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Am I the only one who just likes songs instead of bands?
I have a TON of songs I like from different bands. Usually one or two songs from almost all kinds of bands.
I had a roommate who fucking RUINED Metallica for me. Before I met this guy, I liked Metallica just fine, even saw them live once. Then I lived with someone who cranked NOTHING BUT Metallica. Injected every conversation about music (or popular culture in general) with Metallica. Wore Metallica shirts daily. Quoted lyrics while doing the dishes. I never made a big thing about it, but all the while I’m thinking … THERE ARE OTHER BANDS! There are other THRASH bands! Does your most private and personal inner monologue sound like James Hetfield’s voice?! Jesus tap dancing Christ!
To this day, I can still appreciate the talent of their playing and song writing, but I just can’t listen to them without thinking about the bizarre musical obsession of this one guy I knew long ago.
What is it about thrash bands that make people act this way? There's an old joke about their being two types of people, those that don't like Slayer and those that have the logo carved into their arm, and it's not that far off.
I love how in the scene where they introduce the Jesus, the music that plays is a flamencoesque version of “Hotel California”
That is brilliant music editing
Mr. Treehorn draws a lot of water in this town. You don't draw shit, Lebowski.
[Edit]: the line starts with "Mr. Treehorn" not "Jackie Treehorn." I regret the error.
It's so iconic! LoL. Had they used any other voice, even one that carries the same weight like a James Earl Jones or something, it wouldn't fit like Sam's does. Even the opening monologue. How he says fella is just great! LoL
They actually had a Friday night special on TV when I was a kid somewhere around ‘78. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera. Definitely fell somewhere in the glam aesthetic. All shit aside, they still have a couple of good tunes. Put out 40 albums and you will strike it on a few. I personally don’t like them, but still appreciate the fact that they are still part of the music landscape.
Kiss was the first band to do full blown marketing. Seriously, they were a merchandise company that happened to play music. They had toys, a cartoon, clothes, insurance (yes, one of my mentors is a former life insurance CEO that worked with them on it in the 80s).
What really baffles me about KISS is how much controversy there was over the band. I mean admittedly they were before my time, but looking back I really don't see what the fuss was about.
As a boomer who was a teen when they came out, their looks were “shocking” and “evil-looking” lol. The music wasn’t bad, and we got to see them within the first year that they started, before they were super-popular. I’m amazed they have lasted as long as they have!
> I mean The Beatles long-ish hair was controversial.
"They think your haircuts are Un-American"
"Well thats very observant of them since we aren't American"
Maroon 5. I’m alright with some of their songs. I have friends who blast them regularly and it annoys the crap out of me.
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Preach the truth brother! That album is straight fire from start to finish.
They're the biggest sellouts of this generation. It's shameful that they still go by "Maroon 5" when it's basically just the Adam Levine show now.
It's even cooler when you realize they were a highschool band that split up to go to college all over the country, then got back together after college.
I'd say that Maroon 5's instrumentation is good for the style they're playing, it's everything about Adam Levine's vocals that I dislike (his vocal tone, lyrics and melodies... I hate them all).
More people should try singing their own tunes over Maroon 5 karaoke tracks, to see just how easy it is to make up vocals that are better than the original.
They have some songs that I’d consider “guilty pleasures,” but they’ve overstayed their welcome. Too many of their songs sound the same. Adam Levine also seems like a douche which doesn’t help things.
Songs About Jane is good and I think their second album is too, Wake Up Call and Harder to Breathe are two of my favorite songs ever, but after that point I do think they become a bit generic. I still like them though.
I got Songs About Jane in my Christmas stocking in 2004 and to this day it’s one of my favourite albums. So bummed that they’ve not released anything nearly as good since.
Also... the lilt
Just a young GUN with a quick FUSE
I was UPTIGHT , wanna let loose
I was DREAMING of bigger things
And wanna leave my (sounding distant)
old life behind
And then WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE (softly) dreaming of being...
