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Title: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Vas Deferens on August 11, 2008, 04:54:00 pm
Black Keys
 Swell Season
 
   :D
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: azaghal1981 on August 11, 2008, 04:58:00 pm
The Hold Steady
 LCD Soundsystem (wouldn't mind hearing "Losing My Edge" once in a while and "Someone Great" is ok but other than that...)
 
 Edit: Vampire Weekend (How'd I forget this one? Are their 15 minutes up yet?)
 CYHSY
 Tapes n Tapes
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: mr. pretentious on August 11, 2008, 05:00:00 pm
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Originally posted by azaghal1981:
  The Hold Steady
 
I totally expect this one to pop up a lot.
 
 But I still lurve them.  :)
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 11, 2008, 05:15:00 pm
bored bored boring boring  bored bored board board
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: sweetcell on August 11, 2008, 05:18:00 pm
didn't we just have this thread last month?
 
 U2, radiohead, pearl jam, and the usual list of "over-rated bands"...    :roll:
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on August 11, 2008, 05:19:00 pm
Ditto what Kosmo and Sweets said. I'm not doing this topic for the 4th month in a row.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Relaxer on August 11, 2008, 05:19:00 pm
No offense Joe (well, okay, a little -- ZING! Right in the eye, y'pirate! ARRRRRR) but didn't we just do this? Like a week or two ago? I came up with highly comical and prescient satires of names, and some foolishly labelled it as Mad Magazining.
 
 Anyway, this should be called the OkkerSpoonDaftWilcoMouse LCD Award.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: azaghal1981 on August 11, 2008, 05:20:00 pm
Yeah, we did.
 
 
 Joe's turning into walkonby. It's only a matter of time before he starts threads filled with LSD-fueled rants.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Frank Gallagher on August 11, 2008, 05:22:00 pm
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Originally posted by kosmo:
  bored bored boring boring  bored bored board board
YAAAAAWWWWWNNNNN - snooooooze zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz nirvana zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz PHWWWWWWT. oops, pardon me!
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: martinrob on August 11, 2008, 05:24:00 pm
Sublime, Jane's Addiction, Bright Eyes, Feist, Clash, just to start things off.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: beetsnotbeats on August 11, 2008, 05:31:00 pm
The 90s.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Frank Gallagher on August 11, 2008, 06:00:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by azaghal1981:
  Yeah, we did.
 
 
 Joe's turning into walkonby. It's only a matter of time before he starts threads filled with LSD-fueled rants.
But then he would be GGW going by recent events!
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: azaghal1981 on August 11, 2008, 06:05:00 pm
Hah...very true.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: SPARX on August 11, 2008, 07:14:00 pm
Well over 90% of the bands on the planet
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Vas Deferens on August 11, 2008, 09:42:00 pm
ohh hi everyone, i'm back from jukebox the ghost at ft. reno...
 
 ok, sorry, I guess I wasn't paying attention     :D  
 
 I appreciate your concerns, let's revisit in a year? haha...
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on August 11, 2008, 10:23:00 pm
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Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
  Swell Season
deep deep hatred in my cold little heart for this sweet duo ... their 930 club show was just unbearable
 
 and i like the frames   :(
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on August 12, 2008, 05:54:00 am
I hate the Frames, the Swell Season, AND the Commitments.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: eltee on August 12, 2008, 04:09:00 pm
Ya'll are just silly.
 
 Stills, Stellastarr*, Travis, Pixies, of course, Dave Matthews. I don't know if he has a following, but I couldn't sit through Liam Finn (or at least the lady singing with him).
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Sir HC on August 12, 2008, 04:24:00 pm
Cat Power.  Live at least she was a xanax fueled mess when I saw her.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: walkonby on August 12, 2008, 04:29:00 pm
may the gods of indie pop power strike me dead, but i only listened to these guys because of the dinosaur connection.  then i matured into knowing that after one album of it, the rest are exactly the same with funny pictures of childhood memories on the front and inside.  f, sebadoh.  f them to nerdy glasses hell.
 
 there, roll that printout and smoke it.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on August 12, 2008, 06:15:00 pm
Dag Nasty
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: SPARX on August 12, 2008, 11:16:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by They call me Doctor Doom.:
  Dag Nasty
Really? I thought Brian's band was great around the time Ian was making that Embrace release. Seemed like so much tension between the 2 of them, it made for a couple of fine albums IMHO. Great angst fueled lyrics.
 
