Making Me Nervous

"ironic electro-pop"

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posted by frenetic (32 comments total)

Making Me Nervous is still one of my all-time favorite songs.
posted by mathowie at 8:57 PM on June 29, 2006 [1 favorite]

It was a coinflip between this and Dirtbag for the compilation.
posted by cortex at 10:16 PM on June 29, 2006 [1 favorite]

the irony tastes good on that beat....hey, speaking of the compilation, how about an update on that homepage, or metatalk?
posted by carsonb at 10:20 PM on June 29, 2006

Planned for tomorrow morning. The secret thing I didn't mention to anybody while I was being frantic and productive with the compilation is that I am deeply lazy.
posted by cortex at 10:42 PM on June 29, 2006 [1 favorite]

you'd never know, ya know, what with all the pots you have simmering 'round these parts. I just figured you're spread a little thin.
posted by carsonb at 10:47 PM on June 29, 2006

Making Me Nervous is still one of my all-time favorite songs.

Still? Is there a history I don't know about that?

Do you like Folk Implosion frentic?
posted by dgaicun at 1:19 AM on June 30, 2006

Yeah, I wrote about it on my blog a couple years ago, about how much I liked this song and thought it would be a big popular hit, and two years later, I still enjoy it when it comes up in my random mp3 playing.
posted by mathowie at 1:24 AM on June 30, 2006

Mnmmm, tasty.
posted by onalark at 1:47 AM on June 30, 2006

So choice.
posted by MetaMonkey at 2:13 AM on June 30, 2006

Awesome - very catchy.
posted by Lotto at 7:30 AM on June 30, 2006

Yes.
posted by Jofus at 7:34 AM on June 30, 2006

awesome
posted by slimepuppy at 9:10 AM on June 30, 2006

> Do you like Folk Implosion frentic?

Never heard any Folk Implosion before, though my stuff has been compared to them a bunch.
posted by frenetic at 11:13 AM on June 30, 2006

They're good. Here you go:

Natural One

Nothing Gonna Stop

Also Frenetic dammit
posted by dgaicun at 12:56 PM on June 30, 2006

This is awesome. Thanks, frenetic.
posted by danb at 3:37 PM on June 30, 2006

Wait, frenetic is Brad Sucks?

!
Head asplodes.
posted by rhapsodie at 6:53 PM on June 30, 2006 [1 favorite]

Is that a hard drive spinning up in the intro?
posted by Ynoxas at 9:43 PM on June 30, 2006

Wait, frenetic is Brad Sucks?

Yea... which is what I tried to point out with my "Frenetic Sucks" comment, which has since been deleted. Funny, since my comment in the other frenetic thread was certainly complimentary.
posted by Witty at 10:44 AM on July 1, 2006

Great track. Nice simple production but everything really lives in just the right spot in the mix.

And yes, definitely Folk Implosion-esque, but the vocals remind me slightly of Beck.
posted by chimaera at 7:22 PM on July 1, 2006

Ynoxas: it's actually just a mic stuck almost inside my computer, so it's the fan as well as the hard drive.
posted by frenetic at 11:55 PM on July 1, 2006

Head asplodes. rotfl...Same thought though: holy crap bradsucks is on metafilter. Since, like, forever. Wow. (Got to love you from Magnatune dude.)
posted by ryran at 9:39 AM on July 5, 2006

I have to say that this song, more than any other, is stuck in my head nonstop. Am I the only one?
This song cures cancer, and is the only song that can destroy evil Chuck Norris.
posted by crazyray at 8:52 PM on July 5, 2006

This is ridiculous. I don't even like electronica that much. But since listening to this a few nights ago, I've had it stuck in my head. Constantly. The point where it was annoying.

Seriously though, awesome song. <3
posted by Phire at 11:17 PM on August 15, 2007

I love listening to this song.
posted by hadjiboy at 11:28 PM on September 8, 2007

When I think of MeFi Music, this is one of the songs that I think of first. This has become, for me, one of the iconic MeFi Muse songs. When I tell a friend what MeFi Muse is like, and I wanna give them a taste? I come here. I keep coming back to it. Is that a sign of longevity? I mean there is so much good stuff in MeFi Muse, but if I wanna show a friend this project, this song is like putting the best foot forward, y'know?

Of course this is how I feel now. My opinion could change before next Tuesday. LOL
posted by ZachsMind at 5:15 PM on November 18, 2007

hey Brad someone used your song on a youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTooBnKAdSw
posted by By The Grace of God at 3:29 PM on November 24, 2009

Just heard this song on Pandora listening to a Dandy Warhols channel of all things and did a sort of double-take. I had to go verify that I'd heard it on Metafilter first. Great song and apparently it has legs!
posted by Bugg at 7:26 AM on April 6, 2010

Are you secretly one half of We Are Smug?
posted by divabat at 8:36 PM on July 26, 2010

So, weirdly enough, I was sitting in a little not-quite-hipsterish restaurant (this one) in Fredericksburg, VA last weekend and this song came on the music system.

I thought maybe it was just off of some employee's iPod that they'd plugged in, but if it's on Pandora that makes sense.

Anyway, worlds colliding.
posted by Kadin2048 at 7:28 AM on July 6, 2013 [1 favorite]

HOW AWEsome. It's 2.40pm on a Sunday and this got me out of bed.
posted by ipsative at 5:40 AM on July 14, 2013 [1 favorite]

Congrats on Over 5 Million Plays on Spotify (does not include the 10000s of times I've played my download from here!)
posted by vespabelle at 2:35 PM on April 2, 2020

I used some of this in this month's podcast!
posted by cortex at 6:48 PM on April 3, 2020