mutepoint wrote: 
You have the option of changing the station if it doesn't meet your criteria for your listening environment.  After all, there are plenty of stations out there that probably fit your requirements.  

Sounds like some kid playing with a signal generator in the background..

 mutepoint wrote: 
I know what you mean; some musical sounds can be more jarring than desired, even out of a work environment.  

 Proclivities wrote: 
True.  Musician's prerogative and such.  However, any terrestrial (or Innerwebs) radio station might give airplay a second thought as they take into account the listener's environment.  Same reason that wide-appeal stations don't play anything with excessive foul language or abusive/derogatory content.  (Leave that crap to the college stations that think they can get away with it in the wee hours. )

 mutepoint wrote: 
Those odd keyboard sounds may be understandably annoying to a lot of folks, but whether or not a song is "disruptive to a work environment" should never be of any concern to a songwriter or musician - unless they were hired to compose or play Muzak back in the 1960s and '70s.

Thought for a moment this was Wayne Coyne and Flaming Lips that I hadn't heard. Weird.

First comment I've ever made in years of listening. This is that bad.

As stated by others, this is one hell of an annoying song.

FUCKING ANNOYING sound effects in this tune are disruptive to a work environment.  Is it a phone ringing?

FFS. 

 Pyro wrote: 
Can't stand them...reminds me of an annoying 80's video game. 

 thermion7 wrote: 

Reminds me of ELO, so I gave it a 3.

Resurrection!

This song is annoying as hell....

Just saw Grandaddy last month at the first reunion show in years. At the Independent in SF. It was awesome, and they played this song.
Rumor is they might put out a new record. In the meantime Jason Lytle's new album is about to drop, and can be heard for free on NPR as of today.

...so next we should hear some unkle and younger brother?..

I think I'm a bit late coming to the table on this one. In fact late in coming to the musical table in gereral as I've had the blinkers on for many years (i'm refering to ELO blikers so relevant to this thread i guess).

Very good friends of mine bought me this album last year in the attempt of trying to broaden my musical horizons (successfully). In fact they are truly encyclopedic. I was instantly impressed and immediately and noticed the ELO resemblance (i'm refering to the elctronic 'twidly' sounds so not the actual songwriting itself). In fact Grandaddy did a cover of ELO's Shangri-La I believe on their last album (as a bonus track).

Anyway.. I was listening to the album again last night. I can't remember in between which songs, but there is a spoken line also taken from ELO's Face The Music album (Fire on High track). ELO were always accused (or cited) as using subliminal messages hidden in their music which actually amounted to just reversing some words so that they could only be heard by playing the record backwards (great fun on turntables). On Fire On High, there is a line which says (in reverse) "music is reversible, but time is not". Grandaddy have done the same. Only funnily (I think I'm right), they've only spoken the words as they sound in reverse rather than actually reversing the correct lyric (if that makes sense).

Not sure is anyone spotted this before. I guess it would only be ELO fans listening to Grandaddy who would. Oh no, I just revealed my musical past. Oops!

ploafmaster wrote: :( I'm firmly in the former. They took a neat, glittery sound effect and pile drove it right into the ground.

Ya know, I'm sure some people hate it and some love it, but I'm in the latter category when it comes to the nifty synth arpeggio in the background.

I like this!

Oh, nice joke, Bill. In this mix, anyway, Grandaddy is following immediately after It's A Beautiful Day -- which elicited an outpouring of abuse from all the "youngsters" out there in our audience, as Ed Sullivan would have said; everything from "f**ing hippie sh*t!" to "how long does it take you to chew your soup?" Well, gettin' a vibe off the gr-amps.

Not sure why, but I have since overcome my objection to the arpeggios and bumped my rating up from a 5 to a 7. At first I was ambivalent about Grandaddy but I recently listened to Sophtware Slump and bought an mp3 of almost every song on the track including this one.

Meanwhile, dissers of ELO should try to forgive them for "Don't Bring Me Down" and give the recent album Zoom a listen.

Ityllux wrote:

Whoops! One person's trash is another's treasure!

Love the electronic arpeggios....although it is ridiculously easy to do with electronic keyboards....

i have a sample of the "i gotta get outta here" lyric set as my windows shut-down sound. 8)

This band has been pigeonholed as slacker rock. Maybe true as they are VERY laid back.

The Sophtware Slump must be listened to in one sitting to hear the genius writing and arranging at it's best.

The band must have grown up listening to ELO and decided to ditch the string section. The feel is there though.

awesome. thanks for playing this song. these guys are great in concert. highly recommended. their video content behind the stage is truly top notch. I have been to hundreds of concerts and this one was top ten. If they come to your town, look for them to be BBQ'ing at a local skate park...
:nodhead:
too bad there aren't emoticons with beards

Reminds me of ELO. But I gave it a 7 anyway.

Peyote wrote:
While listening to ELO...

This are some of the most amusing comments I have read for a while..I think Grandaddy would be proud.

moheybee wrote:
:-s You must be really young!

Grandaddy's Chemical Brothers got Flaming Lips!!!


Its a joke!!