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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Christophe on 18 Nov 2008, 14:12
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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.
(http://myspace-992.vo.llnwd.net/00741/29/98/741218992_l.jpg)
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 (http://www.songmeanings.net/artist/view/songs/13251/), 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!
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(http://passionweiss.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/vanilla_ice.jpg)
Is it just me or does he look like he has a massive hard on in this picture?
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he has a boner for America
which, really, is the only acceptable kind of boner.
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God I could just imagine Vanilla Ice strutting that boner all like in MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" video.
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(http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/4539/thebraveryumvd003kk4.jpg)
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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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?
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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.
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They made up the acronym first.
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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?
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Getting a boner of the Red White & Blue is essentially getting a boner for Jesus. This visual should illustrate nicely:
(http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/1280/jesusland5ll.gif)
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Getting a boner for Jesus is just creepy, pervert.
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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.
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Ahaha, I thought Harvey Danger were underground. I downloaded one of their albums recently. Wasn't bad, but it wasn't great.
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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.
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(http://passionweiss.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/vanilla_ice.jpg)
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.
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Stabbing Westward
(http://www.stabbingwestward.com/gfx/gallery/gallery3.jpg)
Angsty pseudo-industrial alt-rock! Have we forgotten them yet?
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We had.
Now thanks to you we've been forced to remember them again.
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Speaking of pseudo-industrial angst rock
(http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/7204/deadsyff3.jpg)
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
(http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/3848/puddleofmuddij0.jpg)
after musical abomination
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into (however brief) widespread popularity.
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Sorry guys, but
(http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/8743/buster0im.jpg)
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wooo
I managed to pick one that people really would rather have forgotten about. LET'S SEE IF I'M ON A ROLL:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/65/CrazyTownButterfly.jpg)
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.
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Sorry guys, but
(http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/8743/buster0im.jpg)
You must have this confused for the Timeless Classics thread.
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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.
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wooo
I managed to pick one that people really would rather have forgotten about. LET'S SEE IF I'M ON A ROLL:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/65/CrazyTownButterfly.jpg)
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 :|
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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.
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You probably got it back when napster happened, maybe six or seven years ago?
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The Darkness.
Thread over.
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Sorry guys, but
(Buster Poindexter)
You must have this confused for the Timeless Classics thread.
No.
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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.
(http://www.mtv.com/shared/media/images/artist/l/loudermilk/az_official/281x211.jpg)
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.
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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.
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wooo
I managed to pick one that people really would rather have forgotten about. LET'S SEE IF I'M ON A ROLL:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/65/CrazyTownButterfly.jpg)
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?!
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Urgh, OPM. I reviewed their last album. It was fucking terrible.
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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.
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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.
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But people love Oasis! What are you, some kind of elitist?
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Elitist, or someone of exceptionally high standards?
High standards are great.
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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.
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Elitist, or someone of exceptionally high standards?
High standards are great.
Sounds like elitist talk to me.
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Elitist, or someone of exceptionally high standards?
High standards are great.
Man, you do not really need high standards to dislike Oasis
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Yep, I remember Staind. Thank you oh so much, the therapy was working.
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wooo
I managed to pick one that people really would rather have forgotten about. LET'S SEE IF I'M ON A ROLL:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/65/CrazyTownButterfly.jpg)
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.
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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.
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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?
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I guess that depends if you regard say, wiping your ass to be high standards or not.
(http://a126.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/15/l_1d6d75b578b1123fb0b63a82f15add5d.jpg)
Hi-Standard what?
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I remember the major labels and A&R people making massive waves about this dude -
(http://silencio.weblog.com.pt/images/JeffBuckley.GIF)
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.
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I kinda like Jeff Buckley
I think this band is more appropriate for the thread
(http://hotmusicbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/new-adema-band.jpg)
No one ever actually gave a shit about Adema, did they?
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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.
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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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I am aware of that. Thanks.
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But people love Oasis! What are you, some kind of elitist?
Eh, if I wanted to listen to something that tried to be The Beatles, I'd listen to The Beatles.
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whatever happened to this guy? I had a total girl boner for him back in '03
(http://goodmusicshow.com/pics/Dashboard_Confessional.jpg)
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whatever happened to this guy? I had a total girl boner for him back in '03
(http://goodmusicshow.com/pics/Dashboard_Confessional.jpg)
I'm pretty sure they're still around and recording/performing. Didn't they just have an album that had something to do with poison apples or something?
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whatever happened to this guy? I had a total girl boner for him back in '03
(http://goodmusicshow.com/pics/Dashboard_Confessional.jpg)
i believe he's still at it, causing moist knickers the world over, with his over-sentimental "look how sensitive i am" shite. fuck off chris carabba, punch yourself in the throat and end it all!!!
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I'm not hip to crappy music these days, he isn't on my radar anymore
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He toured behind Guitar Hero 3 with... some other band. Fall Out Boy?
Anyway, I saw the guy open for Beck on the Sea Change tour. Man is mighty short.
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Short but feisty! When I saw him (with Vendetta Red? some other bands too i don't remember) some dude in the crowd was flipping him off and he stopped the song and started swearing at him "Come on up here f***er. Lets go" etc.
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Short but feisty! When I saw him (with Vendetta Red? some other bands too i don't remember) some dude in the crowd was flipping him off and he stopped the song and started swearing at him "Come on up here f***er. Lets go" etc.
now those guys were a kickass band! "sisters of the red death" is a masterpiece.
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Stabbing Westward
The first concert I ever saw was them opening for Ethyl Meatplow opening for Front 242 in 1993. Their first album is actually somewhat servicable on a dumb level.
Also, Harvey Danger were pretty good.
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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?
'Cause the song the ripped off is from Mother's Milk, the last album that RHCP did before they started pussying out. "Under the Bridge" can die in a fire.
Stabbing Westward
The first concert I ever saw was them opening for Ethyl Meatplow opening for Front 242 in 1993. Their first album is actually somewhat servicable on a dumb level.
Agreed. As far as iffy rip-offs of NIN go, Stabbing Westward's first album is okay. Not as terrible as their subsequent albums, or anything by Gravity Kills. But also not as good as God Lives Underwater's self-titled EP or Empty, or anywhere near Prick's Prick. (2nd and 3rd concerts for me were Prick opening for Bowie & NIN, and GLU opening for KMFDM.)
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Also, Harvey Danger were pretty good.
yes
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(http://www.8notes.com/images/artists/alien_ant_farm.jpg)
Alien Ant Farm - they had one song that was really popular then they just completely disappeared.
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(http://www.8notes.com/images/artists/alien_ant_farm.jpg)
Alien Ant Farm - they had one song that was really popular then they just completely disappeared.
i think they're still on the go, albeit with an altered line-up. i seem to remember reading a review of a new album called "in the attic" or something last year.
and i know they were the laughing stock of the music industry because they broke some kind of record for biggest drop in record sales between their debut (which sold MILLIONS off the back of that smooth criminal cover), and their second album (whose lead single was actually quite good) which sold FUCK ALL.
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Didn't AAF's bassist try to release a signature potato bass through Fender? Gee, I wonder how that went.
Third guy in the lineup looks like an extra in an Adam Sandler movie.
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Bowling for Soup.
Thread over.
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What is with people saying "Thread over."
I'm pretty sure that this sentence has never ended a thread in the history of the internet
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someone already tried to end it once:
The Darkness.
Thread over.
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This thread will not be over until someone posts a band as bad as Brokencyde or Millionaires, and about a tenth as recognized as the band that played "Breakfast at Tiffany's".
C'mon, such a forgotten monstrosity has to exist.
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You mean like Complete?
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Bowling for Soup.
Thread over.
Grammy nominees Bowling for Soup, no less.
I think I'd rather listen to something completely awful like Crazytown than "Breakfast at Tiffany's." At least Crazytown elicits some kind of emotion, unlike Deep Third Eye in Matchbox Playground. The late nineties were easily the dullest time for popular rock music in America, at least in my lifetime.
Oh hey, what about Incubus? I had a friend in high school that was really into them and I guess they were popular for awhile. Sort of a Korn klone with "meaningful" lyrics.
And then there's the Goo Goo Dolls, who were actually not bad until they blanded out and became popular. And then I thought, wait, do I only think they suck now because they are popular and get played on VH1? But, no, everything after "Boy Named Goo" really is that bland.
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Anyone remember the Offspring, I know a guy who likes them but I swear to God they're just mediocre and reptitive at best.
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You mean like Complete?
No dude, complete are fucking great
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I guess that depends if you regard say, wiping your ass to be high standards or not.
Hi-Standard FUCK YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
ftfy
Alien Ant Farm - they had one song that was really popular then they just completely disappeared.
Shame, because they did "Smooth Criminal" a great deal more justice than the original (at least, I sure think so), and more than half that album (ANThology) is really great shit. So much awesome guitar work. How was their next album on a whole, anybody know? I'd like to hear more from them.
Guys how about Stroke 9. They did "Little Black Backpack" (which was pretty excellent, as far as pop-"alternative" goes) and then they went "Sup, uh, yeah bye."
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I only remember Stroke 9 for "Kick Some Ass" from the Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back soundtrack. I was innocent, then.
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You mean like Complete?
No dude, complete are fucking great
Best band ever
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Didn't AAF's bassist try to release a signature potato bass through Fender? Gee, I wonder how that went.
The guitarist had a signature model with Schecter, and from what I remember, it sounded really nice. Flame-top 006 with a clear finish, and Duncans (maybe JB/Jazz?)
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Oh hey, what about Incubus? I had a friend in high school that was really into them and I guess they were popular for awhile. Sort of a Korn klone with "meaningful" lyrics.
Not that I am a fan of Incubus or anything (I used to be back as a wee laddie) but it kind of confuses me when people say things like this because they sound pretty much nothing like Korn, and they never ever did. I guess because they were popular around the same time and were both on that Family Values tour or whatever it was called? When Incubus first started out I think they wanted to sound like Red Hot Chili Peppers or something for some strange reason.
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Well, yeah. That and Primus
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I listened to Korn and Incubus.
I went to a Korn concert when I was 16 because I was so \m/
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or anywhere near Prick's Prick.
Man, Prick. Guy turned out to be a paranoid schizophrenic, and you can really hear it in the second album. He just came back with a new band and it sounds like late-period Ministry. No fun.
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or anywhere near Prick's Prick.
Man, Prick. Guy turned out to be a paranoid schizophrenic, and you can really hear it in the second album. He just came back with a new band and it sounds like late-period Ministry. No fun.
I see we are in slight disagreement. :wink: I think McMahon is a great songwriter and woefully unappreciated. To me, The Wreckard just sounds angular in a kind of updated-Scary Monsters way. I don't really hear any paranoid schizophrenic tendencies on that or Lucky Pierre's ThinKing. And geez, I wouldn't characterize "Runaway Brain" as anywhere near as terrible as what Al Jorgensen's been putting out since alienating every Ministry associate who had any talent.
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I went to a Korn concert when I was 16 because I was so \m/
Thank fuck I found this forum all those years ago!
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You know, somebody told me that if I could figure out how to play the intro riff to Incubus's "Rogues", she'd give me a blowjob.
Bitch still owes me a blowjob.
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This thread will not be over until someone posts a band as bad as Brokencyde or Millionaires, and about a tenth as recognized as the band that played "Breakfast at Tiffany's".
C'mon, such a forgotten monstrosity has to exist.
