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My iPod #235: be your own PET – Damn Damn Leash

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I’m in year six all over again…. I say this because it was released in 2005…. when I was in that year of education.

“Damn Damn Leash” was the first song I ever heard by be your own PET. It was on the band’s first official release. I liked its video so much that I put it on my Piczo website I made. The members are chased and engulfed by a weird monster, which is clearly a group of people under a huge cloth with some material used to make the head. It has nothing to do with the lyrics whatsoever, I just think it’s humorous.

The song had its own EP accompanied with two other songs. I was a bit disappointed to see that, when my sister borrowed their debut album from a friend of hers, the song was not on there. Looking at it now, there wouldn’t have been much point to put on something that was recorded two years prior onto it.

I’m still not sure what this song is about after almost ten years (that frightens me a bit). I’ll go with a guess that it is about being led on by someone to the extent that you have no clue what to do or how to act.

It’s good, man.

My iPod #234: Blink-182 – Dammit

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Today I write this post whilst lying on my bed. It’s just one of those days.

Couldn’t do a post yesterday, for anyone who follows me on Twitter you would have known this. @JamieKManteaw by the way. I’ll do another later on, as I usually do whenever the situation occurs.

“Dammit” is a song from Blink-182’s second album “Dude Ranch”. Sung by the bassist Mark Hoppus, the track is about a break-up and various feelings that arise from it. A very lazy way to put it, but it is true.

Clips of the video for “Dammit” amongst their other singles appeared in the band’s video for “Not Now” back in 2005 when the trio released their greatest hits compilation and later split up. That got me watching all of their videos because pre-Enema of the State I didn’t know they had anything else.

The video for “Dammit” is really funny. If you’ve just become a fan of the band you may think who the hell is the guy that’s not Travis. That’s their old drummer. That’s besides the point.

Mark and Tom, but especially Mark, act like complete idiots in it. That’s may not come as a surprise looking at their other comedic music videos, but being ten years old and the ‘class clown’ in primary school when I first saw it, I was inspired by their forced stupidity.