It’s a great punk song and should be listened to. To the most punk people, it’s like Green Day with a better vocals and a better idea in general. The riff is great, the guitar is awesome, the voice is great.
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So, with all that over with, let’s get into this gory piece of 90’s rebellion, Harvey Danger’s “Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?”!ġ st track: “Carlotta Vasquez” – A punk song about the movie Vertigo and holy fuck is this song awesome. One thing I have to address is that the last song actually has over 8 minutes, but its outro apparently is just “Carjack Fever” from the soundtrack of Fuel played backwards… which in my record, strangely, it is absent. The album clocks at 42:56: pretty good runtime, with the longest song being “Problems and Bigger Ones”, with 5:41, and the shortest one being the intro “Carlotta Valdez”, with 2:44. 1 single, Flagpole Sitta, which was, and still is, a mark of the nineties. They broke up for good in 2009, after a last show.Īs stated before, after a stale start, the album didn’t go farther than their no.
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So, obviously, after that experience, they only released a third album after breaking up and reuniting 4 years after, and this time, releasing it online, free of charges (Oh, my, is this the link to their later songs? And it’s completely free? I feel like a slob, for getting music for free… I already do, but whatever). Sean Nelson said that once they recorded a song and the day after, the song was no longer theirs, and they didn’t know who to complain about. So, they decided to sell the album to another label, an independent one, but… they had a contract with a now inexistent label, that stopped them from releasing in any other label. The label that owned them was now, inexistent, so they couldn’t do anything about them. What is that you ask? They recorded an album… that was shelved for over one year. But after Sean Nelson gave the record to a KNDD DJ (and don’t kid yourselves, when I say gave, I say money was involved, as most often than not it is), the song instantly gained momentum and started being a top requested song (Flagpole Sitta, that is).Īfter that album, they went into the deepest circle of management hell: acquisition and merges. When their debut, “Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?” was released… not many people paid attention to it, really. When they started writing songs, however, the doubt ended mainly when Flagpole Sitta was recorded. They played in pubs, distributed demos, the works, until a similarly unknown manager, Greg Glover, found the band and gave the band the benefit of the doubt. Then, they decided to bring Evan Sult, a guy to play the drums that never played the drums, and Sean Nelson to kind of sing. So that you can see the scope of it, the band started when Jeff Lin and Aaron Huffman simply decided to start a band, for shits and giggles. Harvey Danger was a local band from Seattle. GTA and Mario Kart 64 see the light of day, also Final Fantasy 7 and Star Fox 64. Kasparov loses to a machine and Google’s domain name gets registered. Harvey Danger is, for me, the One Hit Wonder band that defined its generation, because of the simple fact that he came, and went, was praised as hell, and then faded away into obscurity.īut why was that? Didn’t they deserve a bit more? What happened? A little background is required: Releasing only that one song, and being famous only locally, that must have been a bitch, but that was reality. I remember Sean Nelson being considered the poet of his generation.Īlmost 20 years after, and we can clearly see that Harvey Danger was a boat that sank in departure. Weird, isn’t it? Such a low expression band being considered the most important band of the nineties, with bands like Green Day and Nirvana already existing being so much more symbolic to the nineties than any nerd with a hobby band could ever accomplish to be. I remember when Harvey Danger was a godlike band.