 I also found Brian to be much more personable than Ian as well. He actually saved me from getting booted at a show and he didn't know me from Adam. Just Sayin.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: azaghal1981 on August 12, 2008, 11:27:00 pm
Kosmo, ban this man! Ban him now!
 
Quote
Originally posted by walkonby:
  may the gods of indie pop power strike me dead, but i only listened to these guys because of the dinosaur connection.  then i matured into knowing that after one album of it, the rest are exactly the same with funny pictures of childhood memories on the front and inside.  f, sebadoh.  f them to nerdy glasses hell.
 
 there, roll that printout and smoke it.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Jaguar on August 13, 2008, 02:32:00 am
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Originally posted by walkonby:
  there, roll that printout and smoke it.
You and Relaxer ought to start your own rolling paper business. Maybe call it Relaxonby Rolling Papers. Has a nice ring to it and seems to suggest a smooth smoke. You write the script and Relaxer crafts the ever so delicate papers. You could even recruit Econo and GGW for your quality control division.
 
 Stretching to keep this post on topic, the use of rolling papers involves sucking. Any other kind is purely at your own discretions.
 
 For the record, with an exception or two, I agree with most of the bands listed above even though I think a couple of them are actually fairly good. Just not my cup of tea.
 
 Will add Feist because I can't stand her. Must change the station or even turn it off every time she's played on the radio.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on August 13, 2008, 06:30:00 pm
I don't know, SPARX, I know those guys too and they're nice people, but their music just struck me as predictable, humorless and way too earnest.   But then so much of DC punk had gone that route by around 1985.   Other people seem to think of that era as some kind of era of greatness, so to each their own...
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: SPARX on August 13, 2008, 06:59:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by They call me Doctor Doom.:
  I don't know, SPARX, I know those guys too and they're nice people, but their music just struck me as predictable, humorless and way too earnest.  
Oh, I agree wholewheartedly with that statement. There seemed to be a lot of bitterness in both Brian and Ian at that point. They definitely were letting it all out through the music.
 
 When did earnest become a bad thing?
 
 Face it, it was all downhill after Minor Threat, but catching a live Dag Nasty show for like 5 bucks was totally worth it and 20 some years later I still pull out those couple of releases for a listen when the mood fits.
 
 Living in West Virginia and not having them rammed down my throat like the D.C. area probably helped in my case.
 
 Oh, and for the record, I own no Fugazi and am perfectly content with that.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on August 13, 2008, 07:02:00 pm
Earnest is a bad thing when one takes oneself too seriously, which seemed to be a problem with "Revolution Summer" in general.
 
 As for Fugazi... I don't own much of their recorded stuff, but live I've got to admit they're pretty amazing.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: SPARX on August 13, 2008, 07:08:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by They call me Doctor Doom.:
  Earnest is a bad thing when one takes oneself too seriously, which seemed to be a problem with "Revolution Summer" in general.
 
 
I consider it more conviction than anything, the belief they are on the right path and doing and saying what they truly believed at the time. I can't dis them for that. The music biz is dog eat dog. Not much room for the weak willed. My experiences with them were enjoyable. As for anyone elses, it's anyones guess.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: ZackVLion on August 13, 2008, 08:51:00 pm
definitely the white stripes
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on August 14, 2008, 06:22:00 pm
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Originally posted by SPARX:
  I consider it more conviction than anything, the belief they are on the right path and doing and saying what they truly believed at the time.
Yeah, Scientologists, Nazis, and Maoists also believe they're on the right path, that quality isn't inherently good... but enough debating the distant past, sorry for bringing it up.   :)
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: SPARX on August 14, 2008, 06:50:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by They call me Doctor Doom.:
  but enough debating the distant past, sorry for bringing it up.     :)  
No need to be sorry. They're no sacred cow as far as I'm concerned. Just a difference of opinion, that's all. There's still Nazis?
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: walkonby on August 14, 2008, 07:24:00 pm
so i was having a talk with a girl at the office, and the topics of satan, the supernatural, and other things one should probably not be talking about outloud, made their ways into the mix.
 
 so i get home, and a fricking rusty pitchfork comes flying off the wall with enough velocity to puncture into my shoe, sock, and foot.  nice one, you devil.  i better not now need a shot or something.  and i was having a good day.
 
