July 21st, 2022 @ 10:53 am

since playing the tony hawk pro skater games over the years, there have been so many good soundtracks.  usually they’re songs you already know…  sometimes there are not.  in one standout instance over the last twenty years, bodyjar is that instance for me.  i always loved this song and i only heard it on THPS3.  it’s one of my favorites (on prob my most fave THPS game) and i have no idea how i never got into more of their music.  especially seeing as that it was already 2001 when THPS3 came out and we had better access to information online vs. in the 90s…  i dunno, mang.

anyways, this week, i’m going through all of music between my computer mp3s and my old itunes library.  i’m going to try to get it all organized into my spotify, bc if i’m gonna pay for it – i should utilize it to the fullest.  i hate the UX of spotify and realized as i was adding music to playlists, if i moved them out of a playlist, where did the song go?  there’s no “ALL SONGS” by default, so i’m going and liking every song, so at least i have them that way.  i have to then reorganize the playlists i’ve built over the years.  i listen to some deep cut shit, so not everything is on spotify (which pisses me off), but i’m trying to get as close as possible, but i digress.

as i’m going through my mp3s first, i’m going alphabetically and looking at the albums of the artists and listening to see if there’s more songs that i like as i go.  i’m currently up to the B bands/musicians, and i just got to bodyjar, and i’m like “let’s check this out”.

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January 8th, 2022 @ 12:54 am

Jesse Michaels says he “wouldn’t rule out” an Operation Ivy reunion https://t.co/DmrG6TMnQ6 pic.twitter.com/4nZX1Grhum

— BrooklynVegan (@brooklynvegan) January 7, 2022

i realize that he says it’s only a possibility, and probably a small one, but that reunion is on my freakin live shows bucket list!  i remember reading years ago about how jesse said he didn’t want to do it bc the crowd wouldn’t be like at smaller shows they used to play… and i totally get that.  i just feel like their cult audience would be HUGE. where/how would they play???

if you don’t know who op-ivy is, read away.

tl;dr: operation ivy was a fuckin RAD band from cali basically invented ska punk (hello, what i listen to 60% of the time), broke up after like two damn years and only ONE official record, but that record was amazing.  so amazing that they continue to have a cult followed legacy til this day!

two of the members went on to start a staple band in the punk community (rancid – fortunately for us, sometimes we get to see them play op-ivy songs), and the other two went off on their merry ways without a big spot in the “popular” punk limelight, but still had notable projects.  anyways, we little ska-punkers born in the early 80s have only DREAMED of seeing op-ivy live, because well, they broke up before we hit age 10.

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now, what i was saying before was that the lead singer said he would only want to perform to a smaller venue-type crowd.  well, i don’t see how that’d happen, seeing as that they’ve got so many damn fans at this point – even generations after they were in their hay day…  but i hope they can think of something, bc not everyone just wants to SEE op-ivy just to say they did.  some of us want to sweat, skank, pit, dance, sing and experience that shit to the fullest (ahem, me and a ton of my friends).

i bet you it would only be west coast, and they’d have to do secret shows.  maybe scavenger hunt the hints to them, and you know the god damn internet would ruin it for everyone…  it’s so annoying, you know you’d have idiots showing up for multiple shows too.  i remember when billie joe was doing his solo or other band shit a few years ago, he was trying to tell people online to not do that so everyone could experience it and STILL people didn’t listen…  PEOPLE SUCK.  the internet sucks, but i digress.

an op-ivy reunion somehow?  my heart would be so full.

September 29th, 2015 @ 4:51 pm

almost 20 years later, and still one of my favorites… ever. ♥

BB16

July 29th, 2011 @ 3:16 am

i was singing this to myself while i was doing my hair before. i haven’t thought of this song in ages.  it reminds me of high school days.

i saw them with goldfinger at irving plaza one year. i wonder if they still tour… i wonder if goldfinger still tours! o_o

SPEAKING OF OLD BANDS TOURING

my amazeballs ex-boyfriend steve bought us tickets to the the descendents, h2o and the suicide machines. (mostly psyched about the suicide machines because they’re reunited recently!)