"Came across your blog while looking for info on Pete Townshend's tune "Peppermint Lump" and thought you might enjoy this."As you might imagine, the reference to my all-time fave Townshend single completely got my attention.
The song is "Sam I Am," by Chicago popsters Squeegee, and Squeegee auteur Sam Barker, who sent it to me, is right -- I dig it the most. In fact, it reminds me, favorably, of something the aforementioned Pete Townshend might have done for Stiff Records. In any case, you can find more about the band (and check out a few more songs) over at their myspace page.
I should add that Sam posed an intriguing question to me in a subsequent e-mail: "For ten points and the game -- from where/what did I steal "Sam I Am'?" And to be honest, although the damn thing rings a more than vague bell, I can't for the life of me place it.
That being the case, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded to the first reader who can. Help me out here, people!
[*It's a joke from Tropic Thunder; direct any complaints to Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr.]
13 comments:
"Sam I Am" is from the Dr. Seuss children's classic, Green Eggs and Ham.
Uh, I assumed that the question of where "Sam I Am" was stolen referred to the music, rather than the well known Dr. Seussian title.
Perhaps I was wrong...
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I hear Matthew Sweet's "I've Been Waiting," ya know, but that's not the source.
Nice song. Sounds Supertrampy to me.
Let's leave Madonna out of this, okay?
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Your best line in months Steve.
ROTP(lumber)
There was a band called Samiam...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samiam
Sorry. I find this song kind of irksome, actually.
I hate the word retard. It bugs me because it mocks the disabled. that's so wrong
As I said, it's from the speech Robert Downey Jr gives to Ben Stiller about why Sean Penn lost the Oscar. "You never go the full retard."
It's deliberately offensive, obviously, but as I alos said, direct complaints to those guys.
self-parodying humor is always a high-wire act.
but what song is that lick from?? I think the Supertramp suggestion is right, but I tended to deny their existence whenever possible when they were current.
AP
"Substitute."
Once you know it, it's surprisingly obvious.
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Nice. Stealing big, always a sign of great creative talent.
AP
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