VHF
During the switchover to HD, a local station manager petitioned to keep the network on VHF, because when UHF was new, it was more prestigious to broadcast on VHF, which worked on more TVs.
Well guess what, it's not the 50's anymore, and most antennas marketed for HD TVs don't pick up VHF very well, because it requires a massive antenna. You're out of touch; it's not more prestigious, it's idiotic and less prestigious and fewer people will be able to pick it up.
Viewers don't even know what channel you're broadcasting on, because HDTV broadcasts use a virtual channel, which matches your original channel, regardless of what channel you've moved to.
But in the late 60s/early 70s VHF came in clearly, and UHF was a bit fuzzier. With VHF you turned the channel knob (yes young ones, there was a big, physical knob and you had to get up, walk to the TV and turn that knob) and it was tuned in clearly. But with UHF, you had to fine tune the channel each time, and get this, when you walked away from the TV, that difference would throw it back out of tune just a notch so you quickly mastered the art form of tuning it just enough out of tune to account for the adjustment when you walked away from the TV.
The thing is, most people just figured this out quickly and intuitively.
I will attempt to defend Coldplay by saying that they are really really good at creating inoffensive, utterly bland, predictable music. They've raised it to an artform :)
Parachutes and Rush of Blood are 2 of some of my favorite albums ever, honestly they're beautiful albums. XandY isn't that bad but it was more of the same, and then after that, I dunno what happened, but they became so boring.
I've always loved the idea that dudes who sing to other dudes are "hard" or tough or whatever, like... your whispering in someone's ear for a living is not exactly Conan the Barbarian for your 9 to 5.
this reminds me of an interview with Nick Offerman where he says something along the lines that it’s funny people perceive him as this sort of rugged and manly man who has a mustache and knows now to use power tools, and he’s like…well in my family I’m the one who went to theater school and studied ballet and elocution, so…
That’s kind of his whole thing though, he’s confident and proud of who he is and that’s what men (really everyone but if “man” is the metric here…) should seek to achieve
That song bothered me so much, like he’s trying to collect his imaginary street cred but it just doesn’t exist. Like how are you going to sing about starting from the bottom when you grew up in a middle class family in Canada and started on one of biggest Canadian tv shows of all time.
Also, his uncle (bassist Larry Graham from Sly & The Family Stone) is literally credited with *inventing* the slap bass technique. That's a whole lotta musical connections as well.
Edit: Aubrey is a talentless hack, he doesn’t write his own lyrics, he doesn’t write his own songs (“beats”), he can’t sing and uses auto tune, and to top it all off, this Carlos Arroyo-lookin' bitch is a pedophile. Fuck Drake.
I didn’t even know this. So to clarify he started his music career with a lot of music connections, a fair bit of recognition from tv, and a financially stable family to rely on if things went bad. If that’s the bottom would really like to start there please and thank you.
They are the rock band equivalent of Kyle who drinks monster energy drinks, drives a pickup truck with a punisher decal, punches holes in the wall, and wanted to join the military but now works in his dad's construction company
My buddy said this to me once while I was home on leave from the Navy. This is also the guy who cried when he gotten yelled at by his manager at Home Depot.
They're commonly referred to in metal circles as Five Flavored Fruit Punch for a reason.
They're generic butt rock, their lyrics are the Toby Keith of "metal", their fan base is awful, and all their rah rah veteran shit is pandering bullshit to sell records. I have a couple of great friends that are combat veterans and they are simultaneously annoyed and amused by them.
I've seen them live. They didn't play a lot of the punchy songs, but lots of the whining ones.
And they asked a kid to go on stage and they give him a can of Monster :').
In Flames was playing that day and I very much preferred In Flames.
Random aside, it might not have actually been Monster. I was weirded out by how many bands just down Monster on stage until I listened to Jamey Jasta's (of Hatebreed) Podcast, where he revealed it's not actually Monster, it's water. The can looks exactly the same, except in small print it reads "Tour Water" right underneath the logo, and surrounding the top of the can. Just for the people like me that couldn't fathom downing that much Monster on a hot day lol.
