For no other reason than I love this song. Never followed the band but years ago when I got a hold of this song on a complilation given to me by a good friend who had been a manager at a big chain record store, I couldn't stop listening. The memory of a young Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka and the great justice the Smoking Popes do this song, dammit man it's just pure sunshine. Which is funny be...
I like pop-punk, I've found, and I like this song. I learned that it was in "Clueless"....??? Where've I been? Clueless? Stuck in the 80's! Luckily, I've broken out of that shell before I permanently put my radio dial on easy listening. Smoking Popes are pretty cool. (Are they a Christian band?) I also like "Zing Went the Strings of my Heart". More later.-Jauretsi
Due to one of those informational lapses that tends to plague my concert-going plans, I missed the Smoking Popes when they were in Boston last week. Around ten o'clock last night I got a call from Jocelyn, who told me that she was at a Smoking Popes show in North Carolina. I told her to have fun & to tell me about it.Twelve thirty last night I got another phone call, again from Jocelyn. This...