songs i ever searched for on Napster, the first single I ever bid on on eBay... huh.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

Another "straight to karaoke" tune. But in that case, classic.

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

It's "Banditos" by the Refreshments that seems insufferable in any context.

wait, what?

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

" . . . but she sure like the bone"

PLEASE GOD MAKE IT STOP!

― J (Jay), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

also, Dada's "Dizz Knee Land" + "I Get High" = awesome

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

i was so obsessed with this song in middle school. i still have most of their album memorized. i think i liked them more b/c my dad knew them, which kind of personalized them to me. can't stand em these days. their lead singer's egocentric. but most lead singers are, aren't they?

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

TS: "New Age Girl" by Deadeye Dick vs. "I Got A Girl" by Tripping Daisy

― monkeybutler, Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

I always get those two mixed up too. Tripping Daisy, no contest.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

"Banditos" (Yes indeed that fucking pistol pesos song) is the kind of song that would make the drunk me start throwing whatever's available at the offending DJ and/or jukebox (even my poo, if necessary).

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 November 2005 06:31 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my heavens yes, Tripping Daisy wins. Very catchy in a good way. I'd actually like to hear that song just now. Whereas I want all of the members of Deadeye Dick to get simultaneous cases of prolapse-inducing diarrhea just now. And forever.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 4 November 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

"banditos," "new-age girl," and "i got a girl" are all so classic, i cannot believe it. "banditos" was a year or two later than the other two, i think.

― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 4 November 2005 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I totally forgot this song. And even being reminded of it, I can barely remember it. It's definitely not very good. But the discussion of "Banditos," which I also barely remember, has put me in mind of Fastball's "The Way," which is probably still 100 percent great even though I haven't heard it in at least 5 years and don't own it so I can't doublecheck.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 4 November 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

i really dont understand the hate for this song, outside of its mind-numbingly inane lyrics.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 4 November 2005 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

maybe i'm too young to have any bad memories associated with it. to me it was just another song i'd hear on the radio while i was in middle school.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 4 November 2005 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

To me it was just another song I'd hear on the radio while driving to work at my $16,000-a-year job at a newspaper near Dollywood. Good times.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 4 November 2005 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

I was on the air in college radio at the time, and actually had to PLAY the accursed thing. Whereas Tripping Daisy was actually cool for what it was. And I will hear no bad talk about "Banditos."

― monkeybutler, Friday, 4 November 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

"...'cause he don't speak English anyway"
Those were good times for ironic xenophobia

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Friday, 4 November 2005 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

But the discussion of "Banditos," which I also barely remember, has put me in mind of Fastball's "The Way," which is probably still 100 percent great

ahh yeah - "the way" AND "out of my head" are great, too!

― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 4 November 2005 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

hm, I guess I could see why someone would hate this song, but I always just assumed it was one of those songs that everyone liked but didn't remember that well. I think it's great. That opening!! I wish I had used it as my yearbook quote.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 4 November 2005 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

"Fire Escape" is way, way better than either of Fastball's big singles, ftr.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 4 November 2005 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

Heh, I am listening to DeadEye Dick's CD at this moment. Love the song, and Love the CD. Some of the tracks on the CD actually remind me of Ben Folds Five. You really have to listen to the other tracks!

― Grim, Friday, 2 June 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

Some of the tracks on the CD actually remind me of Ben Folds Five.

And that's a good thing?

― naus (Robert T), Friday, 2 June 2006 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

MARY MOOooooOOooooOON!

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 16 February 2009 05:34 (sixteen years ago)

hate this shit

― thunda lightning (clotpoll), Monday, 16 February 2009 05:44 (sixteen years ago)

Song continues to grow on me; god knows what I was thinking saying that "septuagenarians" wasn't cutesy-cutesy though.

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 16 February 2009 07:02 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

I am convinced that long-term demographic shifts in the ILM massive put this thing on the verge of critical reappraisal.

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 8 April 2012 17:09 (thirteen years ago)

this song has not aged well.

― Poliopolice, Sunday, 8 April 2012 22:44 (thirteen years ago)

The top three results in the 'Best Song' poll in my senior yearbook:

1. "New Age Girl"
2. "On Bended Knee"
3. "Mary Moon"

― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 8 April 2012 23:10 (thirteen years ago)

This song is atrocious.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 8 April 2012 23:13 (thirteen years ago)

OTM

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 8 April 2012 23:38 (thirteen years ago)

i do like the "RUFFF" part. I guess that's ok.

― Poliopolice, Monday, 9 April 2012 00:20 (thirteen years ago)

o god. i've never knowingly heard this song before. so awful.

does remind me of a new age girl named mary i went out with for a while, but that isn't doing the song any favors

― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Monday, 9 April 2012 00:35 (thirteen years ago)

there's also something weirdly endearing about the warbly, vaguely ominous warped-record voice at the "she loves me so, she hates to be alone" part.

