Found the alt lyrics he started using a couple of years ago, which are about as good as you can do under the circumstances.
"They say the times are changing
And peace on earth has come to pass
Although the war is raging
They see each war will be the last
Send the boys back to Enniskillen
'Cause a robot army does all the killing
And the BBC will beg you to forgive us
Choose a word or two and cut them out with scissors"
The AV Club (well, its parent company) is trying to force its workers to move from Chicago to LA, and advertising their positions before they've even declined.
https://twitter.com/OnionIncUnion/status/1479148577825906688
Fuck Jim Spanfeller's herb ass.
Honestly, Safran is mainly there so Australians can go "Oh shit! It's John Safran", but there's no real context beyond that. He's cut back on the prankz to write books about nazis and cigarette companies, but his past shenanigans include streaking through Jerusalem to prove God is a St Kilda fan...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZQYpNQPXBQ
...filming a pitch trailer about BMXing LDS evangelists (I'd watch the hell out of it if it was made)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj9g9-0zeyY
...and confronting a "respectable" gutter journalist at home with the same stitchup bullshit tactics said journalist's tabloid show uses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsbcScp9wpU
He used to tell journalists he lost his (fake) first name in a poker match, which is as likely to be true as it was an amusing way to smartarse Richard Wilkins or whomever.
In Australia the cd single was discount-priced and came with a free shirt (the one with a floral logo that wrapped around the entire shirt), and everybody seemed to be wearing them for a bit regardless of their opinion of the band. Mine lasted a good decade or so as my go-to hair dying shirt.
The solo makes the song, specifically that one ridiculously loud note where (if my recollections of old Guitar Player back-issues are correct) he accidentally leant too close to the microphone. Shit figuratively and literally slaps.
Man I'm a sucker for old-timey exposition-laden titles like "Turns Out I’m Sentimental After All". Why isn't this a thing anymore? Get your fucken shit together, everyone but Sondre.
"One Foot in the Light" is lovely. Glad they're expanding from their garage-heavy roots (which are fun and all, but a little limiting) because they have some solid songwriting chops. Hercules/Iolaus is one of my favourite songs of the past decade.
I've been waiting to to shoehorn this somewhere for months.
https://www.tiktok.com/@sillylilbetch/video/6972577081918082310
(Do tiktok embeds work? Link if they don't.)
Holy shit do I wanna slap whoever scanned that cover and uploaded it to all the streaming sites. It's one of my favourite bits of album art, and it's been damned to spend it's life on the internet stripped of the luridity that made it so fucking hilarious, and replaced with some washed out garbage.
The film was honestly more related to a video game called "Five Nights at Freddie's" that they obviously couldn't get the rights to, so they just shoehorned in whatever they could.
People have been having fun with the HB properties for a while; there's a really good comic series of reboots, the best of which uses Snagglepuss to examine McCarthyism.
Except that band practice involves shrugging off fucken "All Things Must Pass" so you can continue pissing around with shit you wrote when you were 14 because you're struggling for decent new material.
People are way too sheepish about "because it's the one I heard first" being the reason an album's their favourite. I don't even think it's a money thing for me, I'm just an indignant jerk.
Aww man, this sucks. Nez was as talented as fuck in so many areas, and hands down my favourite Monkee. The quickness of his smartarsery in his Monkees audition is incredible.
https://youtu.be/in9UyE1OlOk?t=156
Fantastic singer, but I could listen to the guys speaking voice all day.
There's diminishing returns to their schtick, but they're pretty fun before it wears off. Never going to hate on a band whose singer wrote a song called "I Hope Scott Morrison's House Burns Down".
A lot of that Toytown techno was a lot more tolerable (which is, admittedly, a pretty low bar) than it had any right to be. I get Urban Hype's "Trip to Trumpton" stuck in my head a lot, and there's a lot worse earworms out there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWttTRPkm0w
Always have a hell of a lot of time for Carter. Loved how they'd frequently pull out vaguely-related covers for their B-Sides, which in "Sheriff Fatman"'s case was a corker of a cover of Pet Shop Boys' "Rent".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOIfiqBvv-U
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