The Muppets – 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

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Genius.

Liz Phair – Why Can’t I?

I really like this video, although I suspect the jukebox imagery will be incomprehensible in just a few years, unfortunately.

This song got bashed a lot when it came out, for marking a break with Liz Phair’s classic sound. I can only assume the people who said that hadn’t picked up her previous two albums, and were basing their response on her first album. She’d been trending this way for a while.

This song got played in a lot of chick flicks and the like, which just goes to show what I’ve always said: Most people don’t listen to lyrics at all. This isn’t a happy little love song. This is a song about cheating on your significant other.

Get a load of me, get a load of you
Walkin’ down the street, and I hardly know you
It’s just like we were meant to be

Holding hands with you when we’re out at night
Got a girlfriend, you say it isn’t right
And I’ve got someone waiting too

What if this is just the beginning
We’re already wet, and we’re gonna go swimming

Hardly ordinary chick flick fare.

Anyway, I like this tune, and not just because it makes me laugh to think of how many “happy romance” scenes it’s been played under as the soundtrack.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Liz Phair and Material Issue – The Tra La La Song (Banana Splits)

I always found the Banana Splits (and all of the jumbo costume TV childrens’ shows) vaguely threatening as a kid. That monkey with the big toothy grin seems a little too happy …

The Saturday Morning Cartoons’ Greatest Hits album is still awesome, though. Todd and I practically camped out at a record store to get it, back when we both worked at the Potomac News.