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AngryGerbil · 11-14-2002, 07:25 PM

Jimmie's Chicken Shack.

Seriously.

They had one radio song a while back called "High". It was simple, catchy, and appealed to the pot-heads in the audience but generally wasn't a very good song.

However...

A weak moment at Streetside one day had me buy the album this song was on called "Pushing the Salmonilla Envelope".

This is one of the best and most overlooked albums of it's time (mid 90's). I'm not kidding. The song "High" is easily, far and away, the worst song on the album and is really nothing like the rest of it. In contrast to the stupid name of the band and the stupid radio song they had, the lyrics are some of the most intelligent and insightful I've heard. In fact one of my favorite quotes comes from the last track (forget the name atm) that I've never heard anywhere else: "Experience gives you options, a range of personalities...endless."

Also, lyrically, the song "Another Day" isn't super-great, but the music is. That song remains one of my all time favs still today.

Those guys deserved fame and fortune but alas, they had to fuck it all up and write the song "High" which basically discredited them in the eyes of most people.

11-14-2002, 07:25 PM	#6 (permalink)
AngryGerbil zero signal Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 3,568	You'll all laugh but... Jimmie's Chicken Shack. Seriously. They had one radio song a while back called "High". It was simple, catchy, and appealed to the pot-heads in the audience but generally wasn't a very good song. However... A weak moment at Streetside one day had me buy the album this song was on called "Pushing the Salmonilla Envelope". This is one of the best and most overlooked albums of it's time (mid 90's). I'm not kidding. The song "High" is easily, far and away, the worst song on the album and is really nothing like the rest of it. In contrast to the stupid name of the band and the stupid radio song they had, the lyrics are some of the most intelligent and insightful I've heard. In fact one of my favorite quotes comes from the last track (forget the name atm) that I've never heard anywhere else: "Experience gives you options, a range of personalities...endless." Also, lyrically, the song "Another Day" isn't super-great, but the music is. That song remains one of my all time favs still today. Those guys deserved fame and fortune but alas, they had to fuck it all up and write the song "High" which basically discredited them in the eyes of most people. __________________ Doesn't speak the language. Holds no currency.