1/25/2024 0 Comments Nada surf a perfect day![]() To me, it’s got that just-written feeling, which is so exciting. You’re not done yet, but maybe you’re so excited to have it, so you just put it down. And I love that, because it’s exactly what happens to me. This song in particular, “Janine,” what I love about it is it’s basically a 30-second song played three times in a row, as if he’d just written it. Ironically, he’s at a celebration of what was ostensibly was the fruit of his band’s labor. There’s a documentary called Wild Combination, and he came to New York from the Midwest in the early ‘70s, gay, kind of checked out the club scene, but also classically trained, and was really threading together all these incredibly disparate kinds of music. Nada Surf High/Low, Elektra 1996 There’s a softly illustrative moment in Semisonic drummer Jacob Slichter’s excellent memoir So You Want To Be A Rock & Roll Star where he’s struck by a spirit-breaking epiphany. Arthur Russell - I’d only heard of him two months before we cut that song. 93 Likes, TikTok video from NinetiesWereAwesome (ninetieswereawesome): 'Nada Surf, Popular, 1996 nadasurf'. That one we cut pretty much like the original, just for the fun of bringing it to a new audience. Mercromina, I don’t know a lot of their songs. Both Ira and I heard about him through this Believer article where the writer goes to Cleveland to try and find him. He was in a band called The Mice, who are kind of the Cleveland Replacements. Despite that, it was still nice to make what was like a first album but with a band name that people already heard of. Even though it hadn’t gotten around in the best way - I think a lot of people liked that song, but you know, it got us a whole world of Weezer comparisons and all this crap that took ages to shake off. So yeah, we got to do a first album all over again. Song Of The Day Nada Surf: Five Minutes of Feeling Good Nada Surf singer Matthew Caws has one of the kindest voices in rock, but 'See These Bones' finds the band opting to. ![]() So we kind of found our little world, and by the time we went to make a record, I had all these songs sitting there. We didn’t have an agent who cared about all-ages shows. And once we got The Proximity Effect back, put it out ourselves, did the whole tour, realized that we could do this the real way, like, sell CDs off the card table in the back in little all-ages clubs - up to then, we weren’t working like that. ![]() ![]() The fact that we couldn’t get arrested for a couple years was good, because then I was just working in a record store, and hanging around and writing songs, really for fun, and really whenever. It ended up being a super blessing for us, because we got to totally reinvent. To this day, their material differs so greatly the band often cites they are in a “can’t win” situation when deciding whether or not to play it live.Not at all. Nada Surf has a familiar story with a lot of one hit wonder bands and specifically some of our 90’s bands the majority of their output sounds nothing like this. (Note, the jam will thicken further when it cools.) Allow to cool. Simmer for 1 to 2 hours until slightly thickened. Put in a large, heavy pot with 1/4 cup sugar, the juice of 1 lemon, a pinch of salt. Director Andrea Linett put the three members of Nada Surf in the video as well serving as respectively, a teacher, security guard and football coach. Monday's Pick Song: 'When I Was Young' Artist: Nada Surf CD: The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy Genre: Pop-Rock Searching and sweet, bombastic and playful, the music of Nada Surf is. Start the tomato jam Crush the tomatoes reserved for the jam and add the reserved pulp and seeds from the smoking tomatoes. The main cheerleader though, was actress Sarah Sebestyen or else Monday morning would have been super weird. The video was shot at Bayonne High School and the school amazingly approved it, so it does include the real school's athletic uniforms, football players, and cheerleader students. Hopefully the credit took the sting out of them dragging her the whole time. There’s a 1964 book called Penny’s Guide to Teen-Age Charm and Popularity written by Gloria Winters (who yes, gets a writing credit on the song). The sardonic tone of the mostly spoken word track gives you all the high school creepy crawlies but could you imagine it being actual published advice? Because, it is. This teenage guide to popularity actually has quite a few rules, but here we go as Nada Surf takes the awkwardness of high school and somehow twists the knife!
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