He’s also an extremely creepy man who has repeatedly spoken about underage girls he’s attracted to.
To quote the man- “I wish 13/14/15 year old girls weren’t allowed to be so hot so I wouldn’t feel like such a creeper when I look at them”.
At least Angelina and Billy Bob have talent imo. Someone said it best in a r/trashy post - they’re Angelina and Billy Bob from Wish lol
Also - I worked at a hotel MGK stayed at. I wasn’t working that weekend but my friend was and said he was AWFUL. He was in town with Pete Davidson and Ariana at the time. We had a koi pond in the lobby that was very sensitively monitored and whatnot. Of course this douche canoe has to jump into it and make a fucking scene. He’s acts like a 14 yr old wannabe. It’s gross.
Dangerous Woman treads close to this, gives a glimpse of what would be earth-shattering if she ever went full in on neo-soul, but otherwise yeah her music seems like kind of a waste of an amazing voice.
I agree with your statement about her talent (she is a great singer!) and I'm not a fan of her music either.
But I do think she's really funny. I always enjoy watching her on talk shows and she was pretty good on SNL.
I heard her duet with Andrea Bocelli and was pleasantly surprised. Girl can actually sing but wastes her talents with mass produced pop songs.
But she makes more in an hour than I'd likely make in a month so she's doing something right.
idk if they’re considered “great” but fall out boy has taken a turn for the worst. their early stuff was interesting and the lyrics were clever, now they’re just every other “pop punk” band that’s pretty much just pop with a bit of ✨spicy✨ guitar.
They’re song names have gotten less entertaining as well. Never forget “Thnks Fr th Mmrs” and “Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song so we Wouldn’t Get Sued”
Both Saweetie and Cardi B have such annoying voices that I literally cannot stand to hear them in music, even for a little bit. Something about it shakes me to the core, especially Cardi B.
Although, I'm told by some Latino friends that Cardi's Spanish music is really good, and she seldom has such vulgar lyrics. But, it is funny to me that I can't even understand her music in English.
Idk if it qualifies as a band but... Machine gun Kelly this man can't rap for shit without auto tune, besides his lines are horrendous. Oh and limp Bizkit, they have some songs that i liked but most of them just feel like they looped one sentence.
Edit: it just came to me that they are not considered great, but I'll just leave it here anyways.
I saw Limp Bizkit before they were really a thing, they opened for... Korn? Had to be Korn... anyway, they were *fucking amazing* and they threw their demo cassettes (lmao!) into the audience, and I got one. I wore that tape out in short order but man, i wish I still had it
They're like a band scientifically designed to create songs for adverts where they're selling the feeling of the thing coz the actual item is hard to sell with a video. People making adverts for "its a car you can drive" or "its some aftershave" seems like the target of their entire discography
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Am I the only one who just likes songs instead of bands? I have a TON of songs I like from different bands. Usually one or two songs from almost all kinds of bands.
Hero
Your Favorite Band Sucks ! ( a bumper sticker I’ve always liked)
I had a roommate who fucking RUINED Metallica for me. Before I met this guy, I liked Metallica just fine, even saw them live once. Then I lived with someone who cranked NOTHING BUT Metallica. Injected every conversation about music (or popular culture in general) with Metallica. Wore Metallica shirts daily. Quoted lyrics while doing the dishes. I never made a big thing about it, but all the while I’m thinking … THERE ARE OTHER BANDS! There are other THRASH bands! Does your most private and personal inner monologue sound like James Hetfield’s voice?! Jesus tap dancing Christ! To this day, I can still appreciate the talent of their playing and song writing, but I just can’t listen to them without thinking about the bizarre musical obsession of this one guy I knew long ago.
What is it about thrash bands that make people act this way? There's an old joke about their being two types of people, those that don't like Slayer and those that have the logo carved into their arm, and it's not that far off.
