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Horrible bands that time forgot
Christophe:
IIT: We discuss bands that are incredibly bad and (maybe for that reason) had nothing resembling a following or any lasting success.
To start things off with a bang, I present to you: S.T.U.N., or Scream Towards The Uprising Of Nonconformity.
Imagine a band from Los Angeles. Imagine a band that sounds like a sterilized, corporate-rock pastiche of Rage Against The Machine and Refused, claim the influence of Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, and have lyrics dumber than your average punk band's. Imagine a band that claims to be all revolutionary and anti-capitalistic and yet signed to a major label. Imagine an even worse version of Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible (rotting punk riffs paired with kneejerk sub-Situationist "smash the system!" jackoff prose) and you'd have STUN.
If you were to take a look at their lyrics, you'd notice that they really don't get any more insightful or deep than "The people that make the laws and rules for us?/They don't give a fuck about us". How the hell Geffen Records thought they could make a buck off of pseudo-political fake punk is beyond me. They probably either scared off most listeners or ticked off their bullshit detectors, so thank goodness they didn't get past MTV's "Top Ten Artists To Watch in 2003" list.
Now, you do it!
imapiratearg:
Is it just me or does he look like he has a massive hard on in this picture?
Scandanavian War Machine:
he has a boner for America
which, really, is the only acceptable kind of boner.
Christophe:
God I could just imagine Vanilla Ice strutting that boner all like in MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" video.
KvP:
This is a band called The Bravery. Way back when 80's fetishism was first becoming a big thing in the early-mid aughts the Killers and the Bravery proceeded to have one of the weakest music feuds in history. The Killers ended up dropping the synths for the most part and started aping Springsteen instead of New Order (sort of like a poor, dumb man's Hold Steady) while the Bravery faded into obscurity. Some blame the fact that a few of the members were previously in a band called Skabba the Hutt.
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