Does anyone remember “Days of the New - The Shelf in the Room”? How about “Spot - Moon June Spoon”? Or my personal favorite, “Smile - Staring at the Sun”. I mean, the really good stuff. It’s just not around anymore.

You know who I blame? Not Britney, or Justin, or the Backstreet Boys or any of those people. I don’t actually blame pop music at all. I blame the influx of shitty “The” bands from 2002. I think that era, which was supposed to supplant the “rap/nu-metal” era of Korn and Limp Bizkit finally killed good music as we know it. Not to imply that Korn and Limp Bizkit are good music — although I think Limp Bizkit is actually decent and most people hate them not for their music but because Fred Durst is a fucking toolshed, and I do believe I think I might even own Korn’s first record from ‘94 or whenever, before they decided to become a huge parody of themselves. But that’s all beside the point.

I mean, what would you rather have? Shit like “Ice age coming, Ice age coming!” or “I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier” or “A seven nation army couldn’t hold us down” or this…:

Smile - Staring at the sun

Staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrring attttttttttttttttt the sun.
Guess I shouldn't have stared so long.
Guess I shouldn't have stared so long.


Staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrring attttttttttttttttt the sun.
Guess I shouldn't have stared so long.
Guess I shouldn't have stared so long.
'Cuz now I can't see at all!


I’m sure there’s more lyrics that just those, but I’ve never actually listened to much past that. It’s fucking horrible. If you don’t believe me, there’s a horribly compressed version of their video for that song here.

The point is: I guess they just don’t make ‘em like they used to.

PS: More like crash bang boom. More like water from the moon.