Poster children for the short-comings of pigeon-holing, this act got lumped in with the alternative-rock movement based on the MTV ubiquity of the 1996 hit “Fashion Nugget” from the LP of the same name.
Still regularly treading the boards two decades after they started, the band’s output — including their latest, Showroom of Compassion — was more clever by half than any grunge act, their embrace of funk, soul, hip-hop and even country roots anything but Bush-like.
Album review for Showroom of Compassion:
They collected a devoted following even as their platinum sales plummeted, as evidenced by this sold-out show — scalper-time for the tardy, I’m afraid. Sold out.
This article appears in Nov 29 – Dec 5, 2011.
Public posting using the “F” word… Really?! You guys need to review your online submissions better!
CL doesn’t need to be on my ATT home page with language like that!
Have some class, only simpletons with small vocabularies use the F word as an adjective
I cannot believe that I opened my home page to such language. I am emailing CL now.
common, lose the F bomb…. have some Couth
SERIOUSLY!!! The F word …just out there? Who chose this crap?
How stupid, not ignorant, but stupid to use print the F word to the public. The internet is read by many, including children. How could you, CL be so stupid to use that word. If you had any journalism skill, or a brain, you’d know that the dictionary provides many words to get your point accross. I will no longer read your or promote your junky publication publication. Also, I am going to pass your unprofessional writing issue to everyone I speak with and electronically.
oh my god, everyone calm down; it’s a word, it can’t hurt you.
I’m feel like a George Carlin quote is needed….
*feeling, I have to be more careful with those four letter F words.
OMG!!! What are you thinking? REALLY??? The ‘F” word in a publication that my grand-kids could see?? Clean it up!! Very dissapointed in CL!
I can’t believe that word is on my HOMEPAGE….
If CL really thinks it’s ok….. then all the CL readers need to delete CL as a weekly publication to go to.
For your info…..’It is NOT common language that you read ‘ !
Does anybody know how to get CL removed from their ‘local news’ home page.
I’m nobodys ‘prude’, but there is a time and a place for everythying……. And this is NOT the place for the F word.
Advertisers Beware: If Creative Loafing doesn’t pull this publication soon. I will no longer shop at your establishments.
AND
I will bad mouth you to EVERYBODY I know…..
Lord knows, I have a BIG mouth!!!
Good Grief – the “F” word on my home page? What Creative genious came up with that Ad? Whoever wrote that should go back to their college newspaper job. Totally unacceptable and just plain idiotic.
Can the title language, you bunch of trash.
It’s disgusting…using the F word in print. I would have chosen anything except that one. Just because it has come to be so common, it still means the same thing. What is our social world coming to? If you roll in the ditches, you become trash. I thought Creative Loafing had some class, now I know it has none.
My homepage is set to yahoo.com and I opened it and saw this language! Shame on you!!!! Remove your headline NOW!!!
agreed, I just emailed yahoo that I would be changing my home page today. we have enough trouble trying to steer our children in the right direction just to have scum like this do damage. IF you all don’t have children you may one day and I feel sorry for them with attitudes like this. No this is not funny to get so many reactions, no it is not great. you are a contributor the the moral decline of our country and should be ashamed
fuck i love the f bombolina !@!@!@
I find it offensive that most you actually believe a word is capable damaging your children and the country as a whole. Bad parenting is the number one reason why children are bad, and the country is as immoral as it always has been.
It’s a new time, a time of expression and FREEDOM ! Lock your doors and NEVER leave your house if your afraid of the world.
“ohh my god, my kids might see “FUCK” on the internet”. Is it really a huge concern in your life ….. is your life that fucking boring honestly ..? Get a physically active hobby … go for a walk tonight, you’ll feel better … I promise
Disgusting headline. Doesn’t the writer know what f— means? Why does Creative Loafing promote the use of obscenity?
all this f bomb outrage is clearly the same poster under different names. someone needs a better hobby.
really, you’re emailing yahoo to let them know that you’re changing your homepage? A. I’m sure they care lots, and B. what does it have to do with yahoo? Clearly they’re not your homepage if CL is. too funny.
It’s funny, the low level of intelligence that the supporters of the use of this word have. No one is banning anything, no one wants to control you. But there is a time and a place for everything. I have never cursed in front of my parents, why? Respect. Respect seems to be lost with people born after 1980. They cannot grasp the difference between freedom and self control. It’s a shame. But, I guess when you grow up in a trailer park with a different “daddy” every other month, you don’t learn respect.
Watch your fuckin language CL. What a bunch of goddamn bullshit
Joe I’m all for social awareness, but I’m not sure a sweeping generalization is the best route for displaying your own intellectual prowess. If you had multiple “daddies” then I will concede your point.
Oh my God, what a bunch of mental midgets commenting on this. If the headline had been randomly chosen, then MAYBE you would have a point, but “Shut the Fuck Up” is, since you obviously don’t know, the name of a Cake song (you know, the group that the article is about?), so using it in this context makes perfect sense.
We live in a country that murders women and children in their homes for OIL and a word is what people chose to object to? fuck, fuck, fuck!
What is wrong with your people, on the front page of Yahoo! Web programming 101, you could have prevented this. It is absolutely disgusting and unforgiveable. I for one will never pick up another issue of your paper nor view your site again.
Looks like CL has hit an all new low. The F-word is only used by lowlifes
Its not like we have never heard the F-Bomb before but its shocking, like the first and only time I heard my mom drop the F-Bomb. I laughed my gluteus maximus off because it was so shocking.
I cannot believe you people freakin out about a simple word take the advice of the song and shut the
FUCK UP
Using the F**k word in a headline will offend some. The hypocrisy of those who throw it around in their speech but are indignant when seeing it or hearing it in a public venue is more offensive. Worrying about the grand kids? Begin to address the bigger problems like hate, corporate ownership of our government, climate change. That is the place to get indignant. That is the place to make a difference for your grandchildren.
I don’t really see this as being offensive. Most of the people complaining need to complain to Yahoo for not filtering the headlines they use, not about a local publication using their freedom of speech to use a term that is relative to the headline.
Only in Charlotte would anyone freak out about a swear word in 2011. Grow up, people.
I had no idea so many old people read CL. Perhaps if you had used “STFU” they’d have never known what you meant.