setting things right

I have to confess that Myron's comment on this post made me feel a little guilty about the (unintentional) bait-and-switch nature of post's title. See, the title was a reference to the multi-dynastic Canadian teen drama Degrassi (Jr. High, High, The Next Generation), or more specifically, to the name of a song played by Zit Remedy, the show's token "lets form a band" subplot device, back in 1989.

While I'm on the subject of Degrassi, what the hell has happened to the current incarnation of the show? I accept that I am not the intended target audience, but the transition over the past couple seasons from a thoughful examination of all things teen to a grainy Canuck photostat of The OC has been downright depressing. The ongoing process of Sassy-fication has led Maura to give up on the show -- and this is a woman who watched Melrose Place, The X-Files, and Charmed to the bitter end.

Back to the matter at hand, to make good on Myron's or any other readers' dashed expectations, here's a shiny, new, straight-from-the-series capture of the song in question. There are other versions circulating out on the 'net, but the quality of the rips is universally dismal and lack that special bitterandrew touch.

Zit Remedy - Everybody Wants Something

...and while I'm here, I might as well throw this completely unrelated celebration of youthful hijinx at you:

Fast Cars - The Kids Just Wanna Dance (from a 1979 single; collected on Coming...Ready or Not!, 2001) - Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to see a proper CD release of this band's material. Not that I'm complaining; the band's occasional appearances on various bootleg punk and power pop compilations usually justified the purchase in and of themselves. The otherwise reliable Manda and the Marbles recorded a disappointing cover of this track on 2005's Angels with Dirty Faces which made the grevious sin of reducing the song to a repeated chorus.