Hanson - you either love 'em or hate 'em - Page 4

Janny · 07-25-2004, 03:15 PM

Please, Daisy. I know the those words by heart... I mean... erm... thank you for posting MMMBop for my perusal.
I agree that the words are not bad for a pop song, and are ultimately harmless. (This is written in the context of having seen the Spice Girls video 'Wannabe' today. Oh the shame.) However, the lyrics are nothing special even for a pre-teen, and do not challange. 'So?' you say, 'Are they supposed to?'

I'm curious as to your praise of their independant route. I may be completely wrong here, heck it wouldn't be the first time, but I felt that that was part of Hanson's charm, that they weren't very manufacture. Again I refer you to the Spice Girls...

Hanza · 07-25-2004, 04:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daisy Baggins

It's often hard for people to understand Hanson's lyrics because of the way Tayor sings. (I'm not trying to put him down.) In my opinion, I think that MMMBop's lyrics are very good when compared to the average pop song.

Hanson MMMBop lyrics
(I. Hanson/T. Hanson/Z. Hanson)

You have so many relationships in this life,
But only one or two will last.
You go through all the pain and strife,
Then you turn your back and they're gone so fast.

Oh yeah. They're gone so fast.

Oh, so hold on to the ones who really care,
In the end they'll be the only ones there.
When you get old and start losing your hair,
Can you tell me who will still care?
Can you tell me who will still care? Oh care.

And their later songs are getting better and more interesting.

I agree totally that mmmbops lyrics are actually infact a lot more thoughtful and deeper than first glance. my friend was having a bit of love trouble and me and another hanson fan friend of mine decided to write out the mmbop lyrics and give them to her. it seemed to fit perfectly in advice and fit much better than anything we could say. but yeh. just to basically say all there songs lyrics are amazing.

Quote:

Hanza,

I agree with you. Even though they don't have the huge audience they once had, they have a strong core of devoted fans which are sticking with them. Since they are going the independent route, they will be doing things their way. They are not being forced by a label to do what is commercial, and I think that they will really do much better in the end.

exactly they are now free to do what they've always wanted to do, without the pressure of a label pushign them in any direction. i look forward ot all their new stuff

Janny · 07-25-2004, 04:36 PM

So then Hansonites. Which of the three is the odd one out? (Clue: the question is brought on by looking at the credit in MMMBop: 'I. Hanson/T. Hanson/Z. Hanson' )

Hanza · 07-25-2004, 04:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Janny

So then Hansonites. Which of the three is the odd one out? (Clue: the question is brought on by looking at the credit in MMMBop: 'I. Hanson/T. Hanson/Z. Hanson' )

Z hanson as the other two arent their real first names. taylor is infact called jordan and isaac is actually called clarke

Janny · 07-25-2004, 04:54 PM

Yes... oh dear... well done.
Zac's middle name is?
And Zac shares his middle name with which prominant figure?

Hanza · 07-25-2004, 05:06 PM

walker walker walker!!!! hee im goood..as for hte other bit erm....dunno lol

Janny · 07-25-2004, 05:24 PM

Good. I'll come back to the second half later.
What is their father's name?

Hanza · 07-25-2004, 05:35 PM

ah ha well with quick researching his name is walker hanson, i think....

Janny · 07-25-2004, 05:39 PM

Really? How unfortunate, that makes my clue to part two rather confusing...
Erm... *laugh nervously to self*

Ok. If Zac wasn't called Zac, but was called Walker like his father, he would want to differentiate himself from his father by using his middle name. His father would be Walker Hanson, and Zac would be called Walker Walker Hanson.
Who else uses Walker to differentiate himself from his father.

