Topic: Horrible bands that time forgot (Read 178306 times)

Christophe · « **on:** 18 Nov 2008, 14:12 »

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 · « **Reply #1 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 14:25 »

Is it just me or does he look like he has a massive hard on in this picture?

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #2 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 14:28 »

he has a boner for America

which, really, is the only acceptable kind of boner.

Christophe · « **Reply #3 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 14:31 »

God I could just imagine Vanilla Ice strutting that boner all like in MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" video.

KvP · « **Reply #4 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 14:34 »

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.

Nodaisho · « **Reply #5 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 17:35 »

First picture, middle left guy: How the hell did he get those tight pants to flex that far? Did they photoshop out the giant rip?

billiumbean · « **Reply #6 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 17:46 »

Quote from: Christophe on 18 Nov 2008, 14:12

S.T.U.N., or Scream Towards The Uprising Of Nonconformity.

Scream towards?

I'm not usually a grammar nerd, but my god, that's bad.

Scream in the name of?

Scream at (as in anger grr)?

Scream in the direction of?

The mind, it boggles.

Nodaisho · « **Reply #7 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 18:13 »

They made up the acronym first.

J-cob9000 · « **Reply #8 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 18:26 »

Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 18 Nov 2008, 14:28

he has a boner for America

which, really, is the only acceptable kind of boner.

what about a boner for jesus? what are you trying to say?

imapiratearg · « **Reply #9 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 18:31 »

Getting a boner of the Red White & Blue is essentially getting a boner for Jesus. This visual should illustrate nicely:

Tom · « **Reply #10 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 18:32 »

Getting a boner for Jesus is just creepy, pervert.

tuna ketchup x · « **Reply #11 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 18:55 »

How about pretty much all mainstream late-nineties alternative rock? Vertical Horizon, Semisonic, Eve 6, Harvey Danger, Nine Days..... makes shit like The Bravery look revolutionary.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #12 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 19:01 »

Ahaha, I thought Harvey Danger were underground. I downloaded one of their albums recently. Wasn't bad, but it wasn't great.

KvP · « **Reply #13 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 19:30 »

Like the rest of the bands listed by tuna, Harvey Danger was a one-hit wonder, but that hit rang out across the airwaves for months, years even. I know, I grew up listening to 105.9 (ALICE!) out of Denver in the late 90's and they played the same 25 or so songs over and over and over. Remember The Verve Pipe's "The Freshmen"? Remember Fastball's two hits? Remember Marcy Playground's "Sex and Candy"? What about the ever-ubiquitous Smash Mouth? Remember Joan Osborne's "One of Us"? Hey, Third Eye Blind got a lot of airtime as well. I remember all of these bands. Sometimes I wish I didn't. I have friends who still swear by Marcy Playground and Semisonic, but I never really cared for them.

I guess the one band of that ilk that's still kicking to some extent would be Nada Surf, who had a hit in the 90's and came back a few years ago as an indie act, and they got some fairly good press and are well liked, as far as I know.

MrBlu · « **Reply #14 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 19:35 »

Quote from: imapiratearg on 18 Nov 2008, 14:25

Is it just me or does he look like he has a massive hard on in this picture?

Time forgot?

Nonono, His album Platinum Underground released like 3 years ago.
His newest album is Vanilla Ice Is Back!, released November 11th 2008.

De_El · « **Reply #15 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 19:47 »

Stabbing Westward

Angsty pseudo-industrial alt-rock! Have we forgotten them yet?

Inlander · « **Reply #16 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 19:53 »

We had.

Now thanks to you we've been forced to remember them again.

KvP · « **Reply #17 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 19:56 »

Speaking of pseudo-industrial angst rock

You know them, you love them... Deadsy!

If there's one thing you can be thankful for these days, it's that we no longer live in a world in which Fred Durst can will musical abomination

after musical abomination

into (however brief) widespread popularity.

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #18 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 19:59 »

Sorry guys, but

De_El · « **Reply #19 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 20:01 »

wooo
I managed to pick one that people really would rather have forgotten about. LET'S SEE IF I'M ON A ROLL:

ugh I hate it too I may have gone too far
but now that I've forced myself to remember it, I must spread the pain around a bit.

KvP · « **Reply #20 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 20:04 »

Quote from: KickThatBathProf on 18 Nov 2008, 19:59

Sorry guys, but

You must have this confused for the Timeless Classics thread.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #21 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 20:13 »

Quote from: KvP on 18 Nov 2008, 19:30

I guess the one band of that ilk that's still kicking to some extent would be Nada Surf, who had a hit in the 90's and came back a few years ago as an indie act, and they got some fairly good press and are well liked, as far as I know.

Nada Surf are pretty alright.

Catacombs · « **Reply #22 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 20:15 »

Quote from: De_El on 18 Nov 2008, 20:01

wooo
I managed to pick one that people really would rather have forgotten about. LET'S SEE IF I'M ON A ROLL:

ugh I hate it too I may have gone too far
but now that I've forced myself to remember it, I must spread the pain around a bit.

