Just heard it today and couldn’t find it with google.
The lyrics go something like:
“…and if you want to throw it all away, I’ll hold the door open for you…”
It’s done in a bit of edgy punk meets latin beat and the singer’s voice was reminiscent of of a young Iggy Pop.
Anybody know it? 
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Sorry folks… I just *have to * find it and hoping this will get some fresh eyes on it.
did you hear this on the radio? did you call the radio station and ask the DJ? did you check their website? Many radio stations now post their playlists online, with the date and time that songs got played.
Nah,
Heard in it my spin class with a guest trainer who I don’t normally see and figured I could google the lyrics. Of course, I can’t find the damn thing and don’t know if/when I’ll see the trainer again to ask.
:smack:
Was it a song by Incubus, maybe? I googled and couldn’t find anything but I swear I’ve heard those lyrics too, but I don’t remember either. Maybe Hoobastank?
I’ll check those out.
It had this sort of angry but also tongue in cheek feel of Ringside… like, “We like you best when you’re down with the rest of us…”
You might try Googling for the song Dedication Breakup and guitarist Nuno Bettencourt (formerly of Extreme) – not at all sure that’s what you want, but that’s the best match I got from the lyrics.
Hmmm… doesn’t seem like the one. It’s a bit to maudlin for the one I have in mind.
Can you hum the tune for us?
Thanks.
Thanks for your suggestions all but I think I’ve found it.
The band is Cowboy Mouth and the song is: Let me hold it open
Never heard them before but I guess now I’ve got to find out what they’re all about.
Hope to hell they’re not a country music band. :smack:
New Orleans band. Used to tour the Southeast a lot. They had a minor nationwide hit about 7 or 8 years ago, but I don’t remember what the song was. Sorry. I saw them a couple of times when they came to the college town I was living in at the time. I never cared very much for them, but my wife likes them.
That’s exactly the song that came to my mind when I read the OP, but I figured “nah … no one would be playing Cowboy Mouth in a spinning class!” 
I love Cowboy Mouth. They are my favorite contemporary band – and this is being said by someone who loves all kinds of music and refrains from using the lable “favorite” as much as possible. I’ve seen them in concert a bunch of times, I have almost all of their albums (still missing one or two of the live ones), and I’ve been listening to their newest album, Voodoo Shoppe, pretty much non-stop since I got it last week.
As Ogre says, they are not country – I really do think the best way to describe them is to call them a New Orleans band. The minor nationwide hit was “Jenny Says.” They’re not to everyone’s taste, but I know that Jonathan Chance is a fellow Mouth fan.
If you like “Let Me Hold It Open,” I think you’ll like some (if not most) of their other stuff.
Instead you just decided to let me sift through endless google pages and search combinations and permutations.
Thanks. :dubious:
Well now I’m not so sure I want to. 
C’mon, I wouldn’t leave ya hangin’ like that! I didn’t see the OP until you’d already figured it out – I posted as soon as I saw the thread.
Ask and I appear.
Cowboy Mouth is the single greatest live band ever. And I’ve seen everyone from The Rolling Stones to Kula Shaker. You WILL come out of a Cowboy Mouth show feeling better about yourself than when you went in. It’s an amazing thing.
I’d suggest that, if you like Let Me Hold It Open, you start with the CD ‘Mercyland’. It’ll give you a good overview. The others are all good, as well, but that’s a good introduction to the band.
Their semi-hit, “Jenny Says”, is the lead track on the ‘Are You With Me’ CD and well worth the pick up as well. But it’s a bit softer edged than ‘Mercyland’.
Questions? I’m here for you.
Took ya 4 days … what’s up with that? :dubious:
You have an amazingly different opinion of their live show than me. The couple of times I saw them in Tuscaloosa, AL (in a VERY large club,) they bored me to tears. In fact, they bored me into leaving one night. There was so much patter from the lead singer (which consisted of him screaming “Are ya WITH me?!” 37,485 times through the PA. Not a clever way to drum the title of their new CD into fans’ heads.) and so little music that I decided I was better off going home and reading a few chapters of Fluvial Geomorphology. As I said, bored to tears.
