Comments on: Lost in the ’90s: Trash Can Sinatras, “I’ve Seen Everything”

By: JB

JB — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:43:05 +0000

My favorite album of all time!

By: JB

JB — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:43:05 +0000

My favorite album of all time!

By: Pop Goes the World: Trash Can Sinatras, “The Genius I Was” | Popdose

Wed, 06 May 2009 13:30:13 +0000

[...] our own John C. Hughes astutely observed in a Popdose column from last October, there really is no such thing as a casual fan of the Trash Can Sinatras. If you like them, then [...]

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:43:29 +0000

I can't say that I have EVER dug a band as much as TCS! For me, it happened sort of backwards. I was DJing at my college radio station and we had Cake as a demo. Nobody would play it. One night while “in an experimental mood” I opened my mind to this wonderful stuff.

I have purchased weightlifting AND Cake at least three times a piece! I'm pretty hard on CDs. If you don't have them, GET THEM! The lyrics and music are just a PERFECT MATCH!

By: mark

mark — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:24:54 +0000

I had TCS's “Cake” sitting on my CD shelf for 10 years. I listened to it and liked it. Then TCS came around touring. I went, wanting to hear the few hits off “Cake”. I like the concert, but still only enough to drop “Cake” back into the CD player…then it happened. I listened! I now have EVERYTHING they have recorded and would pay $50.00 for an advance copy of the new release, just to have it sooner. I have NEVER been affected and infected by a band like this. If I could only have one CD for the rest of my life it would be a TCS CD.

By: Andrew Moore

Andrew Moore — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:05:22 +0000

This has got to be one of the best albums I have ever heard and to this day I cannot fathom why they are not huge. Easy Read is just such a beautiful song and an amazing opener to a wonderful collection of songs. Cake to me is still caught in the jangle of the eighties and sounds very of its time but I've Seen Everything is completely timeless.

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:49:21 +0000

great great band. weightlifting is just an incredible album. new material on the way. great post, btw.

By: DavidMedsker

DavidMedsker — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:34:44 +0000

"but a small, devoted cult of fans has supported the group through the lean times, keeping candles burning during years-long gaps"

That is literally true. Ask the band about the time when the members of the email list sent them an "embarrassing" amount of money (Francis' word, not mine) to help them pay bills and keep making music.

By: DavidMedsker

DavidMedsker — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:26:45 +0000

Oh man, what Will said. Love, love, love the Trash Cans, and this record in particular. Most fans of the band prefer Cake, but this has always been my favorite of theirs.

Unintelligible wordplay, indeed. There were raging debates about the third line in "Obscurity Knocks" (the foul-mouthed rogue part) on the old TCS list. And I'm pretty sure Joe DiMaria, the TCS listmaster, was given a credit on Weightlifting, as well he should.

"I don't remember what you said or did that made you so attractive..."

By: WHarrisBullzEye

WHarrisBullzEye — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:03:22 +0000

It was always going to be a race to see which of us posted this comment first, but since it's me, I will note that David Medsker and I first came into contact with each other by being subscribers to the Trash Can Sinatras E-mail list. As such, I can literally say that I would not be where I am today…at least not exactly, anyway…were it not for the Trash Can Sinatras.