The sad part is, we haven't forgotten Brokencyde. They're my example when I comment on the deterioration of popular music...
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oooOooh I forgot about Kittie! ah and Powerman 5000. You hit a goldmine here
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Puddle Of Mudd.
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I stand by my statement that Millionaires are good.
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Kittie was tight.
I should be ashamed, but I'm not. I was a confused young woman.
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Please go to this page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nu_metal_bands) and pick any single band which takes your fancy.
I know at least a few of the bands on that list are still around. Mudvayne just released an album that looks hella awesome(well the specially edition one does. It comes in this little case file folder, and has this booklet and has this whole big story with it that sounds really interesting. I am a sucker for concept albums.), and according to a friend of mine, who loves metal, they aren't so bad, so I don't know.
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Some of these were/are guilty pleasures for me.
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005QD7O.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000069HK2.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008AY5O.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
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There was a band named Mest?
*facepalm*
Oh oh, what about Crazy Town? Horrible and pretty well forgotten, right?
...please?
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They already came up.
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Oh man, you guys. I just remembered....
(http://www.freewebs.com/pod_fanatic14/POD5.jpg)
P.O.D
(or Payable On Death)
"Hey guys! Let's write nu metal songs about Jesus!"
According to their site, they are an indie metal rock band. Sigh
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Nitro
pretty fucking bad
(http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/resources/classicrock/Nitro.jpg)
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There was a band named Mest?
remember their lead singer? weak-ass-looking skinny blond girly-boy? well, dude stabbed a motherfucker. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Lovato#Stabbing)
Please go to this page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nu_metal_bands) and pick any single band which takes your fancy.
although the majority on there are/were shite, even a cursory glance reveals some not-actually-that-bad-at-all bands, e.g. American Head Charge, Deftones, Fear Factory, Kill II This, Mudvayne, Mushroomhead, Taproot and Unloco. i admittedly don't own any of their music, but they weren't half as bad as some of the others on there.
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I actually love Deftones. A lot.
And I've seen American Head Charge in concert. Here's what I remember: Right before the band came on, a guy walked out on stage and hammered a nail through his nose. Then he snorted a condom and either pulled it out through his mouth, or through his other nostril. Then the band came on.
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Yeah the Deftones are actually not that bad, especially the first album. I remember at the time they first had a hit, the singer kept saying his favourite singer was Morrissey.
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Sugar Ray and Creed.
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Sugar Ray
You son of a bitch, I bet you're real happy with yourself for ruining my day by reminding me they ever existed.
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EVERY MORNIN THERE'S A HALO HANGIN FROM THE CORNER OF MY GIRLFRIEND'S FOUR POST BED
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Die in a fire, Liz-biff.
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I KNOW IT'S NOT MINE BUT I SEE IF I CAN USE IT FOR A WEEKEND OR A ONE NIGHT STAND
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COULDN'T UNDERSTAND HOW TO WORK IT OUT
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Honestly if you don't want to be reminded about shitty bands you should probably steer clear of this thread.
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COULDN'T UNDERSTAND HOW TO WORK IT OUT
What, work the semen stains out of the wood?
(also, Cerny, me being a dick about it is just a longer, more comedically promising way of saying "OMG ME 2")
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Sugar Ray
You son of a bitch, I bet you're real happy with yourself for ruining my day by reminding me they ever existed.
Teeheehee. Apologies, it won't happen again. JUST KIDDING IT WILL. Let's all talk about Limp Bizkit and Papa Roach while we're at it.
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ONCE AGAIN, AS PREDICTED LEFT MY BROKEN HEART OPEN AND YOU RIPPED IT OUT
If anyone's interested, I know All Star and In The End by heart. I am of the opinion that if you were born between 1985 and 1990 in the United States of America, you probably do too.
Also, I've probably mentioned it before on this or other message boards, but Smash Mouth were from my hometown, San Jose.
I'm so sorry.
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Oh and (hed) P.E.
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Deftones are underrated. They didn't deserve the nu-metal flak, because they were kind of like, post-rock vs. metal. Post-metal, I suppose. This massive, sweeping, throbbing noise. They were much more interesting than most of the nu-metal bands.
American Head Charge, I have the first album and it's far too long, but it's pretty fucking brilliant.
Fear Factory have some good tunes, Mushroomhead too (they did the masks/face paint thing before Slipknot, but then somebody whose name escapes me, maybe The Residents, was doing it long before then).
Incubus are such a woefully misunderstood band. They have a big radio hit with a boring acoustic ballad, and suddenly everyone loves that tune and thinks they're easy listening. Some of the earlier stuff like 'Certain Shade Of Green' is pretty heavy, and pointless cussing aside 'Megalomaniac' is a hell of a tune. In fact they have some pretty decent albums.
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Oh god, how could I forget Saliva, Third Eye Blind, and 3 Doors Down.
SOMEBODY STOP ME.
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Click, click, boom.
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Hey guys, remember Trapt?
(http://hardrockhideout.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/trapt.jpg)
Also, honestly I really like a bunch of Fastball. Sooner or Later was a great pop song!
The Darkness? Are you guys shitting me? I still hear I Believe In A Thing Called Love somewhere every few days. And they're actually a pretty good band as far as cheesy rock n roll acts are concerned.
I guess that depends if you regard say, wiping your ass to be high standards or not.
Hi-Standard what?
Man, I laughed for a minute straight at this picture. I never thought I'd see a band so lame that their frontman proclaims his influences on a shirt, but it is a Sugarcult shirt.
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Hahaha. Trapt. They were from Los Gatos, which is essentially part of San Jose. What a bad band.
I think I was really into Fastball in middle school.
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Hahaha. Trapt. They were from Los Gatos, which is essentially part of San Jose.
When I was 12 I listened to Bill Hicks and I couldn't understand why he hated California so much that he wished it would fall off the continent.
This thread clears it up.
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Deftones are actually a pretty good band.
Also goes for the first Fear Factory albums and EPs. Huge Godflesh influence.
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Hey, Los Gatos produced some good things, too. Like Kari Byron from Mythbusters.
San Jose has produced the San Jose Sharks, me, Xiu Xiu (even if I don't listen to them), The Gingerbread House (a little house near downtown that semi-regularly holds awesome indie/post-rock shows), computer technology, two bands that were featured on the Nuggets compilation, and a few other awesome things.
It's not all bad!
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hoobastank. their music sucked almost as much as their name. or was it the other way around?
(http://hitparade.ch/cdimages/hoobastank-the_reason_s.jpg)
edit: ahahaha i just went to their website and saw this:
(http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i78/andtakingnames/Picture2-4.png)
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Fuck man I used to really like Hoobastank...
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"used to"? was it because of the hooburrito or their sucking?
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Their sucking, my naivety and poor taste in music in junior high.
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There was this band called Dog's Eye View that sang a song called "Everything falls apart" in the early 90s. I saw the lead singer many years later and he played that song. He was opening for Counting Crows and Live. Man, all of this is terrible.
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All of you remember shitty pop Sugar Ray, but does anyone remember that before that, around '94, they were a shitty White Zombie type band?
Yeah.
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Hahaha. Trapt. They were from Los Gatos, which is essentially part of San Jose.
When I was 12 I listened to Bill Hicks and I couldn't understand why he hated California so much that he wished it would fall off the continent.
This thread clears it up.
Come on! What's not to love coming from a part of a city called "The Cats"?
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Jackie Blue, they weren't really like White Zombie iirc, just not totally popped out. They were at least attempting to rock a little bit I guess? Also, back then they were completely unknown, and thus my radio was safe from being mercilessly violated by their presence.
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Actually when Sugar Ray was still "rocking" they were all over the commercial alternative station in Orlando. And I hear that they almost never played their pop songs in concert, instead preferring to totally alienate the crowd by being loud and obnoxious. Which I can kind of respect in a weird way.
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Live.
There! Right there! That!
Oh, and Everclear.
Oh, and White Zombie Sugar Ray was hilarious. Especially their choice for the cover of their first album.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c3/SR-LemonadeAndBrownies.jpg)
COME ON!
(EDIT: Sorry it's so huge. The picture, that is.)
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Also, I've probably mentioned it before on this or other message boards, but Smash Mouth were from my hometown, San Jose.
I'm so sorry.
Sue me, I still love their older stuff.
(also, I am originally from Livermore and I still visit from time to time. Mayhaps a Bay Area con should get planned)
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Hold on, Live's second album was good, damn it.
:x
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Sugar Ray Thrilled to be Playing in Man's Head (http://www.theonion.com/content/news/sugar_ray_thrilled_to_be_playing)
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Confession: I think Everclear's Sparkle and Fade isn't that bad of an album.
Bay Area con would be rad. I live in Merced currently, but SJ is only like two hours away. I need to boost my QC forum cred, posting regularly just isn't working!
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I used to loooove everclear, their lyrics resonated with my teenage angst
oh and tuna ketchup I love your avatar! American elf is one of my favorites. I met Kochalka a few years ago at a book signing and he played a song while we were waiting in line. good times.
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Sugar Ray Thrilled to be Playing in Man's Head (http://www.theonion.com/content/news/sugar_ray_thrilled_to_be_playing)
That's amazing.
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Everclear actually had some decent songs back in the day.
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Sugar Ray Thrilled to be Playing in Man's Head (http://www.theonion.com/content/news/sugar_ray_thrilled_to_be_playing)
"I wish I could get this stupid song out of my head," Waldie said. "I don't even like Smash Mouth."
Hahahaha.
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I've got one
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/Blind_Melon_Group_Photo_Early.jpg)
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You're doing it so wrong! Blind Melon's self-titled is a great record.
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Fair enough, I have a 'better' one.
DC TALK
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Dctalkgroup.jpg)
We're Christians, and we rap. I remember listening to one of their songs when I was younger.
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DC TALK
We're Christians, and we rap. I remember listening to one of their songs when I was younger.
actually, their Jesus Freak album had some pretty impressive production. I still occasionally hear it and it really does have some good playing on it.
The rest of their back catalogue is pretty dreadful though.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Blw8G5FiCY
sorry, doobie brothers
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Deep Blue Something
Semisonic
Sister Hazel
Cowboy Mouth
&&&
Blues Traveler (sorry, i hate them.)
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You're doing it so wrong! Blind Melon's self-titled is a great record.
Not only that, but they just released a new album, which, to my memory, wasn't all that bad, but also isn't totally memorable, because I cannot recall a single song on it.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Blw8G5FiCY
sorry, doobie brothers
Thanks for reminding me of that travesty to music. Good gravy.
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Ah yes, Trapt. Around middle school, when I had nothing to do and was not yet acquainted with the internet at large, I would watch MTV2. There were a lot of awful, awful bands from that time period.
I always mixed up Trapt with 12 Stones.
(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c325/Emily1205/12stones_black1.jpg)
And speaking of 12 Stones, remember the horrible movie Daredevil? Yeah, I remember when that came out, and they were pushing the soundtrack really hard. It had a lot of shitty bands on it, but it had the honor of introducing a little band called Evanescence.
(http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z136/Catgoddess3/Evanescence.jpg)
Guuuuuuh.
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I remember hearing that one of their albums wasn't bad, don't think it said which one though.
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Evanescence annoyed me. I can't say I didn't enjoy their music for a time, but they are terrible live, and they have that eepy "Drops of my scarlet blood rain like ash from all the finger-lickin' SUICIDE" facade splayed all over them.
I think they invented that, actually.
