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I would be clicking "remove as friend" so fucking fast...

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

this song only got to #37 in the UK, but it seem/ed much more prevalent than that.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Of all the pop stars who have ever vanished into obscurity, I am most glad for the disappearance of Stephen Jenkins. The guy must have made millions off that song, though, in movie trailer royalties alone.

I'll take Spin Doctors' 'Two Princes' anyday.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Tiki Theater Xymposium), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I believe CatWonton must've been controlling all local FM radio during my college years.

― matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

If he was, he didn't play "How's It Gonna Be" often enough.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Of the mainstream post-grunge bands (ouch, what a onerous classification), they were of the first rank. I played that first record to death in 8th grade...

Motorcycle Driveby, God of Wine, that sweet little crescendo bridge in Jumper with the guitar lick; there was something to them of substance, on that record at least.

^_^

― Yoshinori M. Sasao (yoshinorimike), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 04:39 (seventeen years ago) link

"Counting Blue Cars" still the only post-grunge song I can stomach.

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 05:06 (seventeen years ago) link

*removes nostalgi-blurred rose-tinted lenses*

― Yoshinori M. Sasao (yoshinorimike), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 05:56 (seventeen years ago) link

"Sex and Candy" is the only song I ever mostly learned on guitar.

― milo (milo), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 06:05 (seventeen years ago) link

"Groups I belong to:
All Noise Dude Mindmeld And..."

― Aaron Godfrey (aaron d.g.), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 09:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I would be clicking "remove as friend" so fucking fast...

I read "Lifehouse" as "Whitehouse" and was thinking a BIG wtf?! for a breif second.

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Aaron, are you suggesting s/he was SET UP?!? with the hipster equivalent of scandalous photos in a tabloid?

― Yoshinori M. Sasao (yoshinorimike), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I played that first record to death in 8th grade...

Seriously, though, it is a quite catchy number. I still hate it but mostly because of Jerkins - whatsinanameright - who seems such a dipshit.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I read somewhere that he's engaged to whatever minor pop starlet did that "you know I'd walk a thousand miles..." song? and I was like "okay, I suppose that makes sense".

― Goodtime Slim, Uncle Doobie, and the Great Frisco Freakout (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link

This is after he dated a slew of models. I think he even dated Charlize Theron.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude from this band was in an awesome Lifetime movie with the girl from Just One of the Guys. Recommended!

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

makes no sense to dislike a band becuase you perceive a member to be a jackass...nice people make crappy music...

― henry s (henry s), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

nice people make for crappy spellers, too...

― henry s (henry s), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Vanessa Carlton??????

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

"Game Of Love", best song the new radicals never recorded...

― henry s (henry s), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost that's the one.

makes no sense to dislike a band becuase you perceive a member to be a jackass...nice people make crappy music...

I know, I know. Can't help it, I just don't. It's not always the case, only in some cases.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I like this song. I put it on in the car the other day, it was just like, "ahhhh."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

This has been a karaoke staple of mine for years. No joke.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

When I see Stephen Jenkins in print (admittedly not very often):

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I think I'm seeing this guy:

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― Jubalique die Zitronen (juicefriend), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

argh! sorry, suffice it to say: Stephen Jenkins = Gerard Butler = Stephen Jenkins = Gerard Butler = Stephen Jenkins recursion.

― Jubalique die Zitronen (juicefriend), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost, Tantrum The Cat:

can you hit those high notes?

― henry s (henry s), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Yup! I've actually done a bit of session singing in my day...

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

wow Jub that first Jenkins pic looks like a sneezing Live Aid Bono.

― Yoshinori M. Sasao (yoshinorimike), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost, Tantrum The Cat:

impressive!

― henry s (henry s), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a tough one in karaoke. I gave it a try a while back.

― Kate Silver (barkleyforthree), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link

was this song one of the first popular song references to crystal meth?

― just m@tt he1g3s0n (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Aw heck, what can I say: I'm a sucker for most "doo-doo-doo" songs, whether by Lou Reed or Suzanne Vega or Love or CSN or etc. That SpinDoctors-style "funk" is as limp as it always was, and I'll never buy the record itself, but I'll happily listen whenever it turns up on the radio.

Characteristically, I don't know a single lyric. (Also don't know which movies it's been featured in, aside from that incredible opening shot in "Contact".)

― Monty Von Bygone (Monty Von Bygone), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

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