Spin Doctors

[Skim]

Beards! Sub-funk! Foolishness!

What more could you want?

A lot, lot more

 

[Fruitloop]

That's called 'Jimmy Olson's Blues' actually
I have their first album, and like several of the tracks

You're so right.

 

[cesare]

everything other then two princes of thiers really really iritates me.


dave

Yeah - pretty much

Two Princes is great though

 

[cesare]

I'd forgotten about pocket ful of kryptonite! I bet that's on youtube too...

I possess Pocket Full Of Kryptonite but I was young and foolish and liked Two Princes

 

[Pieface]

is that the one where he goes on about buying flowers?

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

I possess Pocket Full Of Kryptonite but I was young and foolish and liked Two Princes

'Pocket Full Of Kryptonite'?

Is that the one that goes "I've got a pocket full of Kryptonite? I've got a pocket full of Kryptonite?"

 

[cesare]

Dunno, I only listen to that other track

 

[Fruitloop]

Well, I don't think I can handle this
A cloudy day in Metropolis
I think I'll talk to my analyst
I got it so bad for this little journalist

It drives me up the wall and through the roof
Lois and Clark in a telephone booth
I think I'm going out of my brain
I got it so bad for little miss Lois Lane

(Chrous)
Lois Lane please put me in your plan
Yeah, Lois Lane you don't need no Super Man
Come on downtown and stay with me tonight
I got a pocket full of kryptonite, I
I got a pocket full of kryptonite, I
I got a pocket full of kryptonite

He's leaping buildings in a single bound
I'm reading Shakespeare at my place downtown
Come on downtown and make love to me
I'm Jimmy Olsen not a titan, you see

He's faster than a bullet, stronger than a train
He's the one who got lucky, got his cape around miss Lois Lane
I can't believe my dilemma is real
I'm competing with the man of steel

(Chorus)

 

[Iam]

Well, I don't think I can handle this
A cloudy day in Metropolis
I think I'll talk to my analyst
I got it so bad for this little journalist

It drives me up the wall and through the roof
Lois and Clark in a telephone booth
I think I'm going out of my brain
I got it so bad for little miss Lois Lane

(Chrous)
Lois Lane please put me in your plan
Yeah, Lois Lane you don't need no Super Man
Come on downtown and stay with me tonight
I got a pocket full of kryptonite, I
I got a pocket full of kryptonite, I
I got a pocket full of kryptonite

He's leaping buildings in a single bound
I'm reading Shakespeare at my place downtown
Come on downtown and make love to me
I'm Jimmy Olsen not a titan, you see

He's faster than a bullet, stronger than a train
He's the one who got lucky, got his cape around miss Lois Lane
I can't believe my dilemma is real
I'm competing with the man of steel

(Chorus)

Yep. Shite.

 

[perplexis]

See, such a bad song that I'd had to fragment it into 2 songs just to deal with the horror

 

[Fruitloop]

It's great! Fairly witty, and whoever it is is good at text-setting too.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Apparently Chris Martin out of Coldplay has written a song for them so they can have another hit.

Can't wait.

 

[Iam]

It's great! Fairly witty, and whoever it is is good at text-setting too.

Hmmm, perhaps you're right... perhaps it is an interesting, sensitive piece of quality songwriting, and not a 12 year old's school poetry homework...

Nah.

 

[Fruitloop]

That would be one weird 12-year old.

 

[Iam]

Perhaps he reads Superman comics?

 

[Fruitloop]

Perhaps. Ah well, I'm sure there'll be something po-faced and foot-starey to listen to along soon. Like, er, most of it!

 

[Pieface]

Ah.

I'd conflated the two aswell.

Doesn't he go "Little miss, little miss, little miss Lois Lane" over and over and over?

I'm actually irritated at my desk now

 

[Crispy]

Have you heard the rest of the album? There are drum and bass solos. And one of the tracks is 14 minutes long.

 

[killer b]

lol. they were shit weren't they... though i misguidedly bought both 'pocket full of kryptonite' and 'homebelly groove... live!' at the time.

they came from the same strange alternate universe as stereophonics, where hard work somehow results in commercial success...

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

There are drum and bass solos. And one of the tracks is 14 minutes long.

A pivotal influence on Goldie and his Metalheadz later on.

 

[Fruitloop]

Maybe that's why I like them - 'cos I never bought any!

They were just on the music telly in NZ a lot, and they kind of went with surfing and a generally care-free existence. I guess if you grow up somewhere grim then you have more time for songs that sound like 45's played at 33rpm.

 

[Pieface]

I guess if you grow up somewhere grim then you have more time for songs that sound like 45's played at 33rpm.

It's the necessary price to pay so that when you leave your country you don't do the social equivalent of this thread

 

[Fruitloop]

Ha! I'm clearly never gonna convince you guys. Anyway, I think my Spin Doctors revival phase is over - listening to Nirvana today.

Some kind fo musical regress is in process

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

That last Toploader album was a lost classic. The choons were easily the match of 'Dancing In the Moonlight' or anything on 'Onka's Big Moka'.

 

[Pieface]

!!

 

[Fruitloop]

yeah Toploader must die. At least the spin doctors managed more that one memorable tune before they went shit.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

But 'Achilles Heel' was class - so soulful, like a proto-Coldplay almost.

 

[Pieface]

yeah Toploader must die. At least the spin doctors managed more that one memorable tune before they went shit.

Toploader have a memorable tune?

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Toploader have a memorable tune?

On a serious note...every Toploader song was spectacularly memorable.

 

[Fruitloop]

I wish I'd never started this thread now.