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rsmurphy wrote:

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Boy, would that be a funny gag submission to Discogs...

Dude, it is absolutely that Sex and Candy song. I that that shit so much.

OrthodoxEaster wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2024 11:39 am Boy, would that be a funny gag submission to Discogs...

I'm too lazy to complete my own submissions, but I could make an exception for this!

Speaking of the Spin Doctors one time I was hanging out at an even then cheesy to me alterna-club called Club950 where they'd play stuff like LaTour's "People Are Still Having Sex" and "Move Mountains" by Jesus Jones. I'm just minding my own business on the dancefloor dancing to any one of the aforementioned songs when a guy invades my space and wants to buy me a drink. He's telling me about how he loves the Spin Doctors and this would be a real treat. Dude thought I was the bass player. However, in his defense both the bassist and myself had the exact same chemically straightened hair do' pulled back in a little ponytail. I took the drink. I was vindicated years later at Touch & Go 25 when some dude thought I was Bernard Georges.

Has "Steal My Sunshine" from Len been mentioned? Honestly, I don't mind the song that much and dig the Andrea True Connection sample. I'd also get drunk and make out with dude's sister. She's hella cute.

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I don't know what it is about "Santeria" that I find so pleasing to hear. It's so unfussy.

The angel opens her eye-yii-yieeessss!

Live fucking blows.

rsmurphy wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:46 pm Has "Steal My Sunshine" from Len been mentioned? Honestly, I don't mind the song that much and dig the Andrea True Connection sample. I'd also get drunk and make out with dude's sister. She's hella cute.

I still love this song and listen to it on repeat about once a year.



I love the video too, something about it. It's like my "Rosebud."

enframed wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:16 pm I love the video too, something about it. It's like my "Rosebud."

It's his sister! She's cute and fun to watch.

I appreciate Marc Costanzo's self-awareness:

Here’s the deal, when you have that kind of a quick single blowing up, you sell a million records in what, six months? When it goes that fast off one single, and you have no other singles — we knew there was no other single. We were surprised there was even one single. So we were looking at this whole bigger picture of what’s gonna happen next, and we knew it’s over in terms of generating more money from the rest of the album. So we just kind of backed out in terms of being public figures. We had 200 shows planned, and after 80 shows, we turned the tour bus around and went home. I went back to my house in BC and just hung out with my friends. We were just like, “We need to go home, I’m sick of this shit.” Our manager and the record label said, “You can’t do this.” And we’re like, “Well, we just did it.”

Their last name also reminds me of "Randy Costanza" from Solex. Great 7", man.

rsmurphy wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:40 pm

enframed wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:16 pm I love the video too, something about it. It's like my "Rosebud."

It's his sister! She's cute and fun to watch.

I appreciate Marc Costanzo's self-awareness:

Here’s the deal, when you have that kind of a quick single blowing up, you sell a million records in what, six months? When it goes that fast off one single, and you have no other singles — we knew there was no other single. We were surprised there was even one single. So we were looking at this whole bigger picture of what’s gonna happen next, and we knew it’s over in terms of generating more money from the rest of the album. So we just kind of backed out in terms of being public figures. We had 200 shows planned, and after 80 shows, we turned the tour bus around and went home. I went back to my house in BC and just hung out with my friends. We were just like, “We need to go home, I’m sick of this shit.” Our manager and the record label said, “You can’t do this.” And we’re like, “Well, we just did it.”

She's cute, yeah, but the whole video is just sweet.

That's great. Also this:

"The song's music video—which uses the shorter "album edit" of the song, as featured on the single—was jointly directed by Marc Costanzo and Bradley Walsh under the respective stage names "The Burger Pimp" and "B-Rad".[29] When Len had signed to Work Records, one of its demands was to be able to direct its own videos.[7] The group used a $100,000 budget to make the video. They flew to Daytona Beach, Florida[5] with two dozen friends while the area was crowded with people on their spring vacations. They spent much of the budget on alcohol, buying so much that they broke their hotel's elevator trying to lift it.[5] They shot the video in the afternoon so that they could recover from hangovers in the morning and drink in the evening. The scenes were shot without a script or storyboard."

