March 11, 2026 • 10 mins
The podcast is back to celebrate 311 Day, the high holy day of ‘90s white boy culture.
The Nebraska-bred rap-rock-reggae band has seemingly always met (valid) criticism of its music with positivity, persevering for over 30 years to cultivate one of the most loyal followings in rock.
Andrew introduces Dominique to 311 via their 1999 favorite "Come Original," and we get to hear her immediate reaction.
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The Nebraska-bred rap-rock-reggae band has seemingly always met (valid) criticism of its music with positivity, persevering for over 30 years to cultivate one of the most loyal followings in rock.
Andrew introduces Dominique to 311 via their 1999 favorite "Come Original," and we get to hear her immediate reaction.
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Subscribe so you don’t miss an episode!
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Welcome to at First Listen, the music podcast for people
who don't always get the hype of Wore Too.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I'm Andrew, I'm Dominique. We're back after a very long time,
way longer than we thought would take.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yeah, it was. It's been a winter.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Huh, it's been a harrowing winter. Maybe we'll get into
that on the next episode. Today we're talking about the
hype around three to eleven day.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I had no idea this was a holiday. I very
ignorantly of me.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Andrew said, I shouted at you, you're so ignorant.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah, that's what he said, and he's right.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
How could you be so ignorant? Yeah, it's my culture.
This is a very important day in white boy culture.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
It is apparently so apparently so, you know, he gave
me the opportunity, similar to you know, someone asking their
partner but the day before their anniversary, you know, like,
do you know.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Very special day?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yes? Some people, yeah, and they're like, what my license
is about to expire? I don't know, but I'm excited
to celebrate for the first time.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah. Three eleven is one of the most someone say,
off putting bands in the world. I still don't really
know how I feel about three eleven. But I think
the song come Original or come Origin now as they
pronounce it, pretty well encapsulates what three eleven is. So
here's a little taste of that. You got your gom Origin,
(01:50):
you got your You've got your go og, you got you.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Know, hey not been ready.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I got to remember that you got to come fulling
from the band's nineteen ninety nine album. Three eleven started
in the nineties, became a really popular band, and like
the new metal world sort of came up with I
guess like Limpiscuit and Corn and that crop of bands.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Very very like late nineties encompassing. When I had I
hadn't heard this song before. I didn't remember this hearing
this song. Now, I'm starting to feel it kind of
coming in my memory, like, oh, I heard this in
a Zuomis store. Yeah, all in two thousand and three,
But like I was like, oh, is this not the
(02:45):
part we just heard? But at the very beginning, I
was like, I'm hearing a little bit of radio Head vibes,
I'm hearing a little bit of Sublime. I'm hearing a band,
a much lesser known band, Hot Action Cop, which is
not nearly respected enough but so we won't get into it.
But I the first question I asked was, you know
(03:10):
what is SKA.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I was like, it's not this.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
So apparently, according to this expert on Reddit, scat predates reggae.
Then basically reggae came and then like people in the
Caribbean were like, oh, this is what we like now
because God's like lame now.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But then dudes in the.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Nineties were like, oh my gosh, I can make punk
ish new metal with this and it makes me and
I can smoke weed. Well.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I think dudes in the nineties heard the Bad Brains
in the eighties, yes, and wanted to do something like that.
The Three eleven I think that. I think the way
they're able to get away with being a rap rock
reggae band is because they're from Nebraska. They're from like
the middle of nowhere, and it's a pre internet era.
(04:07):
They do it very earnestly, and the like the song
we just listened to come Original is about trying to
be original as an artist and try to do something new.
They shout out a bunch of artists in the song lyrics.
I read these for the first time today. They shout
out mister Vegas, the freestyle guy, the Black Eyed Peas,
(04:31):
which I don't know what the Black Eyed Peas were doing.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I actually think that's when they were really like cool.
I think it might have been a pre fergie when
they were like still.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Their Ronnie Size, the bassin drums artist and no Effects
ah All shouted out in the lyrics to come original.
There's a song called down which I played Dominique a
little bit of where it's basically I think it's from
like the second album, and they're They're like, hey, we
wrote this song just to be like thanks for supporting us.
(05:05):
So really cool. I've met Nick and Peanut, the singer
and the bass player from the band years ago. They
were super cool and they just come from a different time.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah. I mean, I'm I don't think anyone is coming
for them for being appropriative.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I think I always thought the way he says original
or original, it was a little bit on the line.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You think it's on the line and.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Doing an accent that you should be doing.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, but here's and I hear what you're saying. And
I'm gonna say at this time, they were far from
the from the biggest problem currently and back then and
they are not alone in this genre at all. I
think I think they're okay. I think they're already facing
(05:57):
enough allegations of being just corny.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Rap rock already is fighting for its life.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I think they I think they embraced right away that
they were gonna be a little bit corny.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
You have to if you, if you are very popular
at one time, and you're passionate about being that, continuing
to be that thing, if you want to, if you
don't want to switch your vibe or your genre, You're
gonna eventually be corny. But your true fans are gonna
love you as the black the black delegation, the one
black person who will be celebrating three eleven Day.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I respect it.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
All right. So I'm sure they have something planned for today,
the day, the very special day, three eleven Day. But
they celebrated, they did their festival thing this past weekend.
