I’ve had The Verve Pipe’s “The Freshmen” on loop for the last week and a half, ask me nothing - ThreadSky

aishaharris.bsky.social • 75 days ago

I’ve had The Verve Pipe’s “The Freshmen” on loop for the last week and a half, ask me nothing

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mawasteland.bsky.social•75 days ago

For the life of me…

tylerjpetty.bsky.social•75 days ago

For the life of you, can you remember why?

davidcrowe.bsky.social•75 days ago

For the life of me, I can’t remember why we thought that we were wise and we’d never compromise. Do you remember?

aliaverymaxwell.bsky.social•74 days ago

If you want to change perspective, check out Overboard by the same band.

wcpetree.bsky.social•74 days ago

You won't be held responsible...

joelmathis.bsky.social•75 days ago

Did you hear this line correctly, or did you think he was singing something else? (Asking for a friend.)

"And she, a punk who rarely ever took advice."

banksishere.bsky.social•75 days ago

For a long time I thought it was, "gee, a punk rarely ever took advice"

aishaharris.bsky.social•75 days ago

That’s really close!

aishaharris.bsky.social•75 days ago

I had no idea what he was saying when it was all over the radio. I just heard, “Sheer punk-a haven’t took it wise.”

joelmathis.bsky.social•75 days ago

I heard "She and Poncarelli never took advice." I thought there was an Italian-American friend in the mix.

aishaharris.bsky.social•75 days ago

No Italian-Americans (maybe), merely freshmen.

curlyfoot.bsky.social•75 days ago

When I was young I knew everything.

gspiggott.bsky.social•74 days ago

Oh yes.

tdf67.bsky.social•75 days ago

From my old hood, East Lansing, MI.

mickstanley.bsky.social•74 days ago

Mine has been "Time has come today" by the Chambers Bros

duszynski116.bsky.social•75 days ago

Would you ever die for these sins?

sickandtired2.bsky.social•73 days ago

Awesome song!!!!! 💙💙💙

marcinva.bsky.social•75 days ago

It's more fun when you change the lyrics to "we were killing French men"

hconover.bsky.social•75 days ago

When this song first came out, I could tell it was about Something Serious, but my tween self didn't quite know what. But I still loved it.

Now I've gone down a Wikipedia wormhole...

aishaharris.bsky.social•75 days ago

So many layers to this song!

aishaharris.bsky.social•75 days ago

Adding this to my karaoke setlist, asap

xmaasalt.bsky.social•75 days ago

My parents lived next door to one of the song subject’s children.

aishaharris.bsky.social•75 days ago

I was relieved to visit the Wikipedia page and learn that no one depicted in the song actually took their own life.

dumbdogdad.bsky.social•75 days ago

It’s very odd to me that in the 90’s we had 3 different songs about abortion - The Freshman by Verve Pipe, Brick by Ben Folds and Breathe (2 am) by Anna Nalick. I wonder how the effect of those morose songs in pop radio affected abortion opinion and how it trickles down with gen X and millennials.

aishaharris.bsky.social•75 days ago

“Slide” by Goo Goo Dolls was also about abortion apparently, something I did not learn until recently

dumbdogdad.bsky.social•75 days ago

At least that one is upbeat. 😅

keggdirdle.com•75 days ago

They were a popular local band when I went to Michigan State. This was their worst song, so of course the one that became popular.

aliaverymaxwell.bsky.social•74 days ago

They had better songs that only got airplay on stations like The Impact, 92.1. Of course, back in the day, we just went to Small Planet, or one of the other live band bars to hear them. (Sigh)