Here's A Picture Of An Album From 1994
Discussion Questions:
-Man, "When I Come Around" was a great song, wasn't it?
-Does listening to this album while I wash the dishes make me an immature doofus who hasn't quite gotten over high school yet, or does it simply make me a boring person who's musical tastes haven't evolved in 13 years?
-Considering that this came out in 1994 and that The Red Hot Chili Peppers album "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" came out in 1991, do you in fact feel just ridiculously old?
-Anyone else find the monkey in the left-hand corner of the album cover to be hilarious, especially since you know he's about to throw the poo?-I saw Green Day in concert when I was 15 and I got a black eye in the lame-in-retrospect mosh pit at the front of the stage. Knowing that, do you now think of me as more of a bad ass? Less?
NOTE: Answering these questions correctly will retroactively raise your SAT score. A perfect 5-out-of-5 automatically qualifies you for enrollment in Harvard's prestigious law school. However, if you fail to answer any correctly, you have to go work for six months at a Waffle House. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
posted by Clinton at 7:53 AM
21 Comments:
-It wasn't bad. "How now, brown cow!" (the Woodstock version)
-No, I listen to my iPod while doing dishes, and that makes for an interesting time. They Might Be Giants, Foo Fighters, My Chemical Romance... and then a mixture of the comedy stylings of Todd Barry, Jim Gaffigan, Frank Caliendo and Dave Attell. Heh. So you're not an immature doofus, is what I'm saying.
-God, I remember listening to B,S,S,M while at a swimming party at my friend Heather's house, in 8th grade. Good lord. Yes, I in fact feel ridiculously old.
-Monkeys are awesome.
-You're more of a badass than me. I saw them for the first time on the Warning tour, and then again on the American Idiot tour with my husband. With opening act My Chemical Romance! And I was the oldest person there by easily 15 years. :(
- Yes.
- Yes.
- Yes.
- Yes.
- More.
When this album first came out my sister bought it and told me she just got the CD "Green Day®™©™" from that new band Dookie®™©™.
And yes. Now I feel old.
I had already spent nearly two years in the Air Force when this album came out and most of my memories of Blood Sugar Sex Magic involve a sweet spring break in Panama City. Now who's old!?!? me...that's who.
working at waffle house would be an honor and a delicious privilege.
Giggleloop... "Warning" was a totally underrated album. Also, I ran into Todd Barry at Macys a few months ago. He was buying sheets and looked extremely hungover.
Lioux... I loved Dookie's early work, but they really went down hill after their fifth album.
J... It pleases me to think of the men and women of our nation's Air Force listening to "Dookie." Don't know why, but it does.
Blythe... I actually had a friend who was a short order cook at a Waffle House when I was in High School. He said the kitchens were actually the cleanest he's ever worked in, before or since, because they're right there in the open. Also, do you remember when they used to have the All-U-Can-Eat special? Damn I loved that.
ahh mosh pits...i remember those, i remember in high school picking out boys i liked based on who looked the coolest in the mosh pit...wow, good days
- It was indeed. It still is.
- I tell people all the time that 1994 was the best year ever for music and that I've been trapped in it ever since. This only recently gave me a heart attack when I realized that 1994 was THIRTEEN YEARS AGO!!!
- See above statement
- You mean about to throw the dookie
- Totally badass!!! I've seen greenday um 6 times. I'm pretty sure that makes me both a loser and badass. My bestfriend Ivy and I went to Hammerstein one year to see them... we crowd surfed to the front (first and last time i've ever crowd surfed) and then Billy Joe poured an entire beer over our heads... it was one of the top 5 best moments of my life.
~Irish
I already forgot what the discussion questions were but I've now got "When I Come Around" stuck in my head and I like it!
When I listen to Todd Barry, he reminds me of that guy from High Fidelity for some reason (I'm thinking maybe his name is Todd Louiso? Something like that. You know the one I mean, the not-Jack-Black one). But then I saw him and I was like, WOW he looks nothing like what he did in my head. I guess monotone guys all look like Todd Louiso in my head.
Y'all babies aren't old, I was a senior in high school when BSSM came out, and in college when the Dookies came out with their hit record album, The Green Day. We played it on our hand-cranked phonograph machine with a horn for a speaker! Though I am very much enjoying reliving the riot grrrl/ classic indie™ college radio type goodness that was going on at that time.
I fell in love with green day hard, IN THE SIXTH GRADE. Seriously. I had a locket with billy joe on one side, and tre cool on the other (sorry mike), lockets are so NOT punk rock. I was however, doing drugs in the sixth grade, if that makes me any more of a bad ass.
I still love green day and i am still super young!!!! And i did princeton review so you can't touch my score bitch!! :)
-Jew
back to the wafflehouse (because i was listening/dancing to 100% pure love by crystal waters in 1994) - do i?! i have friends that are boycotting the place until the all-u-can-eat special is rightfully reinstated. there's one right down the street. perhaps smothered, covered and chunked hashbrowns are in order for lunch today. hmm.
God I remember when Dookie came out...going to an all girls Catholic school, it was pretty hard core which is probably why "When I Come Around" was one of my favorites...it was more mellow.
For the record, I do like Blvd of Broken Dreams, and I've always been a terrible test taker. I'm more of a essay person.
Colleen... I wish I'd been a little older during that eary-90's boom. Class of '99 just wasn't that cool, tunes-wise.
Irish & Jew... Both of you rock too hard for words. Keep it up, now!
Blythe... You're killing me. First you saw The Hold Steady, and now you're talking about Waffle House for lunch... damn. Just damn.
Gal Gotham... Me too, totally. I got an 1170 on the SATs, and that was a fucking miricle.
Ack! I was a sophomore when BSSM came out.
You are a bad ass. The only thing that ever happened to me in a mosh pit was losing my shoe.
Oh, and you're kind of right about 1999 tunes. It was in the midst of the Latin "Explosion" and boy band and pop tartlet craze.
it's 91 degrees with 1000% humidity and menus still feature "freedom fries" here. i think you made the right choice.
also, the hold steady probably lives down the street from you. i live down the street from people who listen to country classics like "i wanna check you for ticks." yay!
Hey C-Dog - random, but did you or one of the commenters link to a typing game within the last week? I could swear I saw the link here, but I can't find it again, and I want to bookmark it at work. Anyone remember? Anyone? Bueller?
Class of '99 rocked man.
Don't worry about your scores, I mean, I got a 1390 on my SAT. I went from safe and gorgeous suburbia to sweating my balls off in Brooklyn.
My guidance counselor would be so proud.
Ha, I requested this album to be held for me at my local library two weeks ago, it's still not available, and I'm getting crabby and impatient. That's how unembarrased I am about how good it is, SO MANY years later. But my favorite song of it is "She".
1994 was a great year for music --"Bakesale" (Sebadoh) and "Without A Sound" (Dinosaur Jr) came out that year too, in case you need some indie cred. Not that I cared when I was 13. . .
Blythe... Don't forget, I'm originally from Texas; "I Wanna Check You For Ticks" was my prom theme.
Giggleloop... Don't think so, unless I totally missed it. Which means that you've been reading other people's blogs. HOW COULD YOU!!!
Todd... I like to think that I'm the only person on the planet who's ever had a guidance counseler call them "worthless."
Ruth... Sounds like you should go kick some New Zealander butt. That's *our* music, not theirs. Also, "Bakesale" was a fantastic album; haven't thought about it in years, though. Thanks for the reminder!
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