can i borrow a 1996 feeling?

Hey big spender, spend some dough at table 3. So much classic rainful for sale, you can't get this too many spots. Wah-pedals for half-off. This guy's son keeps a secret movie in the same trucks that they used to do that class assembly that they had out in the truck, and like, hoots the owl and there as some cat or something who they would only show with the lights off and the music got loud.

Just about ready to start gettin' pumped for some Mack an Chaayz. This portion of top 884 songs of 1996 was compiled and submitted by "the man and his boy." All da rest is straight up hype.

#153 Heltah Skeltah “Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka”

yesh yesh y'all. this one is confusing because the Youtube calls the group "Fab 5" but elsewhere they're called "Heltah Skeltah."

#152 Destroy 2 (Eye and Chu) "24H?"

This video links to the entire album... Recorded live, Eye kicks things off announcing "WE PLAY FORTY-EIGHT SONGS," and then that's what they do within the next 10 minutes. We Are Voice And Rhythm Only is sung by Eye from Boredoms and featuring drums from Chu. Eye screams "FUCKOFF" at the end of all 48 songs. "24H?" just happens to be the longest at 39 seconds, although our favorite part is probably the sequence between tracks 18, 19 and 20: "Sky," "Sea" and "Earth" respectively.

#151 Fu Manchu “Solid Hex”

how sold is it? speed racer ass race is about to ascend past like 4 stratospheres.

#150 LL Cool J "Doin' It"

The "LL" stands for "Licks Lips." We tried to find a still or video but nothing works as well as "Doin' It." He has a lot of female callers in the video all the same voice.

#149 No Doubt "Don't Speak"

Who is the real No Doubt in this video? You n meee we usta bee togehhh-thu

#148 Chavez "Tight Around the Jaws"

"You can trouble me for a glass of shut the hell up." - Chavez, 1996

#147 Carnun "The Prophecies Of The Horned One"

"Watch out Itchy! He's Irish!" - Carnun

#146 The Fugees "Killing Me Softly"

This was the big cover. allthe kids in high school were way into singing along to this. symphonic band director was all like "she's sounds just like roberta flack. they destroyed a great song." HELL FUKCIN YEAH THEY DID. Also in the video possibly a part where someone does the trick where he opened the bottom of the popcorn so that Mister Kinnish can fit through much to the enjoyment of his ladyfriends.

#145 Rage Against The Machine "Bulls On Parade"

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#144 Aaliyah "Got To Give It Up"

Dat punk bitch can step off.. We can protect you aganist his wrath babygirl. Drake is very very bad. This man must be stopped.

#143 Rake "Special Agent: Rake"

This isn't the song "Special Agent: Rake" which is not on youtube but this one is pretty close so we went with it.

#142 The Verve Pipe "Photograph"

This played at Whole Foods the other day. In other news Simple Plan now gets played at SS&S. "Grocery store jams" were once a sacred concept. What happened? More Paul Davis IMO.

#141 Local H "Freeze-Dried (F)lies"

We wanted "Lovey Dovey" but couldn't find a video.. This one is really good also and Joe D destroys the kit as usual.

#140 Ween "I'll Miss You"

From some Ted Demme movie.

#139 Supergrass "Going Out"

Good video, it sounds pretty much just like the recording.. released a year before the album it appears on.

#138 GZA "Shadowboxing"

break through like the wu unexpectedly protect ya neck

#137 Air "Modulor Mix"

Yeah cool we just wanted to throw a fash cartoon in the middle of this for no fucking reason.

#136 Turbonegro "The Midnight NAMBLA"

We forgot these guys names but it looks like they haven't given up those ouftits just yet. Very handsome bros.

#135 Radiohead "Molasses"

From the Street Spirit single, this is one of those low-key chill kinda songs, totally unproduced and totally catchty

#134 Keith Sweat "Nobody"

Cool, memory served correcly and we get check out some amazing pics...
Not sure if that happened in '96, but it might as well haven.