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Come on, guys, Blind Melon are actually pretty good, they're a lot more than "No Rain". The self-titled is excellent, their second is pretty good, and yes, they released an album either this year or the end of last year with a new singer. It wasn't bad, considering they haven't been around for 10+ years AND have a brand new singer, but it wasn't memorable for me past the single. They just broke up again though.
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Hey, pagebreak.
Man, I really hit a chord with this topic.
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I guess that depends if you regard say, wiping your ass to be high standards or not.
Hi-Standard what?
Man, I laughed for a minute straight at this picture. I never thought I'd see a band so lame that their frontman proclaims his influences on a shirt, but it is a Sugarcult shirt.
Gene, here's the problem. Hi-Standard were FRIGGING AWESOME.
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but it is a Sugarcult shirt
but it is a Sugarcult shirt
a Sugarcult shirt
Sugarcult
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Can I play the "Japanese bands are kinda goofy" card to defend that one?
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Use your goofy card wisely because it only works once.
(http://www.freewebs.com/camuisesshilmar/malice_mizer.jpg)
Speaking of which- Dir En Grey and Malice Mizer anyone?
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No one said Temple of the Dog?...
Eddie Vedder... AND Chis Cornell!? AND some other dudes from Pearl Jam!! How could it not be a success?
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Use your goofy card wisely because it only works once.
What the hell fuck are they?
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Post edited for confusion.
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Re: Evanescence
Oh man. It seemed like if you were a fifteen year-old girl with low self-esteem and shitty taste in music, this band was essential.
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^
My first girlfriend.
Everyone's first girlfriend.
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No, mine was heavy into Good Charlotte.
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Sugarcult
'Pretty Girl' was a hell of a tune.
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Man, the worst thing my first girlfriend listened to was NOFX.
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Bahaha, when I was younger, NOFX were my favorite band.
I'd like to chalk up Anti-Flag. Does anyone like them anymore?
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No, mine was heavy into Good Charlotte.
ditto. well, them and the used. i mean, i can stand a few songs, but in general, not good.
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Oh god Good Charlotte. They were so incredibly terrible, but I had to be nice and sort of like them because the bassist was my cousin. =\
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Good Charlotte are punk, Minor Threat are not.
There, what do I win?
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Tripod anti-hotlinking image = tru punx
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Insane Clown Posse
Sponge
Chumbawamba
Simple Plan
There is/was some serious crap out there. Not sure this thread is dying anytime soon.
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My first girlfriend was actually the only one I've had with good taste in music. All my other ones just had rockin' cans.
Just kidding.
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Sugarcult
I'M BOUNCIN OFF THE WALLS AGAIN! WO OH
And to go along with this thread, someone in a room down the hall from mine in my dorm just started blasting lostprophets
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Can I play the "Japanese people are kinda goofy" card to defend that one?
FUCKIN' FIXED
Also I am not sure why anybody still cares about 30 Seconds To Mars but I am willing to bet that 5 years from now they will be locked away in the same storage vaults as the rest of the terrible one-hit wonders of the world.
Insane Clown Posse
No, nobody ever forgot them.
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^
My first girlfriend.
Everyone's first girlfriend.
Spot on. Turns out, she's bi now.
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Chumbawamba
Are you kidding me? Their many pre-"one hit wonder" albums are quite entertaining.
And yes, there are still many, many Insane Clown Posse fans.
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And to go along with this thread, someone in a room down the hall from mine in my dorm just started blasting lostprophets
Fuck you. No-one remembers the first Lostprophets album. It was adolescent, but it was brilliant, back before they went all American and metrosexual.
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And to go along with this thread, someone in a room down the hall from mine in my dorm just started blasting lostprophets
Fuck you. No-one remembers the first Lostprophets album. It was adolescent, but it was brilliant, back before they went all American and metrosexual.
I should have specified what they were listening to. I completely agree, the Fake Sound of Progress is an excellent album, and actually one of the first albums i ever bought. They were listening to that song...last train home or something, which was off their second, not near as good album.
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The Goo-Goo Dolls.
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Spot on. Turns out, she's bi now.
Mine was already bi then and is now exclusively into women. Last I heard she and her girlfriend plan to get married (they are 17).
God, it's almost funny how common these similarities are among the girls of our generation.
Also I am not sure why anybody still cares about 30 Seconds To Mars but I am willing to bet that 5 years from now they will be locked away in the same storage vaults as the rest of the terrible one-hit wonders of the world.
I spent the better portion of an hour today trying to figure out how Jared Leto, who is an awful waste as a musician, somehow maintains a decent acting career. He's done damn well in Fight Club and Requiem for a Dream, to name a few.
Chumbawamba
Are you kidding me? Their many pre-"one hit wonder" albums are quite entertaining.
Also every English person I know remains steadfast in their love for Chumbawamba regardless of their later one-hit-wonder success.
And yes, there are still many, many Insane Clown Posse fans.
This phrase works no matter what you leave capitalized or uncapitalized.
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(http://www.spokane7.com/blogs/soundwave/images/20080320_juggalo3.jpg)
How can fifty million Juggalos be wrong?
Also: HILARIOUS. (http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Juggalo)
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Spot on. Turns out, she's bi now.
Mine was already bi then and is now exclusively into women. Last I heard she and her girlfriend plan to get married (they are 17).
God, it's almost funny how common these similarities are among the girls of our generation.
That's a surprise. Every other girl I know who listened to Evanescence had a bi/lesbo streak. What the hell, Amy Lee.
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa100/xholycrapitsmattx/amyleemacro.jpg)
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Who remembers these terrible grunge-ish albums from the Great Alternative Cash-In of the Early 90s?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/72/Collective_Soul_-_Hints%2C_Allegations%2C_and_Things_Left_Unsaid.jpg/200px-Collective_Soul_-_Hints%2C_Allegations%2C_and_Things_Left_Unsaid.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/aa/Candleboxdebut.jpg/200px-Candleboxdebut.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/75/7Mary3_AmericanStandard.jpg/200px-7Mary3_AmericanStandard.jpg)
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Only to end up on a crappy 90s compilation cd advertised on late-night TV, right after the Girls Gone Wild commercial. Arguably the ultimate disgrace for any band.
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I remember Collective Soul. Always seemed annoyingly similar to Stone Temple Pilots.
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You. I like your avatar.
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In the words of Dr. David Thorpe -
I had a good derisive chuckle at Evanescence the first time their garish, ridiculous single “Bring Me to Life” turned up on the radio.
In my mind, it seemed obvious that anyone with half a brain would find the song instantly unbearable due to its melodramatic, quasi-Christian airs. I was horrified and indignant to learn that people had actually found something to like about this band. “Don’t worry,” said their misguided supporters. “Not all of their songs have that retarded rapping guy.” I was furthermore assured that much of their material was less reminiscent of Linkin Park with a female singer and more subtle and piano-driven. Their current single, “My Immortal” seems to be an example of this style, although the nasal, crooning vocal sounds not like the work of a credible rock band but more like the self-produced vanity album of the girl who shakily squeezed out “Bridge over Troubled Water” at your high school graduation. Some of the more impressionable male Evanescence apologists even sought to convince me that the lead singer was hot. I suppose she’s decent if you like ladies who walk that dangerous, razor-thin line between “obviously used to be fat” and “will probably be fat again very soon.” It’s also fairly bewildering to me that anything about this band could be misconstrued as “gothic.” She certainly doesn’t have the advantage of being marginally hilarious like some of the other bands the media has mistakenly labeled as gothic, like Marilyn Manson. There is absolutely nothing mysterious or alluring about her voice; a careful observer would realize that a single such as “My Immortal” is nothing more than a vocally inept version of a shitty pop ballad worthy of being a Christina Aguilera b-side. To call something so tame, boring and conventional “gothic” is an illustration of just how far our culture’s standards have slipped. I’d imagine it takes every ounce of Peter Murphy’s willpower just to get out of his coffin at dusk and face such a world.
Whatever happened to him, anyway? They stopped doing Your Band Sucks at SA, and I recall hearing them say he was moving to another website or something, but I don't know where. Dude was funny.
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The guy they have doing music fuckery over at SA now is lame. Yeah yeah yeah Green Day and Katy Perry suck yeah yeah. Go pick more interesting bands to make fun of!
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Thanks. I am a fan as well.
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Chumbawamba
Are you kidding me? Their many pre-"one hit wonder" albums are quite entertaining.
I don't care if their music sucks, or I'm fat, or it's 11PM. I'm still going to blast it on the stereo and dance to it shirtless.
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I TAKE A WHISKEY DRINK
I TAKE A CHOCOLATE DRINK
AND WHEN I NEED TO PEE
I USE THE KITCHEN SINK
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God, it's almost funny how common these similarities are among the girls of our generation.
How old are you and what generation are you talking about? I was never into Evanescence. I was into girls however, but I knew that long before Amy Lee came around, who is admittedly alright, but would not be my first choice.
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One generation below you.
I'm not saying Evanescence made people bisexual. They did, however, seem to attract a fanbase of vapid goth girls who went out of their way to pretend to be bi so as to catch the attention of guys.
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I thought that was just a phase that all girls had during puberty. Evanwhatsitspelled just added Hot Topic to the equation.
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in a similar vein to the chumbawumba one-hit-wonder song, may i introduce you to another example of the vomit-inducing phenomenon that is the english football (soccer) supporters' shitty pop song. baddiel and skinner's "three lions" was the only tolerable one, and the real bottom of the barrel is "Vindaloo" by Fat Les. fucking ridiculous:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0T1pXsJp_go (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0T1pXsJp_go)
i'd like to clarify at this point that, despite being english, i do not worship spicy asian food (or claim it to be an "authentic british food"), and i DEFINITELY do not support any football (soccer) team.
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Can I play the "Japanese people are kinda goofy" card to defend that one?
FUCKIN' FIXED
Christ, have you seen their strike zone? I could K 150 if I played in NPB.
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They did, however, seem to attract a fanbase of vapid goth girls who went out of their way to pretend to be bi so as to catch the attention of guys.
Oh god those girls annoyed the hell out of me. Mostly because I was all like "Nurr, hot girl with pink hair and sexy labret piercing is hitting on me. Must get her number..." only to find out she was not really into girls. I got turned down so many times in this fashion. Scarred my entire high school perspective and now I am a bitter old* woman!
*Not really that old.
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At my school, there was actually one guy that did the same thing, but to attract the attention of girls. I think it worked. He actually dated one of the few girls at our school that did that for a week or so. She tended to go through boyfriends rather fast, to the point of some of us joking about starting a pool for how long her new boyfriend was going to last. She wasn't a bad person or anything, I liked her, but that doesn't mean that we weren't going to make jokes at her expense, nobody gets that kind of treatment, not Gandhi or Mother Teresa.
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Collective Soul Album Cover
Yeah that is just a little bit pretentious
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Wheatus
That is all.
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/thread. Holy shit.
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Here name is Noël...
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Here name is Noël...
as far as throwaway pop songs go, that's a hell of a song! my band used to cover it when we first started out, mostly for a laugh, but hell, i'll occasionally give it a listen still!
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I'm so going to do that at open mic tonight.
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I heckled Wheatus. After their second song I shouted "YOUR LIFE COULD BE GOING BETTER". Their goofy singer dude nodded sadly.
...you miserable bastard/genius.
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Remember when people mistook Weezer for Wheatus and vice versa?
Fun times.
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No, those were HORRIBLE TIMES.
That Californiaaaaaa band.
