{"id":1399,"date":"2010-08-07T16:37:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T22:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2010-08-08T18:44:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T00:44:34","slug":"song-of-the-day-screwed-it-up-by-limblifter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1399","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day – “Screwed It Up” by Limblifter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you a Canadian?\u00a0 Are you a member of “Generation X”?\u00a0 Remember all that “Generation X” ballyhoo?\u00a0 Piffle.<\/p>\n

But myself being a man of 22 in the year 1996, I became quite fond of a certain number of songs which were popular at the time.\u00a0 The Old MuchMusic television station was the source of a lot of my music back then, as was the radio.\u00a0 And for a while, I had my cable TV signal split and directed into my radio, which provided me with many hours of listening enjoyment.<\/p>\n

There was a radio station I got from Spokane, WA called KAEP or 105.7 The Peak.\u00a0 They played all kinds of excellent “Alternative Rock” that a young man of 22 such as myself would enjoy.<\/p>\n

And they even played (gasp!) Canadian bands!\u00a0 I had heard Limblifter’s song “Tinfoil” on The Old MuchMusic, and I had digged it.\u00a0 So when I heard their song “Screwed it Up<\/a>” on the radio, I digged it to a higher degree.\u00a0 High.\u00a0 Heh…<\/p>\n

I was stoned a lot back then.\u00a0 And come to think of it, and please feel free to insert a joke about the effects of marijuana on memory here, I’m remembering this slightly wrong.<\/p>\n

I heard this song first on a Calgary radio station.\u00a0 Kick 107.\u00a0 Before the radio dial turned to fucking shit.\u00a0 But I also heard it on The Peak.\u00a0 Along with The Tragically Hip.\u00a0 And I think that was about it for Canadian Bands, though they might have played The Odds once or twice.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this song is a neat little slice of 90s Generation X angst.\u00a0 It measures approximately 45.2 \u00c1\u2026ngstr\u00c1\u00b6ms.\u00a0 And while I was fetching that thar YouTube link, I notice that YouTube has found it necessary to “suggest” I listen to some other songs…. for example….<\/p>\n

Bad Romance by Lady Gaga.\u00a0 Okay, I like the way she looks and I like her robot space alien schtick, but I’ve tried thrice to listen to her music, and I just can’t do it.\u00a0 Her video has 259,222,142 views.\u00a0 “Screwed it Up” has 2,683.\u00a0 That’s 96616.527021990309355199403652628 times as many views.\u00a0 Clearly, the youth of today don’t want to revel in the glory of the Generation X 90s and all the \u00c1\u2026ngst that came with it.<\/p>\n

Or clearly, I’m just babbling.\u00a0 But with my fingers.\u00a0 Fingerbabbling.\u00a0 Perhaps.\u00a0 Mayhaps?\u00a0 Happenstance.\u00a0 Hamsterdance?\u00a0 Fuck no.\u00a0 Keep that shit to yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you a Canadian?\u00a0 Are you a member of “Generation X”?\u00a0 Remember all that “Generation X” ballyhoo?\u00a0 Piffle. But myself being a man of 22 in the year 1996, I became quite fond of a certain number of songs which were popular at the time.\u00a0 The Old MuchMusic television station was the source of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,12],"tags":[80,379,378],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-song-of-the-day","tag-90s","tag-generation-x","tag-limblifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}