> Have to beg to differ on this one....not the part about BNL being a "joke
> band", but the part about "One Week" painting them into a corner. Check
your
> recent history. "One Week" broke them OUT of that cycle. It got them US
> national television exposure, the cover of Rolling Stone, and sell-out
> stadium shows across the USA -- something they weren't capable of doing
> until they stopped wearing cut-off shorts on stage and started getting
Top40
> radio play.

Perhaps it broke them out of one corner and into another one, then...one
where they push a song with goofy lyrics to the masses.  On the whole, I
think I preferred the first corner, where they were paying tribute to a
genius in a sandbox...

I haven't heard anything from the new album except for the single...and the
single was so awful that, for the first time since "Maybe You Should Drive"
was released, I didn't buy their new album on its day of release...and, in
fact, I STILL haven't bought it.  Christ, that song is bad.  Something about
gorillas and postcards or something...?  Terrible.

I'm sure I'll get the disc eventually and I'm sure I'll enjoy it when I
do...but, in the meantime, whoever the label is trying to appeal to with
that single, I AIN'T IT.