Ironically, I covered that at open mic tonight.
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I heckled Wheatus. After their second song I shouted "YOUR LIFE COULD BE GOING BETTER". Their goofy singer dude nodded sadly.
That is both an amazing story of rad past exploits and a sad, sad reminder that the music business is not always as glamorous as it looks.
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ween.
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Man, I'm cracking up now. Please continue this comedy of yours.
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This horrible boy band take that did some reunion thing and now they're all of the radio and tv.
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ween.
Wrong thread.
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This horrible boy band take that did some reunion thing and now they're all of the radio and tv.
Hanson?
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NKOtB?
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horrible boy band
You know, this reminds me of something. There's a taxi driver here in Tirana who plays the Backstreet Boys album "Millennium" every single time I ride with him.
Hanson?
I love how after they faded into obscurity after "MMBop" stopped getting airplay, and then maybe 3 years later they tried for a comeback with "This Time Around", which was played almost exclusively on the Disney Channel and, well, didn't really work. Especially funny since this is the chorus:
You can't say I didn't give it
I won't wait another minute
We're on our way this time around
You can't say I didn't give it
I won't wait another minute
We're on our way this time around
And we won't go down
And the sweet taste of justice was enjoyed by all as Hanson did, in fact, go down.
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Remember when people mistook Weezer for Wheatus and vice versa?
Fun times.
That was/is me. I only get confused because they both suck and I can't remember which one people who wear tight cardigans are supposed to like.
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Oh god I just remembered Local H. Holy shit.
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NKOtB?
Nope, not forgotten, they JUST released a new CD (http://www.nkotb.com/)
Has enough time passed that we can add My Chemical Romance to this list?
I swear if I ever have to spend another summer listening to their latest single non-stop I'll tear our my own god damn heart temple of doom style
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Has enough time passed that we can add My Chemical Romance to this list?
I swear if I ever have to spend another summer listening to their latest single non-stop I'll tear our my own god damn heart temple of doom style
i feel you. mcr is getting pretty annoying these days.
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these days?
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these days always?
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(http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/8350/wheniwasjr9.jpg)
WHEN I WAS
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the black parade was just horrible in all aspects at least their first 2 albums were alright.
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This horrible boy band take that did some reunion thing and now they're all of the radio and tv.
They were never obscure in Britain though.
They're also fucking brilliant, as boy bands go.
P.S. I reviewed Local H's latest album and it was pretty badass.
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This horrible boy band take that did some reunion thing and now they're all of the radio and tv.
They were never obscure in Britain though.
They're also fucking brilliant, as boy bands go.
P.S. I reviewed Local H's latest album and it was pretty badass.
They're terrible, they're new songs don't even have hooks.
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'Patience' was great. And 'Shine' wasn't bad, shame it had to be fronted by Mark Owen, who I just want to punch in the face all day even more than Gary Barlowe. I've not heard anything from The Circus yet, though.
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has anyone said Bush yet?
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Bush's first album had some good songs on it. They were certainly nowhere near as bad as, say, Silverchair.
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true, and i'm not exactly saying they are horrible, just that time forgot them lol
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That is both an amazing story of rad past exploits and a sad, sad reminder that the music business is not always as glamorous as it looks.
My favorite sad reminder is when someone asks a musician if they mind taking a picture, and the musician doesn't realize that the person asking the question means "Can you take a picture of my friend and I, because I actually have no idea who you are and could not care any less." I've seen this happen on several occasions at shows up in Minneapolis; watching a pseudo-celebrity sheepishly stop posing and just quietly accept the camera never gets old. Good times.
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You know, honestly, if people assume that you want them in your photo, they really deserve that kind of wakeup call.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QcZhIv3ML.jpg)
Has anyone mentioned this band yet? I think the fact that it is actually often spelled '5ive' puts it at the top of my list
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"Baby when the lights go out, every single word cannot express the love and tenderness..."
(I used to love them)
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5ive (http://www.myspace.com/thereal5ive)
No, this 5ive please
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Good christ I hate people who spell numbers using the number itself as one of the characters.
I think that if I ever get bored working alone as The Starfighters, I will form a band and name it 8 T Th000usand just to be a cunt.
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For reference, this is a bit like if Neil Young played with Pearl Jam.
Oh wait, that happened too.
I prefer to think of it as Pearl Jam playing with Neil Young.
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I prefer not to think of it
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Baha Men
Eiffel Sixty Five
Chumbawumba (as their 1 hit wonder incarnation)
Lou Vega
Also, I will assert that Savage Garden is the best pop band of the 90's, even though I am horribly horribly wrong.
I still listen to them. First album is pure pop music bliss.
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Eiffel Sixty Five
Have you listened to anything off of Europop other than "Blue"? I doubt it. That album seemed otherwise pretty solid.
I will agree with your assessment of Savage Garden, though.
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As boy bands go, 5ive weren't bad.
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I hear that if you want a respiratory illness, pneumonia's the one to go for.
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Oh man, I knew this board was predictable sometimes but I expected better from you, old chap.
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Isn't that what your ex said?
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Eiffel Sixty Five
Have you listened to anything off of Europop other than "Blue"? I doubt it. That album seemed otherwise pretty solid.
I will agree with your assessment of Savage Garden, though.
Yes, yes I have listened to the entire album. In fact, I bought the album and when I lost it I went out and bought it again.
It's solid, but I still assert that they are a pretty horrible band.
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Oh man, I knew this board was predictable sometimes but I expected better from you, old chap.
You mean like silicosis?
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Bush's first album had some good songs on it. They were certainly nowhere near as bad as, say, Silverchair.
Have you heard anything from Silverchair after their second album? Daniel Johns turned into a Brian Wilson-obsessed orchestral pop "genius" (or so says the Aus music media.) Homeboy even works with Van Dyke Parks.
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Everything they released after their second album was even worse than the first two (which were bearable, if generic and a rip off of every other grunge band).
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ive never heard a full album of theirs, but silverchair's "best of" disc is pretty good when you're in the right mood. and the b-sides disc has a few crackers on it too.
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But is Daniel Johns still a dreadful lyricist?
Although in his defence his first side-project with Paul Mac did have the best name for any band anywhere, ever. (For the non-Australians in the audience, they were called I Can't Believe It's Not Rock.)
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I actually find silverchair boring, incidently I find most bands hailed as the next silverchair equally as boring.
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I remember silverchair when they were the Innocent Criminals.
Also I was in year 3 in primary school with Ben Gillies. He was the class clown.
Also silverchair are a pretty average band.
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Baha Men
Eiffel Sixty Five
Chumbawumba (as their 1 hit wonder incarnation)
Lou Vega
Screw you, I liked those bands. Except ChumbaWumba, what the hell was that about?
"WHO LET THE DOGS OUT, WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF!!"
EDIT:: Have we forgotten Staind and POD yet?
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I think I would feel a deep sense of doom if my band were called "the next Silverchair".
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simple plan? ahaha
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But is Daniel Johns still a dreadful lyricist?
Oh lordy lord yes.
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It's comforting to know that some things never change.
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But is Daniel Johns still a dreadful lyricist?
Oh lordy lord yes.
WALKING IN A STRAIGHT LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE
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I eagerly await the day when time forgets The Vines.
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I had already forgotten them. A girl I used to be really good friends with was really into the Vines.
We used to be good friends, see.
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The Vines were also called the new Nirvana. They had some pretty good tunes, although when I reviewed their Best Of it was slightly annoying that it advertised their next studio album.
Isn't that what your ex said?
Well, your girlfriend was always better at remembering my conversations with her, so feel free to ask.
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We used to be friends, a long time ago.
see whut I did thar
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OH MAN VERONICA MARS
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Great song is great live.
Be fair, though. Treating We Used to Be Friends as "that Veronica Mars song" is like treating Teardrop as "that House song".
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Guys, the obvious solution is to stop watching shitty shows like Veronica Mars.
Admittedly, Kristin Bell is wiurehfsneruijgosiemrmg
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Let's see, what can I come up with
Otep
The All American Rejects
Crossbreed
Dope
GOB
Midtown
Moth
Hot Hot Heat
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Admittedly, Kristin Bell is wiurehfsneruijgosiemrmg
Second'd.
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Hot Hot Heat
Bite your tongue.
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Hot Hot Heat were nowhere near "horrible". Mediocre, perhaps, but they had some good songs.
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Hot Hot Heat's singer is probably the strangest looking human being alive.
He looks like a Muppet. A Muppet Baby.
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I dunno, I really like that type of hair.
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Dope
Time has not forgotten them, still being blasted everywhere in my area. *Gentle pats*
It's okay, it'll all be over soon.
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Great song is great live.
Be fair, though. Treating We Used to Be Friends as "that Veronica Mars song" is like treating Teardrop as "that House song".
The Who - 'that CSI band'.
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Dope
Time has not forgotten them, still being blasted everywhere in my area. *Gentle pats*
It's okay, it'll all be over soon.
Eh, I can stand 1 or 2 of Dope's songs. Decent to bop your head to while buzzed.
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Everclear. I like a couple of their songs, but "Father of Mine" forever damned them to musical hell.
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Everclear were halfway decent until they stopped doing drugs and got all self-righteous and sonically shitty.
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Everclear were halfway decent until they stopped doing drugs and got all self-righteous and sonically shitty.
"Santa Monica" is an amazing song and I don't care what anyone says. I'm also a fan of "Heroin Girl," "Electra Made Me Blind," and to a certain extent "You Make Me Feel Like a Whore." I could pass on everything else by them though.
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All coming from the Same Goddamn Album:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ca/Everclear-Sparkle.jpg/200px-Everclear-Sparkle.jpg)
Oh Everclear, if only you faded away after this actually-listenable album, it would've spared you embarrassment in the long run. Y'know, before you started writing the same. fucking. song. every. fucking. time.
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This album is great though -
(http://confessionsofafanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/amc.jpg)
What?
It says Everclear on it, right?
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Guys lol Bad Religion.
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Guys lol Bad Religion.
wash your fucking mouth out!!! no-one disses bad religion!!!
have you actually heard their last three albums? yeah they had a bit of a lull in the 90s, but those last three, particularly "the empire strikes first" are brilliant!
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Quite honestly, I really do love Bad Religion. They were one of the only reasons I went to Warped Tour last summer.
(that said, I'm not a big fan of the newest album.)
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Baha Men
Eiffel Sixty Five
Chumbawumba (as their 1 hit wonder incarnation)
Lou Vega
Screw you, I liked those bands. Except ChumbaWumba, what the hell was that about?
"WHO LET THE DOGS OUT, WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF!!"
EDIT:: Have we forgotten Staind and POD yet?
Chumbawumba didn't sing who let the dogs out! They sang "I GET KNOCKED DOWN BUT I GET UP AGAIN YOU'RE NEVER GUNNA KEEP ME DOWN" apart from that song they were an anarcho punk band.
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1. It is Chumbawamba, take a look at the album cover ferchrissake and then you can insult them and their completely relevant social commentary
2. You're right, that shitty horrible piece of trash was done by Baha Men.
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no-one disses bad religion!!!
This requires some thought. Let me think of some way we can find a gentle consensus of sorts.
If there was credibility in the accuracy of band names, here is how I rate the following groups -
Average White Band
- 100%
American Music Club
- 66.6%
Bad Religion
- 50%
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yeah they had a bit of a lull in the 90s,
Moar like a bit of a lulz, amirite?
Dude they were second only to The Offspring in how awful a California punk band they were.