#133 Eldopa "The Burning"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l31UUl5SyXk this might help

#132 Ben Folds Five "Where's Summer B?"

Oh Ben, we love ya. For the title, we were confused if they were asking about that summer feeling, like "where's summer" and then "B" is just like their pal down the street. Makes total sense to us.

more annoyance is on the way ... brain wont let me stop...

a chicken eating birdseed off a pentagram

we'll take it

new harmony korine: "Spring Breakers"

"This is more than spring break... this is our chance to see something different."

The fans of these chicks apparently don't want to see them in anything different, other than the Disney Channel shit-coms from which they originated. NC-17 is not porn. Grow up, kids: They're just actors, working and gettin' paid... And they're probably a lot smarter than their fans. We barely know anything about Selena Gomez or ... who is this other chick? Vanessa Hudgens? Someone from High School Musical... But anyone in Hollywood willing to work with Harmony Korine probably has at least half-a-brain, and so we say "good for them." We'll give anything from Harmony a shot, even though Trash Humpers was probably the worst movie we've ever seen... Most of his movies don't get distributed all that well, but we're hopeful that name-recognition will help to get Spring Breakers in ordinary-ass AMC theaters by the end of the year. This is good news.

EDIT: HUGE BREAKING NEWS: GUCCI MANE ALSO HAS A ROLE IN THIS MOVIE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Breakers

ANOTHER EDIT: The Guardian UK has reviewed an early screening, which includes the following excerpt: Full credit to Korine, who sustains this act of creative vandalism right through to the finish. Spring Breakers unfolds as a fever dream of teenage kicks, a high-concept heist movie with mescal in the fuel tank. The director monkeys with the plot and kicks away the signposts. He loops the dialogue and drags a dilated, ecstatic camera-lens across honeyed flesh and painted nails. The result is his most fully realised, purely satisfying feature film since Gummo, his outrageous directing debut, way back in 1997. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/sep/05/spring-breakers-review

10 year anniversary of "'My Sacrifice' Evasion"

Taking a quick break from actual work before this thought escapes me... I suddenly had an intense flashing recollection of all this stuff within the space of about 2 minutes... And just now realizing that this experiment probably concluded about 10 years ago.

The initiation and evolution of this experiment would probably be best explained through a quick timeline of events:

October 2001: "My Sacrifice" debuts on radio and MTV 10/15/01, according to Wikicreedia. Creed was ubiquitous at this point, and "My Sacrifice" was the lead single following a huge blockbuster album. (Human Clay is apparently the 8th biggest album of the past 20 years, released during the era when CD's from N'Sync, Backstreet Boys, Eminem, Britney Spears or Limp Bizkit commonly went platinum in less than a week.)

Mid-November 2001: People were talking about this song, although I still hadn't heard it. My friends were mostly into emo or indie. My sister was into dancey stuff and rap... I didn't know anyone in real life who took Creed seriously, and I considered the ubiquity of their biggest songs to be torturous, seemingly following me wherever I traveled, regardless as to whether I actually wanted to hear these songs or not.

However, "My Sacrifice" was an interesting case... It occurred to me I had seen the video on MTV many times with the sound off (because I got into the habit of leaving on MTV2 and turning down the volume while reading), but I hadn't actually heard it. Considering the odds against receiving any sincere enjoyment from the new Creed single, I decided that I didn't want to hear it, while recognizing its ubiquity, probably rendering complete evasion as somewhat difficult. Regardless, I made a decision, and I was gonna stick to it.

Early-December 2001: Things got off to a decent start. As long as I continued attending class and being a loser as usual, I had no real opportunity to bump into this monster. If it started getting played on the radio, I would quickly change the station in a panic, and then a moment later, everything would be ok. One of my friends in Hoveral warned me that it was an earworm. If it got caught, it was gonna stick.