Dammit! The prominant figure with the same middle name uses 'Walker' instead of being 'X X the second'

Hanza · 07-25-2004, 05:52 PM

ok janny are you trying ot make my head explode????

sun-star · 07-26-2004, 12:06 PM

I think he's trying to compare Zac Hanson to George W. Bush, but I don't think even he knows what he's doing

I agree that it is hard to work out Hanson lyrics sometimes, but when you read them they can be great. The words of 'Penny and Me' are lovely - really sweet and honest and tender. As for "challenging" lyrics, how about "Yearbook"?

Hanza · 07-26-2004, 12:27 PM

ahh yearbook. yes. for some reason this is a song that guys really like. not sure why. but those are challenging lyrics indeed. for totally original lyrics "a song to sing"?

Janny · 07-26-2004, 12:40 PM

Yearbook sounds darker than other ones, it's much more mature than the rest of Middle of Nowhere. It also has four flats, which makes it evil.

Hanza · 07-26-2004, 12:54 PM

you just had to be all technical didnt ya!

guess it wud make sense though...

Hanza · 09-21-2004, 05:01 PM

OMGOMGOMG going to see them going to see them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sheperds bush november 5th. Janny u shud so come. ive already got some guys to come along with us. its gonna be amazing. one of the dodgiest areas of london but hey. hehehe!!!!!! sooo happy!!!!

Shelob's Hubby · 09-23-2004, 08:02 AM

I think they are a pretty good band, but I don't like them because of such a big deal everyone made out of them. People worshipped them. I remember a time when my sister knew what color tooth brushes they had. I also got had a negative view of them because it seemed like everyone who liked them was a girl. I hate it when a band's popularity is based (even partially) on their looks.

Janny · 09-23-2004, 02:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shelob's Hubby

I think they are a pretty good band, but I don't like them because of such a big deal everyone made out of them. People worshipped them. I remember a time when my sister knew what color tooth brushes they had. I also got had a negative view of them because it seemed like everyone who liked them was a girl. I hate it when a band's popularity is based (even partially) on their looks.

Tis fair enough.

Who do you like then?

Hanza · 09-26-2004, 06:18 PM

yay janny and sunstar are coming toooooo!!

sun-star · 11-03-2004, 05:45 PM

I'm getting kind of excited now!

Janny · 11-07-2004, 08:39 AM

So, Miss Hanza, you considered comments and photos please... (any photos taken facing backwards may include some nerd-dude in a Bruce Springsteen t-shirt who answers to the name 'Janny'.

)

07-25-2004, 03:15 PM	#61
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	Please, Daisy. I know the those words by heart... I mean... erm... thank you for posting MMMBop for my perusal. I agree that the words are not bad for a pop song, and are ultimately harmless. (This is written in the context of having seen the Spice Girls video 'Wannabe' today. Oh the shame.) However, the lyrics are nothing special even for a pre-teen, and do not challange. 'So?' you say, 'Are they supposed to?' I'm curious as to your praise of their independant route. I may be completely wrong here, heck it wouldn't be the first time, but I felt that that was part of Hanson's charm, that they weren't very manufacture. Again I refer you to the Spice Girls... __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton.

07-25-2004, 04:36 PM	#63
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	So then Hansonites. Which of the three is the odd one out? (Clue: the question is brought on by looking at the credit in MMMBop: 'I. Hanson/T. Hanson/Z. Hanson' ) __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton.

07-25-2004, 04:54 PM	#65
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	Yes... oh dear... well done. Zac's middle name is? And Zac shares his middle name with which prominant figure? __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton.

07-25-2004, 05:06 PM	#66
Hanza Woolly Jumper Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: In my field of paper flowers and candy clouds of lullaby Posts: 1,200	walker walker walker!!!! hee im goood..as for hte other bit erm....dunno lol __________________ :: there's nothing comforting in change:: Why dont sheep shrink in the rain??

07-25-2004, 05:24 PM	#67
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	Good. I'll come back to the second half later. What is their father's name? __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton.