Is this that band with the song that was like 'come my lady come come my lady, you're my butterfly' or something like that?

And I like some of those 90's bands

Nodaisho · « **Reply #23 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 20:42 »

Quote from: KvP on 18 Nov 2008, 19:30

I know, I grew up listening to 105.9 (ALICE!) out of Denver in the late 90's and they played the same 25 or so songs over and over and over. Remember The Verve Pipe's "The Freshmen"? Remember Fastball's two hits? Remember Marcy Playground's "Sex and Candy"? What about the ever-ubiquitous Smash Mouth? Remember Joan Osborne's "One of Us"? Hey, Third Eye Blind got a lot of airtime as well. I remember all of these bands. Sometimes I wish I didn't. I have friends who still swear by Marcy Playground and Semisonic, but I never really cared for them.

Except for the Joan Osborne song, I listened to pretty much the same stuff in junior high. My only-see-him-at-thanksgiving cousin actually used to work at Alice, so my mother would have that on sometimes. I actually have a fastball song in my napster library, not sure when I got it, or what it is. Either way, I am somewhat ashamed of my listening habits from those days, I listen to 103.5 when I am listening to the radio now.

McTaggart · « **Reply #24 on:** 19 Nov 2008, 04:07 »

You probably got it back when napster happened, maybe six or seven years ago?

Bowers · « **Reply #25 on:** 19 Nov 2008, 06:02 »

The Darkness.

Thread over.

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #26 on:** 19 Nov 2008, 06:18 »

Quote from: KvP on 18 Nov 2008, 20:04

Quote from: KickThatBathProf on 18 Nov 2008, 19:59
Sorry guys, but

(Buster Poindexter)
You must have this confused for the Timeless Classics thread.

No.

Christophe · « **Reply #27 on:** 19 Nov 2008, 06:43 »

The king of all those irrelevant 90s alterna-rock bands is Deep Blue Something.

Yeah.

You know, that one band.

You know, that one band that did that song that went "And I said, what about Breakfast at Tiffany's..."

To further add to the list, here's Loudermilk.

A band that dressed like The Strokes and sounded like Smashing Pumpkins. Go figure. They broke up a while back then reformed as the more indie-friendly Gosling, which no one still cares about.

valley_parade · « **Reply #28 on:** 19 Nov 2008, 07:17 »

Quote from: Bowers on 19 Nov 2008, 06:02

The Darkness.

Thread over.

I saw a re-run of Top Gear last night and they had Justin Hawkings on. It took me a minute to remember who on earth he was.

spoon_of_grimbo · « **Reply #29 on:** 19 Nov 2008, 10:46 »

Quote from: De_El on 18 Nov 2008, 20:01

wooo
I managed to pick one that people really would rather have forgotten about. LET'S SEE IF I'M ON A ROLL:

ugh I hate it too I may have gone too far
but now that I've forced myself to remember it, I must spread the pain around a bit.

they were unbelievably shit, but they did have ONE good song. they did a single called "Drowning" and i thought, for a commercial pop-metal song, it wasn't THAT bad. bombed though, and they split up shortly afterwards if i remember rightly.

in a similar vein, what about OPM? "heaven is a halfpipe" anyone?!

Thrillho · « **Reply #30 on:** 19 Nov 2008, 11:27 »

Urgh, OPM. I reviewed their last album. It was fucking terrible.

JayJayD · « **Reply #31 on:** 19 Nov 2008, 13:13 »

Quote from: Christophe on 19 Nov 2008, 06:43

The king of all those irrelevant 90s alterna-rock bands is Deep Blue Something.

Yeah.

You know, that one band.

You know, that one band that did that song that went "And I said, what about Breakfast at Tiffany's..."

But they're all but forgotten. There are some mainstream radion stations around here that play this song all the time. It's not all that terrible either, at least it doesn't make me change stations.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #32 on:** 19 Nov 2008, 13:25 »

I don't give a shit about the horrible bands that time forgot. What about the ones that time didn't forget, like Oasis and Nirvana.

De_El · « **Reply #33 on:** 19 Nov 2008, 13:38 »

But people love Oasis! What are you, some kind of elitist?

MadassAlex · « **Reply #34 on:** 19 Nov 2008, 18:21 »

Elitist, or someone of exceptionally high standards?

High standards are great.

Nodaisho · « **Reply #35 on:** 19 Nov 2008, 18:43 »

Quote from: McTaggart on 19 Nov 2008, 04:07

You probably got it back when napster happened, maybe six or seven years ago?

Someone doesn't pay much attention. They are a subscription service now, I think I must have gotten it when I added a daily playlist to my library, must have liked most of the songs they had on there.

Was the rerun of top gear the one with the morning of stars in a reasonably priced car? I saw that one a few days ago.

michaelicious · « **Reply #36 on:** 19 Nov 2008, 18:57 »

Quote from: MadassAlex on 19 Nov 2008, 18:21

Elitist, or someone of exceptionally high standards?

High standards are great.

Sounds like elitist talk to me.

Kai · « **Reply #37 on:** 19 Nov 2008, 18:57 »

Quote from: MadassAlex on 19 Nov 2008, 18:21

Elitist, or someone of exceptionally high standards?

