words cannot express the way i feel when i listen to this song. Its almost as if i could walk and talk and the neckbrace doesn't even matter anymore. I'm having fun and NOTHING can stop me. Because up in heaven we can all skate. Skating is a metaphor.
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 01:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― C0L1N B--KETT, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 01:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Who's it by, again?
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― C0L1N B--KETT, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 01:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 01:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 01:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 01:30 (nineteen years ago) link
GOD FUCK YOU FOR BRINGING UP THIS SONG
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 01:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 01:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Grand Epic (Grand Epic), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 02:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 02:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Having said this, that mixtape sounds like the worst thing ever. Did it also have "Because I got high" and "Block rockin beats" on it?
― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 03:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― lukey (Lukey G), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 09:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Miles Finch, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 09:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 09:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Miles Finch, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 10:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 10:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 10:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 10:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 10:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Although I'll be the first to admit that this song is nothing compared to "Steal Me Sunshine," but that's not exactly a fair comparison.
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 10:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 10:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 10:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― mogiaw, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
I think this is a pretty song as far as failed would-be late alt-rock anthems go. It's great when the second chorus comes in with the loud drums and everything, and the bridge is pretty much unassailable:
Like Christian Hosoi way back in '87 we'll be bustin' Christ Airs until we get to heaven Think I really care that I missed biology Got my education in Stalefishology With all your rules, you gots to chill I'm gonna twist out like Mike McGill
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 18 July 2008 03:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think this song recieved airplay on the east coast. Not in my area anyway... therefore I consider this song way west coast.
― billstevejim, Friday, 18 July 2008 03:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I was living in Georgia but I think I only ever saw it on MTV2.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 18 July 2008 03:46 (fifteen years ago) link
xp: It was played every hour on the hour in DC/Maryland.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 18 July 2008 03:55 (fifteen years ago) link
this shit still sound good they need to play this on the radio word
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 18 July 2008 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I enjoyed that post so much Hoos
― J0hn D., Friday, 18 July 2008 03:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I have never heard this song and still don't know who it's by
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, 18 July 2008 16:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw this single in a charity shop a couple of days ago and was like "did I like this? I can't remember". I didn't buy it. Still can't remember if I liked it or not.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 18 July 2008 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link
You did.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 18 July 2008 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
classic classic classic
of all the 'i can't believe this wasn't a us hit' non-us hits this is the main one
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 6 May 2024 05:09 (one week ago) link
suburban brits couldn't get enough of that socal bullshit at the time, idk if americans were more burnt out on it by that point
teenage dirtbag (not socal, not that we would have known) is also a big one in the US non-US hit category at the time (pretty fly to a lesser extent a bit before). these songs are broad and catchy and obvious and embarrassing with clever combinations of specificity and generalizability in their details
I prefer this one for the ACAB factor and the relative subtlety of its critique of the US white christian ideal of heaven as basically a segregated gated community. which was lost on me at the time
it's more allstarish than I remember it being and I would probably have hated this whole "thing" (which I assume sublime has something to do with?) if I was closer to it but like many people raised on the same pop culture imports and socio-historical ignorance californian suburbia might as well have been heaven to us
― Left, Monday, 6 May 2024 12:02 (one week ago) link
classic for sure
― budo jeru, Monday, 6 May 2024 16:58 (one week ago) link
it was definitely a late outing for the sunshine pop thing*. to me it feels a bit more pop punk coded than smash mouth or steal my sunshine. my first exposure to it was on my sixth birthday through the compilation 'sk8er rock'. i was about to say it is next to smooth criminal and fat lip on now 50 but bohemian like you is in the way.
*which in my head does span from the socal stuff to, like, 5ive. i remember seeing the video to got the feelin' on the vault once and thinking that, ignoring who it is by completely, it could have been on kerrang, a corny track by a usually cruder rap rock band (i (deliberately?) ignored the presence of synchronised dancing hehe).
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 6 May 2024 17:04 (one week ago) link
The other day, after hearing my son blast Citizen King's "Better Days" from the garage, I was tempted to start a thread about this strain of positive alternative pop of the 90s. I wanted to trace its history and get into the nitty-gritty of it. That urge passed, but Heaven is a Halfpipe was definitely get brought up.
― peace, man, Monday, 6 May 2024 17:51 (one week ago) link
Would have been something like, "the first Urban Dance Squad album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought one..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Dw6q-5iaA
― peace, man, Monday, 6 May 2024 18:01 (one week ago) link
classic
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 6 May 2024 22:26 (one week ago) link
We had that thread recently about the whole post-Beck Alternative movement, of which there is a lot of overlap.'if Odelay sucked...' How Alt-Rock Dealt With Beck In The '90s
― MarkoP, Monday, 6 May 2024 22:35 (one week ago) link
Thanks!
― peace, man, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 08:40 (one week ago) link