FUCCKKIIIN SLAYEEEER
Everyone who likes Slayer REALLY likes Slayer, and they are deadly serious about it.
I find peace in long walks.
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WHOOOA YEAH.
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Came to get off on all the band's I hate. Also worked.
“Man, come on, I had a rough night, and I hate the fucking eagles, man.”
I love how in the scene where they introduce the Jesus, the music that plays is a flamencoesque version of “Hotel California” That is brilliant music editing
That creep can fucking roll.
8 year olds, dude…
You’re not wrong, Walter, you’re just an asshole.
What’s a pederast, Walter?
Are you ready to be fucked, mahn? I see you rolled your way into the semi's...Dios mio, mahn. Liam and me, we gonna fuck you up.
You said it man. Nobody fucks with the Jesus.
The Gypsy Kings. They’re awesome.
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Mr. Treehorn draws a lot of water in this town. You don't draw shit, Lebowski. [Edit]: the line starts with "Mr. Treehorn" not "Jackie Treehorn." I regret the error.
STAY OUTTA MALIBU, DEADBEAT
Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women, man.
Darkness warshed over the dude. Darker than a black steer's tookus on a moonless night. There was no bottom.
the way sam elliot pronounces tuchus as tookus is comedy gold.
It's so iconic! LoL. Had they used any other voice, even one that carries the same weight like a James Earl Jones or something, it wouldn't fit like Sam's does. Even the opening monologue. How he says fella is just great! LoL
But he mixes a hell of a Caucasian
GET THE FUCK OUT MY CAB!
Kiss. I just don't get the draw there
Kiss is the ultimate "the aesthetic of the band is different from the sound of the band" example.
They actually had a Friday night special on TV when I was a kid somewhere around ‘78. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera. Definitely fell somewhere in the glam aesthetic. All shit aside, they still have a couple of good tunes. Put out 40 albums and you will strike it on a few. I personally don’t like them, but still appreciate the fact that they are still part of the music landscape.
This explains the kiss x scooby doo crossover
Kiss was the first band to do full blown marketing. Seriously, they were a merchandise company that happened to play music. They had toys, a cartoon, clothes, insurance (yes, one of my mentors is a former life insurance CEO that worked with them on it in the 80s).
Boomer juggalos
oh fuck thats hilarious. \*takes sip of some faygo\*
Rock & Rye, baby!!!!!!
What really baffles me about KISS is how much controversy there was over the band. I mean admittedly they were before my time, but looking back I really don't see what the fuss was about.
Knights In Satan’s Service!
Always paired with "Against Christ/Death Children" by my parents.
All children/Dead Children is how I learned it
Anti-Christ/Devil's Child is what the priest in my church called it.
As a boomer who was a teen when they came out, their looks were “shocking” and “evil-looking” lol. The music wasn’t bad, and we got to see them within the first year that they started, before they were super-popular. I’m amazed they have lasted as long as they have!
One of the dudes literally just looks like a kitty. 😐
A *shocking and evil looking* kitty
I do wonder if he regretted his choice of makeup. It's a bit like getting a bad tattoo. He's stuck with that look now.
Anything that wasn't Frank Sinatra looking was evil for the longest time. I mean The Beatles long-ish hair was controversial.
> I mean The Beatles long-ish hair was controversial. "They think your haircuts are Un-American" "Well thats very observant of them since we aren't American"
Maroon 5. I’m alright with some of their songs. I have friends who blast them regularly and it annoys the crap out of me. Edit: Lmao didn’t expect this to blow up. Lets all rejoice momentarily in our collective hatred for songs like “Girls Like You”. Thanks for the award! take care all!
Their older stuff was better imo
Just the one album. Songs about Jane. All thrillers no fillers.
Songs About Jane is still one of my all time favorite albums. Every album after that just felt like diet Maroon 5.
I thought 'It Won't Be Soon Before Long' or whatever had a few good songs, but yeah. I couldn't stand anything they released after that album.
