Everything - Hooch vs. LFO - Summer Girls vs. Crazy Town - Butterfly

“hooch” is vastly superior, the other songs are nowhere close

it could easily be a sugar ray song !

“what it’s like” would have been a better option. even though it’s also better it’s in the same wheelhouse

“hooch” more in that everclear / third eye blind axis, at least to my ears

like

If Blind Melon had written and recorded "Hooch” instead of Everything, it would have been among their best songs and greatest achievements

rewards multiple listens

i find it offensive "hooch" is even in this poll

never heard it so it gets my vote

Looks like you guys got the love. Looks like you got the freshy-freshy.

I was thinking about "Hooch" the other day! I haven't heard it since it came out, or met anyone else who remembers it; it's never been clear to me whether it was an actual hit, or just something my local top 40 station decided to push hard for a few months.

Interestingly (or not), those few months overlapped my middle school-era habit of playing Final Fantasy Tactics for six hours a day with the radio on in the background. To this day, the image that comes to my mind when I hear the chorus is Delita getting pecked by a chocobo.

only one of these bands was fronted by swole guy fieri and it wasn't everything or lfo

I just this second learned that his name is Shifty Shellshock, and that his greater claim to fame was starring in this commercial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsY-BWrvmko

If Blind Melon had written and recorded "Hooch” instead of Everything, it would have been among their best songs and greatest achievements

― budo jeru, Thursday, August 1, 2019 12:42 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Your understanding of Blind Melon is flawed.

ah ok i remember hooch now, it's that song from the waterboy

the lead singer, being rob schneider, had an inside track to that deal with the sandman

"Hooch" also in S1 E09 of NBC's "Scrubs"

Who got the Scrubs
Baby
Who got the only Braffest Zach in the world

"Hooch" also in S1 E09 of NBC's "Scrubs"

― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, August 1, 2019 9:35 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hooch is crazy!

i do not remember "hooch" at all

inclined to vote for "butterfly" which used to be the song i hated the most in the world but i've weirdly come around to it 100 years later

it's the perfect soundtrack to shifty shellshock's glistening abs

Crazy Town toured with Buckcherry, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Methods Of Mayhem for two years before this became a hit.

powerful late-90s dirtbag energy

Come my lady
Come come my lady
Come and butter up my shiny belly

Scabies rock imo

(For those already afflicted or aspiring to someday be)

to my knowledge i have never heard the song hooch by everything

so i say butterfly

You really should listen to the song 'Hooch' by Everything. Everyone should experience the wholesale collapse of all their beliefs and values at least once, it builds character.

i'm sorry but you should NOT simply listen to the song 'Hooch' by Everything. that is DANGEROUS advice from the above poster OLD LUNCH. You should first buy a dress shirt with a gigantic collar and a baggy suit. put them on. now unbutton that shirt a few buttons and pull the gigantic collar over the lapel of your suit jacket. people are going to want to see that collar. drive out to a farmhouse with a shady porch. hold a saxophone. picture tens of fans out there standing in the grass to see you play that saxophone. listen to the song 'Hooch' by Everything.

and for fucks sake fill up some of that bare neck area with a chain first

This is true, you really should go all-out when you're courting a music-induced existential crisis.

(Which largely revolves around the maddeningly-unanswered question of who exactly does have the hooch and the freshy-freshy.)

i DONT need TO walk around in circles walk around in circles walk around in

it is a great inquisitive lyrical tradition. see 'Somebody to Love'. 'Hooch' vs 'Somebody to Love' probably a better poll.

xp oh shit

There were a lot of not-great songs on the radio at that time, which I know because we always had the radio on at my place of work, but 'Hooch' really went that extra mile to stand out in the crowd. I've never donated marrow but I imagine the sensation isn't terribly dissimilar to hearing 'Hooch'.

