Philosophy...Is The Talk On A Cereal Box

no isn't you hippie

i spent an angry minute trying to remember why i knew this phrase. now i am just angry at you for the fact that now i remember

I quit
I give up
Nothing's good
Enough
For any
Aerosmith

....it seems

i spent an angry minute trying to remember why i knew this phrase. now i am just angry at you for the fact that now i remember

well I wasn't going to suffer alone

terrible

Oh dear god. Curse you.

the next line might be even worse

That was one of the first cassingles I ever bought. My dad and I listened to it on the way home from Sam Goody and I asked him what he thought, since she was going for a hippie thing and my dad mostly only listened to 60s music. His response: "Well, she doesn't know anything about philosophy and she doesn't know anything about religion."

like in a goebbels vs klaus barbie sorta way, but still xpost

http://petpicks.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/smiling-dog.jpg

i heard this song in the car once when i was a child

i think the experience was inextricably linked with the great depression that would eventually ensue in my mid20's

When I met my beloved, she'd named her dog Edie, a choice made when she was 19 and into this. Great dog!

2013, the year when someone found the courage to gainsay cultural behemoth edie brickell

j/k this song bites

The cultural road from this to 4 Non Blondes seems like a secret history of terror.

This song smells like nag champa and sadness.

Ned, that is a hellish mixtape just begging to be made.

There was an 8th grader on my schoolbus who looked just like her. Edie Brickell-lookin' chicks in the late 80s were golden.

i...think i'm glad i don't understand this thread?

What if God was one of us?

what to make of the banner in the beginning of the video: MIDNIGHT SHOW!

Also, the conductor at 2:36. Is he conducting the autowah?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDl3bdE3YQA

Ned, that is a hellish mixtape just begging to be made.

Go for it. And just remember the time you went to see the doctor of philosophy with a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee.

spent my whole life thinking it was "philosophy is a doggone cereal box religion." thanks thread?

still pretty great this version. folk often tend to think it's a mash-up of Loaded and What I Am but of course Weatherall swiped the sample from this remix in the first place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPaJJljriH4

xp: lol

i can feel a 'What I Am' Vs. 'Ironic' poll coming on..

pls no

please please

no

j/k this song bites

― buzza, Saturday, January 26, 2013 1:56 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark

like being bit by a smiling dog

This song clips its toenails in bed after sex.

signs signs everywhere a sign

"what i am" seriously spoiled many a car ride when i was 10

"JUST PLAY BUFFALO STANCE AGAIN YOU STUPID RADIO"

Oh thats the song Emma Bunton (baby spice) did
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXEPl3ORr4

btw her and paul simon i don't know how they made it thru a day

Was pretty content with the old bohemians, actually. Didn't see any reason to change it up.

The most grating part of this song are the "do ya"'s.

I originally thought she was saying "d-derriere".

feel like calling up underrated aerosmith every hour on the hour and blasting this song as payback for reminding me of it after all these years

I interviewed her in 2011, when she "came back" (read: released two albums nobody but music journalists 40 and older cared about).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82cJgPXU-ik

Didn't ask her about this song, btw. Figure she'd probably respond with something between a shrug and a cringe - I mean, what was she, 20 or 21 when that was recorded? That's the problem with recorded music - all your boneheaded ideas hang around forever.

yea it's fucked

Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box, think about it.

Well it is for me, cos I buy Plat-O's

lol

I mean, what was she, 20 or 21 when that was recorded? That's the problem with recorded music - all your boneheaded ideas hang around forever.

Considering that it probably made her more money than the rest of her recorded output, I imagine she's not feeling too bad about it?

At the time, I think I kind of assumed that this was the sort of song that made sense if you were older.

Still, seems so weird to write a song that deliberately celebrates ignorance.

i like the thought that it was her lyrics that made Paul Simon go "I'm gonna marry that girl"

Still, seems so weird to write a song that deliberately celebrates ignorance.

hippies, iirc.

can't be all bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuhaFdBuwp4

with steve gadd & andy fairweather low!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5gq-1Mb-Ss

There's a particular jpeg from the Mickey Avalon thread, long since deleted iirc, that has never left my memory

think how shocked we're all gonna be when we find out aero's just pulling some psyops shill work here, I mean who has even *thought* about edie brickell in the past 20 years and now she's got an album coming out w/ steve martin, if you say this is all coincidence I've got a grassy knoll I'd like to sell you