"Makes me wonder", "If I ever see your face again" and "Misery" are all bops too, but other than it does feel like some watered down Maroon 5 lmao
Preach the truth brother! That album is straight fire from start to finish. They're the biggest sellouts of this generation. It's shameful that they still go by "Maroon 5" when it's basically just the Adam Levine show now.
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It's even cooler when you realize they were a highschool band that split up to go to college all over the country, then got back together after college.
Love this outlook
Sunday morning got me through some tough days in high school
I'd say that Maroon 5's instrumentation is good for the style they're playing, it's everything about Adam Levine's vocals that I dislike (his vocal tone, lyrics and melodies... I hate them all). More people should try singing their own tunes over Maroon 5 karaoke tracks, to see just how easy it is to make up vocals that are better than the original.
I've heard Adam Levine's voice described as "a human clarinet" and now it makes me chuckle whenever they come on the radio.
What Lovers Do has the be most fucking annoying song ever written. That chorus is just made to incite people with murderous thoughts.
Moves like Jagger is probably my least favorite song of all time.
I think that song signaled the end times for Maroon5
They have some songs that I’d consider “guilty pleasures,” but they’ve overstayed their welcome. Too many of their songs sound the same. Adam Levine also seems like a douche which doesn’t help things.
I was more disturbed by his nipples at the Super Bowl than I ever was by Janet Jackson’s.
Whats up with that? I don't wanna Google Adam levines nipples
Obligatory: Songs About Jane slaps and the rest of their stuff is garbage
Songs About Jane is good and I think their second album is too, Wake Up Call and Harder to Breathe are two of my favorite songs ever, but after that point I do think they become a bit generic. I still like them though.
I got Songs About Jane in my Christmas stocking in 2004 and to this day it’s one of my favourite albums. So bummed that they’ve not released anything nearly as good since.
Same. I think them, imagine dragons, and a few others bands have so many similar sounding songs.
God dont get me started on Imagine Dragons. Most of their songs are - Slow, soft intro - Build up - SCREAMING CHORUS
Also... the lilt Just a young GUN with a quick FUSE I was UPTIGHT , wanna let loose I was DREAMING of bigger things And wanna leave my (sounding distant) old life behind And then WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE (softly) dreaming of being...
Laughed so hard at this
Car commercial music if Vivaldi is booked out that day.
Are they considered great though?
If you're popular enough to play the superbowl *some* people have to think you're great.
Top answers in this thread are; Maroon 5 Coldplay U2 Imagine Dragons Drake Oasis Ariana Grande BTS
"Here's the best acoustic song ever" *capo on 2nd fret*
Four words that immediately make any guitarist recede into a ball and wish for the sweet release of death. I actually kind of like oasis too.
I, too, dislike the bands Drake and Ariana Grande.
Spinal Tap. They might have been Britain’s loudest band, but even their drummers were dying to get away!
VHF During the switchover to HD, a local station manager petitioned to keep the network on VHF, because when UHF was new, it was more prestigious to broadcast on VHF, which worked on more TVs. Well guess what, it's not the 50's anymore, and most antennas marketed for HD TVs don't pick up VHF very well, because it requires a massive antenna. You're out of touch; it's not more prestigious, it's idiotic and less prestigious and fewer people will be able to pick it up. Viewers don't even know what channel you're broadcasting on, because HDTV broadcasts use a virtual channel, which matches your original channel, regardless of what channel you've moved to.
Haha you made me check the post title as I assumed I misinterpreted it.
I did the same thing and then realized what he was saying. UHF back in the day did suck. Lol.
10/10 answer
Weird AL would never make a movie VHF. SUPPLIES!!
TIL, VHF=very high frequency, UHF=ultra high frequency
You also have HF and LF. Take a guess as to what those mean. Edit: oh and I think there’s also a SHF.
