Song of the Day 1/4: Lit, “My Own Worst Enemy”
This one’s for Kevin McCarthy, whose capacity for self-embarrassment appears limitless.
Like McCarthy, Lit hails from California, though from Orange County, not Bakersfield. This track, a single from their 1999 sophomore LP “A Place in the Sun,” took months to rise to No. 1 on the Modern Rock chart, but it’s had a long afterlife. It makes most lists of top pop-punk songs, and one critic said its opening lines, “Can we forget about the things I said when I was drunk? / I didn’t mean to call you that” might be the most pop-punk verse ever written, but it was the band’s only hit.
The song is so familiar it achieved the distinction of having an arena full of sports fans sing the chorus, even without the music on the PA system.
