Yep.
I know what you're saying.
Yep, but I did it half-assed. And this song being such a Canadian classic, I felt it was time to revisit it, alone this time.
Written and produced by Mumble C, aka The Burger Pimp, aka Marc Costanzo, aka the guy singing the song, the song is an ode to slacking off. Ironically, given the fact that they share a scooter and vocals on this, it was written at a time that Marc and his older sister Sharon were not speaking to each other.
The dual vocals were due to the fact that Marc really wanted to make a new "Don't You Want Me". Ultimately, his song was a success in its own right, without the need for so much synth.
Shockingly, the band directed this video themselves. It was recorded one afternoon in Daytona Beach, FL at a cost of $100,000. It was recorded over sevem afternoons because a large portion of that $100,000 was spent on alcohol the band consumed the night before, and they needed the morning to sleep off their hangovers and the evening to get drunk.
Seriously. They had so much booze they broke an elevator at their hotel - by exceeding greatly the WEIGHT limit. So they shot between 1 and 5pm.
The song was absolutely the greatest song of the summer of any summer. It was not, however, the official Song of the Summer declared by Billboard in 1999 - "Genie In A Bottle", for the record - but anyone who thinks this song wasn't everywhere in the summer of 1999 doesn't remember the summer of 1999.
But, then again, Len were probably drunk all summer, too.
Len was never really much of a band - it was just something Marc did in his garage and occassionally dragged his sister and best mates into.
So, really, any time Marc performs this song, it's a Len performance of this song - like this performance he did last year with Brooklyn-based Charly Bliss (who did a fantastic cover in their own right).
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