I don't know. Something about this song... won't let me go. Total one-hit-wonder by the band, "Sponge." No Pearl Jam, STP, Foo Fighters, Snoop legacy here. Just a song that I saw on MTV's "Buzz Videos" the summer after 8th grade. It was off an album called, "Rotting Pinata." I've never heard Sponge mentioned since, but on occasion I will hear an independent radio station play their song, "Molly (16 Candles Down the Drain)." Many people believe that the lead singer had some sort of 'thing' for Molly Ringwald, ever-famous with 80's pop icons the world over. I mean, it is pretty coincidental that the song title shares her name and is followed by a reference to one of her many, sappy, 80's movies. Fast forward to 2011 and most kids (including some of the older ones too) only correlate her with STS9 shows, Bonnaroo, and other festivals of that sort.
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| Molly. |
Either way, this song followed me throughout the summer of 1995, mostly at summer camp. We all rocked our Puma's, Jinco's (don't lie), and Yin-Yang pendants on hemp necklaces. There were the guys wearing shirts of bands that none of us hardly knew and actually were probably dead or in rehab by that point.....
...UH-OH... I feel word vomit coming on... f.
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| Case in Point. |
*** I'd like to take this moment to give a 'shate-out' to that kid who always wore his beat-looking "Stairway to Heaven" t-shirt on a daily basis. We knoooooow you went to the mall, purchased it at Spencer's, and took it home for your mom to wash and dry it on high heat, repetitively for 24 hours straight. We get it! You wanted to give us all the impression that you were by far the headiest, most learned, 13-year-old Led Head alive. We get that you were front row for Page and Plant, at 3-years-old, rocking out that t-shirt (that was 10 sizes to big for you at the time), ripping baby hits of hash backstage using your 'Baby Snot Sucker' bulb, all whilst your saggy diaper drug along the ground. Because of you, along with the three million other d-bags out there who have worn this shirt over the past 30 years, I now change the radio station if that song were to come on. Led Zeppelin has plenty of other great songs out there. Trust me. Buy an album rather than tring to listen to that jacked up, single, cassette tape you've had for some time now. ***
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Elaine and her Sponge dilemma. |
Back to ... ummm... shared conversations at summer camp, in regards to us all buying the Sponge CD that summer amongst others, i.e. Filter, Pearl Jam, Coolio, Smashing Pumpkins, etc. In retrospect, I believe I listened to "Siamese Dream" that summer a bit more than "Rotting Pinata." Ironically, I can't remember one video from Billy Corgan's said album, however I do remember some dude's video who named his band after an archaic, female contraceptive. Go figure.
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