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Sunday, September 24, 2006

Stand Up & Be Strong 

Yesterday (Saturday) morning when I was driving to Fred Meyer (to go to the bonk there), a song came on the radio. It was this rock ballad all about standing up and being strong. It had the cheesiest, most horrible lyrics this side of a Pleaseeasaur's "You've Got the Tough." But it had good production values, and it wasn't over the top, so I couldn't for the life of me figure out whether it was a parody or not. If it was a parody, it was one of the funniest parodies I'd heard in a long time. If it was NOT a parody, then it was one of the saddest, most pathetic songs I'd ever heard in my whole life. Several times while listening to the lyrics I blurted out loud, "This can't be real!"

So when I got to Fred Meyer, I parked and called Carrie to have her go on KMTT.com and look the song up. It turns out it was "Stand Up and Be Strong" by none other than Soul Asylum, those refugees from the 80s. That meant only one thing:

IT WAS REAL!

I think, though, that it actually makes the song better, in that several people thought it was actually a good enough song to record! It's like watching those poor schmucks who sing worse than I do, but who for some reson still try out for American Idol. Don't they know?

I now present, for your listening (and viewing) pleasure, Soul Asylum's "Stand Up and Be Strong." I don't blame you at all if you don't want to listen to it.



Horrible! Gloriously horrible!


posted by Christopher at 11:51 AM

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.....I had to stop it at the hills and pills line.

Wow.... Could that have been comissioned for a Visa commercial or for possibly Toyota and then never used?

Run-a-away train of talent is never coming back...

M.T.

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9/24/06 12:24 PM  

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I have decided that I like this song for realies.

Shut up.

The Hulkster Rulez.

By Anonymous Taisha, at 9/24/06 2:46 PM  

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That was 84.5 seconds of my life that should've been spent otherwise. I am now a believer in your Cheese-sense.

--Alex

By Anonymous Alex, at 9/24/06 6:08 PM  

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If I weren't sugar crashing, I'd be laughing myself into a sugar crash.

-EGV

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9/25/06 6:47 PM  

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