Guilty Pleasure Every couple months or so when I’m sitting here working on the books calendar with headphones on…
posted by on February 22 at 16:03 PM
…I listen to this.
Yes. I know. But. It came out when I was 13 years old, and it was really big in the suburbs, and the video for “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” seemed like the best thing ever. We ate Hot Pockets and drank Sprite and played Risk on the computer and listened to this album again and again and again. The song “Afternoons & Coffeespoons” references T. S. Eliot, and I remember we all wondered who T. S. Eliot was. We asked our parents. We asked our parents’ friends. None of the adults we knew knew who T. S. Eliot was.
Which is my excuse for listening to it while I write the books calendar.
Jen Graves is rocking out to something at her desk. No way it’s as terrible and embarrassing as what I’m silently singing along to.
My nostalgia >>>>> your nostalgia.
xo
Aw, I miss Segal's nostalgia. Those were the days...
I don't think I've ever heard the CTDs...did they have an MTV hit in the early '90s? Right this second I'm listening to HOT DOG ('70s power pop, on Argent)...dunno if I'm really rocking out tho'.
i had this tape. and it's a damn shame too.
Flip that shit. I demand an "mmm mmm mmm mmm" freestyle!
I'll admit to owning that album when it was big. I feel like a giant weight has been lifted from me.
JJ
i'm so glad that the stranger allowed the poster of this to handle the review of the newest shins album.
And, Dumpsterpaste, I assume you sprung from the womb already quoting Pavement songs, right?
I sing "And God Shuffled His Feet" quite often to Nich' around the House.
*God Shuffled His Feet
their cover of XTC's "The Ballad of Peter Pumkinhead" is pretty great, too. Featured in the film "Dumb and Dumber", another tremendously popular cultural artifact from early 90s suburbia. Perhaps we loved it because it has the grossest poop scene ever?
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