Like 5 years ago my dad was on a work trip somewhere in eastern europe and texted me out of the blue "found myself at a crazy town concert earlier tonight... chatted a bit with shifty shellshock (singer)... did not stay long"

For causing me to receive the greatest text I've ever received, gotta vote CT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cSGGmd7f8g

the funniest joke in orange county is the recurring spontaneous synchronized dancing to "butterfly"

orange county definitely a popcorn classic btw, someone alert gregg turkington

five bags of popcorn, plus a little picture of a butterfly

I missed your italics at first and thought you were describing some kind of legit flashmob phenomenon in the OC.

“butterfly” is like if somebody made a goatee into a song

(didn’t know what those guys looked like until just now but google image search confirmed what i knew in my heart was true regarding facial hair)

wtf @ “Hooch”

That is the appropriate response to 'Hooch'.

confession that I definitely thought "Hooch" was a Sugar Ray song all this time, even despite seeing & knowing the video

Okay, having now done some cursory research on the band Everything, I find that I was correct in my assumption that they are (ARE, not was) a group of college buddies. However, I was incorrect in my assumption that this song could only have been written by dudes sittin' around the quad, killin' time between devil stick sessions, because 'Hooch' is from their fourth album, released nearly a decade after the band's formation.

It's sick and sad and weird but I really need to hear their early work now.

(ARE, not were), rather

one of the reasons i like "butterfly" now is bc i think the chili peppers sample sounds really great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mjZ61IW-Nw

xp I'm more interested in their 1999 cover of "Young Americans" from the Drop Dead Gorgeous soundtrack, which doesnt seem to have made it to youtube

Oh my god.

Why do I need to hear that so badly? What is this illness afflicting me?

I like Summer Girls isn’t even worth discussing in this poll.

I like *how*

"Butterfly" def my 'favourite' of these. Had no memory of "Hooch" even though I know I've seen that season of Scrubs more than once.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

lol hooch

The hooch brings you back
I ain't tellin' you no lie

https://i3.cpcache.com/merchandise/152_300x300_Front_Color-Black.jpg

come my lady
come come my lady

i’m shell shocked pic.twitter.com/BxWeh5GSBJ

— catatonicyouths (@catatonicyouths) March 14, 2023

WOW

I thought that was Colin Mochrie for a second.

Love that they flew that guy in from 2001

why does a guy that young sound like a 200 year old Lee Scratch Perry

outstanding

he looks like Flea if he was in an Arkansas hip hop duo

Shifty Shellshock,[10] is an American musician, best known for being a co-founder and front man of the rap rock band Crazy Town, known for their hit song "Butterfly". He has also had a solo music career and appeared in the reality television series Celebrity Rehab 1 and 2 and Sober House 1 and 2.

dudes had a rough four seasons of television

who the FUCK would watch "Sober House"

ooooh look out for these wild cards!!!! they're not afraid to speak their minds and they won't apologize for nothin'!! now just imagine them all...completely sober!!

this guy's sobriety is sponsored by

Natty Ice

also this guy got a DUI last year

you can now get Prolonging the Magic by CAKE on vinyl. its true they just reissued it. thought that would be of interest to all readers of this thread

https://pitchfork.com/news/lfo-singer-brian-brizz-gillis-dies-at-47/

what the hell?? that band was cursed

https://www.nme.com/news/music/crazy-town-singers-filmed-beating-each-other-up-after-on-stage-row-3435857?

they were subsequently kicked off the tour because this behavior was a bridge too far for hed P.E.

Shifty bragging about how much he boxes and how he could fuck up his friend 'if he wanted to' slightly reminds me of the time that one of the members of grindcore band Are You God? got into a fist fight with another bandmate, then logged onto the message board that they both were a part of and started a thread called "I BEATED BERNARDO UP"

this thread has a high musician death toll

https://www.villagevoice.com/more-fly-with-honey/

forgot about that one.