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Bad Religion had a lot of mediocre material but they had good intentions at least. They were kind of the Michael Moore of punk. Their early work, particularly songs like "Superman", is still enjoyable to me.
I winced pretty hard when they did that tour OPENING for Blink-182.
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Tommy it's cool that you like them and all but calling them a religion is just overboard.
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Hot Hot Heat. Oh my god, no.
I saw them live, the dude sang like he didn't know that microphones amplify sound. And everyone down here was stoked to see "a CANADIAN band!".
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Guys lol Bad Religion.
I really kinda dig Bad Religion; this post makes me a little sad.
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Bad Religion is sort of bad at being punx but I still like them! Greg Graffin is so educated! He uses words like "recompense".
I have a soft spot for Bad Religion just because I used to sing the songs off Stranger Than Fiction when I was like 9 and the idea of a nine-year-old girl singing those angry songs with big words is very funny.
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Hot Hot Heat. Oh my god, no.
I saw them live, the dude sang like he didn't know that microphones amplify sound. And everyone down here was stoked to see "a CANADIAN band!".
Continuing what seems to be a trend in this thread: their first album wasn't bad at all!
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Bad Religion is sort of bad at being punx but I still like them! Greg Graffin is so educated! He uses words like "recompense".
I have a soft spot for Bad Religion just because I used to sing the songs off Stranger Than Fiction when I was like 9 and the idea of a nine-year-old girl singing those angry songs with big words is very funny.
I am just an atom in an ectoplasmic sea
Without direction or a reason to exist.
The anechoic nebula rotating in my brain
Is persuading me, contritely, to persist.
From a different album, but I was basically the same way. My brother was a huge Bad Religion fan in his early teen years and used to play Suffer a lot so I kind of just learned the words when I was like 7.
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Greg Graffin is so educated!
I was wondering if it's possible that people already forgot about the thing where someone posted pictures (http://blog.synthesis.net/2005/12/22/greg-graffin-likes-fat-girls/) from Graffin masturbating to a chubby underage BR fan over a webcam.
Since then I've pretty much laughed whenever I've heard his name.
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Hahahaha oh wow, what a great way to ruin your respectability and commit a nice little felony all in one neat little fan-fapping package.
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Now I understand what I Love My Computer is about.
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Hahahaha oh wow, what a great way to ruin your respectability and commit a nice little felony all in one neat little fan-fapping package.
so if those aren't faked, or a lookalike, why hasn't been arrested yet, eh?
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He's too busy teaching at UCLA to be arrested.
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Baha Men
Eiffel Sixty Five
Chumbawumba (as their 1 hit wonder incarnation)
Lou Vega
Screw you, I liked those bands. Except ChumbaWumba, what the hell was that about?
"WHO LET THE DOGS OUT, WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF!!"
EDIT:: Have we forgotten Staind and POD yet?
Chumbawumba didn't sing who let the dogs out! They sang "I GET KNOCKED DOWN BUT I GET UP AGAIN YOU'RE NEVER GUNNA KEEP ME DOWN" apart from that song they were an anarcho punk band.
... I didn't say it was... =|
And I LIKE Baha Men. :-D
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And I LIKE Baha Men. :-D
Some people like to fuck pigs. Doesn't mean they should admit to it in public.
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On that note, Anal Cunt anyone?
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I don't think anyone cared about them in the first place.
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They released a hippie album. It is entirely acoustic and contains zero offensive material.
Wut
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wut?
/
:-D
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Oh wait, that was in 1998. But they are apparently working on a sequel, titled 'Picnic of Love II'.
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Is it acoustic grindcore?
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what about Sum 41? do they still exist?
im glad i forgot about them until i started thinking hard about about bands that stopped existing.
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Sum 41 were not terrible and rather catchy.
They appeared to be huge douchebags but one would expect no less from a 90s pop punk band. Then the main douchebag married Avril Lavigne and I don't think they've put out anything since.
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idk for me that one ethnic guitarist...hispanic,black, indian, whatever he was, was probably their only redeaming quality he was a great guitarist ill give them that. from what i remember, now its been atleast 7 years since ive given them serious consideration, but i feel like bassist was just trying to be Sid Vicious way too hard.
im sad people bashed Deep Blue Something so hard on this post.
as bad as that song is, its catchy as hell and itll be in your head for days.
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Then the main douchebag married Avril Lavigne and I don't think they've put out anything since.
Fortunately, this includes children.
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Then the main douchebag married Avril Lavigne and I don't think they've put out anything since.
Fortunately, this includes children.
poor little bastards wouldn't be able to sing or properly dress themselves
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Is it acoustic grindcore?
Nope. Straight up acoustic ballads. I present the lyrics to one of their songs: Saving Ourselves For Marriage
I saw your deep blue eyes from afar
I saw you at the church bazaar
I asked the priest to introduce me to your mother
And I asked her to introduce us to each other
I asked you to go on a picnic of our own
But you insisted on taking a chaperone
I apologized for being so bold and rude
So I invited your parents for lemonade and food
We're saving ourselves
Saving ourselves for marriage
Saving ourselves, for a baby carriage
Restraining ourselves, till the moment's right
Saving ourselves, for our wedding night
After four years of dating, I decided to take a risk
I held both your hands, and kissed your rose-petaled lips
We stared into each others' eyes, wondering what was next
But we knew not to ruin our love with pre-marital sex
We're saving ourselves
Saving ourselves for marriage
Saving ourselves, for a baby carriage
Restraining ourselves, till the moment's right
Saving ourselves, for our wedding night
Years went by, our courtship was grand
One day I asked your father for your hand
I'd never treat you like an object, only like a lady
I'd never consider having sex, except to have a baby
We're saving ourselves
Saving ourselves for marriage
Saving ourselves, for a baby carriage
Restraining ourselves, till the moment's right
Saving ourselves, for our wedding night
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I've now seen everything.
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This coming from the man who wrote "Women: Nature's Punching Bag".
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http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/analcunt/defendersofthehate.html#3
:cry:
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Man... those guys have a sense of humor. A very fucked up one, but still.
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This coming from the man who wrote "Women: Nature's Punching Bag".
Ahahaha oh wow I enjoyed that.
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Cue Patrick's "Women: Can't Beat 'Em" shirt.
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o hay u called?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/leadhindenburg/IMG_2589-1.jpg)
(old pic is oooooold)
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Awful shirt is still awwwwful
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Sum 41 were not terrible and rather catchy.
They appeared to be huge douchebags but one would expect no less from a 90s pop punk band. Then the main douchebag married Avril Lavigne and I don't think they've put out anything since.
Signature Squier Telecasters, the both of them.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/DynamiteKid156/NWA01.jpg)
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Oh wow I had totally forgotten about that Greg Graffin scandal. As far as I know, it's not fake, and he hasn't been arrested because he didn't actually do anything illegal. I never really heard any followup after the initial shitstorm of hilarity, though, so who knows. Snopes doesn't have anything on it and neither does the wiki page about Graffin.
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N.W.A. lol
I said BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITCH
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Sum 41 were not terrible and rather catchy.
They appeared to be huge douchebags but one would expect no less from a 90s pop punk band. Then the main douchebag married Avril Lavigne and I don't think they've put out anything since.
Signature Squier Telecasters, the both of them.
A match made in low-level comissioned Guitar Center employee heaven.
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Semisonic i think is the epitome of bands the fell off the face of the earth that were not that great.
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N.W.A. lol
I said BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITCH
YOU DON'T HAVE TO FRONT
ON ME DEEEEAR
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o hay u called?
(old pic is oooooold)
I think I might need that shirt.
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No, you don't.
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On a side note: Jesus Christ, Pat, how skinny were you? I don't think I reached that level, and I had an eating disorder.
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Same as I am now, 6'0 and 130lbs. Heh, did I ever tell you the story about how a psychologist decided (solely on my weight alone, without ever talking to me about anything) that I was underweight and had an eating disorder, and she forced me into getting blood work done to prove that I was malnourished from such a thing?
She shut her hole when my cholesterol came back as being somewhere around 206.
(also, on topic: Eve 6)
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At least he's not as skinny as, say, Brandon Cox (http://www.papermag.com/blogs/Deerhunter.jpg)
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Bradford Cox has Marfan Syndrome, not an eating disorder.
Coincidentally Brandon Cox looks like this.
(http://www.thestocktalk.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/brandon-cox.gif)
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Double post 'cause I'm about to win this thread so hard.
(http://switchfootconcertticket.com/myPictures/switchfoot%20stort%20billede.jpg)
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"meant to live" was a good song! shame everything else they did was a pile of wank though...
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Ew Gene don't post pictures of shitty football teams in here. Auburn SUCKS.
/Roll Tide
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STAIND
January tour with guests Seether
One show I won't be going to.
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Double post 'cause I'm about to win this thread so hard.
(photo of switchfoot)
my wife and most of my friends still love this band :-/
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And I LIKE Baha Men. :-D
Some people like to fuck pigs. Doesn't mean they should admit to it in public.
Your fun gland is broken. Maybe it's because I grew up around Calypso/Dancehall/Soca.
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Hey guys.
Remember this song? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVKcfwJxa54)
Yeah. I just went there.
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Tay Zonday.
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He was neither horrible nor is he forgotten.
He was just a dude with an odd singing voice and a YouTube account who got overhyped by 4chan.
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When 4chan can dictate what becomes a 'hit', I worry about the world.
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Those guys who did that song "Creep".
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You win the internet.
MARRY ME?
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Those guys who did that song "Creep".
I heard they suck live.
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Those guys who did that song "Creep".
They do suck but they've never been forgotten
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clevr lol
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I heard they suck live.
I heard they suck.
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I liked their first 3 albums =\. Oh well. They do suck something awful now...
Anyway, hmmm. I can't remember if anyone brought up Blink 182 yet, but they certainly deserve to burn in bad, forgotten music hell. And they can take Lenny Kravitz, Jimmy Eat World, and (hopefully, soon, please god) The Dropkick Murphys with them.
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I liked their first 3 albums =\. Oh well. They do suck something awful now...
Anyway, hmmm. I can't remember if anyone brought up Blink 182 yet, but they certainly deserve to burn in bad, forgotten music hell. And they can take Lenny Kravitz, Jimmy Eat World, and (hopefully, soon, please god) The Dropkick Murphys with them.
i so badly want to kill you right now. kravitz, fair enough. blink and dkm, i disagree but i can understand, but JIMMY EAT WORLD?!?!?! yes they've gone a bit soft, but of all the bands of their ilk, they seem the most honest and passionate.
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3 Doors Down. Ugh.
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Anyway, hmmm. I can't remember if anyone brought up Blink 182 yet, but they certainly deserve to burn in bad, forgotten music hell.
I'm not sure it counts as being forgotten when you've broken up.
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Le Tigre
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(http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/04/22/images/weezer_lg.jpg)
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I would LOVE to forget the past 12 years worth of Weezer "music" Ugh...
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Fuck you all.
Lenny Kravitz was decent! Certainly wrote some catchy pop songs.
Weezer has been hit or miss lately but their first four albums are fantastic powerpop.
blink-182 were awful live and mediocre on record but I grew up with them so I'll never fully be able to write them off.
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Le Tigre
I am going to beat you up
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Oh yeah I was going to yell about that one too but forgot in my anger.
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blink-182 were awful live and mediocre on record but I grew up with them so I'll never fully be able to write them off.
Indeed.