They did it early, so we missed our chance to
go to Vegas, Oh, enjoy a few days dang it
of shows and also get our tickets to the three
(06:56):
eleven Museum. Dang it, which he is like, how can
you be mad at a band that has been together?
It's the same guys for over thirty years now, and
they're like, you know what, Let's do a museum.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
It's extremely wholesome.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Let's set up some tents in Vegas. Charge people ten bucks.
They can come to the museum to see our old gear.
I yeah, and the outfits from our music videos, which
there's a lot of skateboarding in these music videos, no.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Which is great. I mean, like, I my one friend
who is a fan of SKA. I haven't asked, you
know what bands he specifically listens to, but I learned
this he is he's twenty I think he's twenty one
or twenty two, so he's like he wasn't born at
(07:50):
all with this, and he not only loves SKA, which
I found out when he was prompted to skank one time.
It was like, does anyone know how to skank?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
And he was the one.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
It's a style of dancing to anybody who doesn't know.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yes, it's the first three letters are skak. So that's
where it comes from. Uh. And literally the video you
just showed me of them playing playing live and down
is exactly how this child dresses like with the like
I'm like, okay, so that's that's.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Any like turn of the century rock cliche is present
in these three eleven videos. It's it's great. We got
a dude with dreads. Yeah, we got a multiple guys
with bleached.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Hair, very very large clothes.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, baggy pants.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Baggy sweatshirts, and you got hands going straight to the camera.
Every hand you got. That's the dance, and it was.
It was a simpler time. It truly, truly.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Was so happy. Three to eleven day to you and
yours seasons greetings, Hey.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Bring back, Hey, bring back white boys, white boys doing
white boys stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
That's what we need.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
This. We don't need Posts Malone, we don't need Jack Carlow.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
What we need is three to eleven. I support it.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I don't know when I heard come original for the
first time, but it's basically been in my head ever since.
It's it's part of my body. When I see the
word original on a product, whether it's like oat milk, catchup,
come original, get stuck in my head immediately. So thanks
to three eleve for.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
That, and shout out to callin three one one, you know,
report your landlords.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I think we're all doing that
in New York City. Ultimately, Zon's taking them down. So
that's that's that's our show special, a very special three
eleven day episode. On Friday, we will have a full
episode and yeah, we're back in business at that first listening,
Thanks for listening and we'll be We'll see you next time.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
B h W.
Welcome to at First Listen, the music podcast for people
who don't always get the hype of Wore Too.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I'm Andrew, I'm Dominique. We're back after a very long time,
way longer than we thought would take.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yeah, it was. It's been a winter.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Huh, it's been a harrowing winter. Maybe we'll get into
that on the next episode. Today we're talking about the
hype around three to eleven day.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I had no idea this was a holiday. I very
ignorantly of me.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Andrew said, I shouted at you, you're so ignorant.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah, that's what he said, and he's right.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
How could you be so ignorant? Yeah, it's my culture.
This is a very important day in white boy culture.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
It is apparently so apparently so, you know, he gave
me the opportunity, similar to you know, someone asking their
partner but the day before their anniversary, you know, like,
do you know.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Very special day?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yes? Some people, yeah, and they're like, what my license
is about to expire? I don't know, but I'm excited
to celebrate for the first time.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah. Three eleven is one of the most someone say,
off putting bands in the world. I still don't really
know how I feel about three eleven. But I think
the song come Original or come Origin now as they
pronounce it, pretty well encapsulates what three eleven is. So
here's a little taste of that. You got your gom Origin,
(01:50):
you got your You've got your go og, you got you.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Know, hey not been ready.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I got to remember that you got to come fulling
from the band's nineteen ninety nine album. Three eleven started
in the nineties, became a really popular band, and like
the new metal world sort of came up with I
guess like Limpiscuit and Corn and that crop of bands.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Very very like late nineties encompassing. When I had I
hadn't heard this song before. I didn't remember this hearing
this song. Now, I'm starting to feel it kind of
coming in my memory, like, oh, I heard this in
a Zuomis store. Yeah, all in two thousand and three,
But like I was like, oh, is this not the
(02:45):
part we just heard? But at the very beginning, I
was like, I'm hearing a little bit of radio Head vibes,
I'm hearing a little bit of Sublime. I'm hearing a band,
a much lesser known band, Hot Action Cop, which is
not nearly respected enough but so we won't get into it.
