Friday
Jan242014
The Burden Of Being Wonderful
Friday, January 24, 2014 at 12:01AM
Steel Panther just released a video for the single "The Burden of Being Wonderful." The song is on the upcoming album All You Can Eat. I have to say, I love it. Actually, this is my favorite Steel Panther song yet.
Reader Comments (30)
Once Again Ace Is Being A Major Douche!!!
Don't get your panties in a wad just because everybody doesn't agree with you. Get over yourself. You are not that important dude.
The so called "jokes" are not well executed at all. Maybe if I was 9 I would have got a few laughs out of it because it is very childish moronic humor that even Beavis & Butthead would not have found funny.
If you find this stuff funny as a grown man good for you. Not everybody has the same silly immature sense of humor as you.
Look over the bands I listed. They know how to do humor in Rock & Roll.
Review my first comments in this thread regarding bands demonstrating a knack for REAL humor.
I was gonna' ask who people thought they were aping on this song. But I found a whole different set of comments than I expected. So let me see if I understand this: someone is a douche because they disagree in equal measure with the person who calls them a douche? Is the snake eating its tail yet?!!? What next? Questioning people's maturity? Oh wait. Sorry.
Like I said before, I like them live and in limited doses. Everyone in the band is a musician who can play music (and read it too). They figured out a way to make a go of it and they are doing it. Not with covers, and certainly not with songs as regal and majestic as "Sporting a Woody" or the untouchable "Givin' the Dog a Bone."
But, heck, we can't all be Dangerous DC (to mix it up a bit). And we aren't all, nor do we have to like, Ralph Saenz and his band of merry (or really crappy) pranksters. Luckily, those who don't like it don't have to buy it or see it. And I doubt SP minds one bit.
Personally, I think it is an ironic (if not at the level of Swift) tribute to music they do love. Who knows? It is possible they like Peal Jam too. Not sure if one cancels out the other given that people's taste range across genres, even as some of us find that glam hits a sweet spot now and again . . . and again.
"Pull the stick out of your ass. It's a well executed joke.
If you can't laugh at it, you're taking yourself too seriously."
...He implied that if somebody doesn't find Steel Panther funny it's because they are some sort of tight ass who can't take a joke.
I love edgy funny stuff like "Family Guy", "Chappelle Show" & I read "The Onion" religiously. Steel Panther is none of the above. I don't mind silly immature comedy as long as it has brilliant provocative comedy wrapped around it, like the 3 examples I've just mentioned. Steel Panther is just silly and immature with no attempt at being truly clever.
People can like whatever they want. No skin off my back but Ace has a tendency to be a real dick and lash out at people if they don't agree with him.
The whole reason I started posting on this website is because of Ace. He is very rude most of the time to people here. I can't tell if people are ignoring him or just plain don't notice it but it's painfully obvious to me.
I was just on another metal related website the other day and after I read one of the comments somebody posted. My first thought was "Wow, what a dick" and I looked to see what name the person went by and lo and behold the name was Ace Steele. I kid you not, I don't know if it was the same guy as the one that posts here but he was a real annoying asshole just like the guy here. I thought it was hilarious that I instantly thought the person was a dick before I even knew who it was (and it turned out to be Ace, of all people).
The only reason I am sometimes somewhat rude to some of the people here is if I think they are being out of line and need to be called out. The internet is filled with people who think they are always right and never wrong. Something which nobody could or will ever be (including myself).
My original post on this topic was just my observation and opinion. I didn't attack anybody for liking them or not liking them like Ace did. Tons of people don't love the same stuff as me and that's fine. That's just the way life is, no need to tell people to take the stick out of their ass because they don't share my feelings. Ace was mad that everybody didn't agree with him. So he pretty much called everybody who doesn't love Steel Panther an uptight asshole. To me that was a pretty messed up thing to say. I come here to read new stuff about bands I love, not to be insulted because I don't find a cheesy cartoon band funny.
Ace comes off as a really bitter person.
He seems to always be so negative.
If anybody needs to lighten up here, it's Ace.
I don't know why he feels the need to always insult people just because they don't agree w/him.
I wasn't going to comment on this unfunny band but your post really exemplified what I have always thought about Ace.
Out of everybody here,
Ace is the only one who is so dead serious about everything.
So matter of fact, like everything he says is the honest to god truth.
Frankly I'm shocked he thinks Steel Panther is funny.
Judging from all of his holier than thou posts, you would think he would hate Steel Panther, that they were beneath him or something.
Ace Steele is a bitter failed wanna be, has been that never was.
All he does is rag on the bands most of the people here love. He needs to get a grip on reality, we all love certain different things but I can't recall where it say's we need to be complete outright dicks about it, like Ace finds complete pleasure in doing so.
People here need to stick up for themselves, it's pretty sad that most everybody here just accepts the douche bag antics of Ace Steele.
Don't get me wrong,
I get it, if Ace is telling the truth, he used to have somewhat of a shot at being a famous rich rock star...but he just plain wasn't good enough. So he is not a rock star and never will be.
Your time is over Ace...say all the lies you want, rewrite all the history you want, it will never change the cold hard fact that you will never be a famous rock star like the ones you love to mock on this website.
GET A LIFE (LOSER)!
But, guys, realize, Ace has an inexplicable love for Steel Panther,
so he's not bad mouthing these guys like I am.
I am the culprit!
The curious thing is that your post seemed to bring out "a bit of the Irish" in Jakki and Brian. My observations about how they responded would be about the same as the ones I just made to you (though Jakki, to be fair, resisted name calling and instead framed it as a personal observation), so no need to draw this out any further.
But Metalboy! is so spot on when he deflects and turns it back to the topic proper (a thing I tried, and failed, to do in the main portion of my post).