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Le Tigre
how could you say such things about a band as fantastic as Le Tigre?
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Hmm this thread has devolved into people pissing about how they don't like still-popular bands that they think suck.
I am so very surprised.
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BREAKING NEWS: LIST THREAD ENDS BADLY
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blink-182 were a lot better live on their last tour, when I saw them. I think since they had made a 'serious' album, they pulled themselves together live.
And saying that Weezer have been forgotten is just straight-out bullshit.
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The Dropkick Murphys
Fight you, sir. FIGHT YOU.
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Le Tigre
how could you say such things about a band as fantastic as Le Tigre?
The lyrics, for one, and Kathleen's voice for another. But I'm obviously in the minority on this one, so different strokes for different folks.
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Either way this thread is the wrong place for your dislike. Time has not forgotten them. Same with Blink-182. Definitely same with Weezer.
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To be fair, that major label Le Tigre album is atrocious.
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And saying that Weezer have been forgotten is just straight-out bullshit.
To be fair, Weezer only applies to half the thread title.
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It's a good thing it was mentioned in this thread then
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I think (hope) that Skrewdriver is quite appropriate for this thread.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skrewdriver
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I really must admit though, that when I saw this thread title, I immediately thought of the Shaggs...beyond them, I wasn't sure who else even qualified.
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Everyone I know who has heard of the Shaggs loves them.
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Genuinely loves them, or loves them in that stupid and annoying "ironic" way that people these days "love" terrible bands?
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Genuinely loves them, or loves them in that stupid and annoying "ironic" way that people these days "love" terrible bands?
Obviously I can't speak for anyone else and I can't really say I love them either ironically or genuinely but I do find them strangely fascinating and I could easily understand other people loving them.
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They've got a 'sound' only a mother could love.
Lots of 'mothers' out there. The Shaggs are to music what turkeys are to flying. I'm curious as to what percentage of their fans actually thinks they aren't one the worst things ever to be immortalized on wax?
Ah yes, the Shaggs. My favorite is My Companion.
"my companion is with me wherever I go
it goes too"
Mad scientist type stuff right there.
Hee hee....
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Genuinely loves them, or loves them in that stupid and annoying "ironic" way that people these days "love" terrible bands?
I don't associate with the kind of people that like things ironically.
Nor do I care for people who call certain bands "guilty pleasures".
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And saying that Weezer have been forgotten is just straight-out bullshit.
To be fair, Weezer only applies to half the thread title.
Die in a fire.
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It's not paradoxical for a band to make two good albums but still, on balance, be "horrible".
I could name a dozen goth/industrial bands that started out great and then became total and utter shit.
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Sometimes(often), an artist will simply run out of creativity.
It happens.
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I think (hope) that Skrewdriver is quite appropriate for this thread.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skrewdriver
Ah, Skrewdriver. The band that everyone mixes up with Swervedriver
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I've never heard Swervedriver, but man I wonder what Nazi shoegaze would sound like.
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I've never heard Swervedriver, but man I wonder what Nazi shoegaze would sound like.
regimented. not shoegaze, but jackbootgaze.
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I've never heard Swervedriver, but man I wonder what Nazi shoegaze would sound like.
I've heard Nazi Rap, but not shoegaze.
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Nazi folk too. Isn't that what Prussian Blue is/was?
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Ooh, are we boasting about the strangest neo-Nazi music we've heard now? My nomination is: Nazi Abba cover.
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I've never heard Swervedriver, but man I wonder what Nazi shoegaze would sound like.
regimented. not shoegaze, but jackbootgaze.
Jewgaze?
(Please slaughter me)
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If they did call it that, you would have to find a new way to protest rather than burning the albums.
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Ooh, are we boasting about the strangest neo-Nazi music we've heard now? My nomination is: Nazi Abba cover.
Dude.
Nazi.
Horrorcore.
Rap.
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Why does everyone have to hate on the 80s/90s bands that are total win? :[
Crazy Town was pretty decent, and so were SemiSonic, Vertical Horizon, etc.
I understand that a lot of you guys think popular=horrible, but damn, don't just put down everything. Different strokes, different folks.
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Uh, no, that's not it. I've seen Crazy Town live before as part of a larger summer tour and they were truly dire. Also, I've only seen more booing once, and that was when Courtney Love was on stage and being bitchy about the weather and left the stage after a single song (Honestly, I'm not sure why people were upset about that part). Basically, Crazy Town does things that I have no interest in AND they do it poorly. Vertical Horizon totally counts towards this thread because I had to Google them to figure out who the hell they were because it turns out I had forgotten about them.
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If you think that we all think popular means bad, you haven't been here enough. I had that idea at first, but I lurked for a while. I think it seems like that because some of us at least are very picky about music, and aren't afraid to say how much we think something sucks, and the forum is that of a comic that used to focus on indie rock.
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Really, I'd say the most indefensible band listed so far has been... Incubus. They've had a pretty successful run and they don't really fit into many of the pigeon holes they've been shoved into over the years, particularly the "korn clone" accusation I've heard bandied about even outside of this thread. Each of their albums have a fairly varied mix of songs these days, even if they do have a definite aesthetic going at this point. I'm not a huge fan, but I don't really think they're horrible.
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Sometimes 'popular' and 'bad' are completely synonymous, which is really only a problem when the bad is taken seriously.
If 'quality' can exist in a cut of meat, or a pair of shoes, or an Italian suit... then it can certainly exist in music, as well as in people.
I'm just sayin...
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Crazy Town's Super-Duper-Motherfucking-Dire-Oh-My-God-I-Wish-I-Could-String-Together-More-Words-To-Show-How-Much-This-Video-Sucks-Ten-Goat-Dicks cover of Refused's "New Noise" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1o6_Bw2FBo) is enough to secure them a lifetime placement in my shitlist. Hell, not even my shitlist, my kill-on-sight list. Not just that, my "go back in time and kill
Sarah Connor Crazy Town" list too.
Adapting Swedish Political Post-Hardcore for the popped-collar date rapist set simply doesn't work.
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dude what are you talking about, that cover is siiiiiiick.
(oh no wait, that's how i feel after having listened to it)
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That was just embarrassing for everyone.
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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.
I saw them little over a year ago with Seawolf and won't lie loved their show.
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Here are some horrible ones for you...
(http://radiogalaxy.ru/pictures/az_2000_Bigger,%20Better,%20Faster,%20More_4%20Non%20Blondes.jpg)
(http://vantika.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/crashtestdummies_album.jpg)
Crash Test Dummies also fall into the Worse Album Cover Ever thread.
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I understand that a lot of you guys think popular=horrible
I'm pretty sure that not one single person in this forum thinks that way.
Seriously.
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Crazy Town covered the Refused?! I'm seriously thinking of breaking out the teary eyed smiley now.
Fuck.
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Some of Jackie's best friends are popular bands!
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So, my family had it's Christmas celebration early, since we are leaving Christmas day, and guess what my dad got my brother? A creed CD and an Alter Bridge CD, since I used to like them, and my brother was asking about them, apparently.
The most unbelievable part? It is still going to be better than what he normally has playing.
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That Crash Test Dummies album is aces. ACES.
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I'm fairly certain that all of these bands (http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/2008_the_year_in_band_names) are both horrible and will be forgotten in a year or so.
My favorites--
THE STEEL BLADES OF VENGEANCE!!
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Some of Jackie's best friends are popular bands!
Actually, I am friends with the singer for Ten Years. He's a great guy.
Pity about his band, though.
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I'm fairly certain that all of these bands (http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/2008_the_year_in_band_names) are both horrible and will be forgotten in a year or so.
My favorites--
THE STEEL BLADES OF VENGEANCE!!
Piss Pissedofferson FTW!
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I'm pretty sure I would go see The Greatest Touchdown Ever Scored
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Irony at its best is that someone actually played Mmmm Mmmm by Crash Test Dummies tonight on the jukebox at the bar. They serioulsly will not go away will they.
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There were some people called Green Apple Quick Step.
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I'm fairly certain that all of these bands (http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/2008_the_year_in_band_names) are both horrible and will be forgotten in a year or so.
Star Fucking Hipsters aren't half-bad, actually.
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I'm fairly certain that all of these bands (http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/2008_the_year_in_band_names) are both horrible and will be forgotten in a year or so.
Star Fucking Hipsters aren't half-bad, actually.
I like Star Fucking Hipsters. I've actually seen them twice now. But they are just a "supergroup" with members from Left Over Crack so I do wonder how long they will be around for. Two Cups of Tea is a great song for people that want to check out Star Fucking Hipsters.
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I'm fairly certain that all of these bands (http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/2008_the_year_in_band_names) are both horrible and will be forgotten in a year or so.
Star Fucking Hipsters aren't half-bad, actually.
nope. they're ALL bad.
i don't know much about politics, but i know enough to know that Stza (or whatever he's calling himself this week) has some ridiculously misinformed, sensationalist and frankly fucking childist views, and they always leave a bad taste when i do occasionally listen to LoC.
what's worse is their army of 14year old fans who will happily shout "fuck cops!!! kill the pigs!!! fuck world trade, yay for 9/11!!!" but have absolutely no answer for you if ask them about why they hold such views.
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I'm fairly certain that all of these bands (http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/2008_the_year_in_band_names) are both horrible and will be forgotten in a year or so.
Star Fucking Hipsters aren't half-bad, actually.
nope. they're ALL bad.
i don't know much about politics, but i know enough to know that Stza (or whatever he's calling himself this week) has some ridiculously misinformed, sensationalist and frankly fucking childist views, and they always leave a bad taste when i do occasionally listen to LoC.
what's worse is their army of 14year old fans who will happily shout "fuck cops!!! kill the pigs!!! fuck world trade, yay for 9/11!!!" but have absolutely no answer for you if ask them about why they hold such views.
I do have to agree with you on merit. Seems that Anarchy is the Hot Topic of this generation. I like them cuz of that one song and they do put on a great show. Also that girl is freaking hot(except for that lip tatoo). I'd like to say I hate preaching with my punk but then again I love Bad Religion and always will. I'm just thinking that Stza viewpoints are outlandish and as you said childish whereas Greg's are more rooted and frankly more accomplishable(think I made that word up.)
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When did "this generation" start? Because that has been going on for longer than I've been alive.
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Anyone remember a band called Lefty? They released an album on Interscope, opened for a bunch of bands, and then just disappeared. The most useful thing I can find about them now is this Los Angeles Times article from 2000: http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jul/25/local/me-58690
Some highlights:
The recording’s first single is the potentially controversial “Girls.” Its hummable melody is appealing–and quite radio-friendly–but the words could be taken as inflammatory. Sample lyric: “I don’t mean to say it/But somebody needs to put an end/To Girls.”
Hill, the band’s lyricist, insists the song is neither mean-spirited nor meant tongue-in-cheek. “It is not [meant as] a put-down at all,” he said. “In fact, the first line of the song gives them full and absolute power. A girl will always dominate over the guy in a battle of the sexes.”
Quipped Livingston, “Even though there are differences that can drive us crazy, men and women still choose to engage in relationships with each other, and that fascinates me. Guys see things one way, girls another–didn’t someone write a pretty famous book on the subject?”
“Just to be fair, we’re going to do a song called ‘Boys’ on our next album.”
“We were a so-called pop band in a lineup of punk acts during Warped, but what I really liked was when the kids got tired of punk’s relentless grind, they’d come over and check us out” on the second stage, Livingston said.