Early-January 2002: Whatever the first Sunday of 2002 was... Laying on a couch, on the verge of dozing during Adult Swim, when suddenly they played the WWE commercial which "My Sacrifice" was licensed to appear. After about 4 seconds, I sprung up and yelled "NOOOOOOO!" grabbed a couch cushion and pressed it onto my ear as hard as I could. I instinctively hummed "Everlong" by Foo Fighters to try drowning it out completely.

25 seconds later, the commercial had ended, but the damage had been done. It wasn't like hearing the first 4 seconds of the intro on the radio... The start of the commercial jumps right into the chorus... "I am something.. i am FREEEEE.." That's the only part I could remember, but still... I wanted to remain ignorant. You can't unlearn something once it's there.

Mid-January 2002: I went to a bar with 2 friends. I didn't realize it was playing, but one of my friends was like "this is it Mike," because they knew I was trying to avoid it, so I did my best to inconspicuously put my hands over my ears and hum "Everlong" to myself without anyone noticing.

February 2002: By this point, it wasn't only getting played on K-Rock... Top 40 stations had picked it up, and to make matters worse, they shortened the song to have a different introduction. This was getting tough.

This may have been around the time radio started spinning that other Creed song that's like "hold me down, cos I'm six feet from the beer and I'm thinkin maybe six feet aint so far down." I didn't want to accidentally hear "My Sacrifice" while thinking that it was this song, so I decided to avoid both.

March 2002: My sister thought it would be funny to sing the chorus into my answering machine just to piss me off, so when I checked my messages, there it was. Now thanks to her, the entire chorus was brainlodged. "when youre with me, i am freeee, i am hairless, i belieeevve..." There's probably more to the chorus after this part.

April 2002: Another friend sang the song into my answering machine... However, it was more drunken and not as decipherable as my sister's message. I was not amused.

June 2002: My first summer working at the carnival... The mullet guy who ran one of the rides got to choose the music to play throughout the entire area through a loud PA system. And he often selected the types of classic rock stations that rotated horrible new-rock singles such as "My Sacrifice" or like 3 Doors Down or whatever. I yelled "CHANGE THE STATION" from the top of the slide several times with my hands pressed into my ears. The request was not granted.

August 2002: It played again while I was operating one of the little kid rides... This was NOT easy, but I managed to hum "Everlong" to myself loud enough with one hand over one of my ears to mostly avoid the song's main hooks.

December 2002: Creed-mania continues... There were 3 other singles from this album. I think one of them had a video where they were CGI cartoons. A 4th or 5th single was released that a friend asked me to listen to, and so I obliged cos I was told it was funny: "Children, don't stop dancing, believe you can fliiieiii, awayy, awayyyyy." All of their songs are funny when you can hear them on your own terms.

Someone sang "My Sacrifice" at karaoke. I saw the song's title on the TV screen before it started up.. I quickly left the bar and took a 5 minute walk.

By the time 2003 was over and done with, a friend made me watch the other video with the sound turned on... "six feet from the reer" .. I forget what it's called. I think he was possibly annoyed with my experiment and wanted me to enjoy it as a joke.

When we did the first Lowt Ide album, we recorded a "reer" song and I was asked to play guitar on it... I found out months later that it was a cover of "My Sacrifice," which was titled "My Sack." So I ended up becoming familiar with the verse hook, as sung by Lowt Ide. "Drinkin beer is not quite clear / drinkin beer is not quite clear / when you're passed out on the stage."

In conclusion, yes I succeeded in avoiding "My Sacrifice," but I looked like an idiot in the process, because I was mostly trying to avoid it in public. I ended up becoming familiar with at least 2 of the song's hooks... My perception is that Lowt Ide's hook is the verse, and the chorus is what my sister sang on my answering machine. I recall asking friends, "does he actually sing the words "my sacrifice" in the song?" and they responded, "yeah he sings it like 50 times." So I'm assuming there's some sort of outro where he sings this phrase over and over again. And I clearly have vivid memories of several instances of almost-hearing this song, which is the exact opposite of what I was hoping to achieve through evasion.

So ultimately, I've been defeated by Creed, instead of being de-Creed'd.

Fuck.