TS: "Popular" vs "Flagpole Sitta"

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Flagpole Sitta21
Popular 11


Dom Passantino, Monday, 21 April 2008 18:44 (seventeen years ago)

Oh shit I went there.

Dom Passantino, Monday, 21 April 2008 18:44 (seventeen years ago)

Could you get lost on your way back?

:D

David R., Monday, 21 April 2008 18:44 (seventeen years ago)

Having to listen to "Flagpole Sitta" 6 times when you watch a series of Peep Show on DVD, and are too lazy to fast forward because the remote is broke: NOT GOOD.

Bodrick III, Monday, 21 April 2008 18:53 (seventeen years ago)

hmmm, dreads or asian guy???

mizzell, Monday, 21 April 2008 19:54 (seventeen years ago)

flagpole sitta!!!!!!

M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 21 April 2008 19:58 (seventeen years ago)

"Ice Box," "Deeper Well," "Mother's Day," "Blankest Year," "The Voices" are all great Nada Surf songs that are way better than "Popular."

"Flagpole" is the better single, although I tried getting into Harvey Danger and did not enjoy it.

billstevejim, Monday, 21 April 2008 20:03 (seventeen years ago)

cash sitta >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> flagpole sitta

am0n, Monday, 21 April 2008 20:03 (seventeen years ago)

flagpole sitta duhr

69, Monday, 21 April 2008 20:05 (seventeen years ago)

Can be expanded for 2 more late 90s alt rock one hit wonders:

Bound To The Floor--Local H
Sex & Candy--Marcy Playground

Of course, Local H and Nada Surf are both considerably better than 1 hit wonders.

kornrulez6969, Monday, 21 April 2008 20:08 (seventeen years ago)

hmmm, dreads or asian guy???

I was actually thinking this was more T/S: the guy on the top left vss. the guy on the bottom right.

Popular wasn't that good, but like hell it's no flagpole sitta.

mehlt, Monday, 21 April 2008 20:15 (seventeen years ago)

Flagpole Sitta's lyrical content is way too much painful 90s schtick for this guy right now. At least Popular's lyrics were decades old by the time they became Popular's lyrics.

call all destroyer, Monday, 21 April 2008 20:19 (seventeen years ago)

Popular wasn't that good, but like hell it's no flagpole sitta.

-- mehlt, Monday, April 21, 2008 8:15 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

ugh this sentence

69, Monday, 21 April 2008 20:20 (seventeen years ago)

The video for this song, directed by Jesse Peretz, was shot at the Bayonne High School, with administration approval, and showed football players and cheerleaders, wearing the uniforms of the school, as well as the three members of the band, Matthew as a teacher, Daniel as a security guard, and Ira as the football coach. The role of lead cheerleader played by Sarah Sebestyen has been accused of glorifying teenage sluttiness as her perfomance nearly steals the show. The vice principal of the High School later launched a controversy, in mid-August 1996, by raising the issue that the last scene, which shows football players staring suggestively at each other in the showers, was homoerotic and thus offensive towards Bayonne High School, as it suggested some of its football players could be gay.

According to Nada Surf, the shower scene was never intended to suggest homosexuality. Indeed, both the song's lyrics and the bulk of the video's imagery are predominantly — and blatantly — heterosexual. The video features passionate, heterosexual kissing scenes, for example, which go well beyond any "suggestive" smiles that so offended the vice principal.

Significantly, the band members quickly took exception to this homophobic attack. During an MTV News report on the controversy, Nada Surf lambasted the vice principal's ignorance — calling the vice principal "small minded" for singling out "homoeroticism as more offensive than straight eroticism".

Bodrick III, Monday, 21 April 2008 22:17 (seventeen years ago)

I give the video an A.

billstevejim, Monday, 21 April 2008 22:45 (seventeen years ago)

closing time

chaki, Monday, 21 April 2008 22:50 (seventeen years ago)

I'm gonna weigh in on the 3rd party votes so far..

The s/t Marcy Playground album is about half-awesome.
Every song on Local H "As Good As Dead" is pretty outstanding.
Semisonic "Feeling Strangely Fine" was itself strangely fine, if "fine" meant the same thing as "sorta ok" with the singles as the obvious standouts.

billstevejim, Monday, 21 April 2008 22:56 (seventeen years ago)

my own worst enemy

Tape Store, Monday, 21 April 2008 22:56 (seventeen years ago)

Flagpole Sitta is rubbish and sounds like the Supernaturals. Popular is possibly the pinnacle of whiney 90s MTV nerd-punk. Apart from Basket Case and well, loads of the other ones.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 09:17 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

justice

musically, Thursday, 1 May 2008 01:03 (seventeen years ago)

harvey danger looks like it could be made up of ilx posters. although whenever i se a picture of elbow i always think those guys must post on ilx.

keythkeyth, Thursday, 1 May 2008 03:47 (seventeen years ago)

Reprehensible result.

Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 1 May 2008 07:07 (seventeen years ago)

Is "Sitta" supposed to be some kind of pun on something, or is it just "sitter" spelled poorly?

kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 1 May 2008 08:56 (seventeen years ago)

rong

Gukbe, Thursday, 1 May 2008 16:14 (seventeen years ago)


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