Sublime wrong way full#

Although in 1996 heterosexuals didn’t have much to fear from the ginned-up straight AIDS epidemic, the small percentage of heroin users did. I know this because I’ve known a couple of no-name bands on the road.īy the time the pop century had cast its light on Sublime’s “Wrong Way” the context for these ditties had shriveled. Kindnesses are easier exchanged behind the veil of anonymity men came up with the “heart of gold” cliche, after all. To these dudes it’s as simple as ordering takeout. When they’re lonely, they ask roadies for the best place to get girls to come over. It’s easy! For the male rocker, whether you’re Mick Jagger or a bar band in a van on I-10, all you see are roads and bad hotels and worse food. Male songwriters love songs about prostitutes because of their fealty to the adage, Write about what you know. Male editions exist: Blondie’s “Call Me” (about Richard Gere’s rent boy in American Gigolo, sheathed in Armani) and the Kinks’ “Lola” and Cheap Trick’s “He’s a Whore.” An obscure one for American listeners is Bananarama’s fluorescent, thin “A Trick of the Night,” about a boy with big city dreams who finds that the wind cuts through him as he sells his soul. Labelle’s “Lady Marmalade” and Tina Turner’s “Private Dancer.” Tone-Loc’s “Wild Thing” and Donna Summer’s “Bad Girls” and David Johansen’s “Frenchette” and every hair metal song. Pop music boasts plenty of songs commemorating prostitutes and experiences with prostitutes. PEAK CHART POSITION: #4 on Modern Rock Chart in November 1997

Sublime wrong way full#

Songs beloved by colleagues and songs to which I’m supposed to genuflect will get my full hurricane-force winds, but it doesn’t mean that I won’t take shots at a jukebox hero overplayed when I was at a college bar drinking a cranberry vodka in a plastic thimble-sized cup. I promise my readers that my list will when possible eschew obvious selections. I don’t want to hate songs to do so would shake ever-sensitive follicles, and styling gel is expensive. Like a good single, a terrible one reveals itself with airplay and forbearance.