Slog - Comments on Apropos of Sunday Afternoon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon Sure is something when you're listening to all the loudest, saddest songs your iPod knows, and you end up on a certain song you sometimes sing around the office to be funny but never actually lie back and listen to--a loud, sad song that's about things much more horrible than whatever it is you're going through, that had an incantatory and commercially viable four-word chorus, and that was marketed to the TV-watching public of 1994 with a video involving dirty children, people painted gold, a cross, machine guns, cement buildings covered in political graffiti, and blood-red trees on a soundstage--and... Copyright 2008 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:35:49 -0800 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:57:44 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Because you're the very definition of emo, you fucking loser. It's a good thing that you don't matter to anyone in...well, life.

]]> Because you're the very definition of emo, you fucking loser. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066549 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066549 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:49:06 -0800 Comment by ellarosa oh, come on 1, what are you so afraid of, you wuss-bag? a little joy and optimism never hurt anyone. would probably do you a world of good, come to think of it. and christopher must matter to his mom, at the very least.

]]> ellarosa http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066552 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066552 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:54:29 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO that is one long ass run on sentence. So, what was the song? Don't Worry, Be Happy?

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066554 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066554 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:56:48 -0800 Comment by chris farley Rollin doobies!?!?!?

]]> chris farley http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066560 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066560 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:09:16 -0800 Comment by Your bulge There was a guy cruising around Capitol Hill in a red Benz convertible and "Without You" by Harry Nilsson was blaring on the stereo - was that you? Jeezis man, THAT was pathetic.

]]> Your bulge http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066566 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066566 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:16:14 -0800 Comment by sad panda Losing My Religion? I always thought the popularity of that song made it lose some of its sincerity. It's always been cool as hell to hate on REM, but Michael Stipe could really write some winners.

]]> sad panda http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066571 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066571 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:43:11 -0800 Comment by mattymatt I think I'd agree with whoever assigned this post's category.

]]> mattymatt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066578 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066578 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:29:16 -0800 Comment by Christopher Frizzelle's Enormous Whozeewhatsit I'll tell you what makes me open my eyes and see a man standing with his arms outstretched to the sun...an enormous whozeewhatsit!!!

]]> Christopher Frizzelle's Enormous Whozeewhatsit http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066583 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066583 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:12:29 -0800 Comment by Andrew Maguire This song is intellectually lazy and dishonest. Something only a shallow mind could appreciate. My deepest and closest friends - people I would suck the pus out of a blister on a monkey's toe for - and I make time to seek out music that speaks only truth. Like Leonard Cohen (gasp). Then we smash all else that isn't real.

]]> Andrew Maguire http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066594 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066594 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:48:25 -0800 Comment by K It took you till 2008 to figure out what that song's about?

Did you live in a cave until 2006 or something?

Or Kennewick?

]]> K http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066607 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066607 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:16:02 -0800 Comment by everybodyknowzzzzz ....everybody knows....

]]> everybodyknowzzzzz http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066609 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066609 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:26:45 -0800 Comment by Gabriel Zombie?

]]> Gabriel http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066613 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066613 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:05:39 -0800 Comment by jean genie WHAT'S THE SONG FOR F's SAKE???

]]> jean genie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066614 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066614 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:30:00 -0800 Comment by Abby Like a Prayer?

]]> Abby http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066615 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066615 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:49:38 -0800 Comment by Mahtli69 1994 ... Incantatory and commercially viable four-word chorus ...

Whoomp! (There it Is)

]]> Mahtli69 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066616 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066616 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:56:09 -0800 Comment by idaho Don't worry be happy is from 88. next guess?

]]> idaho http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066619 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066619 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:59:15 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe You listen to garbage.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066621 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066621 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:05:33 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball In 1994, The Cranberries released "Linger," and one day, in San Francisco, this incredibly beautiful boy (who later stole my watch and my weed), started kissing me the exact second that song came on the radio and by the end of it, well...

Too bad that video is in B/W...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPLXJAWUnwI

Too bad he's gone.

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066622 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066622 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:30:41 -0800 Comment by idaho Okay, didn't see dirty children, men in gold or a cross in the first 30 sec of Whoomp! and I couldn't watch anymore. And Linger's chorus is longer than 4 words. This is driving me nuts.

]]> idaho http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066623 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066623 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:35:08 -0800 Comment by Madashell It's the Cranberries - Zombie:
youtube"dot"com/watch?v=HJEySrDerj0

]]> Madashell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066624 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066624 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:51:13 -0800 Comment by Postum fun game, turned me onto this site: http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1994.htm

...which is even better. Thanks for reminding me how assy music turned that year... April-ish...

]]> Postum http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066629 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066629 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:54:36 -0800 Comment by HFUS Holy Fuck, U Suck. U weren't there, and now you're trying too hard to act all cool and cosmo, but you can't cop to it because you weren't there but you think you were because you read it in a book somewhere from some crappy author (that you don't attribute it is forgiven), and you are still wondering why you're such a puss-puss and haven't done anything exciting, notable, dangerous, or noteworthy with your life. c. frizzelle, you were born alone, you got stoned and drunk, and you will someday leave in a sad, lonely, unremarkable, and unnoticed exeunte. people will remark about your lack of vision, your entire hum-drumness, and then they'll... well, they're your friends, so they'll probably get baked and forget about you the very next day.

your post was just as pointless as my reply. enjoy it, fucker.

]]> HFUS http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066634 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066634 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:21:59 -0800 Comment by Kiru Banzai Jesus Christ, Slog. Do something about your comments sections.

]]> Kiru Banzai http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066653 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066653 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:02:42 -0800 Comment by Ryan The dirty children clue made me think of "Jeremy" by Pearl Jam, but I think it came out before '94.

]]> Ryan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066667 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066667 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:04:47 -0800 Comment by The Incredible Husk @18,

That's the corniest thing I've ever read.

]]> The Incredible Husk http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066673 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066673 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:41:39 -0800 Comment by K It's the same old theme since 1916.

In your head, in your head they're still fighting,

With their tanks and their bombs,

And their bombs and their guns.

]]> K http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066724 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066724 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:34:13 -0800 Comment by jean genie OK..so indulge me once again.
What's the "incantatory and commercially viable four-word chorus"?

"Zombie...Zombie...Zombie..ie..ie" is only 3 words.

"In Your Head" is also only 3 words.

I don't know why but this slog post has become an obsession.

]]> jean genie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066829 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066829 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:08:54 -0800 Comment by Rob Campbell Christopher Frizzelle wrote, "An incantatory and commercially viable four-word chorus."

In his head, he must spell it, "In you're head."

]]> Rob Campbell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066832 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1066832 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:10:33 -0800 Comment by demolator Thank you, thank you, thank you, postum. I've had a song stuck in my head since 1995, and have easily spent 100+ hours online trying to figure out what it was. I went as far as offering $100 to The End listeners and sung the chorus for the DJ. No luck. Five minutes on musicoutfitters.com, and the mystery is solved. You've dislodged a splinter in my soul. As a lifelong pop culture obsessive-compulsive, you've given me one less thing to agonize over.

PS. I'm embarrassed to say what song it was, and it's not as good as I remembered.

]]> demolator http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1067356 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/apropos_of_sunday_afternoon#c1067356 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:57:44 -0800