Oooh yeah good spot: 'It was originally released as a two-record set in 1981...The title track "You Are What You Is" is an up-tempo pop rock style song that was released as a music video in 1984.'

hah! I remember pop rocks + coke legend! And to this day, there's no way I'll try it - especially after the mentos + diet coke vids!

I think pop-rocks might be the first true viral ever. But where's the beef and mikey likes it might be close seconds. This is clearly a fake, cause Mikey died! *vintage

When a mostly-wimpy pop-rock band like Nickelback eulogizes someone from a thrash-metal band in a song ("Side of a Bullet"), you know that the entire musical community recognized what they accomplished. Rest in peace, "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott.

LOL, I had one of those! And the Snoopy one too. Some of the dumbest people on the planet lived in my house while I was growing up.

We started fires with JiffyPop popcorn, wet the bed with electric blankets, bit the heads off Stretch Armstrongs, played in the street on our Big Wheels, drank Coke and ate Pop Rocks (at the same time!!!)... Kids today don't see half the action we saw, sheesh!

um...wow, although Pop Rocks does work great on women.

Yeah, personally L'arc isn't my favorite but they are still classic pop/rock. I think they have gotten a bit generic just to cater to the jpop crowds. I do however find some videos cool such as Blurry Eyes and how the guitar player smokes while he plays (never seen that done) interesting.

The pillows are great too, great sift btw.

Great post! In the slasher movie 'Urban Legend', Robert Englund is a university lecturer who gives a lecture on Urban Legends in which he talks about Mikey. The students say that Mikey died from consuming Pop Rocks while drinking Coca-Cola. While he informs them that this is simply an urban legend they are still reluctant to volunteer to drink Cola and eat Pop Rocks at the same time.

He started off well enough, making pretty challenging music that commented on pop culture and on rock music as live theater. But this song just sounds like $dollar signs$ to me... a repetitive, standard (inst-intro, verse1, chorus1, bridge into chorus2, verse2, chorus2, bridge back to chorus1, alternate-chorus, chorus1, outro) progression track with distortion on the vocals and guitar, and lyrics about being a rock star and how old people are tools (and he is not).

I guess I'm still upset that The Fragile never ushered in a golden age of heady, anti-pop rock like it was supposed to. Does this not sound like a distorted Blur track from, like, 1994?

The digression of country music has pretty much followed that of pop, rock, r&b, etc.....popular music is a great gauge for keeping up with the breakdown of societies, their sensibilities and cultures.
Do this sifter bees the only one who thinks this song sucks ass, or any such catchy-penned editorial on the state of affairs in a crumbling empire.....?

.....or is he just an easily irritated, opinionated asshole??

no need to get all alarmist there, joe! co2 is actually being used in studies as a potential treatment for sleep apnea! co2 is virtually harmless ... as anyone knows, a pound of dry ice sublimates into 8.3 cubic feet of co2 ... those boys used no where near one pound of dry ice.

further more ... carbon dioxide pellets when submerged in ethanol-water solution undergo rapid sublimation, releasing gaseous mixture of aerosolized ethanol with the sublimated co2 acting as a submersion medium. Subsequent inhalation results in diffusion across vascular membrane and direct uptake of the ethanol.

oh no .... we better all stop drinking carbonated bevers such as soda and beer ... sparkling wine .... even pop rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1995 saw the peak of Pulp's fame, with the release of their No.2 UK Hit single "Common People", their much loved performance at the Glastonbury Festival (standing in for the Stone Roses at the last minute) and their Mercury award winning album Different Class (the first album featuring Pulp fan-club president Mark Webber, who became a permanent member of the band on guitar and keyboards). This album, with its disco-infused pop-rock, and the trademark sordid yet witty lyrics about sexual encounters and working class life, is for most fans what Pulp are about.

I want to see somebody snort pop rocks. Imagine how fast that would hit the top 15?

Broken Social Scene is a Canadian mega-indie-rock-band; this is the big single from their current self-titled album.

The song title refers to the fact that the song is in 7/4 time - as opposed to typical 4/4, ONE, two, Three, four beat you normally hear in pop/rock songs.

Aside from the unique time signature it's a really fun & enjoyable song.

*(Mega? When they played 7/4 Shoreline on Conan, he said they "need more guitars". There were 5 of them on stage.)