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[bachelorchow]

EDIT: gone. stupid topic.

[morca007]

I kinda did, but only because I had a bunch of compilations from various tradeshows and stuff.

[a pack of wolves]

Didn't they go all slow years ago? I seem to remember that happening. I can't say I was ever that much of a fan, I liked that one song on Punk-O-Rama 2 but I never investigated any further than that. I preferred the Satanic Surfers along with an admittedly ill-advised Pennywise obsession. There were only about three songs shared between all those skate punk bands and recycled endlessly. Pretty fun for sunny days getting baked with your friends where the word 'dude' will be used liberally but it never had that much longevity, I'm kind of surprised any of those bands stuck it out that long past 2000.

Expect lots of posts complaining about your 'indie rock snobs' comment because, well, it's inaccurate and pretty insulting. Not a good move.

[Hat]

I distinctly recall Punk-O-Rama 2 being the most superior of the series, actually.

[Thrillho]

I only know one of this band's songs, which is 'Kemp.' It's a fantastic song and I need to remember to listen to it more often. Seeing it on Kerrang! is one of my earliest memories of developing music fandom.

[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.

anti flag

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]

P.S. all your albums suck.

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]

I distinctly recall Punk-O-Rama 2 being the most superior of the series, actually.

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 

[Lines]

I got an Anti-Flag CD for free once. A friend was clearing out his CD collection, so he brought a bunch with him to school one day and a bunch of sorted through them. I had never heard any of their music, so I decided to give it a shot. I listened to it once and then gave it to someone else. It was horrible.

As for the OP, I've heard a few Millencolin songs and I liked them, but I don't really know much of their music, because except for a few bands, I don't listen to much punk-related stuff.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

i might have uploaded a Millencolin album or two to the Mediafire thread a while back. i can't remember if i actually did or not.

anyway, Millencolin are one of very, very few bands i listened to when i was in middle school that i still think are good. i don't have any of their newer stuff (stopped listening or caring long ago) but i still have Pennybridge Pioneers and one other that i still play occassionally.

[sean]

Did you indie rock snobs

I don't care if your kidding you don't go saying that arorund a forum of people you don't even know. I mean, the comic hasn't had a music refrence in it for at least a good 400 strips. I mean, seriously...

Anyway on topic, I've never heard Millencolin. Are they worth checking out?

[Scandanavian War Machine]

if you like sexy punk-rock love songs that turn out to be about a motorized scooter instead of a chick, then yeah.

"she's my life, she's so bad and she's the best ride i've ever had"

it's funny because he means 'ride' literally but it sounds like he's talking about sex. hurr hurr hurr

[imapiratearg]

Anyway on topic, I've never heard Millencolin. Are they worth checking out?

Sure, if you like skater punk.  Just, get Pennybridge Pioneers or anything before it.

[Chazbot]

The only Millencolin I've ever heard hada music video where they were on the TV heads of giant robots. I can't remember the song, but I know I didn't hate it, so that's a good start. I just might check them out some day in the near future.

[David_Dovey]

That song with the big robots was Kemp from their album Home From Home (the one after Pennybridge Pioneers).

Like most people, I consider Millencolin to be one of the few bands I liked back when I was 13 that I'd still gladly listen to today.

[idiolect]

Tom Waits

Holy crap I forgot about that.  That might've been the first time I heard Tom Waits, or rather, heard Tom Waits while consciously knowing it.