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imapiratearg:
I did, indeed go through that phase.  I have over 100 NOFX songs, I have a bunch of Millencolin, I have some Bouncing Souls, which I need to put into Foobar since this band I saw on Friday did a stellar cover of "True Believers," which inspired me to start listening to them again, because they're pretty good.  I had a bunch of No Use for a Name, and shit like that.

Millencolin were alright.  Pennybridge Pioneers is probably the pinnacle of their career, I think.  I remember liking far more tracks off that album than any other.


--- Quote from: bachelorchow on 23 Mar 2008, 19:36 ---anti flag
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Thank you, Anti-Flag, for influencing some of the shittiest local bands I have ever heard.  Thank you so much.

P.S. Your new album sucked.

Tom:

--- Quote from: imapiratearg on 23 Mar 2008, 20:33 ---P.S. all your albums suck.

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FIX'D

Caspian:
Haven't heard the new one, but perhaps for old times sake I'll download it. Pennybridge Pioneers was an album I loved back in year 8, and I still give it a spin occaisonally- a good album to spin while driving to the ocean for a surf, and obviously full of fond, nostalgic memories (How freaking ownage was Mayfly and Highway Donkey?).

Also: Life on A Plate was a pretty sweet record. Seems to me that Millencolin are/were one of the few skate punk bands out there that actually released some good music.

a pack of wolves:

--- Quote from: Hat on 23 Mar 2008, 18:46 ---I distinctly recall Punk-O-Rama 2 being the most superior of the series, actually.

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It did have Code Blue by TSOL and Just To Get Away by the almighty Poison Idea on it, so it had more heavyweights than the others. I still have time for 3 though, there were a few duds (Agnostic Front spring to mind) but it was mostly pretty great. Red Aunts, Osker, New Bomb Turks and the best songs Zeke and The Bouncing Souls ever did.

This thread got me intrigued so I decided to check out some tracks from this new album. You weren't kidding about it being different. Although I was never big on Millencolin one thing about them was that whenever somebody played Life On A Plate or a compilation with them on you could always tell who it was pretty much straight away. They might have been just another skate punk band but they were at least distinct. This stuff just seems too generic, it could be almost anyone. Brand New Game has one of those big swelling chorus bits, and Detox starts with a riff that sounds like it was nicked from an old NOFX song (I don't remember which one) and then it just drifts off into something uninspired. It could be worse (look what happened to NOFX after So Long And Thanks For All The Shoes) but it is a shame, mind you I haven't heard the whole thing. I think they should either get back to the skate punk or knock it on the head like the Satanic Surfers did.

idiolect:
I guess I went through that phase, except for me "that phase" was actually "the year 1997." 


Re: Anti-Flag -- I never cared for their music to begin with, but they earned my special ire because apparently they started being jerks to all my friends who knew them in one way or another (I lived in Pittsburgh for a while) after they started getting popular.  I'm reasonably certain Justin Sane actually broke up with this cool girl I knew just because of his bloated nouveau-fame ego  :|

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