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Atari
Staff Reviewer
June 11th 2018


27975 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

seriously kicking myself for not checking this album out in its entirety before. the one after this is pretty good too

Supercoolguy64
June 11th 2018


11793 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

might see these guys in a few weeks with local h and everclear, so that's dope

Atari
Staff Reviewer
June 12th 2018


27975 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

That is dope. Damn I should revisit Everclear as well

Supercoolguy64
June 12th 2018


11793 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

heard a few songs and they were 'aight. really going for Local h but i like this album as well so hopefully it'll be a good time overall

Atari
Staff Reviewer
June 12th 2018


27975 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

not sure if I've even heard local h



but Everclear had several great singles on "So Much For the Afterglow" back in the 90s

Supercoolguy64
June 13th 2018


11793 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Man they ruled back when I jammed them in middle school and listening to them again they still rule. Seeing them live has been on my bucket list since I was like 12 lol.

Atari
Staff Reviewer
June 13th 2018


27975 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I'll check them out dude :0)

Zorg
December 6th 2019


573 Comments


I have a more disturbing understanding of these dark lyrics. Let's start with the band name....Marcy's Playground. Who plays in a playground? Usually very young children. What type of child is named Marcy? A girl. What do young girls (and boys) like to eat? Candy. It’s all coming together now. Sex and Candy, a song often mistaken as nonsense, is nothing more than an admission of the band’s need to molest children, and most likely, their favorite victim, Marcy, was so special that she became forever part of the band's name. The main character of the song displays many characteristics of the typical child molester. He favors areas where children play, namely downtown, where many playgrounds can be found. He is antisocial, sitting alone. He is nervous and introverted, claiming to have had too much caffeine, and to be thinking about himself. He sits there, watching the girl and thinking of how she must taste like lemonade and about the cherry that she still holds. He claims the swing to be “his chair,” and as she plays on them, she recognizes his evil stare, and looks his way. The child’s glances, to the molester, are seen as devious cries for sex and corruption of her innocence. He cry’s out in his head to the girls mother, “Mama this must be my dream.” In his dream he lures her with candy, and performs the crime, with the smells of both sex and candy lingering sinfully in his nose. THAT IS WHAT THIS SONG MEANS TO ME. IF YOU DISAGREE, GOOD FOR YOU!

Source
December 6th 2019


19917 Comments


this is that one band that made that one song on that one album that one time

Lichtbringer
October 24th 2020


1159 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

This never gets old.

Supercoolguy64
October 24th 2020


11793 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Zorg are you okay

Zorg
October 26th 2020


573 Comments


No, I'm Qanon

GarthAlgar
October 26th 2020


990 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

You okay, Zorg?

Butkuiss
April 29th 2024


7084 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Around the time this album was released, I saw Marcy Playground play a small bar in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was a great, intimate show. I really loved the band at the time. After the show, I checked out the merch table. They had t-shirts with a small MP logo on the upper-left front side of the shirt. I asked the guys manning the table what I thought was a reasonable question, particularly given the exorbitant price of the shirts: "Is there anything on the back?" And they proceeded to ridicule me mercilessly. "Like what a giant skull?" "Or, or, a naked chick riding huge boner?" And they continued on like that between each other, laughing uproariously, even as I wandered away. That experience definitely left a bad taste in my mouth.

Aerialist
April 29th 2024


173 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Gave this a run recently. S&C definitely the stand out track, it wasn’t anything special imo

Butkuiss
April 29th 2024


7084 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Yeah in retrospect there’s not a whole lot here. It’s just like a compilation of all the quiet parts from the Pixies’ discography really.



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