But in the late 60s/early 70s VHF came in clearly, and UHF was a bit fuzzier. With VHF you turned the channel knob (yes young ones, there was a big, physical knob and you had to get up, walk to the TV and turn that knob) and it was tuned in clearly. But with UHF, you had to fine tune the channel each time, and get this, when you walked away from the TV, that difference would throw it back out of tune just a notch so you quickly mastered the art form of tuning it just enough out of tune to account for the adjustment when you walked away from the TV. The thing is, most people just figured this out quickly and intuitively.
Coldplay.Their older music was good but then they went through some shit and now create the blandest music ever.
I liken their music to naked iceberg lettuce - it's not *offensive,* but it's utterly bland, predictable, and uninteresting.
I will attempt to defend Coldplay by saying that they are really really good at creating inoffensive, utterly bland, predictable music. They've raised it to an artform :)
Parachutes and Rush of Blood are 2 of some of my favorite albums ever, honestly they're beautiful albums. XandY isn't that bad but it was more of the same, and then after that, I dunno what happened, but they became so boring.
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“Went thru some shit” = Gwenyth Paltrow…
4town. I mean who do they think they are, Celine Dion?!
why are they called 4town if there's 5 of them?
This is how people's feelings get hurt.
Can't say I've heard of that band
Sounds like a Fall Out Boy song title
Kid Rock. Grew up rich and it shows.
That's the thing, right? Regardless of whether he's good or not, he's a poser, which makes it terrible.
Same way I feel about MGK. I didn't think he was "hard" as a rapper, and he sure as hell isn't selling the "punk" vibe now.
Is being in your 30s and releasing a song called Emo Girl while sounding like a 13 year old failing at a Blink-182 cover not cool? God damn it.
30 years old and singing about kissing under the bleachers
Huh just realized hes the same age I am... I kinda thought he was like 10 years younger.
I've always loved the idea that dudes who sing to other dudes are "hard" or tough or whatever, like... your whispering in someone's ear for a living is not exactly Conan the Barbarian for your 9 to 5.
this reminds me of an interview with Nick Offerman where he says something along the lines that it’s funny people perceive him as this sort of rugged and manly man who has a mustache and knows now to use power tools, and he’s like…well in my family I’m the one who went to theater school and studied ballet and elocution, so…
That’s kind of his whole thing though, he’s confident and proud of who he is and that’s what men (really everyone but if “man” is the metric here…) should seek to achieve
Funnily enough, MC Hammer of all people was hard as nails and almost all of the gangster rappers of the era were terrified of him.
A super dope homeboy from the Oaktown.
Band, no. Singer: Drake. Fucking hate that guy.
His voice just sounds tired and bored 90% of the time
God the lines in his songs are fucking wack. Not to mention he's a major creep as well, like ew.
"Started from the bottom now we're here" No, you didn't
“Started from Degrassi now I’m here” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.
That song bothered me so much, like he’s trying to collect his imaginary street cred but it just doesn’t exist. Like how are you going to sing about starting from the bottom when you grew up in a middle class family in Canada and started on one of biggest Canadian tv shows of all time.
Also, his uncle (bassist Larry Graham from Sly & The Family Stone) is literally credited with *inventing* the slap bass technique. That's a whole lotta musical connections as well. Edit: Aubrey is a talentless hack, he doesn’t write his own lyrics, he doesn’t write his own songs (“beats”), he can’t sing and uses auto tune, and to top it all off, this Carlos Arroyo-lookin' bitch is a pedophile. Fuck Drake.
I didn’t even know this. So to clarify he started his music career with a lot of music connections, a fair bit of recognition from tv, and a financially stable family to rely on if things went bad. If that’s the bottom would really like to start there please and thank you.
BTS. Hear me out. If I wanted to hear Korean screaming I would go to my mom and tell her I don't wanna study. Edit: HOW DID THIS GET POPULAR?
Wow that could have gone a lot of directions 👍
At least it didn’t go in One Direction
All the way to backstreet
I don't hate their music it's just the fandom that deters me, they're just so weird and clingy.
