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"united states of whatever" - liam lynch

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single of the year or *what* ?

just heard this on fab fm, not for the last time i'm imagining.

has this record been mentioned already ?
it's hilarious !
got the same feeling hearin it as when i 1st heard
'caught by the fuzz' and 'loser'. dunno why.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Love the song. (Not new actually)

It was briefly discussed

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Has this been re-released somehow? This is epic. I'm excited. Yeah, single of the year, can't wait to hear it.

― A.V. Alexandre (Keiko), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes and yes.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 11:05 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...
I saw the video yesterday. As pinnacles of all recorded music go, it's pretty good.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 25 November 2002 12:15 (twenty-three years ago)

sixteen years pass...

WHATEVA!

― meaulnes, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 11:29 (six years ago)

I wonder what he's doing right now

― frogbs, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 11:35 (six years ago)

Definitely one for the “Artists Songs that were once quite popular, yet nowadays are mostly ignored in canonical history books” thread.

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 11:44 (six years ago)

I loved this song. saw it on some music-videos-in-the-middle-of-the-night thing while sleepless in Western Australia circa '03 I think, went out the next morning (Bunbury maybe?) to hunt down a copy of it. which I did. A CD single, to be perfectly frank about it. I feel like talking about chopping firewood and carrying it to my cabin which has no central heating because it hasn't been invented yet

― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 12:03 (six years ago)

speaking of which I am still waiting patently for Sifl & Olly's "Songs of Season 2" and I am beginning to worry that it won't happen

― frogbs, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 12:24 (six years ago)

whatever.

Spotify indicates he has since released 13 more albums.

― maffew12, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 12:51 (six years ago)

Liam Lynch's Wikipedia table of contents

Contents

1 Biography
1.1 1990s
1.2 2000s
1.3 Podcast

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 12:52 (six years ago)

hard times when your wiki doesn't f with your past decade of work!

― maffew12, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 12:53 (six years ago)

that or perhaps '2010s' and 'Podcast' are now just freely interchangeable

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 12:55 (six years ago)

you know, you might be onto somWHATEVER

― maffew12, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 12:56 (six years ago)

love guys like this where you can tell their lives were permanently altered by the Beastie Boys

― frogbs, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 13:07 (six years ago)

My 5-year-old was so into this song at one point that i went on a hunt for other kid-friendly punk songs, but I couldn't turn up anything that got the same reaction.

― enochroot, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 13:15 (six years ago)

I still think about this song every week or so

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

― frogbs, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 14:04 (six years ago)

good revive. this song kicks ass.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 16:12 (six years ago)

this is the only sifl and olly thing i remember

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOfa6JEIVkk

― ت (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 16:23 (six years ago)

still basically the catchiest song ever written

― frogbs, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 17:27 (six years ago)

I actually loved all the "fake songs" on that album, especially the fake pixies song and fake bjork song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTSS0XxNxt0

(but agree that 'whatever' was in a league of its own)

― enochroot, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 18:35 (six years ago)

man, my buddies and i used to listen to 'fake songs' so much when we were in 9th grade. i haven't heard any of these songs in years even though i still use 'zafo' as my username for my admin accounts at work.

― dynamicinterface, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 21:48 (six years ago)

nice!!! I still use "Jargon Scott" sometimes

― frogbs, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 22:01 (six years ago)

Still comfortably one of my all time favourite singles. Supposedly he was making much of it up as he went along.

― piscesx, Thursday, 31 October 2019 03:11 (six years ago)


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