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Friends of V should know that I love "the Weezer". I recently found out that ex-Weezer bassist, Matt Sharp's band, The Rentals, is coming out with a new EP in August 2007 called The Last Little Life EP.
If you haven't heard of The Rentals, I will tell you a little about them. They're probably best known for their song Friends of P, which some people might debate that "P" really stands for pot. Then it sort of made sense, "hey if you're friends with p, then you're friends with me."
They broke up in '96, but then got back together in '99 just in time for Seven More Minutes. You should probably know that the title is a reference of Andy Warhol's quote that everybody has "15 minutes of fame".
I think they broke up again in '02, or whenever they stopped touring. Despite not having a band, Matt Sharp continued to release two solo albums: Puckett's Versus the Country Boy (2003) and the self-titled Matt Sharp (2004).
So, I guess the Rentals reformed once again last year to record that difficult third album.
So, the song I've picked out for you to listen to is "Getting By". This is, in my opinion, their strongest song off their second album. For the first album, I would have to go with "The Love I'm Searching For". As a special bonus, I will be posting the Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover of this song on coverlover.vox.com.
Trivia #1: Justine Frischmann of Elastica appears in Seven More Minutes as backing vocals.
Trivia #2: Matt Sharp appears as keyboardist in Tegan and Sara's So Jealous album.
vu 
Links: www.therentals.com
| Pants Party wrote:
Jun 6, 2007 at 5:22 PM
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Trivia #3: Maya Rudolph, of Saturday Night Live and Mike Judge film Idiocracy was one of the early touring members of The Rentals and can be seen in the video for "Waiting".
I LOVE The Rentals! I got to see them play one of the first shows after they reformed and it was incredible!! They're playing four shows in L.A. next month and I'm seriously considering riding down from San Francisco to go to at least one.