Blech.
Ogre, how long has it been since you saw them? If Are You With Me was the new album (as you say), do you realize that it’s been almost 10 years since that was released? A couple of bad shows 9-10 years ago is no reason to continue to slam their live performance. Ten years ago is probably when I saw them for the first time: since then I’ve seen them in all kinds of venues, and I have never been to a Cowboy Mouth show where there was more patter than music. Fred likes to talk to the crowd, and there’s usually a part when primal screaming is encouraged, but there is always plenty of music.
Cowboy Mouth definitely isn’t for everyone, but they have a rep in the music business as being a kick-ass live band – it’s not just die-hard fans like Jonathan and me raving about them.
Their next local show is at the Rams Head Live in Baltimore on July 14th. If I can find another Mouth fan willing to brave the Friday night traffic with me, I’m all about going up there. Though I’ll admit that I’m starting to get a little tired of hearing Fred joke about everyone only being there to here “Jenny Says.” Dude, it’s been 10 years!
First of all, “continue to slam their live performance” is misleading. I don’t proselytize against them. Hell, I don’t even think about them very much. However, in a thread in which it was specifically stated what a kickass live band they are, I felt it entirely appropriate to voice a dissenting opinion.
Also, “a couple of bad shows” is somewhat misleading. You’re making it sound as if I failed to give them a chance. I’ve seen Cowboy Mouth, oh, let’s see, four times…twice (I think) at the Ivory Tusk in Tuscaloosa, once at a city festival in Birmingham, and one other time, but I honestly don’t remember where (Chattanooga a couple years later, I think, or maybe it was Atlanta.) By the last time, I pretty well had to be dragged kicking and screaming, plied with beer, bludgeoned with a lead pipe, stuffed in a car trunk, and forced into the show (and no way in hell was I paying for the ticket.) I gave them plenty of chances. Each of them was bad. Ideally, in fact, four chances is three too many.
The only positive experience I ever had associated with a Cowboy Mouth show was the drunk, sexually aggressive young minx who seduced me at the second one, and you’ll have to pardon me if I don’t particularly associate that experience with the band, per se.
Each time, they struck me as an overblown, aggressively average bar band with few real chops.
Maybe they’ve changed. I dunno. I’ll probably give them another chance someday. Maybe. If I’m drunk enough. Hard to say, but that’s been my experience with them.
I think maybe it’s just not your tip.
And we’ve had this back and forth before, Ogre. You mention you don’t like them and I’m think you’re loony. I recall it at least once before.
In short, they’re a New Orleans band with soul and fury. The best quote I know is from Cake Magazine: “On a bad night they’ll tear the roof off the join. On a good night they’ll save your soul.”
Yes, Fred (the drummer and most-time singer) is an, um, strong personality. But a strong positive message and a connection to the crowd is, to me, a good thing in a band. And they DO connect. If you can’t get loose at a Cowboy Mouth show you’re likely dead inside.
Pffft. They’re a New Orleans bar band with nothing particularly original or interesting to say. About the only thing I have liked about the band itself is that they apparently took their name from a Dylan song. Based on that alone, I was willing to give them a chance. What did I get? Drunken frat-boy rock. Yay.
And so,
I suppose not. I’ve seen a thousand bands live, and none, not even the 80’s hair-revival bands, interested me less. Cowboy Mouth has always just been so very, very middle-of-the-road. Yawnworthy.
Now, I don’t think you’re loony for liking them. I don’t even think you have bad musical taste. I just think our tastes diverge wildly on this point. I would probably like other bands you’re into…but we’re probably never going to agree on Cowboy Mouth.
But I’ll tell you what. I’m a serious, serious music lover. I can speak with knowledge on almost any genre of music, from Tin Pan Alley to insanely obscure proto-bluegrass to straight rock and roll to alternative hip hop, and I always approach music with an open mind…or I try to. To that end, recommend to me what you think the best album, song(s), or recorded live show. I’ll check them out again. Hey, if they inspire this degree of rabid fandom, there’s gotta be something there, right? Make me believe.