Holy crap this was a popular tune worldwide. Look at all these mixes/versions.

UK CD1[32]
"Steal My Sunshine" (Album Edit) – 3:30
"It's Down to This" – 4:04
"Drunc'n Moves" – 2:55
UK CD2[33]
"Steal My Sunshine" – 4:08
"Steal My Sunshine" (Skyjump Club Edit) – 7:19
"Steal My Sunshine" (Version Idjut) – 7:51
UK 12-inch vinyl[34]
"Steal My Sunshine" (Skyjump Club Edit) – 7:19
"Steal My Sunshine" (More and More Instrumental) – 6:45
"Steal My Sunshine" (Album Version) – 3:55
"Steal My Sunshine" (Version Idjut) – 7:51
"Steal My Sunshine" (Bougie Soliterre Remix) – 6:12
"Steal My Sunshine" (Neon Phusion Remix) – 5:24
UK cassette single and European CD single[35][36]
"Steal My Sunshine" (Album Version) – 3:55
"Steal My Sunshine" (Neon Phusion Remix) – 5:24
US 12-inch vinyl[37]
"Steal My Sunshine" (Steal My Club Mix) – 6:19
"Steal My Sunshine" (Skyjump Club Edit) – 7:19
"Steal My Sunshine" (Steal My Club Mix Instrumental) – 6:19
"Steal My Sunshine" (More and More Instrumental) – 6:30
European maxi[38]
"Steal My Sunshine" (Album Edit) – 3:30
"Steal My Sunshine" (Skyjump Club Edit) – 7:19
"Steal My Sunshine" (Version Idjut) – 7:51
"Steal My Sunshine" (Bougie Soliterre Remix) – 6:12
Australian maxi[39]
"Steal My Sunshine" (Album Version) – 4:01
"Steal My Sunshine" (Skyjump Club Edit) – 7:19
"Steal My Sunshine" (Bougie Soliterre Remix) – 6:12
"Steal My Sunshine" (Neon Phusion Remix) – 5:24
Remixes, Vol. 1[40]
"Steal My Sunshine" (Junior Sanchez NJ Deep Mix) – 6:00
"Steal My Sunshine" (Alexander Technique Darksun Remix - Jnr Edit) – 5:21
"Steal My Sunshine" (Gina Turner Remix) – 4:50
"Steal My Sunshine" (Remastered Version) – 3:31
Remastered Anniversary Edition[41]
"Steal My Sunshine" (Remastered Anniversary Edition) – 3:21
"Steal My Sunshine" (Remastered Anniversary Edition Instrumental) – 3:47
California Realin' Remix[42]
"Steal My Sunshine" (California Realin' Remix) – 3:48
"Steal My Sunshine" (Instrumental) – 3:27

I almost feel like I should try and collect 'em all, just to be in the Guinness Book, or The Onion, or something.

Area Man has Largest Collection of "Steal My Sunshine" Releases

I once read an oral history of Vice magazine's early days and they said that they somehow snuck a Vice sticker onto dude's scooter in that video and it was a huge early boost for them, around when Vice moved from Canada to NYC. So there's a pretty straight line from 'Sunshine' to January 6 and the collapse of American democracy, if you think about it.

Teacher's Pet wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:26 pm I once read an oral history of Vice magazine's early days and they said that they somehow snuck a Vice sticker onto dude's scooter in that video and it was a huge early boost for them, around when Vice moved from Canada to NYC. So there's a pretty straight line from 'Sunshine' to January 6 and the collapse of American democracy, if you think about it.

So great. Watching the video again, many of the scooters have that sticker.

And here I was thinking it was Kid Rock's "American Badass."