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[quote name="Ray of Light"]40 Days. 40 Fights. This song gave me an idea in 2002 that developed into a two-minute bit about how some people <img src=http://www.pawmap.com/files/imagecache/taxonomy_icons/files/breeds/female.jpg height=20 width=20> like to characterize their intimacy with conflict. I give it in response to a girl saying she and boyfriend X used to fight a lot. I say that tends to shorten relationships (40 days) and that that is very sad [pause for empathy], then hypothesize the key is finding someone with whom you can fight in a sustainable way [examine her eyes for signs of glinting]. I Checks My Bank. Imagine 1994 Japan's reaction to our fascination with Mix-a-lot. Pretty easy thing to imagine, right? How Unjapanese we were back then! To have needed a song to sell concepts like ass and bank. To me, SMaL was a normal guy who talked about normal things. His later work exhibits shock and delight that everyone found him so relevant. Got Thunder Road (live) on cassette when I was 11 (and never heard the studio version until I bought the CD as an adult). I think this was the first song where I rewound the same 8-second section ("my car's out back ... but the ride ain't free") over and over again until I could sound exactly like the singer. Being Cool is a song that anyone can make sound pretty good. It can also be delivered on the sly, starting slow and building to a preacher's cadence. Object and the album it rode in on trolled some fuck out of the (venerable) BBC's James Young:[quote]A pitch perfect facsimile of heavy rock whose deft turns of phrase cover a litany of swearing and sexist rubbish that is both puerile and wearing. Irony is used as cover to say 'f**k' on record… for the 11th Album in a row. Surely, Ween fan, the joke must wear thin? And do we need anyone to point out that rock is a misogynistic genre? Similarly, [<i>to something else halfway up the page --ray</i>], "Object" contains the plain nasty 'You’re just a piece of meat and I’m the butcher'.[/quote][quote cite="bbc.co.uk forum poster keefe"]If REM or Radiohead wrote the song, "Object," James Young would write: creepy, original, and perfect. Instead he misses the point. Shape up, kid. It's ok to write disturbing lyrics if the narrator is a serial-killer. Or did you miss that? Uk may lack in Ween fans, but not in milquetoast wankers wasting BBC gigs.[/quote] The Cramps! I still sometimes lol when he gets to "Did I mention I'm in a band?" That's side A, Zseni. (Frankly,) I don't feel you are ready for side B.[/quote]