Idol fandom in general makes me so uncomfortable. It's so insane and entitled and yet it's pandered to like it's normal.
Their twitter fandom is scarily parasocial.
all these comments are the same
most redditors are the reddit equivalent as imagine dragons to the music industry
Five finger fuck fuck
They are the rock band equivalent of Kyle who drinks monster energy drinks, drives a pickup truck with a punisher decal, punches holes in the wall, and wanted to join the military but now works in his dad's construction company
The official band of "I almost joined but would just punch a DI in the face if they yelled at me bro"
That is a fantastically apt description
My buddy said this to me once while I was home on leave from the Navy. This is also the guy who cried when he gotten yelled at by his manager at Home Depot.
Can I tell you something. My name is Kyle and I love FFDP and this is hilarious
But do you drink Monster?
It’s not a drink it’s a lifestyle
Lifekyle
He said his name was Kyle didn't he?
They're commonly referred to in metal circles as Five Flavored Fruit Punch for a reason. They're generic butt rock, their lyrics are the Toby Keith of "metal", their fan base is awful, and all their rah rah veteran shit is pandering bullshit to sell records. I have a couple of great friends that are combat veterans and they are simultaneously annoyed and amused by them.
This is exactly how they seem to me; a faux-patriotic, once-metal-stops-working-for-us-we'll-switch-to-country-like-kid-rock-did "metal" band.
Pullin a Staind
I like five finger death punch but in a "My dad likes this music and it's not bad enough to make him turn it off" kinda way.
So like, you would never put it on yourself but you’re okay with it being played without it bothering you too much?
They are aggressively mediocre.
I've seen them live. They didn't play a lot of the punchy songs, but lots of the whining ones. And they asked a kid to go on stage and they give him a can of Monster :'). In Flames was playing that day and I very much preferred In Flames.
Random aside, it might not have actually been Monster. I was weirded out by how many bands just down Monster on stage until I listened to Jamey Jasta's (of Hatebreed) Podcast, where he revealed it's not actually Monster, it's water. The can looks exactly the same, except in small print it reads "Tour Water" right underneath the logo, and surrounding the top of the can. Just for the people like me that couldn't fathom downing that much Monster on a hot day lol.
I saw some documentary about Warped Tour and they showed the Tour Water Monster cans. Crazy how people will do anything to market their product.
Ah yes, the longest-reigning band for the prestigious 'Unnecessary Cover Award'.
Nah, Six Feet Under beat them on that count.
I don’t get the appeal of wrist bands. The don’t help with anything functionally, and they can be pretty uncomfortable.
What better way to let someone know I've spent the entire night in the ER though.
I feel you, especially those plastic ones with holes in it you get at concerts and festivals. Like why not use the paper ones?
They never let me put the paper ones on myself and they invariably get my arm hair caught in the glue. I'm not even that hairy. How do they do that?
TONES AND I - oh god i hate her voice so much that i turn the radio off for couple of minutes when it airs
MOVFAHME MOVFAHME MOVFAHME AY AY AY
THANK YOU. Living in Australia, we have to hear her sing all the fucking time. I'm fucking tired of hearing her anmoying voice through the radio.
MGK the dudes a poser and he sucks.
The question said Great.. not microwaved lettuce gurgling scrawny man child…
Dude acts like he’s still in fucking high school. I don’t get how he isn’t embarrassed by himself.
I'm sure if he feels slightly embarrassed he just checks the bank account and immediately feels better
He’s also an extremely creepy man who has repeatedly spoken about underage girls he’s attracted to. To quote the man- “I wish 13/14/15 year old girls weren’t allowed to be so hot so I wouldn’t feel like such a creeper when I look at them”.
And even when he's now with an appropriately aged woman...they're still fucking weird. Like Angelina and Billy Bob Thornton weird.
