{"id":23914,"date":"2015-05-24T11:35:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T19:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=23914"},"modified":"2018-04-12T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T20:59:08","slug":"check-out-waitress-from-phillys-hop-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-05\/check-out-waitress-from-phillys-hop-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Out &#8220;Waitress&#8221; From Philly&#8217;s Hop Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1798548_10152379975667251_8529539188144100946_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-23918\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1798548_10152379975667251_8529539188144100946_n-650x566.jpg\" alt=\"1798548_10152379975667251_8529539188144100946_n\" width=\"635\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1798548_10152379975667251_8529539188144100946_n-650x566.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1798548_10152379975667251_8529539188144100946_n-150x131.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1798548_10152379975667251_8529539188144100946_n-450x392.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1798548_10152379975667251_8529539188144100946_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were recently tipped off by a Philadelphia native (thanks Jon) of that city&#8217;s indie-punk band, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/saddle-creek.com\/hopalong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hop Along<\/a><\/strong>, and the otherworldly vocals of its singer, <strong>Frances Quinlan<\/strong>.\u00a0 Turns out the tip was spot on.\u00a0 Check out below<strong> Quinlan&#8217;s<\/strong> powerful, hectoring vocals on their track<em><strong> Waitress<\/strong><\/em> off of the band&#8217;s break-out album, <em><strong>Painted Shut<\/strong>.\u00a0 <\/em>If you aren&#8217;t seriously impressed when you hit the <strong>25th second<\/strong> of <em><strong>Waitress<\/strong><\/em> and <strong>Quinlan<\/strong> first let&#8217;s howl with &#8220;just&#8221; her heart, then we fear for your musical soul.\u00a0 Her vocal reminds us of that day in 1991 when we drove onto the Bay Bridge and first heard <strong>Kurt Cobain&#8217;s<\/strong> ground-breaking vocals on <em><strong>Smells Like Teen Spirit<\/strong><\/em> and immediately scrambled (pre-<strong>Shazam<\/strong>, y&#8217;all) to discern the name behind the voice.\u00a0 Yes, <strong>Quinlan<\/strong> is THAT good on this song.<\/p>\n<p>According to <strong>Quinlan<\/strong>, the song is derived from her day jobs in various bars and restaurants around Philly, and the intermittent humiliation: \u201cIt\u2019s about one of the first times when I looked at somebody and felt the distaste in the air,\u201d she explains. \u201cI mean, I could have been making it up. You don\u2019t know what people think about you, but just being in a situation where you know someone has reason to be disgusted with you. And I was just trying to do my job. It was one of the first times I felt really small.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check\u00a0<em><strong>Waitress<\/strong><\/em> out below and pick up <a href=\"http:\/\/saddle-creek.com\/store\/663\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Painted Shut<\/strong><\/em> <\/a>(now on <strong>Saddle Creek<\/strong>).\u00a0 The song&#8217;s lyrics are at bottom.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll have more on <strong>Hop Along<\/strong> soon come.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=866577813\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/track=191159726\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hopalong.bandcamp.com\/album\/painted-shut\">Painted Shut by Hop Along<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Realized I knew you from<br \/>\nHis photo when you walked<br \/>\nInto the restaurant<br \/>\nAnd my heart just sunk<br \/>\nYour friend looked over from the bar<br \/>\nShe must\u2019ve known, who I was<br \/>\nThe worst possible version of what I\u2019d done<br \/>\nAs, seating couples<br \/>\nI tried to listen<\/p>\n<p>By the time it\u2019s old<br \/>\nA face will have been seen<br \/>\nOne and a half<br \/>\nMillion times<br \/>\nOne million times<br \/>\nI don\u2019t know why I worry, I mean<br \/>\nMaybe she didn\u2019t recognize me<\/p>\n<p>I call you enemy<br \/>\nCause I\u2019m afraid of<br \/>\nWhat you could call me<br \/>\nThe world\u2019s gotten so small and<br \/>\nEmbarrassing<\/p>\n<p>By the time it\u2019s old<br \/>\nMy face will have been seen<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019ll share a very<br \/>\nCommon poverty<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a very common kind<br \/>\nCommon kind, common kind<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a very common kind<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not that I am worried<br \/>\nI just wish you and your friends would leave<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve long since closed now<br \/>\nStill you and some others, stick around<br \/>\nYou and some others stick around<br \/>\nYou and some others stick around<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve long closed now, still<br \/>\nYou and some others stick around<br \/>\nYou and some others stick around<br \/>\nYou and some others stick around&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were recently tipped off by a Philadelphia native (thanks Jon) of that city&#8217;s indie-punk band, Hop Along, and the otherworldly vocals of its singer, Frances Quinlan.\u00a0 Turns out the tip was spot on.\u00a0 Check out below Quinlan&#8217;s powerful, hectoring vocals on their track Waitress off of the band&#8217;s break-out album, Painted Shut.\u00a0 If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23914"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28331,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23914\/revisions\/28331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}