OKgo's "Get Over It": C/D

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I say, one of the finest examples of good catchy bright-and-crunchy power-pop. Everyone else says "what the fuck are you thinking, douchebag".

Someone please back me up on this one?

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Friday, 21 July 2006 03:52 (nineteen years ago)

the song is good. everything else on the album is beyond horrible.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 21 July 2006 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

people still give a shit about this shit?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 21 July 2006 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

I like this song, and I'll go ahead and say I enjoyed most of the album, too. There are two or three explicitly goofy songs that I dislike, and the lyrics don't mean a lot to me, but they're very catchy.

― reddening (reddening), Friday, 21 July 2006 07:25 (nineteen years ago)

Saw them at Leeds a couple of years ago, and they were hilarious. Bought the album off the back of that and was largely disappointed, but I do still like "Get Over It".

― Zora (Zora), Friday, 21 July 2006 07:37 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, "You're So Damn Hot" is the real hit.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 21 July 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

i remember this. which counts for something perhaps.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 21 July 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

ugh, i'd forgotten about this. utterly ghastly and irredeemable and bad and wrong. this band need to be STAMPED OUT.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 21 July 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

Awful rock music shite. It was in Madden 2004.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

The one of these guys I'm friends with is no longer in the band, which makes their Myspacey success with that new backyard-choreography video less exciting to me.

There were a few songs of theirs I was fairly fond of, though the process of getting picked up by Capitol and doing the whole LA-studio major-label recording rounds seemed to suck out a lot of the aspects I enjoyed.

That departed guitar player, though, has done music that I find pretty remarkable, so I'm hoping he finds a project to work on his own material.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Awful rock music shite. It was in Madden 2004.
-- Mr. Snrub (mistersnru...), Friday 2:38 PM.

Also, EA's MVP Baseball 2004. Horrible song.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

it's really funny to be lectured on what "the hit" was from a record four years old or whatever.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, I heard this song while shopping for jeans today.

I think what went wrong is that originally they were a pop band, and the singer shot for a kind of suave near-ironic croon (arched eyebrows and all) -- but then at some point in the recording process, someone decided they were a Proper Rock Band, and got him to yell a bit, and beefed up the guitars. And when you try to take arch pop and turn it into Proper Hot Rock, god help you: you wind up with something that feels like dorks unsuccessfully pretending they're sexy.

Whereas it sounds like on the new stuff they're allowed to be more the "Quirky Pop Band," which at least gives them a fighting chance.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 05:01 (nineteen years ago)

Uh, I wasn't lecturing, Stencil -- just pointing out that I think that's a better song.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 06:20 (nineteen years ago)

My impression of both albums is actually the reverse of yours, nabisco. On the first album, "Get Over It" and (maybe) "You're So Damn Hot" are really the only songs that go for that anthemic, shouty, "proper rock" feel (and even then they're burnished and buffed within an inch of their lives). The rest of the album feels, like you said, very arch and "Quirky Pop Band" - explicitly so on tracks like "C-C-C-Cinnamon Lips", but even in the production/arrangement of their more generic songs ("Don't Ask Me", "What To Do"). Whereas the second album is chock full of anthemic shouty rock-aspiring songs, and is less polished/more guitar-heavy to boot.

― reddening (reddening), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

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