Self-conscious, derivative. Maybe Stipe or others could've pulled this off, but Josh ain't doin' it.

This guy sounds like Michael Stipe, but younger.

does this song have any originality at all? Sucks REM backwash....

Darlington wrote:

I was thinking "white boy rap" as soon as I heard it; I see I wasn't the only one. #-o

I hate the Cowboys, but I actually like this song and this album and this "group." No accounting for taste. Just ask my accountant.

The Josh Joplin Group? The Josh Joplin Group? It took a group to turn this out? You gotta be kidding.

I like this song quite a bit. The mixed metaphors are too intentionally silly to be pretentious.

Enough, enough, enough. Why does this song get so much airplay here?

Dave_Mack wrote:

I thought the same thing, although it does get more orchestrated later in this song where Kottke's stays consistent.

What pretensious stupidity. Juvenile. Did I mention I hate it?

Huey wrote:

One of the worst "white boy" raps ever put on record.

this song sucked at the begining

"and so it ends"

R.E.M. meets Arrested Development....... blech.

Please rid this pretentious, overwrought song from the playlist.

Eventually, Eventually, Eventually this song will end.

Comercial "Automatic For The People" soundalike...

sounds really REM-like, though not quite so creative. still, nice enough.

I like a good play on words. Good sound.
An 8.

Preppy rap

This is terrible.

Surprised nobody has mentioned Leo Kottke's "Jack Gets Up" which this is a dead ringer for, except the quirkiness doesn't work here, IMHO.
"Every morning when you get up, when you get up, when you get up out of bed"...or something like that.
Just lowered my rating to 3. I hate the the spoken parts of this song.

Somehow both goofy and pretentious. And overplayed on this station.

Didn't some of those lyrics come form another song?

Leslie wrote:
You're generous!

worthy of a 4 rating after about 10 listens

"I'm not the only Cauflield who's catching more than kids." Nice allusion.

I hope this song ends eventually, eventually, eventually,.

Joplin's local. He sucks!

ENS3 wrote:

I think he sounds just like Brian VanderArk of the Verve Pipe. Used to see them in E. Lansing before they made it big. But they're defunct now. That's what you get for going corporate....

ENS3 wrote:

I think he sounds just like Brian VanderArk of the Verve Pipe. Used to see them in E. Lansing before they made it big. But they're defunct now. That's what you get for going corporate....