In my early teens, between 1984 and 1987 I listened to practically nothing else. My first concert was a Prince show in 1986. He shaped my musical taste more than anything else. This just sucks, damn that april snow.
I've listened to music maybe for 70000 hours in my life (I'm old and listen to music a lot) and I can't remember hearing any of these songs before, though I'm sure I have since I've tried to understand the deal with the Grateful Dead on occassions. TBH, this sounded pretty much exactly as boring as I was expecting. Good choice of artists, though.
I've seen Built to Spill play PFNO and Echo and the Bunnymen play Ocean Rain and both those shows was really, really great, both bands was accompanied by a string section which surely added to the experience. I consider that BtS.show one of my top five live experiences..
I've also yawned myself through Bruce Springsteen playing Darkness On the Edge of Town and damning myself I didn't go the night before when he chosed to play through Burn to Run. He did Born in the USA the next day so it could've been worse.
In a couple of months I'll be seeing Brian Wilson performing Pet Sounds. I'm pretty excited about that.
Well, so anyway, this stuff is the dregs of the music business and we as fans are bored with it.
It's a fun song! Kind of logical that they reach another creative peak right after Weezer finds their momentum again, since they were a Weezer-ripoff from the beginning. Their most (only?) memorable song, that "Van Halen" that's mentioned, surely wouldn't have existed without "In the Garage". But I liked it anyway. :) Btw, I'm mpressed that you can write about Nerf Herder without mentioning that the singer is Parry Gripp, king of silly meme-songs (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=parry+gripp). My kids used to play that "I Got No Iphone" until I threw up, finding out it was the singer of Nerf Herder (a Star Wars reference, btw) made it a little easier to stand.
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