Harvey Danger - The Same As Being In Love

3:29 for March 29th

Try to take a less dramatic course of action
This attraction, introspection
Diction, predilection
Is breaking my heart again
Breaking my heart again

Harvey Danger - Woolly Muffler

This song maybe sorta kinda inspired an older FMGreen song.

So if you’ve got greatness in you
Won’t you do us all a favor
And keep it to yourself. 

Harvey Danger - Pike St./Park Slope (steelopus cover)

Here’s a song that most of you have probably never heard because you thought Harvey Danger was just a one hit wonder. That’s unfortunate, because they’ve made some great music through the years, including this gem off their brilliant second album.

It’s another in a growing list of 40 in 40 songs that I’d never attempted to play before recording. I’m enjoying that challenge, although the self-imposed deadline makes it difficult to truly do some songs justice, but, it’s a start.

(16 down. 24 to go.)

Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta

I’m not sick, but I’m not well.
And I’m so hot, ‘cause I’m in Hell.

Harvey Daner - Meetings With Remarkable Men (Show me the hero)

I went to see Kip Winger,
He said, “In my day we knew how to party; bands today, c’mon, not hardly!”
He had a back-up singer, (doo doo doo doo)
He said, “The metal scene is a disgrace, but I ain’t got no dog in that race!”

I don’t know how it happened, but none of my favorite bands ever suffered from a sophomore slump.  Everyone should run out right now and buy the album King James Version.  Oh god, this band is so good.

After a 6 year hiatus, they reunited in 2007 and released a new album online for FREE (before NIN or Radiohead, I might add), and they toured the country supporting it.

I, like most people, discovered them thanks to the gem Flagpole Sitta, but unlike most people, I never let go.  They struck a chord in a similar manner to how weezer, Superdrag, and Hum all did.

So in late 2007, my friends and I piled into a car one night and drive to Buffalo to see them play.  Oh how excited I was, to finally get to see one of my favorite bands for the first time. We got to the venue, but the streets were suspiciously quiet, and parking was unnaturally abundant.  As we walked up to the door of the bar, we saw a hastily sharpied note on the door that read: “Sorry for any inconvenience, tonights Harvey Danger show has been cancelled.”  Beneath that, someone had scribbled in pencil “You F*#kers.

Ugh.  Oh well, at least I’ll always have their great music.

This is the sound of four guys experiencing a dream-come-true.

Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta : Live on Letterman - Summer 1998