“We can bring on the noise, too, but I think they were refreshed by our changes in tempo and maybe a few choruses they could sing along to.”
(http://b3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01285/34/51/1285601543_l.jpg)
Bonus bassist pictures, because this dude is ridiculous:
(http://a741.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/69/l_ebb0ec4ad191b210acf54524a19cf1d4.jpg)
(http://b6.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01285/61/38/1285788316_l.jpg)
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I'm fairly certain that all of these bands (http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/2008_the_year_in_band_names) are both horrible and will be forgotten in a year or so.
My favorites--
THE STEEL BLADES OF VENGEANCE!!
Magically Delicious Smoking Skunk Monkey...?
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nope. they're ALL bad.
I was waiting for someone to reference Statler and Waldorf, thank you.
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When did "this generation" start? Because that has been going on for longer than I've been alive.
I have to say it was the 2004 election. Seemed like every punk band out there decided to get political. Some were good some were awful.
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I thought that was kinda the point of punk in the first place.
I mean, how long has the anarchy "A" been a (unfortunately abused and misunderstood) punk symbol?
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Punk never had just one point. For American punk, the point for a while was to just sniff some glue and have some fucking fun.
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But you can't identify one point in time wherein Punk Rock Music became political, because it always had that aspect to it.
Saying that 2004 was some kind of Punk Rock political bandwagoning orgy might be correct, but Punk as a whole has plenty of political connotations.
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i wouldn't say all punk is about politics specifically, more about independent thinking and questioning authority in general. that said, there's been some amazing punk bands who've written about little other than girls/relationships (descendents anyone?).
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2004 wasn't punk getting political, it was pop-punk getting angsty.
I love blink, Offspring and Green Day, but they all got serious at once. Good Charlotte did too, but who cares about them.
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But you can't identify one point in time wherein Punk Rock Music became political, because it always had that aspect to it.
Saying that 2004 was some kind of Punk Rock political bandwagoning orgy might be correct, but Punk as a whole has plenty of political connotations.
Frrr enough.
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I love blink, Offspring and Green Day
You kiss your mother with that mouth?
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i wouldn't say all punk is about politics specifically, more about independent thinking and questioning authority in general. that said, there's been some amazing punk bands who've written about little other than girls/relationships (descendents anyone?).
Descendants are still god's to me(RIP Frank).
So now you wait for his cock
You know it'll turn you on
He's gonna make you feel
The way you want to feel
When he starts to lie
When he makes you cry
You know I'll be there
My day will come
I know someday
I'll be the only one
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Independent thinking and questioning authority in general...that's straight up political my friend.
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Less chat more terrible music. Or at least some terrible music.
(http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/3554/r6468691216510442da4.jpg)
The story behind this record is so insane and incredible that I'll let someone else explain it. Regardless, you'll never be the same after hearing this "band". It's sad, depressing, yet somehow uplifting to hear the absolute innocence of these backwoods girls. I actually knew someone a long time ago who had an original press of this album. We sat in her apartment and listened to it for hours and I still couldn't believe it. I couldn't sleep for days.
http://www.mediafire.com/?dmxkzzndyiv
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Dude read the thread, the Shaggs have been discussed at least once already.
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I love blink, Offspring and Green Day
You kiss your mother with that mouth?
Yep, and I also use to go down on yours.
Have a nice Christmas.
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Dude read the thread, the Shaggs have been discussed at least once already.
Uh, that would be exactly why I posted their album. Figured someone might want to hear some of the tunes, instead of just talking about them.
And I am not a dude.
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I call everyone "dude" and the mediaf!re thread is right over there.
(Why would a girl pick a screen name that's a male character in a movie?)
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Maybe because she likes the character?
You can kind of be a jerk sometimes, Jackie
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Of all the "can be kind of a jerk sometimes" people on the music forum, I'm pretty sure I'm not even in the Top 5. :wink:
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(Why would a girl pick a screen name that's a male character in a movie?)
Kind of an ironic question from someone whose screen name is a female character in a song...Before this gets out of hand, however, let me state emphatically that I am not a chick. By saying I was not a dude, I only meant dude in this sense (http://www.observer.com/node/47789).
Either way, Jackie Blue, I bow my single-digit-post-count n00bness to your four-figure bad-assedness. Anyone with an obscure Rickie Lee Jones reference below their avatar is a friend of mine. Meanwhile, back on-topic (sort-of):
(http://www.deborah-harry.com/dh/otherreleases/standinginthespotlight.jpg)
In 1989, Dee Dee Ramone, he of the Greatest Band Ever, attempted to make a rap album, but he combined it with rock, and coined the term "rap-n-roll" to describe it. Thus, he was at least indirectly responsible for spawning such later abominations as Limp Bizkit and Korn. But none of those bands were worse than Dee Dee's album, released under the band name "Dee Dee King" and considered by many to be the worst album ever made. Here's a snippet from his press packet:
The proof is on dazzling display on Standing In The Spotlight, Dee Dee King's debut album on Sire Records. One of the most upfront, exciting, and explosively entertaining entries so far this year. What began to take shape is a sound Dee Dee called "Rap In' Roll." The sound had to be there," he continues, "but in rap, the image can be just as important. I went out and bought the sweatsuits and Adidas sneakers, but it didn't feel right. So I mixed my own style with what the other rappers were wearing. I spent a lot of time getting just the right jewelry -- the best I could find -- and mixed it with my traditional Converse hi-top sneakers." The end result resembles a modern day hip-hop James Dean look, with which Dee Dee feels very comfortable. "
I could try to explain its badness, but you just have to listen to it. (Sorry if my posting this link here offends anyone's delicate, 4000-post sensibilities... :wink: )
http://www.mediaf!re.com/?mk2o1y44mjm
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It's true that I was named after the song "Jackie Blue", I don't see the problem there.
Also I have no idea what you mean by an obscure reference under my avatar.
Also I am not pulling rank on you, I guess posting uploads in here is fine, I just don't see why you don't post them in the mediafire thread and put one post in this one saying "Hey, I am going to upload some really terrible stuff in the mediafire thread if anyone is interested". It's not a really big deal, just sayin'.
Dude.
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I love blink, Offspring and Green Day
You kiss your mother with that mouth?
Yep, and I also use to go down on yours.
Have a nice Christmas.
Good one. You too, mate.
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Of all the "can be kind of a jerk sometimes" people on the music forum, I'm pretty sure I'm not even in the Top 5. :wink:
There's still time, old friend.
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DK, put your dick away. It's entirely unnecessary.
I really didn't need to know about the existence of Dee Dee King. My overwhelming curiosity is fighting my desire to throw up at the moment.
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I've heard about that Dee Dee album for over a decade and still have never seen a physical copy or listened to it.
I doubt I'm missing much.
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I'm curious now as to whether it could actually be worse than the Shaggs 'offering'. I'm wondering about something else too...
..."we listened to the Shaggs for hours..." I found the Shaggs to be unlistenable, well, all except for 'My Companion' that is... so I'm wondering how this can be as well? I mean bad music isn't like bad acting. Whereas bad acting can be fun to witness, bad music is just painful.
But as I do happen to have a tape of their music here, I'm game to try it again...maybe I'm mellow enough to get all the way through it this time.
I don't know though...
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I dunno, I'm really not sure bad acting is better or worse than bad music. Bad music can obviously be annoying, but with bad acting I sometimes start to feel kind of bad for the actors after a while. It's like I become mortified by osmosis, which is probably why I'm not a huge fan of "It's so bad it's good!" cult movies.
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Here's the thing though...movies and plays, are about stories...the acting itself is secondary.
Music on the other hand is about the music...if it's bad...well what else is there? With Punk, there was energy and attitude. With Pop, there's packaging. With your kid(or yourself) there's the investment...as in "I'll listen to this crap because I really want, or want my kid, to get better".
With the Shaggs, I didn't ever care, so I had no reason to listen to the dischordant noise over and over again.
I am however genuinely intrigued by these people that say they can, or have, or did, or like them unironically. I want to explore this a little more. And dammit, I can't find my tape now either...!!!
Ugh! Too much Crap in this joint!! Well it's around here somewhere...I'll find it...
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Bad acting can quickly and easily render the story superfluous, just as a bad song can have narrative lyrics but lose all of its power due to the hackneyed delivery.
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Canadians will feel my pain on this one. Especially the video.
B4-4 - Get Down (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=97CtEReZEaQ)
Also on the topic of bad boy bands (redundant statement is redundant)
O-Town - Liquid Dreams (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=dljyXelztCE)
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O-Town - Liquid Dreams
This O-Town any good? I mean my little sister likes it, but you know she likes ponies and juice boxes too.
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Man, ponies are cute and juice boxes are delicious, no matter what age you are.
O-Town is downright awful.
In the same vein:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDSKGhRKnrA
and most definitely
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC1Tx3Iqsmw
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In 2002, the band broke up over a legal dispute between the group members and their parents. The producers wanted the boys to quit school and focus solely on their boy band occupation. Problems escalated, resulting in a lawsuit aimed to remove the band from its producers in the summer of 2002. The band also learned that one of the producers was heavily involved in teenage porn, which didn't go over well with the boys' families. Dream Street won its lawsuit, but the decision had an unanticipated result: as per the settlement, the boys were never allowed to perform as a group together again.
Well, that's a relief.
The legal system should be used more to not let bands be bands.
Currently continuing his normal academic career at Tufts, Ballinger is working on a new project called The Juice, a band he and his freshmen friends recently started. Their debut show was March 13 at Harvard's Battle of the Bands. He has moved away from his previous pop style into more alternative music. "It [The Juice] is kind of Dispatch-Sublimey stuff," Ballinger said, referring to his favorite alternative bands.
Ok, that was definitely not rad. Did we discuss Dispatch in this thread already? Because fuck Dispatch.
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Not all poems rhyme.
There's a reason that person is strumming a guitar. Does sucking at it count? To me, it does.
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Music on the other hand is about the music...if it's bad...well what else is there?
But "bad" is entirely subjective. Have you ever listened to Wolf Eyes? I think you'd be the kind of person who would have a much harder time listening to them than listening to the Shaggs.
Speaking of which, can we all forget Merzbow now? I mean, dude managed to make noise music BORING.
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I've yet to meet anyone in meat life who listens to Merzbow.
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DK, put your dick away. It's entirely unnecessary.
Que?
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Your exchange with Jackie was totally needless.
Whether or not you're right, it's not something anyone else cares to read. Send a PM if it really bothers you and keep this thread interesting.
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I can't be arsed with people who dig at my music taste on here, so I responded with a pointless, childish insult. I had no intention of seriously offending the other guy, and didn't get the impression that I did.
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I still listen to a few of these bands.
Blink 182
Something Corporate
Midtown
Specifically.
Midtown is still around, Gabe is doing his cobra starship thing, and they have gotten fairly popular, and both blink and soco are still super influential in the pop punk scene.
Panic(!) At The Disco no one seems to talk about anymore, which I suppose is for the better
Also.
Sin With Sebastian
Shutup and sleep with me, cmon uh huh and sleep with me.
grrrrrrrrrrrr
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Lit. They have to be given credit for putting a robot with a mullet in a music video though.
I love Cheesy things. Martial Arts/sci-fi movies, slapstick humor, hair/power metal, so I really can't tell if GWAR is bad because I love them so fucking much, but if they are, they need a mention.
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Panic(!) At The Disco no one seems to talk about anymore, which I suppose is for the better
No.
People still talk about them.
