Bloggin' & stealin'.
Yesterday, we editors had a series of e-mails going back and forth regarding scheduling the meeting to decide our annual 100 Bands You Need To Know special. I wanted to share one of those e-mails with you in particular, from none other than Tim "I heard he bites the heads off cats" Karan:
If something doesn't quite seem right with you after reading that, it's okay, you're not alone. Tim actually didn't quote the Beastie Boys at all; instead, he quoted "One Week" by Canadian one-hit wonders Barenaked Ladies." Seriously.
What's that, need an audio/visual cue to be sure? Allow me:
Granted, this song is a decade old, so some of you may have only been in single digits when it first came out, but as someone who had to hear this thing virtually every day of my high school career, I can assure it was a massively huge song at the time. (To put it into perspective, Tim was approximately 37 when this song first came out, give or take a year.)
Let's be honest, people: Do you really want to wear a T-shirt from someone who not only can't properly reference the Beastie Boys but instead references a clumsy rap from this guy:
Oh, notice that plane he's posing next to? Dude crashed it into the Canadian wilderness a few months back! Tim admitted being a pretty bad road rager in his most recent blog; I think there's more in common between these two than I initially thought. Do you really want to wear a piece of clothing with the word "TIM" on it now?
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Today's a lot hectic for me.
Like Harrison Ford I'm getting Frantic.
(Daily Beastie Boys reference: Check.)
If something doesn't quite seem right with you after reading that, it's okay, you're not alone. Tim actually didn't quote the Beastie Boys at all; instead, he quoted "One Week" by Canadian one-hit wonders Barenaked Ladies." Seriously.
What's that, need an audio/visual cue to be sure? Allow me:
Granted, this song is a decade old, so some of you may have only been in single digits when it first came out, but as someone who had to hear this thing virtually every day of my high school career, I can assure it was a massively huge song at the time. (To put it into perspective, Tim was approximately 37 when this song first came out, give or take a year.)
Let's be honest, people: Do you really want to wear a T-shirt from someone who not only can't properly reference the Beastie Boys but instead references a clumsy rap from this guy:
Oh, notice that plane he's posing next to? Dude crashed it into the Canadian wilderness a few months back! Tim admitted being a pretty bad road rager in his most recent blog; I think there's more in common between these two than I initially thought. Do you really want to wear a piece of clothing with the word "TIM" on it now?
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6:49 PM
10 Comments:
clumsy reference but barenaked ladies rule.
I agree with Jon.
and "Do you really want to wear a piece of clothing with the word "TIM" on it now?"
yes, I still do :)
I want a shirt with Jason Pettigrew's face that says "You have horrible taste in music"
That said I think the Ladies had two hits, counting "If I had a Million Dollars from their live record. BNL was my second concert, after Goldfinger.
still bad reference Tim, who claims to know the Beastie Boys.
I'd still wear the Tim shirt. He deserves a chance to redeem himself. But, his credibility is (slow and) low (that is the tempo).
Daily Beastie Boys reference: Check.
HAHA oh Tim... he'll find some way to redeem himself. I love your guys' little 'blog fight' you got goin on. haha
I'd personally still wear a Tim shirt and I highly agree with kapy53. We need Pettigrew shirts.
Listen, people: This is a Tim-free zone. Take your sloganeering elsewhere, or else I'll send Brokencyde to your house for a, uh, "private concert," if you catch my drift.
GA Brokencyde. Stealing my idea for scremo rap and making me realize it's a nightmare!!!
dude, seriously, BNL has way more than one hit.
i feel like i would peg you as a dude who would be really into their 1992 album gordon.
other random facts:
- we share the same manager.
- one time i saw the dude from the photo with the plane at a weakerthans show, and seem to think i seriously bummed his wife out by standing directly in front of her the entire set.
- in the photo for the most anticipated piece, i'm wearing a replacements "tim" shirt, woops.
...like Sting I'm tantric/Like Snickers: guaranteed to satisfy/Like Kurosawa I make mad films/'Kay I don't make films/But if I did, they'd have a samurai...
I'm weirdly proud of being able to finish those lines. I was about 11 when that song came out, and I still remember most of the lyrics (for better or worse).
Look at that.
Even with this pathetic bid to blatantly chip away at my faithful base of fans, they come to my defense here.
Thanks, guys, for sticking up for me.
Just like My Chemical Romance say: "Put up your peace sign, put your index down."
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