TS: "Popular" vs "Flagpole Sitta"

Oh shit I went there.

Could you get lost on your way back?

:D

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.

hmmm, dreads or asian guy???

flagpole sitta!!!!!!

"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.

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

flagpole sitta duhr

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.

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.

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.

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

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".

I give the video an A.

closing time

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.

my own worst enemy

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.

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justice

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.

Reprehensible result.

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

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