Are You Worried About Ray? We Kinda Are
posted by Matt on February 29th, 2008 in Music, The Hoosiers, VideosHere’s a fun band alert for you. THE HOOSIERS have gotten a fair amount of spins in the office of late. The UK band bears a strong sonic resemblance to Hot Hot Heat with their upbeat vocals, jangly keyboards and good old fashioned jams.
Their song “Worried About Ray” had us humming the tune nonstop as of late, so when we discovered the video with it’s great homages to old school monster movies and muted bright colors, we officially became hooked.
There’s even a website dedicated to Ray and all our worries about him, www.worriedaboutray.com. And if you want to take it one step further, call (317) 644-2064 and leave the band a message telling them just how worried about Ray you are.
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Man - they’re not Hoosiers!! They’re not from Indiana!! They didn’t go to IU!!!
I’M A HOOSIER!!
Easy there buddy.
You technically aren’t a Hoosier either, the name came from a well known man in the early history of the state barring that last name. Since many people worked for him in one town they became known as Hoosier’s people. That got shortened to Hoosiers. Before long everyone got dubbed a Hoosier.
Real Hoosiers were people that worked for him and since you aren’t that old, you are not a Hoosier either.
Blam! Look at me and my knowledge of history!
BLAM, LOOK AT ME DISCOUNTING YOUR LIES.
there is no true definition of “hoosier”. that is indeed one of the rumored definitions, as well as many others… one stems from a barfaight, others reference Corn.
the only working definition of Hoosier is “a person from Indiana”, and vice-versa. hence the reason why the mascot for IU (and all who attend) is the hoosier.
don’t make me come down there and smack you around.
Make that two children of the corn coming to straighten this out. Just to be sure, I did my due diligence on Wikipedia. Nobody seems to be able to make any definition based on consensus (as Graydon mentions), except that a Hoosier is someone from the state of Indiana. Even the Almighty OED cannot agree on an etymology of the word, so BLAM. Hoosier daddy now?
Heh - why would anyone want to take credit for being born and raised in the flood plains?
Yeah and since you both were college grads you should knot that Wikipedia is not considered a valid source for any scholarly papers. I hereby null and void both of your arguments.
and where the hell did you get your info from, Jerz? some reputable knowledge source down on the corner in a velour tracksuit with a godl chain?
My argument didn’t come from Wiki, it came from a Life in indiana, where at least once a year, in every history or social study-based course from kindergarten through college, the topic is breached.
bring it.
Oh yeah? How about the OED? You wanna brawl, Jersey?
Jersey is home of Bruce and the Jovi - by default making us better than you.
And the fact that all Indiana teaches is their own history is a perfect example as to why we’re better. We’re “worldly”.
I see your Bruce and Jovi and raise you Axl, Cougar, Shannon from Blind Melon…Tom Petty wrote a song about a slutty Indiana girl. And Bling Kong’s bass player. She is so fucking awesome. You know where you are, You’re in the jungle, You’re gonna diiiiiieeee.
I’ll also raise you the under-known Tremendous Fucking, Sam Lowry, as well as the formative stomping ground for Murder By Death.
let’s also not forget - The Jackson 5
You wanna do this or what?!
Really, you want to get into this!?….
Bruce, Jovi, Thursday, The Bouncing Souls, Lifetime, Frank Sinatra, The Fugees, Fountains Of Wayne, Connie Francis, Frankie Valli, Whitney Houston, Sarah Vaughan, Les Paul, Paul Robeson, Debbie Harry, Gloria Gaynor, Donald Fagen, Lauryn Hill, The Gaslight Anthem, Max Weinberg, Janis Ian, Celia Cruz, Ozzie Nelson, John Popper, My Chemical Romance, Zakk Wylde, Agnostic Front, Monster Magnet, US Chaos, Naughty By Nature, Queen Latifa, The DeLeo Brother from Stone Temple Pilots, Pete Yorn, Skid Row, Yo La Tengo, Catch 22, Ted Leo, Val Emmich, Southside Johnny.
…all from Jersey
Also - majority of them - suck.
hm, funny how that works, isn’t it?
Matt, your list is rendered null and void because you didn’t mention the Misfits.
Hoosier highlights include Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin, Mellencamp, David Lee Roth, Crystal Gayle, Mick Mars of the Crue, Cole Porter, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, separately the Jackson 5, Babyface and the Ataris. But above all, ICED EARTH. \m/
And James Dean!
And of course Murder by Death can come to the party, too.
I didn’t say that was EVERYONE from Jersey.
And yes I totally spaced on the Misfits. But that’s a testament to the power of Jersey! There are so many great bands that you tend to miss a few here and there when you make a list.
Oh and I guess we’ll count Bling Kong as a “real band” even though I was better at bass when I was in a crappy cover band in high school. Ha!
OH NO HE DIDN’T.
And you gave it up… why? for bacon? be honest with yourself matt. it’s okay. the first step to self-forgiveness is admittance.
OH YES I DID!
Flame war!
YO MAMA.
It’s a shame about Ray…