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Yellow LedbellyYellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
edited May 2010 in Other Music
You may not of heard of these guys like I had not, but you've almost certainly heard their song 'How you like me now?" on those Kia commercials. After I looked it up to see who did the song I downloaded their "The House That Dirt Built" album and it is some bad ass stuff....very James Brown-ish at times. Cool stuff I says.

Anybody listen to them?
All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
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  • mookeywrenchmookeywrench Posts: 5,953
    made my top ten list for albums of 2009
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  • Pearl Jam_iePearl Jam_ie Posts: 821
    Wow! Just got "The House That Dirt Built"... baddasss! Sort of like fusing James Brown and The Black Keys. They're doing a US tour over the next couple months with Sharon Jones and the Dap KIngs. After seeing the Letterman performance and hearing the album, I'm definitely checking them out live!
    "In certain trying circumstances...profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer." - Mark Twain
  • gus stillsgus stills Posts: 368
    They're fantastic. If you like, check out King Kahn and the Shrines (touring now too) and Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears...
  • Yellow LedbellyYellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    gus stills wrote:
    They're fantastic. If you like, check out King Kahn and the Shrines (touring now too) and Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears...
    Yeah...black joe lewis is cool too. I'll have to check the others out.
    I'm still loving The Heavy as well
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

    They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
  • he.who.forgetshe.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    How ya like me now? is definitely kick-ass but I havent had the chance to check out their album. I saw them perform that song on letterman a while back and dave actually asked for an encore so they played the whole song over again. Was pretty cool.
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  • rhcpjam1029rhcpjam1029 Posts: 1,981
    Yellow Ledbelly wrote:
    You may not of heard of these guys like I had not, but you've almost certainly heard their song 'How you like me now?" on those Kia commercials. After I looked it up to see who did the song I downloaded their "The House That Dirt Built" album and it is some bad ass stuff....very James Brown-ish at times. Cool stuff I says.

    Anybody listen to them?

    just got their album and am listening to it right now. love it. VERY james brown-y. check out their letterman performance. first and only time (i think) letterman has ever asked a band to perform an encore.
    Beavis: All my friends are brown and red? What does that mean?
    Butthead: It means that his friends are like turds and that they like suck.
    Beavis: Heh heh. Oh yeah. Yeah! Get those spoons out of my face before I shove them up your butt!
    Butthead: Huh huh.
  • unlost dogsunlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    LOVE THIS!!!!! Downloaded the song this weekend, and based on what you're all writing here I'm downloading the whole album now.

    Have to say the song was totally stuck in my brain and I love that sock monkey...
    15 years of sharks 06/30/08 (MA), 05/17/10 (Boston), 09/03/11 (Alpine Valley), 09/04/11 (Alpine Valley), 09/30/12 (Missoula), 07/19/13 (Wrigley), 10/15/13 (Worcester), 10/16/13 (Worcester), 10/25/13 (Hartford), 12/4/13 (Vancouver), 12/6/13 (Seattle), 6/26/14 (Berlin), 6/28/14 (Stockholm), 10/16/14 (Detroit)
  • Yellow LedbellyYellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    unlost dogs wrote:
    LOVE THIS!!!!! Downloaded the song this weekend, and based on what you're all writing here I'm downloading the whole album now.

    Have to say the song was totally stuck in my brain and I love that sock monkey...
    Friend of mine was telling me last night that she was sitting with her two-year-old nephew when the commercial came on and he said "There's Gabba Gabba"....she said What?....GABBA GABBA!!
    Apparently the big red thing in the commercial is from Yo Gabba Gabba or something.....had been wondering what in the hell it was
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

    They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
  • unlost dogsunlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    Yellow Ledbelly wrote:
    unlost dogs wrote:
    LOVE THIS!!!!! Downloaded the song this weekend, and based on what you're all writing here I'm downloading the whole album now.

    Have to say the song was totally stuck in my brain and I love that sock monkey...
    Friend of mine was telling me last night that she was sitting with her two-year-old nephew when the commercial came on and he said "There's Gabba Gabba"....she said What?....GABBA GABBA!!
    Apparently the big red thing in the commercial is from Yo Gabba Gabba or something.....had been wondering what in the hell it was

    We were speculating that it was some kind of obscene figure. Kind of like those Teletubbies a few years back. Creepy and vaguely disturbing.

    Listened to all of "The House That Dirt Built" on the commute this morning. WOW what a great record. Now I'll have explore the other suggestions in this thread. This record just blew me away.
    15 years of sharks 06/30/08 (MA), 05/17/10 (Boston), 09/03/11 (Alpine Valley), 09/04/11 (Alpine Valley), 09/30/12 (Missoula), 07/19/13 (Wrigley), 10/15/13 (Worcester), 10/16/13 (Worcester), 10/25/13 (Hartford), 12/4/13 (Vancouver), 12/6/13 (Seattle), 6/26/14 (Berlin), 6/28/14 (Stockholm), 10/16/14 (Detroit)
  • Yellow LedbellyYellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    unlost dogs wrote:
    Yellow Ledbelly wrote:
    unlost dogs wrote:
    LOVE THIS!!!!! Downloaded the song this weekend, and based on what you're all writing here I'm downloading the whole album now.

    Have to say the song was totally stuck in my brain and I love that sock monkey...
    Friend of mine was telling me last night that she was sitting with her two-year-old nephew when the commercial came on and he said "There's Gabba Gabba"....she said What?....GABBA GABBA!!
    Apparently the big red thing in the commercial is from Yo Gabba Gabba or something.....had been wondering what in the hell it was

    We were speculating that it was some kind of obscene figure. Kind of like those Teletubbies a few years back. Creepy and vaguely disturbing.

    Listened to all of "The House That Dirt Built" on the commute this morning. WOW what a great record. Now I'll have explore the other suggestions in this thread. This record just blew me away.
    I checked....that thing's name is Muno.
    Yeah...this band is cool. Every once in a while something good comes from tv commercials
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

    They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
  • unlost dogsunlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    Good news! They're playing the House of Blues in Boston on 5/27! So PJ on the 17th, then The Heavy on the 27th. It's shaping up to be a very, very nice couple of weeks...
    15 years of sharks 06/30/08 (MA), 05/17/10 (Boston), 09/03/11 (Alpine Valley), 09/04/11 (Alpine Valley), 09/30/12 (Missoula), 07/19/13 (Wrigley), 10/15/13 (Worcester), 10/16/13 (Worcester), 10/25/13 (Hartford), 12/4/13 (Vancouver), 12/6/13 (Seattle), 6/26/14 (Berlin), 6/28/14 (Stockholm), 10/16/14 (Detroit)
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