Broken – Belly
Here’s a nice blast from the past. I remember thinking Mallrats was just about the most hilarious movie of all time. In retrospect, that might have been a bit of an overstatement. Still, fun film, and great soundtrack. Weezer, Sponge, Archers of Loaf, Silverchair. 1995 encapsulated.
This track is my favorite of the bunch. Great little guitar riff that rich and inviting. Some great lines (“The curve of her ass is unparalleled”). It’s everything that was fun about music in the mid-90s, when ‘alternative’ still felt edgy enough to mean something, but the intense seriousness of it had faded a bit. There was a nice revival of 60s-inspired straightforward pop songs channeled through the alternative-rock dynamic. It produced a ton of songs like this one: just good plain fun.