I can't get this song out of my head, Gumshoes!
Posted by BaronGalactic@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 67 comments
Posted by BaronGalactic@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 67 comments
ToReadIcculus@reddit
Was singing this to myself last week for real. My brain will never let it die
Plumeria9798@reddit
I think there’s no truer Xennial show than Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. It was this moment in time that you had to be the right age for. I’d race home after 4th grade to watch. Rockapella actually slapped, bad hair and all…I had and still have the soundtrack cassette to this show and there were so many bangers on it. The US Capitals song was a fave.
originalbrowncoat@reddit
They were my first concert! 1993 in the high school gym!
jkginger22@reddit
Where are they now?
DBE113301@reddit
Fashion and hair styles in the early 90s really were...something.
TomPalmer1979@reddit
I always get a kick out of looking back at early 90s rap and hip hop culture, where someone decided nothing was more hardcore gangsta than....Easter pastels.
hahahahahahahaFUCK@reddit
Could be said about any decade preceding it.
Duckbites@reddit
I was a '90s vest guy. I think I found out why today
Unlikely-Collar4088@reddit
I saw Rockapella live once.
…this was pretty much their only good song.
Queue37@reddit
Zombie Jamboree?
cheesypuff357@reddit
what!?!? I really enjoyed their live concert.
Impressive-Record839@reddit
Spike Lee made a PBS movie about acapella groups and these guys were in it. They had some others
Unlikely-Collar4088@reddit
Yeah these are hazy, decades old memories. I’m sure there’s some good ones in their repertoire. I remember the bass singer - the one that looks like a Maine Coon cat (or Ron Perlman) - joking that all the other guys get songs about love and he only gets songs about manual labor.
derekschroer@reddit
This song along with the Folgers' theme is the only songs I have have ever heard them sing.
UBum@reddit
When I've seen them perform, they close with Folgers.
midnight-dour@reddit
Think they also sang the Growing Pains theme in later seasons.
dakkamatic@reddit
Damn some song just hit you in feels
UnfairSpecialist3079@reddit
I bet these guys were drowning in pussy back in the day
ThunderDungeon02@reddit
I feel like they did everything together though...everything.
SkyNet_Admin_1@reddit
😂
bailout911@reddit
The whole Carmen Sandiego series of games was pretty much my childhood. I probably liked Where in Time the best.
And the TV show? Chef's kiss.
adventurousintrovert@reddit
The Chief was perfectly cast
muffadel@reddit
Lynne Thigpen #RIP
_buffy_summers@reddit
For a class assignment in college, my husband had to play a Carmen Sandiego game and write a synopsis of it. We ended up both playing it, because I am terrible with geography, and he used our varying experiences in his paper.
MyBestCuratedLife@reddit
The hair!
skinnyminnesota@reddit
Never realized how clever the lyrics were!
howlin_monk_e@reddit
whahahahat in the actual fu*k did I just watch?! 🤣🤣🤣
BaronGalactic@reddit (OP)
You watched one of the greatest theme songs of all time, my friend!
howlin_monk_e@reddit
lol! don't get me wrong: it was as hilarious, as it was awful. which is: VERY, and I had a good laugh. but I think I'll spare the wife this one... 😂 no judgement, though!
ACoinGuy@reddit
This song helped get a ton of kids to learn geography. We could use more educational information hidden as entertainment.
howlin_monk_e@reddit
fair enough. I'm European, so, we just learnt stuff like that in school and this whole shtick just looks and sounds like an absolute nightmare to me.
_buffy_summers@reddit
Sorry that you don't like fun.
howlin_monk_e@reddit
we just have very different ideas of what translates as 'fun'. I'm mature enough to handle that reality, unlike many of the people who've been reading my comments, it seems. 😂😂😂
ACoinGuy@reddit
We also learned it in school. But this is additional reinforcement.
firesmarter@reddit
I can’t hear gumshoes and not think about Rescue Rangers
pupperdogger@reddit
Is there a world where Rockapella sings the Rescue Rangers theme?
_buffy_summers@reddit
Someone needs to make a few phone calls and get this to exist.
firesmarter@reddit
Not that I’m aware
_buffy_summers@reddit
In listening to it now, I think the Spice Girls stole a riff from this song.
On_my_last_spoon@reddit
DO NOT DO THIS TO ME!
Shit I didn’t even listen and it’s in my head now
spottydodgy@reddit
The 90's. A time when you could decide you wanted to be an an all male Acapella group and just go do that.
faderjockey@reddit
Back in the mid 2000’s I got to run sound for these guys when their tour came through my theater. They closed their show with this song - it was fantastic!
SkyNet_Admin_1@reddit
That’s awesome!
SkyNet_Admin_1@reddit
Two mullets in one band? The world can’t handle that kind of style anymore.
DrJJStroganoff@reddit
TO THE MAP!
lizardpplarenotreal@reddit
I watched this at 9 minutes to 9 oclock
RiemannZeta@reddit
I’ve never had so much hate it my heart just from looking at someone. That guy looks like a cross between Joe Dirt and the girls in your 4th grade class that got pooka shell braids in the Caribbean over Easter break. He probably did his hair like that to try to get laid or some shit like that.
lordskulldragon@reddit
The braided mullet was a very bold look.
AppleAtrocity@reddit
There are actually 2 different varieties of braided mullet in this video. That's got to be a record.
Jizzy_MoFoT@reddit
One could say timeless....... I'm inspired to attempt growing one now. Except the top of my head isn't fully on board.
angasaurus@reddit
How about a braided skullet?
canadianvintage@reddit
*beaded braided mullet
throwaway_trace99@reddit
rockapella had style and they knew it. absolute peak 90s aesthetic.
howlin_monk_e@reddit
that's gonna be hard to forget...!
bagofpork@reddit
I used to ride into school with my dad (he is a retired teacher) and hang out in his classroom before school started.
I used to play this game heavily on his classroom's Apple II.
TooTallBrawl1919@reddit
They started my love for a cappella singing!!
ZestycloseSuccess285@reddit
💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻
Arieslunatic@reddit
I love this song!
xAlice_Liddell@reddit
What a cool gig!!
Backpack78@reddit
And because of Austin Powers, I keep hearing “Krablakistan” in there.
Fun_Skirt8220@reddit
DO IT ROCKAPELLA!
Ultimate-Flexionator@reddit
Bass guy was chewing the name part!
deephurting66@reddit
These guys look and sound were peak 90s
T1sofun@reddit
The extended cut. Wow.
OpeningPublic@reddit
I never knew the two high voice guys could carry it like that 😂 what was going on in the 90s adult collective where this style was it?
Only-Friend-8483@reddit
This and is still around and still touring, although none of the founding band members remain part of the group.
Undercover_Dave@reddit
Supposedly my driver's Ed instructor was the dad of one of these dudes. No idea which one or even if it's true, but I always assumed it must be because that's a pretty obscure celebrity to brag about being your son. I just always think about that anytime I see anything about Carmen Sandiego 🤣