But I the first question I asked was, you know
(03:10):
what is SKA.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I was like, it's not this.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
So apparently, according to this expert on Reddit, scat predates reggae.
Then basically reggae came and then like people in the
Caribbean were like, oh, this is what we like now
because God's like lame now.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But then dudes in the.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Nineties were like, oh my gosh, I can make punk
ish new metal with this and it makes me and
I can smoke weed. Well.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I think dudes in the nineties heard the Bad Brains
in the eighties, yes, and wanted to do something like that.
The Three eleven I think that. I think the way
they're able to get away with being a rap rock
reggae band is because they're from Nebraska. They're from like
the middle of nowhere, and it's a pre internet era.
(04:07):
They do it very earnestly, and the like the song
we just listened to come Original is about trying to
be original as an artist and try to do something new.
They shout out a bunch of artists in the song lyrics.
I read these for the first time today. They shout
out mister Vegas, the freestyle guy, the Black Eyed Peas,
(04:31):
which I don't know what the Black Eyed Peas were doing.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I actually think that's when they were really like cool.
I think it might have been a pre fergie when
they were like still.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Their Ronnie Size, the bassin drums artist and no Effects
ah All shouted out in the lyrics to come original.
There's a song called down which I played Dominique a
little bit of where it's basically I think it's from
like the second album, and they're They're like, hey, we
wrote this song just to be like thanks for supporting us.
(05:05):
So really cool. I've met Nick and Peanut, the singer
and the bass player from the band years ago. They
were super cool and they just come from a different time.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah. I mean, I'm I don't think anyone is coming
for them for being appropriative.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I think I always thought the way he says original
or original, it was a little bit on the line.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You think it's on the line and.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Doing an accent that you should be doing.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, but here's and I hear what you're saying. And
I'm gonna say at this time, they were far from
the from the biggest problem currently and back then and
they are not alone in this genre at all. I
think I think they're okay. I think they're already facing
(05:57):
enough allegations of being just corny.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Rap rock already is fighting for its life.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I think they I think they embraced right away that
they were gonna be a little bit corny.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
You have to if you, if you are very popular
at one time, and you're passionate about being that, continuing
to be that thing, if you want to, if you
don't want to switch your vibe or your genre, You're
gonna eventually be corny. But your true fans are gonna
love you as the black the black delegation, the one
black person who will be celebrating three eleven Day.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I respect it.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
All right. So I'm sure they have something planned for today,
the day, the very special day, three eleven Day. But
they celebrated, they did their festival thing this past weekend.
They did it early, so we missed our chance to
go to Vegas, Oh, enjoy a few days dang it
of shows and also get our tickets to the three
(06:56):
eleven Museum. Dang it, which he is like, how can
you be mad at a band that has been together?
It's the same guys for over thirty years now, and
they're like, you know what, Let's do a museum.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
It's extremely wholesome.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Let's set up some tents in Vegas. Charge people ten bucks.
They can come to the museum to see our old gear.
I yeah, and the outfits from our music videos, which
there's a lot of skateboarding in these music videos, no.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Which is great. I mean, like, I my one friend
who is a fan of SKA. I haven't asked, you
know what bands he specifically listens to, but I learned
this he is he's twenty I think he's twenty one
or twenty two, so he's like he wasn't born at
(07:50):
all with this, and he not only loves SKA, which
I found out when he was prompted to skank one time.
It was like, does anyone know how to skank?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
And he was the one.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
It's a style of dancing to anybody who doesn't know.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yes, it's the first three letters are skak. So that's
where it comes from. Uh. And literally the video you
just showed me of them playing playing live and down
is exactly how this child dresses like with the like
I'm like, okay, so that's that's.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Any like turn of the century rock cliche is present
in these three eleven videos. It's it's great. We got
a dude with dreads. Yeah, we got a multiple guys
with bleached.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Hair, very very large clothes.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, baggy pants.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Baggy sweatshirts, and you got hands going straight to the camera.
Every hand you got. That's the dance, and it was.
It was a simpler time. It truly, truly.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Was so happy. Three to eleven day to you and
yours seasons greetings, Hey.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Bring back, Hey, bring back white boys, white boys doing
white boys stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
That's what we need.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
This. We don't need Posts Malone, we don't need Jack Carlow.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
What we need is three to eleven. I support it.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I don't know when I heard come original for the
first time, but it's basically been in my head ever since.
It's it's part of my body. When I see the
word original on a product, whether it's like oat milk, catchup,
come original, get stuck in my head immediately. So thanks
to three eleve for.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
That, and shout out to callin three one one, you know,
report your landlords.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I think we're all doing that
in New York City. Ultimately, Zon's taking them down. So
that's that's that's our show special, a very special three
eleven day episode. On Friday, we will have a full
episode and yeah, we're back in business at that first listening,
Thanks for listening and we'll be We'll see you next time.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
B h W.
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