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Thursday, November 10, 2011

New Garfunkel & Oates: "Save the Rich"

Posted by on Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:17 PM

 

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1
nailed it
Posted by anon42 on November 10, 2011 at 11:31 PM
2
As a hetero guy, I am officially sick of these bitches. It was cute but now their shit is tiresome.
Posted by Hooray Menopause ladies on November 11, 2011 at 1:05 AM
Cato the Younger Younger 3
@2, why do you feel the need to identify yourself as hetro right off the bat?
Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on November 11, 2011 at 4:13 AM
4
As another hetero guy, I still love 'em. So I'm really not sure what sexuality has to do with it.
Posted by NateMan on November 11, 2011 at 5:07 AM
Banna 5
I would marry them both, but that's not allowed. So I guess I'd settle for just having sex with them at the same time.
Posted by Banna http://www.ucp.org on November 11, 2011 at 5:58 AM
6
Love the lyrics. It's a pity you can't say "fuck" on radio, though. This deserves airplay.

Needs a punchier tune so it could be ironically sung at rallies.
Posted by Brooklyn Reader on November 11, 2011 at 6:24 AM
Vince 7
I wonder if Tim Minchin has heard them? I bet he'd chuckle with glee.
Posted by Vince on November 11, 2011 at 6:34 AM
Rotten666 8
Love that you guys rip on Pomplamoose yet you continue to promote this oh so twee nonsense . It was cute for five minutes a year and a half ago.

Posted by Rotten666 on November 11, 2011 at 7:00 AM
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5
bummer.
too bad America's Champion of
Marriage Equality and Sex and Stuff
is polygaphobic.....
Posted by Danny is a ChickenShit Hypocrite Coward AssWart on November 11, 2011 at 7:58 AM
debug 10
It's important that everybody agree on liking the same things!
Posted by debug on November 11, 2011 at 8:09 AM
11
Poignant. Well done.
Posted by Aedan Robinson on November 11, 2011 at 8:16 AM
12
I found it a little too obviously sarcastic and bitter to work perfectly.

Still, it is the sort of thing we need to be saying to each other if we want to change anything.
Posted by Too Comfortable To Rock The Boat on November 11, 2011 at 8:24 AM
MacCrocodile 13
@11 - Poignant women are smug.

@7 - I'd pay to watch a collaboration between them.
Posted by MacCrocodile on November 11, 2011 at 9:00 AM
Reverse Polarity 14
Love.
Posted by Reverse Polarity on November 11, 2011 at 9:19 AM
15
I'm with #8

Waaaay too cute and waif-y for me. Needs more... talent.
Posted by tkc on November 11, 2011 at 9:39 AM
16
Cute cute cute. But that's all you really expect from them. Right?
Posted by rutabaga pie on November 11, 2011 at 9:49 AM
17
@2
The title explicity identifies who you will be viewing and to whom you will be listening, yet you still clicked it, viewed and listened, and commented. Do you often subject yourself willingly to bitches of whom you are sick, HeteroMan?
Posted by Looking For a Better Read on November 11, 2011 at 9:53 AM
18
If they looked like Rosie O'Donnell and, oh, Whoopi Goldberg they wouldn't get a second listen.
Posted by bigyaz on November 11, 2011 at 11:48 AM
19
That song is awesomesauce. It's right up there with "The Pope Song" for me.
Posted by Daniel_NY on November 11, 2011 at 11:54 AM
Last of the Time Lords 20
I'd be more impressed if it had been sung by David Tennant and Patrick Stewart
Posted by Last of the Time Lords on November 11, 2011 at 12:06 PM
21
It's odd, you know, but nobody ever comments on Tim Minchin's appearance, even though he's arguably more unusual looking. I wonder why.
Posted by mran on November 11, 2011 at 12:07 PM
Matt from Denver 22
Tim Minchin looks fucking stupid. There.
Posted by Matt from Denver on November 11, 2011 at 12:19 PM
Allyn 23
@21 Maybe not here, but on at least one of his youtube videos there's about a hundred comments discussing why does he wear makeup and what's wrong with his hair and why is he barefoot?

And while I think these comments are moronic, it gives me some happiness. Perhaps snarkiness on one's appearance isn't limited to women. Primarily focused yes, but limited not so much.
Posted by Allyn on November 11, 2011 at 12:48 PM
Garfield 24
@6 a few fucks doesn't seem to stop Kanye from getting airplay
Posted by Garfield on November 11, 2011 at 12:52 PM
25
Airplay shouldn't matter. YouTube has made it irrelevant, right?
Posted by Pablo Picasso on November 11, 2011 at 1:10 PM
26
Kind of funny that this video is tagged with an Atlantis cruise ad.
Posted by Equus1 on November 11, 2011 at 1:17 PM
kim in portland 27
@ 22 (Matt),

I don't agree. Face to face, I thought he had beautiful eyes, and he was sweet and polite, quiet too, but we were in a museum. I thought he was lovely.
Posted by kim in portland http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/11/fast-paced_video_provides_a_fu.html on November 11, 2011 at 1:56 PM
Matt from Denver 28
@ 27, glad you feel that way. I was completely exaggerating, though. Underneath the messy hair and two-day stubble is a handsome face.
Posted by Matt from Denver on November 11, 2011 at 1:59 PM
29
I liked them. What's wrong with cuteness? Don't Americans like it anymore? Gee, wait a few more years and you'll all turn into Europeans. :-)
Posted by ankylosaur on November 11, 2011 at 2:18 PM
30
I still like them. Sure, they're a trifle glib, but they're cute and witty and melodic--and they skewer the powerful, the most appropriate target of satire.

It is quite easy to decline to click 'play', so their detractors merely need to accept a little personal responsibility: you need not click on everything Dan posts.
Posted by Functional Atheist on November 11, 2011 at 2:23 PM
31
It seems like the opposite vantage point of Tim Minchin's "Fuck the Poor"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGas0D9_z…
Posted by Munchin on Minchin on November 11, 2011 at 3:17 PM
32
Mr Ank - Wouldn't that be an improvement?
Posted by vennominon on November 11, 2011 at 7:44 PM
33
Mr Ven - Probably! :-) Besides, if Toynbee was right about civilizations, it's going to happen eventually anyway.
Posted by ankylosaur on November 12, 2011 at 3:10 PM

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