High standards are great.

Man, you do not really need high standards to dislike Oasis

spoon_of_grimbo · « **Reply #38 on:** 20 Nov 2008, 05:54 »

i think oasis are one of those bands who aren't THAT bad, but the huge (IMO-)undeserved success they've had, along with the fact that every twat and his dog will claim them as their favourite band ("oh champagne supernova, this is MY SONG!" fuck off you drunk bastards!), just sours the fact and makes them appear shite.

i like a few of their songs, but not enough to ever want to buy or even bother downloading. they do however, need to fire that twat of a lead singer and let his brother (an infinitely better vocalist) do the singing.

Patrick · « **Reply #39 on:** 20 Nov 2008, 06:07 »

Quote from: KvP on 18 Nov 2008, 19:30

What about the ever-ubiquitous Smash Mouth?

Hey Fush Yu Mang was a superb album and AstroLounge wasn't bad either (excepting "AllStar" which I swear to god I will fucking kill somebody if they sing it at karaoke). I still listen to those two albums pretty regularly.

I am pretty sure Led Zeppelin's old road manager did the same job for Crazytown. Talk about lifelong failure, the only good band he ever had a long stint working for now hates him for being a lying bastard (fuck that book he wrote about Zeppelin), he wound up losing tons of money to drug addiction, and then he worked with the "Butterfly" guys. Oh, Richard Cole, you were never useful for anything but as a corpse to get in the way of a bullet possibly headed for Jimmy Page.

valley_parade · « **Reply #40 on:** 20 Nov 2008, 06:23 »

Fush Yu Mang was a pretty rad ska-punk album. I think it was also the first CD I'd ever bought.

Guys, remember Staind? Because they were "local", the big radio stations seriously used to play them EVERY FUCKING THIRD SONG. I'm not making that up.

Nodaisho · « **Reply #41 on:** 20 Nov 2008, 06:34 »

Yep, I remember Staind. Thank you oh so much, the therapy was working.

rynne · « **Reply #42 on:** 20 Nov 2008, 06:47 »

Quote from: De_El on 18 Nov 2008, 20:01

wooo
I managed to pick one that people really would rather have forgotten about. LET'S SEE IF I'M ON A ROLL:

ugh I hate it too I may have gone too far
but now that I've forced myself to remember it, I must spread the pain around a bit.

I liked that song. Then I realized the reason I liked that song was because it was built off a RHCP bassline back when Flea was at the top of his game. Then I breathed a huge sigh of relief because I liked Flea and not Crazy Town.

Patrick · « **Reply #43 on:** 20 Nov 2008, 07:29 »

Quote from: valley_parade on 20 Nov 2008, 06:23

Fush Yu Mang was a pretty rad ska-punk album. I think it was also the first CD I'd ever bought.

Guys, remember Staind? Because they were "local", the big radio stations seriously used to play them EVERY FUCKING THIRD SONG. I'm not making that up.

I'M ON THE OUTSIDE
I'M LOOKIN' IN
I CAN SEE THROUGH YOU
SEE YOUR TRUE COLOURS
'CAUSE INSIDE YOU'RE UGLY
UGLY LIKE ME
I CAN SEE THROUGH YOU
SEE THE REAL YOU

I actually kindof liked that song, not going to lie. Every other song they did is perfectly justifiable to hate though.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #44 on:** 20 Nov 2008, 07:33 »

Quote from: rynne on 20 Nov 2008, 06:47

I liked that song. Then I realized the reason I liked that song was because it was built off a RHCP bassline back when Flea was at the top of his game. Then I breathed a huge sigh of relief because I liked Flea and not Crazy Town.

Why on earth would that knowledge bring you relief?

valley_parade · « **Reply #45 on:** 20 Nov 2008, 09:04 »

Quote from: Ptommydski on 19 Nov 2008, 19:05

I guess that depends if you regard say, wiping your ass to be high standards or not.

Hi-Standard what?

spoon_of_grimbo · « **Reply #46 on:** 20 Nov 2008, 09:13 »

Quote from: Ptommydski on 20 Nov 2008, 09:07

I remember the major labels and A&R people making massive waves about this dude -

Of course, he totally fell off the radar after just one album.

i love his music, but that's fucking funny!

to be fair though, that album of demos from after he died is pretty mint.

De_El · « **Reply #47 on:** 20 Nov 2008, 09:15 »

I kinda like Jeff Buckley

I think this band is more appropriate for the thread

No one ever actually gave a shit about Adema, did they?

Dimmukane · « **Reply #48 on:** 20 Nov 2008, 09:24 »

I...I used to. Enough to know that Jon Davis' half brother ended up being their lead singer for their two biggest (and only?) albums. Somehow unsurprisingly, I was introduced to them at church.

michaelicious · « **Reply #49 on:** 20 Nov 2008, 09:35 »

Quote from: De_El on 20 Nov 2008, 09:15

I kinda like Jeff Buckley

I think the joke is that he died.

I never thought I would type that sentence.

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