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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: the_tard on 30 May 2007, 19:22
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So there's this awesome late blooming grunge band from 1995. They are called "Toadies". They made two officially released albums as far as I can tell. Neither me or anyone I knew had heard of them until about three days ago when I played guitar hero 2 for the first time (I'm really terrible) and I heard their song "Possum Kingdom". They are actually really good! I don't know why no one has heard of them. Anyway, I thought I would just try to spread the word about them, because they're pretty cool. (P.S. They are actually broken up now because the bass player left and apparently they felt that they couldn't go on without a bass player. Crappy.) Look up "toadies" on youtube and you will fin them. Favourite songs so far are Quitter, Doll Skin and I Burn.
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Welcome to a decade ago.
Honestly, Possum Kingdom was all over the radio.
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radiowaves don't travel under rocks, though.
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A decade ago I was nine.
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Don't rub it in Joe's face, Johnny.
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A decade ago i was seven. "Possum Kingdom" is still on the radio.
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Weird. I never heard it. But then, I don't listen to the radio much.
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...so help me, jesus.
Twelve.
God, help me to forget middle school.
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People find music in different ways! It isn't like any of us was around to listen to Pink Floyd when they put out their first A-side.
But yeah, the Toadies are pretty awesome. They sounded a little too insane for my mom though so I couldn't play it with her listening.
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A decade ago i was seven. "Possum Kingdom" is still on the radio.
Though I don't doubt your claim I myself am utterly and entirely unfamiliar with the song in question, having never heard it on the radio.
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Around here, they probably play it as much as The Violent Femmes.
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Never heard of them. They sound awful.
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I would not see a band called Toadies
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Is it untrue that you would see a band called Slint?
Caught you red handed, liezilla!
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the song "Tyler" is one of my favorites. it starts out so nice and it sounds like a typical love song and then suddenly he's breaking into her house at night and sneaking into her bedroom. it's awesome.
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You guys my birthday is this upcoming Sunday. I'll be 18!
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I heard Possum Kingdom on the radio last week.
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I remember Possum Kingdom...from my last year of middle school...a decade ago...when I was thirteen. Fuck all y'all. I'm going to go do whatever the fuck old people do these days. I know! I'm going to go do the Charlston now. Sons of bitches...
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A decade ago I was nine.
I was 8, do I win?
I have never been a huge fan of grunge, maybe its my age.
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Fuck. I could have sworn I'd win with being 6 a decade ago.
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Six? Five?! I fucking hate you all.
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I was nine and a half. Oh boy.
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I was 5 a decade ago, too. In 25 days, I will have been 6 a decade ago.
I guess what I am saying is there better be a damned birthday thread for me on the 27th June.
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Is it untrue that you would see a band called Slint?
Caught you red handed, liezilla!
I would totally go see a band named Slint because it's a cool name. Toadies is a stupid name for an awful band.
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Possums? Forgotten 90s bands? In my head this thread stopped being about these "Toadies" and started being about Possum Dixon a long time ago.
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I am all about the grunge right now. Even pulled out an old Nirvana cd yesterday, though I can't stand to listen to anything off of "Nevermind" anymore. It has been overplayed to death and then some, and "In Utero" is better anyway. I tried playing some of Toadies songs on guitar and they are surprisingly easy. I managed a lot better on actual guitar than I did on guitar hero, which just shows how terrible I really am at that game; Especially "I Burn", it's like 4 chords. Still a good song though.
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I am thinking you ought to listen to the Screaming Trees
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The best part about this thread is the fact that "Rubberneck" had been out for over a year before "Possum Kingdom" caught on and became a hit.
Since the band broke up, lead singer/songwriter Todd Lewis has a new band called the Burden Brothers.
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Guys, I'm 18 now. It's pretty gr8. I'm gonna buy some cigarettes.
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A decade ago I was 5 as well. My birthday is probably well after Sam's.
Do I win a prize?
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jesus christ you people are CHILDREN
Ten years ago I was almost 17.
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You mean you were born in the 80s? Man, you're just a whippersnapper.
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I'm saying. Ten years ago I had just finished my freshman year of college. On a similar tip, a D.J. yesterday commented on how "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is now 17 years old, meaning it is only three years away from industry standards as to what constitutes a "classic rock" track. I turn 29 this year, an age I always thought of as older and "adult," but until that moment I didn't really feel like I was getting "old".