― Poliopolice, Monday, 9 April 2012 15:12 (thirteen years ago)

SHE SHORE LIKE THE BONE

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 9 April 2012 15:17 (thirteen years ago)

yeah this is pretty much everything horrible about alternative rock

― Mississippi Butt Hurt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 9 April 2012 22:04 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.ephemeron.net/wp-content/uploads/cover-deadeye_dick.jpg

― Euler, Monday, 9 April 2012 23:00 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.90s411.com/images/caleb-guilotte-interview-deadeye-dick-1994.jpg

― Euler, Monday, 9 April 2012 23:00 (thirteen years ago)

oh god those clothes

― Mississippi Butt Hurt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 9 April 2012 23:03 (thirteen years ago)

satin & is that a chain wallet?

― Euler, Monday, 9 April 2012 23:04 (thirteen years ago)

also dudes were kinda old

― Euler, Monday, 9 April 2012 23:04 (thirteen years ago)

Lead guy was like 31 when they put this song out, if Wiki can be trusted. I guess that's old for having your first novelty hit, especially one with a kind of junior high moron premise.

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 9 April 2012 23:35 (thirteen years ago)

my local alt-rock station does a daily drivetime thing at 5:30 where they play some old hit that they usually don't play anymore, and by coincidence today's featured song was "New Age Girl." kinda freaked me out since this thread had just been revived.

― ghostface protocollah (some dude), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 00:44 (thirteen years ago)

This is among a whole host of '90s alt rock songs that I couldn't stand back in the day but whose evocation of a particular time and place shorts out my critical faculties these days.

― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 00:53 (thirteen years ago)

i totally used to see the video on THE BOX all the time but i'm not gonna check to see if i posted it in videos you used to see on THE BOX all the time

― ghostface protocollah (some dude), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 00:55 (thirteen years ago)

three years pass...

RAH

― a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Friday, 3 July 2015 19:19 (ten years ago)

I feel like in the decade-and-a-half since, my mind has compressed this song, "She Don't Use Jelly," "Lump," "Hey Leonardo," a live Dave Matthews Band "Mary Had a Little Lamb" violin solo, and that Primus "Big Brown Beaver" thing into one big obnoxious blob of a novelty tune that typifies, for me, all of the worst creative impulses of the 90s.

― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Friday, 3 July 2015 19:27 (ten years ago)

When I dj'ed in college they used to make me play Dead Eye Dick on every shift I worked. It was quite a popular tune on the playlist.
― Chris V (Chris V), Friday, 16 January 2004 11:35 (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that's possibly the most '90s song ever -- only in the '90s would someone express surprise over a liberal liking sex.
― tweemu (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 16 January 2004 11:38 (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
PCU to thread etc etc
― tweemu (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 16 January 2004 11:42 (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 3 July 2015 19:44 (ten years ago)

Someone polled the members of my senior class for their top entertainment picks of the year, and the results were published in the yearbook. The top two songs of the year were "New Age Girl" and "Mary Moon". I didn't vote for either.

― Turn That Pout Inside Out! (Old Lunch), Saturday, 4 July 2015 00:23 (ten years ago)

five months pass...

god this song sends me into a rage whenever I hear this still.

I don't care if she rides a fucking bike or if she likes your bone.

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 7 December 2015 17:24 (nine years ago)

RUFF!

― The Featureless Mash That Was Once My Face (Old Lunch), Monday, 7 December 2015 17:25 (nine years ago)

is he saying Ruff? I always thought it was "ROCK!"

My brother actually had the damn entire cd. their other material was nowhere near this bad, if not particularly memorable.

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 7 December 2015 17:26 (nine years ago)

early lyrics paste in this thread pretty much cemented it as "RAH" in my mind, no punctuation.

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 7 December 2015 18:41 (nine years ago)

so it's a cheerleading song? fuck it even more then!

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 7 December 2015 18:43 (nine years ago)

Novelty 90s alternative rock Spotify playlist, stat!

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 7 December 2015 19:02 (nine years ago)

I always figured it was either, "she sure likes to bone...ROUGH!" (as if she enjoys vigorous sexual activity) or "she sure like the bone...RUFF!" (as if she were a dog). But mostly I don't care.

― The Featureless Mash That Was Once My Face (Old Lunch), Monday, 7 December 2015 20:16 (nine years ago)

There are a lot of songs from that era that I didn't like at the time but in which I'm now able to find some nostalgic charm. This song is not one of those songs.

― The Featureless Mash That Was Once My Face (Old Lunch), Monday, 7 December 2015 20:24 (nine years ago)

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