FALSE FLAG OPS

wouldn't put it past him tbh

Steve Martin and Aerosmith both performed songs from the Beatles album Abbey Road in the 1978 film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Martin/Brickell collab is being produced by Peter Asher, who was head of A&R at the Beatles' Apple Records when Abbey Road was being produced?

http://www.spacepub.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/The-Truth-Is-Out-There.jpg

I deny everything

you see, he's just confirmed it

anyway I for one will be purchasing the new brickell/martin album I'm not made of stone here ppl

this is not the sort of development i expected from a dog on a cereal box

http://racketmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/cookiecrisp.jpg

Everybody hates Edie Brickell
All my favorite shows are on TV
All the restaurants serve my favorite food
'Cause now everybody's me

Everybody loves Charles Manson
Everybody wants to set him free
Everybody's on the parole board
'Cause now everybody's me

!

Sorry. Hadn't thought about that song since eighth grade or so. Good call.

that song rules

dammit how did I miss this thread

lol

DJP, would you say you were "not aware" of it?

I'd just turned 40 and I knew what I knew

jjj's response was classic

You prob missed it cos it's on ilm eh

http://img.cache.vevo.com/Content/VevoImages/video/278B8CFD7D83EF61648DA10F114A97D5.jpg

http://www.unitedcypher.com/storage/1024px-FrightNight-Amy.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1368383300248

Yuck, that's kind of gross, sorry.

*posts image i looked at*

24 seconds later..

oh sorry

u should apologize for all your posts

you should apologize for your mom.

the guitar lick in this song with the added-9th power chords sounds like me playing guitar at age 16

Paul Simon and Edie Brickell charged with disorderly conduct

Most key sentence from that article:

The folk-rock band had a big hit with their debut single What I Am in 1988, a track subsequently covered by former Spice Girl Emma Bunton in 1999.

they had to let us brits know what song they were talking about.

I suddenly envy all brits who were of radio-listening age from around 1988-1990.

Maybe it's because I wasn't quite listening to the radio in 1988-1990, but I always tend to associate that song more with the mid 90s than any other time.

"I said shallow water!"

no need to discuss much!

I suddenly envy all brits who were of radio-listening age from around 1988-1990.

http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1989.shtml

02 Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers Swing The Mood

don't let me get too derp

04 Soul II Soul Back To Life (However Do You Want Me)

mind you turricans fave uk #1 ever is at #22 in that list

i just heard this song friday night in its equally-intolerable remix bc someone included it on a 'balearic classics' mix* right after PiL 'Rise', so I ALREADY suffered through the weekend with this thing up in my shithouse and now you have to bump it for my working week as well guuuhhhhhhhhhh.

That fucking T-Wah...

*there are entire separate packets of lols re: me listening to 'balearic mixtapes' but that's best left to other threads

Maybe it's because I wasn't quite listening to the radio in 1988-1990, but I always tend to associate that song more with the mid 90s than any other time.

Ha, really? I think it's permanently etched into my brain from hearing it so much on Ottawa radio in 88/89.

I wasn't a very discerning child--if it was on the radio, I probably liked it--and I still remember hearing the band perform this song on SNL when I was ten years old or thereabouts and just thinking "ugh."

Yeah for me, it's filed in my brain alongside stuff like Jewel's "You Were Meant For Me" and Merril Bainbridge's "Mouth".

I was born in 1987 & I can't remember having heard "What I Am" until about 1997, at which point the Top 40/AC stations played it so often I thought it was a new song. I guess radio programmers thought it would slot in well with contemporary alanis-core hits, but irc they dropped it from regular rotation a few years later. I started a thread a few years ago about the "Edie Brickell existing outside of time & space" phenomenon, but I'm embarrassed by it now.

xpost

I never made the connection until you mentioned it, but "What I Am" would have so been a Jewel song if it had come along ten years later.

I remember hearing it in a pub in the late 90s/early 00s and my friends thought it sounded like a contemporary Ani diFranco song.

I almost forgot, long after my experience with dad and the What I Am cassingle, I found a copy of Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars on cassette for $0.50 in a used record store. I took it home and popped it in my tape deck and it wouldn't play - ka-chunka-chunka-chunka-chunk. I took the cassette out to find out what went wrong and there was rotten moldy apple mashed in all the openings.

― cloacachella (how's life), Sunday, January 27, 2013 3:38 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Maybe Edie just meant this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/arts/music/cereal-box-records.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mE8.eMSK.Alg7_3-tYk1T&smid=bs-share

RELIGION!

if i had discovered "pleasant valley sunday" from a box of cap'n crunch at the right age, it might well have become my religion