Forgot to mention, I think the title refers to the particular music scene and musical influences of the band. Grandaddy came out of the '80s underground independent music scene, with alot of punk influences as well, which is absolutely not where the major labels and any successful band of the time was coming out of. The lineage of ancestors to Grandaddy is nonphenomenal because it's all these small hardworking honest indie acts, and not huge commercial arena rock stuff that makes money like led zepplin or whoever you want to cite as the major influences of mainstream commercial music in the early-mid 90s. Grandaddy was around and making music for like 8 years before the album this song was on was released, and this was their first full length album! so they must have really had to struggle and fight to just keep making music and survive and suffered a lot of rejection.
Forgot to mention, I think the title refers to the particular music scene and musical influences of the band. Grandaddy came out of the '80s underground independent music scene, with alot of punk influences as well, which is absolutely not where the major labels and any successful band of the time was coming out of. The lineage of ancestors to Grandaddy is nonphenomenal because it's all these small hardworking honest indie acts, and not huge commercial arena rock stuff that makes money like led zepplin or whoever you want to cite as the major influences of mainstream commercial music in the early-mid 90s. Grandaddy was around and making music for like 8 years before the album this song was on was released, and this was their first full length album! so they must have really had to struggle and fight to just keep making music and survive and suffered a lot of rejection.