2 posts tagged “no doubt”

i don't have much to add here, given that i've mentioned my affinity for this particular song at least twice before.  i will say, though, that the video isn't quite as pleasingly midriff-y as memory serves.  no matter.  the song is still good.

back in the halcyon days of 1996, the mighty roy and i watched a lot of MTV.  in our defense, beavis and butthead were still on the air, and if we weren't already drunk we were well on our way.  and there were videos to wait for - to wait patiently at first, and then not so patiently, as we feared they had been featured in the rotation just before we turned on the television.

i was watching in the hopes of catching a glimpse of gwen stefani and no doubt singing "spiderwebs" - for the record because of her bare, gyrating midriff and super cool plaid pants, but also because i actually liked the song.  roy was waiting for nada surf, and their hit "popular."  i still contend - when i so infrequently discuss these things - that i was the fan of the better song, but roy liked the better video.

i bring this up because pitchfork's limey competitor - stylus magazine - has responded to the chicago indie rockers' throwing down of the gauntlet with a list of videos of their own.  and unlike pitchfork, they have the stones to rank 'em.  they've been offering up twenty videos a day all week, and tommorow they'll cap it off with the final score, so to speak.  but those last twenty are gonna have to be pretty damn good to top the group of 60-41 as a whole, so i'm gonna send you there.

oh, and "popular" checks in at #49.  the ranking is too low, but i'd be highly surprised to find no doubt in the top twenty tomorrow.