So as you can see this guy here hates his past in soul coughing and every time he gets to talk about the band he just trash them, talks about depression and how it was his most painful years as a musician, so you can see that video is not a parody he really hates his past, but that immature bastard just wouldn't let go, he is full of bitterness and grudge, a really despicable man, with delusion of greatness, that insist in gorging up all the credit for something he has time and time again admitted he detest! i'm going to be sincere here if that is how the songs are supposed to be i would have never paid any attention to Soul Coughing to begin with, just like his solo work is just an inferior demonstration of a man that just can't separate his past, is just like, if the band breaking up wasn't enough, he has to do these lousy remixes and talk smack in interviews, don't let him entangle you all in his front, here are some videos showing his true colors:
And there is his goddamn precious vision, judge by yourselves...
If this is his drug free self, then i pretty much prefer him drowning in drugs, and yes his solo career is nothing special.
Oh and thanks for ruining Monster Man you bastard, here i put a video of the whole thing:
And this is the original Monster Man:
For real i'm hating him so much what are those dogs barks? and that beat? he is such a delusional bastard and that description on I-tunes is so full of itself "This eccentrically titled solo release from Mike Doughty — the prolific founder of '90's alt-rock act Soul Coughing" so not even honesty goes in there after years of bad mouting the band now you are the founder of the avant garde band... unbelievable.
VicariousE
Whoa, wat a shit-ton of vids! Just watched the first vid, and can understand some of his bitterness... it's exposition about an unseen side of the industry. I can tell you, even in the minor leagues, it's just as pissy and insane.
Doomroar
Oh yes i have pondered, and have come to the conclusion that it little matters now if all the things he said are true, lets assume that all the band members and the manager were a bunch of assholes, and our guy here was just a music genius martyr being held back by drugs and his uncooperative band, but that still doesn't explain how it is possible that he is such a dick now that he is "clean" plus the music prodigy part still evades me, and then there is that remix, it changed the songs from an alternative rock group to a cheese pop movement, he talks about funky and upbeat disco feel, and you know to be fair 3 or 4 songs manage to do this pseudo funky thing just fine, but god does he butchers everything else? which is weird because he is crediting himself as the goddamn writer, the father of the songs, yet he does a damn bad job with hem now that he is solo that is.
So to make my statement the most empiric and neutral possible i put all those videos there to exemplify my complain outside my own perspective, because deep down i don't want him to be such a prick bastard, but damn... is proving difficult, i just can't deceive myself in the same levels as he does.