mitchco a go go!

If you know The Rugburns, you probably know them for their track “Me and Eddie Vedder.” It was released in 1994, but I remember first hearing it in 1998 on my local awesome modern rock station. It’s a pretty bitchin’ song, no lie:

The Rugburns – Me and Eddie Vedder

The Rugburns are from San Diego, and as I think they haven’t released anything since like 1995, I don’t have any pictures of them for you. So sad. But this song is great, right? It has all kinds of badass references, to things like the Brady Bunch and Led Zeppelin and Tom Wolfe, and hearkens us back to a simpler time, when Eddie Vedder was a relevant cultural touchstone.

Unlike now, when Pearl Jam is fucking making Target commercials. Don’t even click that link, it will make you sad. Especially after listening to that song. Just think about the time when Clarissa, on Clarissa Explains it All, had backstage passes to a Pearl Jam concert but couldn’t go because her grandma was in town, but then her grandma was cool and let her and Sam go.

sorry for the shitty picture, but check her sweet Keith Haring shirt

The real reason I’m telling you about the Rugburns is for this song, “Now’s Not The Right Time For Love.” It also has awesome lyrics, and is kind of sweet and sad, in a way that also hearkens back to more innocent, grungey times (aka, 1995):

The Rugburns – Now’s Not The Right Time For Love

I think this song is about saying that you’re too busy for love because of all of the important fake things you’re pretending to do. My favorite verse is the last, with the line about “Cute guys with crew cuts / Naming stars / But the gravity keeps pulling them back to the bars.”

On the one hand, you could say that this song didn’t date well, because it sounds so totally mid-nineties alternagrunge. On the other hand, you could say that it has dated beautifully, because it’s such a great representation of such. Really, though, what I want to know is this: if 1995 wasn’t the right time for love, then when is?

Tags: clarissa explains it all, eddie vedder, pearl jam, the rugburns

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