{"id":9307,"date":"2009-04-27T08:39:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T12:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9307"},"modified":"2022-10-16T20:10:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T00:10:07","slug":"marshall-will-and-holly-are-rockin-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9307","title":{"rendered":"Marshall, Will and Holly are rockin’ out"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s strange. It’s like a dream come true. I’m really into Everclear (as should be obvious – ahem<\/a>, ahem<\/a>, ahem<\/a> – ’tis a juggernaut that shows no sign of stopping) and for some reason I did not have a copy of their The Vegas Years<\/a>\"\"<\/i>, which came out last year. To say that this album is “sheer liquid joy” is to understate it entirely. For example, they cover “Our Lips Are Sealed”. They cover “867-5309”. They cover “This Land Is Your Land”, “American Girl”, “Bad Connection”. It is a generous album, full of humor and awesomeness, and I bought it on Saturday and I already can’t get enough. I love his voice so much. It launches itself up out of pain and into joy. He is fierce about it. He will NOT be brought down. He is so passionate. Even his anger is life-affirming. He’s not “over” anything.<\/p>\n

Just as an example:<\/p>\n

They cover the damn theme song to “Land of the Lost”.<\/p>\n

You can hear the original here<\/a>. If you are a certain age, you can recite it by heart, and you also know where the dinosaur-roar comes in, and it fills you with a nostalgia for wearing Keds, a T-shirt dribbled with popsicle-juice, and the sound of crickets on a summer night as you race around the backyard with your siblings.<\/p>\n

So to hear a full-on rockin’ version of that song by Everclear has totally made my … week? Life? Whatevs. I’m a simple girl, and I have simple pleasures.<\/p>\n

The song itself is so short, there’s basically one verse, one chorus. We get the set up – about the “routine expedition”, etc., and then they fall down the waterfall to “the land of the lost” and that’s the end of the song.<\/p>\n

Everclear builds the momentum, until finally – it is as loud and rough and exhilarating as any of their regular songs – and it amazes me that nobody has covered it before now.<\/p>\n

Well. Pat McCurdy<\/a> did, but that is only to be expected. Of course he did.<\/p>\n

But right now, I’m all about Everclear, and the screaming guitars, and Arthur Paul Alexakis, singing as though it is the greatest punk rock song of all time.<\/p>\n

And you know what? It kind of is.<\/p>\n

Marshall, Will and Holly
\nOn a routine expedition
\nMet the greatest earthquake ever known
\nHigh on the rapids it struck their tiny raft
\nAnd plunged them down a thousand feet below
\nTo the Land of the Lost<\/p>\n

(repeat ad nauseum)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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