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The Pursuit of Happiness — I'm An Adult Now
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ckcotton
(Adding snarky comments since 2007)
Posted: May 13, 2013 - 21:34
 
Not sure what I was thinking giving this a 2....

Most definitely a 1

clive369
(Windsor, UK)
Posted: Apr 12, 2013 - 15:33
 
 gillespp wrote:
Haven't heard this before—it's damn good!

 
ah irony ... you can't beat it.

horstman
(Syracuse, New York)
Posted: Apr 12, 2013 - 15:30
 
 ckcotton wrote:
Really prefer to have had this die in the 80's....

Not a timeless classic.... 

 
Oh, poo poo on you.

JIan
(Phoenix, AZ, USA)
Posted: Apr 12, 2013 - 15:28
 
 ckcotton wrote:
Really prefer to have had this die in the 80's....

Not a timeless classic.... 

 
I agree with you there, ck.

ottojschlosser
(Beaverton OR (no, really, that's its name))
Posted: Apr 12, 2013 - 15:27
 
This is a hoot.

gillespp
(Portland, OR)
Posted: Apr 12, 2013 - 15:26
 
Haven't heard this before—it's damn good!

Diamond_Dog
(Round Equatorial Pound)
Posted: Mar 12, 2013 - 04:32
 
 westslope wrote:

I keep hearing:  I am on the dole now.

 

I guess you call that having the welfare state on the noggin. 

 
Ha! me too!

jt1
Posted: Mar 12, 2013 - 04:31
 
 impediguy wrote:
I bought this album when I was still working at my first job after college. What am I now?
 

Older?

coloradojohn
(A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver)
Posted: Feb 08, 2013 - 19:44
 
I may now occupy seemingly different co-ordinates within the endlessly entertaining and infinite variation of The Flux-Dance Light Matrix, but I'm hearing this song again and FEELING IT ~<Dzzjjjjzzdtt!>~ CONNECTED!

Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet)
Posted: Jan 31, 2013 - 08:04
 
Wow, since I'm an adult now I haven't heard this since the good ol days....sigh! Love it!

coy
(san antonio)
Posted: Jan 08, 2013 - 11:57
 
had to buy this
guess i'm an adult now 

ColdMiser
(Out in the Cold)
Posted: Jan 08, 2013 - 11:45
 
 Will62 wrote:
I remember seeing this band some twenty-odd years ago at the Sydney University Bar. I have never seen a band rock out a place like these guys did that night. Excellent then and still excellent now!! Definitely in my all-time Top 10
 
I saw them after their first album in a club in Boston and came away with the same feeling...I wish they were still around

ckcotton
(Adding snarky comments since 2007)
Posted: Jan 08, 2013 - 11:45
 
Really prefer to have had this die in the 80's....

Not a timeless classic.... 

westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Jan 08, 2013 - 11:43
 

I keep hearing:  I am on the dole now.

 

I guess you call that having the welfare state on the noggin. 



socalhol
(Seattle)
Posted: Nov 06, 2012 - 17:26
 
 templefrost wrote:
This is a laboured attempt at what was good and raw about Suicidal Tendencies' "Institutionalized".
 
hehe — yeah, true-that — good call.  I don't care for either song, but I agree with your analysis.

ch83575
Posted: Oct 06, 2012 - 08:16
 
 impediguy wrote:
I'm fifty two. The singer was younger than I am. When is now? Will someone let me know when I get there?
 
When you start double-posting your getting close {#Nyah}

martinc
(Ottawa Canada)
Posted: Sep 12, 2012 - 13:55
 
I used to smoke grass and get high
Now I cut grass and sneeze from allergies

I am an adult now 

impediguy
Posted: Sep 04, 2012 - 18:55
 
I bought this album when I was still working at my first job after college. What am I now?

Will62
Posted: Sep 04, 2012 - 18:51
 
I remember seeing this band some twenty-odd years ago at the Sydney University Bar. I have never seen a band rock out a place like these guys did that night. Excellent then and still excellent now!! Definitely in my all-time Top 10

impediguy
Posted: Jul 03, 2012 - 21:26
 
I'm fifty two. The singer was younger than I am. When is now? Will someone let me know when I get there?

impediguy
Posted: Jul 03, 2012 - 21:06
 
I'm fifty two. The singer was younger than I am. When is now? Will someone let me know when I get there?

robertomiller
(Mountain View, CA)
Posted: Jul 03, 2012 - 21:03
 
Oh yes. There it is... on many levels....

Aud
(lost in lakecity)
Posted: Jun 02, 2012 - 01:08
 
I'm 18. I get confused every day.
I'm 18 and I LIKE it.

41 year old song....

martinc
(Ottawa Canada)
Posted: May 15, 2012 - 12:17
 
I use to not cut my hair and let my freak fly
Now I bling people with the glare off my glad head
I'am an adult now 

Relayer
(Gainesville, FL)
Posted: May 01, 2012 - 07:18
 
I was in high school when this came out. Now I am 40..."an adult now". How did that happen?

Oh well, a kickin' song that speaks to me so much more now.

handyrae
(Zero Point Field)
Posted: May 01, 2012 - 07:17
 
 templefrost wrote:
This is a laboured attempt at what was good and raw about Suicidal Tendencies' "Institutionalized".
 
Ah! That's what this is reminding me of.

Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague)
Posted: May 01, 2012 - 07:16
 
Man, I haven't heard this in ages!!!!

templefrost
Posted: Mar 30, 2012 - 14:10
 
This is a laboured attempt at what was good and raw about Suicidal Tendencies' "Institutionalized".

DaMoGan
(Beer on the east coast, Beer on the west coast.)
Posted: Mar 30, 2012 - 14:08
 

A paean for a mid-life crisis if I've ever heard one.  Brilliant!

 

MinMan
(Bay Area, CA)
Posted: Mar 30, 2012 - 14:07
 
Love this - haven't heard it in a long time.

CMax
(Copenhagen)
Posted: Jan 27, 2012 - 05:46
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyqDnYBQsKw
HSR yeah... Boston

hayduke2
(Southampton, NY)
Posted: Jan 27, 2012 - 05:46
 
Cheers!

I'm enjoyin the news bytes of those narrow minded douches; also dig this tune, makes me long for Joan Jett, Good Rats or Black Flagg

 kcar wrote:
 
Compared to the loons and mental midgets running for the GOP nomination this year, Bob Dole looks like Abe Lincoln. 
 



coloradojohn
(Tokyo till Jan. 29, then it's back to Rocky Mtn Way!)
Posted: Jan 27, 2012 - 05:44
 
I am attempting to achieve Escape Velocity here (like, Ten Years of Gravity, and How To Avoid It), and thanks to RP, it seems to be really happening!  ROCKING OUT MAKES TIME AND SPACE SEEM LIKE CO-OPERATIVE FRIENDS INSTEAD of DENSE, VISCOUS FLUIDS...


kcar
Posted: Dec 26, 2011 - 11:49
 
 ick wrote:
For some reason this song makes me want to hear a tune by Human Sexual Response... "What Does Sex Mean to Me"... some good lines in that one too... something about licking Betty Ford's boots that she wore "all over China".
 
Miss HSR...I don't associate them with this song, but both bands had their heyday in the 80s. Would love to hear "Land of the Glass Pinecones" on RP sometime. 
 
 SinisterDexter wrote:

Are you sure he's not saying: "I'll vote for Dole now?"
  
Compared to the loons and mental midgets running for the GOP nomination this year, Bob Dole looks like Abe Lincoln. 

SinisterDexter
Posted: Dec 26, 2011 - 11:45
 
 toomanyollys wrote:
I keep hearing "I'm on the dole now" and wondering why he sounds so pleased about it...
 
Are you sure he's not saying: "I'll vote for Dole now?"

gemtag
(Texas)
Posted: Dec 26, 2011 - 11:45
 
Sounds like something you would hear from a third rate high school band. 

At least they try to rhyme I guess. 

Foot
(NorCal / Wine)
Posted: Dec 26, 2011 - 11:44
 
Tell me again where else you can hear this classic track?  Only RP - 8 > 9


ick
(...out of the primordial ooze)
Posted: Sep 22, 2011 - 12:16
 
For some reason this song makes me want to hear a tune by Human Sexual Response... "What Does Sex Mean to Me"... some good lines in that one too... something about licking Betty Ford's boots that she wore "all over China".

toomanyollys
(Bucks)
Posted: Aug 22, 2011 - 02:53
 
I keep hearing "I'm on the dole now" and wondering why he sounds so pleased about it...

Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet CAN I GO HOME NOW?)
Posted: Jul 21, 2011 - 18:13
 
Dam....missed it by three notes!!

billystack
Posted: Jul 21, 2011 - 18:12
 
Much more relevant at 40 than it was at 18.... 

ferwoman
Posted: Jul 21, 2011 - 18:11
 
I seriously thought this was a Weird Al Yankovic song riffing off some other recording. {#Lol}

peter_james_bond
(West Of The Burg)
Posted: Jun 20, 2011 - 04:49
 
 Propayne wrote:
Some wonderful Todd Rundgren produced power pop! 

Crank it UP!!!

 
Yes! The production skills of Mr. Rundgren were used by many groups and artists, including these guys.



adroc
(slightly left of centre)
Posted: May 19, 2011 - 11:03
 
Heard a funny story from a record label promo rep about trying to get this record played on an English language rock station in Montreal.... The station's music director/DJ - in a heavy Quebecois French accent - said "This is a great song, I want to add it right away and our listeners will love it, but I can't do it."  When pressed as to why he couldn't add the song he said "I can't say the name of the band on the air without giving the wrong impression." 

Don't get it? Try saying Pursuit of Happiness quickly with a Quebecois accent.... remember that they don't pronounce 'H'....


tiffany_epiphany
(Richmond, BC Canada)
Posted: May 19, 2011 - 10:52
 
ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!.... like it as much today as I did back then.  And still relevant!!

Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: May 19, 2011 - 10:52
 
Adulthood? I'm not havin' it.



sbegf
(Manchester, Maryland)
Posted: May 19, 2011 - 10:51
 
I have always found this to be a musically annoying song, but I love listening to it...

UltraNurd
(Boston, MA)
Posted: May 19, 2011 - 10:49
 
I would not have pegged this as a song from 1986 (having never heard it before).

dreadpixie
Posted: May 19, 2011 - 10:49
 
 SoundsGoodToMe wrote:

 Fuck you!  Did I spell that right?

 
yeah I hate the grammar/spelling police too.  it's the internet, it's fun.  Love your comeback.


Darlington
(Columbia, South Carolina)
Posted: May 19, 2011 - 10:48
 
One of the last 45's I ever bought, I think.....wow....