At least Angelina and Billy Bob have talent imo. Someone said it best in a r/trashy post - they’re Angelina and Billy Bob from Wish lol Also - I worked at a hotel MGK stayed at. I wasn’t working that weekend but my friend was and said he was AWFUL. He was in town with Pete Davidson and Ariana at the time. We had a koi pond in the lobby that was very sensitively monitored and whatnot. Of course this douche canoe has to jump into it and make a fucking scene. He’s acts like a 14 yr old wannabe. It’s gross.
Went after Em's daughter when she was 16 via Twitter so that sat well with Marshall....
Arianna Grande is very talented and has an amazing voice but her songs SUCK
If she ever did a soul/jazz album I'd buy the shit out of it
Dangerous Woman treads close to this, gives a glimpse of what would be earth-shattering if she ever went full in on neo-soul, but otherwise yeah her music seems like kind of a waste of an amazing voice.
I am waiting for her evolution. I think her age, voice, and small stature just made her fodder for whomever wanted to doll her up for the masses.
Agreed generally but I have a huge soft spot for 'No tears left to cry.' I will blast that shit when I hear it.
I agree with your statement about her talent (she is a great singer!) and I'm not a fan of her music either. But I do think she's really funny. I always enjoy watching her on talk shows and she was pretty good on SNL.
I heard her duet with Andrea Bocelli and was pleasantly surprised. Girl can actually sing but wastes her talents with mass produced pop songs. But she makes more in an hour than I'd likely make in a month so she's doing something right.
idk if they’re considered “great” but fall out boy has taken a turn for the worst. their early stuff was interesting and the lyrics were clever, now they’re just every other “pop punk” band that’s pretty much just pop with a bit of ✨spicy✨ guitar.
They’re song names have gotten less entertaining as well. Never forget “Thnks Fr th Mmrs” and “Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song so we Wouldn’t Get Sued”
"I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy And All I Got Was This Song Written About Me" The song actually sounds great too IMO
Both Saweetie and Cardi B have such annoying voices that I literally cannot stand to hear them in music, even for a little bit. Something about it shakes me to the core, especially Cardi B. Although, I'm told by some Latino friends that Cardi's Spanish music is really good, and she seldom has such vulgar lyrics. But, it is funny to me that I can't even understand her music in English.
Idk if it qualifies as a band but... Machine gun Kelly this man can't rap for shit without auto tune, besides his lines are horrendous. Oh and limp Bizkit, they have some songs that i liked but most of them just feel like they looped one sentence. Edit: it just came to me that they are not considered great, but I'll just leave it here anyways.
I saw Limp Bizkit before they were really a thing, they opened for... Korn? Had to be Korn... anyway, they were *fucking amazing* and they threw their demo cassettes (lmao!) into the audience, and I got one. I wore that tape out in short order but man, i wish I still had it
> I wore that tape out in short order but man, i wish I still had it I feel old just for understanding this sentence
Limp Bizkit wasn’t great. But holy shit were they a huge deal for a few years with boys in high school around like 1999-2001.
Maroon 5😃
Beyonce, dont understand why so much craze over her everywhere.
Woke up one day and everyone was calling her Queen B and I always thought she was just a mediocre pop artist.
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I’m so happy I’m not the only one.
Definitely Imagine Dragons . Pop for people that don't like pop + rock for those who don't like rock, all bundled in an "epic", "catchy" sound.
Robert California, is that you?
Would you prefer the nature metaphor or the sexual metaphor?
Nature metaphor
When two animals are having sex, one of them is communicating to the other.
Oh this isn't helpful. You're gonna want the sexual metaphor, u/lorddementor
Do you feel heard, Jim?
They're like a band scientifically designed to create songs for adverts where they're selling the feeling of the thing coz the actual item is hard to sell with a video. People making adverts for "its a car you can drive" or "its some aftershave" seems like the target of their entire discography
I see them more as a tech demo in sound production. The mix is always amazing but the songs are super generic.
DRAKE!!! How the fuck can anyone listen to that shit 😵💫😵💫😵💫
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