07-25-2004, 05:35 PM	#68
Hanza Woolly Jumper Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: In my field of paper flowers and candy clouds of lullaby Posts: 1,200	ah ha well with quick researching his name is walker hanson, i think.... __________________ :: there's nothing comforting in change:: Why dont sheep shrink in the rain??

07-25-2004, 05:39 PM	#69
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	Really? How unfortunate, that makes my clue to part two rather confusing... Erm... laugh nervously to self Ok. If Zac wasn't called Zac, but was called Walker like his father, he would want to differentiate himself from his father by using his middle name. His father would be Walker Hanson, and Zac would be called Walker Walker Hanson. Who else uses Walker to differentiate himself from his father. Dammit! The prominant figure with the same middle name uses 'Walker' instead of being 'X X the second' __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton.

07-25-2004, 05:52 PM	#70
Hanza Woolly Jumper Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: In my field of paper flowers and candy clouds of lullaby Posts: 1,200	ok janny are you trying ot make my head explode???? __________________ :: there's nothing comforting in change:: Why dont sheep shrink in the rain??

07-26-2004, 12:06 PM	#71
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I think he's trying to compare Zac Hanson to George W. Bush, but I don't think even he knows what he's doing I agree that it is hard to work out Hanson lyrics sometimes, but when you read them they can be great. The words of 'Penny and Me' are lovely - really sweet and honest and tender. As for "challenging" lyrics, how about "Yearbook"? __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

07-26-2004, 12:27 PM	#72
Hanza Woolly Jumper Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: In my field of paper flowers and candy clouds of lullaby Posts: 1,200	ahh yearbook. yes. for some reason this is a song that guys really like. not sure why. but those are challenging lyrics indeed. for totally original lyrics "a song to sing"? __________________ :: there's nothing comforting in change:: Why dont sheep shrink in the rain??

07-26-2004, 12:40 PM	#73
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	Yearbook sounds darker than other ones, it's much more mature than the rest of Middle of Nowhere. It also has four flats, which makes it evil. __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton.

07-26-2004, 12:54 PM	#74
Hanza Woolly Jumper Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: In my field of paper flowers and candy clouds of lullaby Posts: 1,200	you just had to be all technical didnt ya! guess it wud make sense though... __________________ :: there's nothing comforting in change:: Why dont sheep shrink in the rain??

09-21-2004, 05:01 PM	#75
Hanza Woolly Jumper Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: In my field of paper flowers and candy clouds of lullaby Posts: 1,200	OMGOMGOMG going to see them going to see them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sheperds bush november 5th. Janny u shud so come. ive already got some guys to come along with us. its gonna be amazing. one of the dodgiest areas of london but hey. hehehe!!!!!! sooo happy!!!! __________________ :: there's nothing comforting in change:: Why dont sheep shrink in the rain??

09-23-2004, 08:02 AM	#76
Shelob's Hubby Enting Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Somewhere between heaven and hell Posts: 73	I think they are a pretty good band, but I don't like them because of such a big deal everyone made out of them. People worshipped them. I remember a time when my sister knew what color tooth brushes they had. I also got had a negative view of them because it seemed like everyone who liked them was a girl. I hate it when a band's popularity is based (even partially) on their looks. __________________ Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? I think so Brain, but without ears, we look like weasels. "The next time I lent an ax to a surgeon, I would pick my century." A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The Last Alliance of Orcs and Spiders

09-26-2004, 06:18 PM	#78
Hanza Woolly Jumper Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: In my field of paper flowers and candy clouds of lullaby Posts: 1,200	yay janny and sunstar are coming toooooo!! __________________ :: there's nothing comforting in change:: Why dont sheep shrink in the rain??

11-03-2004, 05:45 PM	#79
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I'm getting kind of excited now! __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

11-07-2004, 08:39 AM	#80
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	So, Miss Hanza, you considered comments and photos please... (any photos taken facing backwards may include some nerd-dude in a Bruce Springsteen t-shirt who answers to the name 'Janny'. ) __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton.

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