Set aside "Sex and Candy." Just forget about its tired ass completely for a second and listen to the eponymous album from which it was plucked. This is a really nice little album! Weird, inward-turned songs of a nerdy loner ("St. Joe On The Schoolbus") who can't quite manage existential despair and would really rather just be left alone to enjoy his Dungeons & Dragons games (see "A Cloak of Elvenkind"). There's a bit of grownup anguish ("Opium") but really he's just trying to get his childhood playmates to come back ("Sherry Fraser," probably the highlight). Throw in a few kind of pointless (but energetic!) story-songs - including "Poppies" with a riff so good you can't believe nobody thought of it until Marcy fucking Playground - and you've got a set better than anything you'd see at any open-mic you'd expect a band like this to be playing.
Like Bicycle's Bicycle, which I also just started a thread about, the Marcy Playground record is a hard thing to accept if you have a blanket distaste for late 90s production cliches; this time the roadblock is that acoustic-guitar sound that wants to be "organic" but somehow sounds a little too labored-over. But as with the Bicycle album, if you can get past all that, there's a very nice collection of songs to be had.
Oh, and "Sex and Candy," which is ungodly annoying and I really don't even want to discuss or think about ever again in my life.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 13 October 2007 04:35 (eighteen years ago)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/khowrd/ddrkid.gif
― stephen, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)
^^^otm
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)
This is the best thing I will see on the internett today.
― W4LTER, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)
I can't think of a queasier hook that went big than "I smell sex and candy in here." At least from the 90s.
That asaid, I do think St. Joe is really good, and as I said in another thread, one of my best friends stans seriously hard for the album, which I will hopefully be checking out soon....
― amphetamine fueled scholar (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 16:39 (fifteen years ago)
ooh i saw starsfallin' all around your head
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 25 March 2019 14:34 (seven years ago)
i have never listened to the s/t but i did see marcy playground open the summerland tour in 2013(?) which also featured gin blossoms, lit, sugar ray, and everclear. i thought they sounded like archers of loaf
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 25 March 2019 14:37 (seven years ago)
search: "Coming Up From Behind," "Sherry Fraser," "St Joe On The Schoolbus"destroy: "It's Saturday"
― billstevejim, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:46 (seven years ago)
oh LAY YEE eeh heee
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 25 March 2019 14:47 (seven years ago)
was at karaoke a few years ago and a woman did a sultry, completely earnest version of sex and candy in the direction of her partner and it was one of the most revolting sights mine eyes have beheld
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 25 March 2019 17:38 (seven years ago)
one of my best friends stans seriously hard for the albumWait, ppl were using the term “stans” in 2011?!
― What's that Phish song that goes "Bag it, Tag it"? (morrisp), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 01:53 (seven years ago)
I think people have been using stan since the Eminem song came out
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 01:58 (seven years ago)
I would pay good money for a recording of the drunk karaoke torch version of Sex and Candy
xp I swear I never encountered it until 2016 or so (and I’m Fairly Online)
― What's that Phish song that goes "Bag it, Tag it"? (morrisp), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 02:11 (seven years ago)
First ILX use (in the accepted tense): 2002!
Jay-Z / Nas hip-hop throw down? & other throw-downs?
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 02:18 (seven years ago)
😯
― What's that Phish song that goes "Bag it, Tag it"? (morrisp), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 02:39 (seven years ago)
Nas uses the term stan in 2001 track "ether"
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 04:12 (seven years ago)
Reba
― days of rags and noses (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 07:10 (seven years ago)