People that make me twitch.
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I've yet to meet anyone in meat life who listens to Merzbow.
Dude, Meat Life Would be an AWESOME band name
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Panic at the Disco reminds me of this dude who tried to feel me up in high school.
I like gay guys, but there's something about personal space and keeping my pants zipped that makes me not want to listen to Panic at the Disco.
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Panic at the Disco reminds me of this dude who tried to feel me up in high school.
I like gay guys, but there's something about personal space and keeping my pants zipped that makes me not want to listen to Panic at the Disco.
And I love gay guys but I do not love non-gays making out with each other to get attention, espescially from a certain type of girl.
Panic at the Disco remind me quite a lot of the latter.
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I've yet to meet anyone in meat life who listens to Merzbow.
Dude, Meat Life Would be an AWESOME band name
Squishything, every time I see your avatar out of the corner of my eye, I think it's the flag of Turkey.
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I win this thread, I win this thread !!! :lol: :lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6rUPbgmHRs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6rUPbgmHRs)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2dLa2Efu20 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2dLa2Efu20)
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I've yet to meet anyone in meat life who listens to Merzbow.
Next time I am in New York, I will change this. Promise.
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My Soul Unwraps Tonight (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6rUPbgmHRs)
I want a dubstep remix of this song SO FUCKING BAD.
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People listen to dubstep?
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Dude have you ever been to a dubstep party with a good soundsystem?
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Lit. They have to be given credit for putting a robot with a mullet in a music video though.
I love Cheesy things. Martial Arts/sci-fi movies, slapstick humor, hair/power metal, so I really can't tell if GWAR is bad because I love them so fucking much, but if they are, they need a mention.
They're good.
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Dubstep is certainly misunderstood because most people have only heard it through their laptop speakers completely sober.
I say that as someone who's never been to a dubstep party. I see how it'd be a cool place though.
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UB40 should all be vivisected.
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They're like a poor man's Police.
Both are awful, awful bands.
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UB40 had like, 24 albums with no line-up changes and then a few of them quit a couple years ago. WTF?
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Please go to this page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nu_metal_bands) and pick any single band which takes your fancy.
Nonpoint are actually good though.
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Remember these guys?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Chevelle_at_2007_MyCoke_Fest_in_Atlanta3_cloned.jpg/800px-Chevelle_at_2007_MyCoke_Fest_in_Atlanta3_cloned.jpg)
Chevelle. That one nu-metal band that was famous for a bit. They ended up being pretty unmemorable, and their better moments sounded like a low-rent version of Hum. According to their ex-bassist, the other two members (who were also his brothers) kicked him out, and that was pretty not rad.
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i've not heard much chevelle, but "the red" was an awesome track!
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Jumping in here, a little late...
(http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z158/ohstopthat/sclub.jpg)
(http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z158/ohstopthat/Aqua-aquarium.jpg)
(http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z158/ohstopthat/b-witched.jpg)
(http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z158/ohstopthat/tatu.jpg)
Oh, and
Sisqo
LFO
TLC
Ja Rule
Jewel (I think Intuition was the death of her)
Kelis
Shaggy
Cake
And I really like Harvey Danger! Even their one-hit (Flagpole Sitta) is good. :-)
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Man, no way is Cake a horrible band. "Not good", maybe, but not "horrible"
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Cake? Yes, horrible. Godawful, if you will.
It's okay, though, I still like Radiohead (apparently I'm the only person left who does)
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Please go to this page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nu_metal_bands) and pick any single band which takes your fancy.
Nonpoint are actually good though.
nonpoint WAS good.
to the pain SUCKED.
Actually about 7 or 8 bands on that page ARE AWESOME.
I mean, try to not laugh hysterically while listening to primer 55's first album.
with lyrics like
"here i come with the new style kick it,
yo i just cant help it cuz' I'm so damn wicked.
insane in the brain, with a mind like cujo.
you betta' run cuz' I'm 'bout to go loco."
^ a true lyrical genius... :roll:
but anyways. mushroomhead, american head charge and dry kill logic are all pretty awesome, skilled bands.
even if they sound drunk and mildly retarded.
i think thats the point.
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Chevelle. That one nu-metal band that was famous for a bit. They ended up being pretty unmemorable, and their better moments sounded like a low-rent version of Hum. According to their ex-bassist, the other two members (who were also his brothers) kicked him out, and that was pretty not rad.
Their first album I think actually has a decent song or two on it, I think. However, everything else they have done is donkey piss.
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Probably because Steve Albini recorded it?
lol. Point No. 1 is not a bad song, but as I said, it just impresses me as low-rent Hum.
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I saw Chevelle in 99 when I was young and impressionable and high-school aged, so consequently, I was really into their first album.
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Music I'd like time to swallow whole ...
There was this time, when I was young, that I watched Headbanger's Ball. And in those days that show was filled with horrible, horrible bands ... and the occassional great video. So, I had to watch hours and hours of Warrant, White Lion, WASP, Motley Crue, Cinderella, Poison, The Cult, Quireboys, Dogs'd'amour, LA Guns, Faster Pussycats, Aerosmith in order for there to be one half decent track by CoF, Morbid Angel, Sepultura ...
So, in short: I want those band forgotten and I want that time spent waiting back right the fuck now.
In addition: to whosoever wrote the lyrics to When the children cry ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuWl05FeS9k ) ... I wish you papercuts. Loads of them.
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Cake? Yes, horrible. Godawful, if you will.
It's okay, though, I still like Radiohead (apparently I'm the only person left who does)
Cake is better than your favorite band.
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Cake is better than your favorite band.
Oh please.
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Cake is a lie.
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Cake goes straight to your ass.
yeah i went there.
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Music I'd like time to swallow whole ...
There was this time, when I was young, that I watched Headbanger's Ball. And in those days that show was filled with horrible, horrible bands ... and the occassional great video. So, I had to watch hours and hours of Warrant, White Lion, WASP, Motley Crue, Cinderella, Poison, The Cult, Quireboys, Dogs'd'amour, LA Guns, Faster Pussycats, Aerosmith in order for there to be one half decent track by CoF, Morbid Angel, Sepultura ...
So, in short: I want those band forgotten and I want that time spent waiting back right the fuck now.
In addition: to whosoever wrote the lyrics to When the children cry ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuWl05FeS9k ) ... I wish you papercuts. Loads of them.
http://notsomotivational.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/whereisgodnow_notsomotivationalcom.jpg (http://notsomotivational.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/whereisgodnow_notsomotivationalcom.jpg)
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Excellent question. There is no divinity in glam-metal.
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Dude have you ever been to a dubstep party with a good soundsystem?
Well in Jamaica we haven't had a sound play dubstep since I was little. You can probably get one like Renaissance Disco or Stone Love to play that stuff, but... Yeah. I don't think anyone down here actually listens to the stuff, ironically.
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None of those hair metal bands are all that awful. Unbelievably tacky (I'm sure there was a degree of self-awareness in that, though) and lacking creativity but shit I will listen to them over the rest of the stuff in this thread any day.
In fact L.A. Guns are fucking solid.
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Yeah. I don't think anyone down here actually listens to the stuff, ironically.
I thought dubstep was more of a London thing.
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None of those hair metal bands are all that awful. Unbelievably tacky (I'm sure there was a degree of self-awareness in that, though) and lacking creativity but shit I will listen to them over the rest of the stuff in this thread any day.
In fact L.A. Guns are fucking solid.
Motley Crue have some unbelievably good songs too.
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Motley Crue are definite proof that this is an unfair universe by virtue of the fact that they did not manage to die from overdoses and so many great artists did. But that is a different discussion.
Also: I think my remarks need to be taken into context. Yes, maybe, these bands did create some okay music (emphasis on 'some') but the godawful wading through maybe, sometimes, sort of okay glam and rock tracks before something cool came on just ruined their music.
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Yeah. I don't think anyone down here actually listens to the stuff, ironically.
I thought dubstep was more of a London thing.
Well if you go to a hotel here, you'll mainly only hear techno.
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They weren't really horrible, just derivative (The Bends era imitators), but what the fuck happened to Longpigs?
Also, Monaco. Anyone remember Monaco?
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No.
But I guess that's the point.
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The Longpigs broke up but Richard Hawley began a fantastic solo career after a stint in Pulp
New Order made music again
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Monaco weren't horrible. They sounded just like New Order, yes, but they had at least two great songs - 'What Do You Want From Me?' and 'Junk.'
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Cake? Yes, horrible. Godawful, if you will.
Man listen to something other than "Short Skirt, Long Jacket" and then we will talk about some fucking Cake.
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Well in Jamaica we haven't had a sound play dubstep since I was little. You can probably get one like Renaissance Disco or Stone Love to play that stuff, but... Yeah. I don't think anyone down here actually listens to the stuff, ironically.
Given that dubstep was invented in 2000/2001, in London, I think you are possibly confusing your genres?
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Dubstep, bad techno mixes of Reggae songs, you say poe-tay-toe.
EDIT::
Plus, when I say old, I mean anything before I graduated basic school. (2003)
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Does Ratcat belong in this thread?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEUWib71Q4c
I think it does.
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Cake? Yes, horrible. Godawful, if you will.
Man listen to something other than "Short Skirt, Long Jacket" and then we will talk about some fucking Cake.
Cake is awesome, but this is a mindfuck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyJMufGx7fo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyJMufGx7fo)
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Heh, Cake covering Sabbath. Xan McCardy still does not disappoint with his guitar work.
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Oh god, can't un-hear.
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i like that version better than sabbaths!
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In that vein, screamo Wonderwall (http://www.last.fm/music/The+Gaia+Corporation).
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Remember when Crazy Train covered New Noise? I still have nightmares.
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oh god please don't remind me of that, i was making so much progress
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In that vein, screamo Wonderwall (http://www.last.fm/music/The+Gaia+Corporation).
Dear GOD I would pay so much money to hear Liam Gallagher try and cover that cover. It would be HILARIOUS.
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Hey guys, remember this band? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morningwood) Of course you don't.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/CroppedMorningwoodPromo.jpg/220px-CroppedMorningwoodPromo.jpg)
Morningwood. Probably one of the worst band names ever (probably only a tad better than Does It Offend You Yeah). Oh and their music is pretty bad too.
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N-Trance.
(http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/147301.jpg)
Remember their Rod Stewart cover? No? Well, feel lucky. And probably already done, but whatever:
(http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/9771527/Vengaboys+6474.jpg)
Vengaboys fuck yeah
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Vengaboys fuck yeah
No. No. No no no no. Nonononononononononono. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
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In that vein, screamo Wonderwall (http://www.last.fm/music/The+Gaia+Corporation).
Wow.
There are honestly no words for that. This is Complete levels of absurdity.
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Morningwood.
Ahaha I totally have one of their songs on one of those Fat Music compilations. "Take Your Clothes Off" or something else retarded. It's amazing what Fat Mike will sign to his label sometimes.
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On the same note as Vengaboys, did anyone mention S-Club 7 yet?
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GET ON THE VENGABUS
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Vengaboys
Hey, two of them aren't boys at all!
Wait, maybe only one of them.
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(http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/9771527/Vengaboys+6474.jpg)
Vengaboys fuck yeah
I get the distinct feeling that everyone of them enjoys swiss pole. not that there's anything wrong with riding a giant somewhat phallic object... when your music is targeted at 12 year old children...
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Oh. I just realised. Vengaboys are dutch ...
Sorry from us, the dutch nation, to you all.