Listening to "Butterfly" it's clear that the rapper guy could flow better than most 2020s rappers

I've never heard this Hooch song before. Sounds like a Sublime rip or something.

I'd never heard Butterfly before, it's fine, certainly much, much better than fucking Summer Girls. Going to check out Hooch now.

Listening to "Hooch" now. What an abominable shitsong. God the'90s were awful.

It was released a little earlier than the trifecta itt but it's a worthy contender and I really should have included this lil slice of heaven among the nominees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk9-28HgxfE

Spittin' into a mic after having novocaine injected directly into your tongue is a bold choice, and one that I heartily champion.

feels a bit like Informer where you know it's English but can't recognize a single word

aka Steve Winwood Syndrome

Forgot about G Love lol. Cold beverages was the worst song on that album.

As of last fall, my friend I mentioned upthread who used to manage Everything was running a Kickstarter for them to record their 8th album. Am sure you're all relived to know they're still going.

Summer Girls was on TOTP 1999 and I think it might be the shittest thing ever. Annoying preppy fratboys, weird anti-Chinese racism, stolen name, terrible half-assed rapping, absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever.

The great Larry Bird jersey 33

Hot Dad's cover of it is pretty slick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Ivo8H6ycU

xxxpost well they're mostly all dead now if if makes you feel better

that wasn't very fly of you

xp a bit, thanks

Back in 2000, when the pirate-era Napster was at its height, I remember a group calling themselves HMO posting a quasi-viral "Summer Girls" parody called - wait for it - "Hummer Girls", which somehow achieves the feat of being even more juvenile and horrific than the head_desk.gif original (Amidst all of the not-even-single entendres - more like entendre's first derivative - I remember 'timeless', 'clever' references to the Blair Witch Project and Happy Gilmore).

I wonder if anyone has written the definitive guide to those odd, curio novelty tracks that proliferated after Napster went all Gutenberg with the "warez" versions of music production programs like ACID or Cubase. That, or maybe someone has written a basic S&D thread, although I'm not sure there are any tracks worthy of the S part of that term. There was one I swear I heard a few times, but there is basically no evidence that it ever existed: a "remix" of Elliott Smith's "Waltz #2" that was just the original song with overdubs of a bunch of cheesy sound effects, booing, crying babies, out-of-time drum machines, and drunk people saying Elliott's name over and over. It was like listening to a bad "Shreds" video atop the original song.

I remember "Hummer Girls"!!! my friend "Zinger" would play it nonstop whenever we went over to his place along with "At a Medium Pace" by Adam Sandler. main thing I remember was how shitty it sounded, like it was recorded into a $5 mic

would love to read such a guide though, feel like half of these spread around because they were tagged as "Weird Al", in fact I can very much remember people making their own Weird Al mix CD-Rs which would contain songs that sounded awful and clearly weren't him, but somehow they didn't notice??

That's also why people mistakenly attributed the Gin and Juice cover to Phish for years

ahh yeah I remember that more than that though I remember a version of Gin & Juice with Ted Koppel singing about "my homie Sam Donaldson", it wasn't particularly funny but the Koppel impression was spot on

i missed out on "hummer girls", i mostly remember "hooker on the corner" (also "weenie in a bottle") and "make my boobies one more size" from that time

seems there are 15+ year old uploads of all these on youtube, like they were among the first things ppl thought to add there

Eminem made the same joke interpolation of the LFO song on "Marshall Mathers" ("New Kids on the Block suck a lot of dick") but I have no idea whether "Hummer Girls" did it first or just copied him

i feel like a lot of ppl spontaneously sung that line as such without having heard anyone do it before them

lol i've definitely posted before about the Weird Al misattribution phenomenon, specifically in reference to Adam Sandler's dreadful reggae sendup "Ode to My Car." of course mistitled as "Piece of Shit Car."

seriously enjoyed scrolling up through this thread and encountering all the clowning on əkoostik hookah

why doesn’t he know how to play his guitar