The Moldy Peaches - 'What Went Wrong'

Today, I don't have much time to post on this blog since there's a bunch of people at my house and a lot going on before my band plays a show on Saturday and I host a gang of people for the weekend for no good reason other than the fact that they're my friends and they're coming over. First things first, I want to make a major film recommendation: Me and You and Everyone We Know is the best movie I've seen in ages. It prompted some strange conversations as well as some interesting memories as I watched it with my roommate Aaron last night. I went on iTunes and downloaded the Michael Andrews-scored soundtrack which also features a few acts that I love on soundtracks but can't handle in record-sized doses represented by the likes of Cody Chestnutt and Spiritualized. Needless to say, the soundtrack is excellent as I do no usually go out and get the soundtrack for a film on the strength of one viewing of the film regularly. The other occurrences of this phenomenon have been Lost in Translation and The Life Aquatic, both of which have become staples in my listening habits.

Today's post has nothing to do with any of that. I, as I live and breathe, have discovered what is possibly the worst song in the history of earth. The immensely overrated band, The Moldy Peaches, wrote a song called 'What Went Wrong', a lo-lo-lo-fi piece of garbage that was released on their self-titled album. From time to time, a band comes along in independent music that makes serious waves and I cannot for the life of me figure out why. The Moldy Peaches are a truly, madly, deeply horrible band. Why is it that when a band like the Peaches come along and create horrible music that there is a subculture ready to pick it up as 'misunderstood' or 'deeply artistic'? It is a completely nonsensical result. The fuzzed-out sound of 'What Went Wrong' is that of a band trying to make something that maybe rocks, maybe places in the listener in state of dancing tomfoolery, but realistically, the question must be asked: who can have this? Who can stand for the blistering idiocy of some wannabe beat poets who wish they were The Pixies and fail miserably at all that they do? And why, oh why, would anyone willingly listen to this rather than something else?

It transcends comprehension. Or at least my comprehension.

I hope you can listen to the track and join me in my distaste as well as my curious fascination with this horrific band, The Moldy Peaches.

What Went Wrong by The Moldy Peaches