Last fall I wrote an odd little entry about Eagle Eye Cherry, pretending to be a huge fan and lamenting the unexplainable decline in his popularity.
Sure enough, like moths to a human torch, this post has drawn the attention of a couple web dullards nice enough to comment.
Carla writes:
i know! i love eagle eye cherry. and i cant find any video of fallin in love again (w/c is my fave song) that works. its so sad
Jeroen [The Netherlands] writes:
Eagle Eye Cherry, It Still Is One Of The Greatest Bands In The Whole World…
Save Tonight Just Keeps Better When Listening It..
This is why the John Larroquette Project exists, people – to draw in idiots from around the world to be mocked unmercifully. The concept that a Danish gentleman came here to proudly proclaim that Eagle Eye Cherry is one of the greatest bands in the world amuses me to no end.
Now for my rebuttal. First of all, Eagle Eye Cherry is an individual, not a band. Second of all, what the hell is he talking about? On the list of the greatest musical acts in the world, Eagle Eye Cherry resides somewhere between Fastball and the Bay City Rollers. He won’t be cracking the top 500 anytime soon.
Go back to Amsterdam, Jeroen – we listen exclusively to Lee Greenwood’s “Proud to Be an American” around here.
Fastball kicks ass. The Bay City Rollers just…like…speak to the human condition man. What have you got against great music that will endure? What, I suppose you like that Beatles crap?
Dude thanks for the shout out. I’m glad somebody respect my music.
Now that I examine the context, I think you meant your compliment ironically. So, you’re implying that my song is an example of unlovable music? Man, that is not cool at all…
You can forget about me buying you Don Pablos tomorrow, prick…
LG – Tell you what, I buy YOU a couple three enchiladas and we put it all behind us.
By the way, you been working on a follow-up song in these last 22 years or what?
You know, I was putting something together, and then 9/11 came along and ka-ching!
S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y…Night!
The Bay City Rollers were all right, but they were no Dexy’s Midnight Runners.
I love the Bay City Rollers!
Wait- what songs did they do, I mean they are a band right?
“The Way” was like the anthem for summer ’98, man! Where’s the love?!
And not just any run-of-the-mill band can come up with lyrics like, “I’ll be the rain falling on your fire escape…” I mean that’s *deep*…so deep I still haven’t figured it out.
Fastball had their day in the sun, alright, and rightly so.
the bay city rollers are a band? i thought they were a minor league baseball team.