 oh yeah, foo fighters suck.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: SPARX on August 14, 2008, 07:31:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by walkonby:
  so i was having a talk with a girl at the office, and the topics of satan, the supernatural, and other things one should probably not be talking about outloud, made their ways into the mix.
 
 so i get home, and a fricking rusty pitchfork comes flying off the wall with enough velocity to puncture into my shoe, sock, and foot.  nice one, you devil.  i better not now need a shot or something.  and i was having a good day.
 
 oh yeah, foo fighters suck.
Speaking of the supernatural, I see a tetanus shot in your near future. Seriously.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on August 14, 2008, 07:44:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by walkonby:
  oh yeah, foo fighters suck.
Word... seriously boring mainstream... sorry about your problems with Pitchfork.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Firebutt McGee on August 14, 2008, 11:30:00 pm
Girl Talk.
 
 I might be the only person who just doesn't get it.
 Is there really that much talent that goes into what he does? Fill me in on what exactly I'm missing. I've got Night Ripper and it sounds like one of those "Best of 2003 Megamix" things.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Frank Gallagher on August 15, 2008, 10:09:00 am
Quote
Originally posted by walkonby:
  so i was having a talk with a girl at the office, and the topics of satan, the supernatural, and other things one should probably not be talking about outloud, made their ways into the mix.
 
 so i get home, and a fricking rusty pitchfork comes flying off the wall with enough velocity to puncture into my shoe, sock, and foot.  nice one, you devil.  i better not now need a shot or something.  and i was having a good day.
 
 oh yeah, foo fighters suck.
Satan is a homophobe.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: killsaly on August 15, 2008, 10:16:00 am
The Raconteurs.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on August 15, 2008, 10:16:00 am
I was trying to think of a band that I thought fit into this thread. And then I realized that I've already contributed my fair share of judgements to other threads over the years, with the theme of this thread title.
 
 But I still have a special dislike reserved from the White Stripes. Though if Meg played naked, there would be some redeeming value.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Bombay Chutney on August 15, 2008, 10:18:00 am
Quote
Originally posted by ixkpd-bk:
  Girl Talk.
 
 I might be the only person who just doesn't get it.
 
No - Maybe I haven't heard the right stuff, but I don't get it either.  I couldn't even get through a few soundclips on emusic.  It was just painful.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Frank Gallagher on August 15, 2008, 10:37:00 am
Quote
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
 
 But I still have a special dislike reserved from the White Stripes. Though if Meg played naked, there would be some redeeming value.
ugh...she's a skanky looking bitch with a nice rack.
 
 And why does Jack White try to resemble Edward Scissorhands all the time?
 
 Pete Townsend pretty much echos my opinion of them.
 
 quote - â??I could probably outdo The White Stripes with a guitar and a fucking drum machine" - unquote
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: walkonby on August 15, 2008, 10:40:00 am
Quote
Originally posted by Ever Circling Skeletal Family:
   
Quote
Originally posted by walkonby:
  so i was having a talk with a girl at the office, and the topics of satan, the supernatural, and other things one should probably not be talking about outloud, made their ways into the mix.
 
 so i get home, and a fricking rusty pitchfork comes flying off the wall with enough velocity to puncture into my shoe, sock, and foot.  nice one, you devil.  i better not now need a shot or something.  and i was having a good day.
 
 oh yeah, foo fighters suck.
Satan is a homophobe. [/b]
if you only knew satan's opinion of gay people.  it would make your mouth drop!  i had the worst night last night.  my whole foot is bruised from one puncture wound??  and the blood.  damn blood.  almost went to emergency room, then i realized the cost.  off to urgent care for my t. shot.  yeah!
 
 and the reverse of the topic.  i used to think arcade fire really, really sux, then i listened to neon bible and was totally turned around.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on August 15, 2008, 10:41:00 am
Sometimes that's quite enough, for purposes of looking at only.
 
 I didn't say I wanted to marry her!
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by Ever Circling Skeletal Family:
   
Quote
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
 
 But I still have a special dislike reserved from the White Stripes. Though if Meg played naked, there would be some redeeming value.
ugh...she's a skanky looking bitch with a nice rack.
 
 unquote [/b]
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Frank Gallagher on August 15, 2008, 10:43:00 am
Quote
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  Sometimes that's quite enough, for purposes of looking at only.
 
 I didn't say I wanted to marry her!
 
   
Quote
Originally posted by Ever Circling Skeletal Family:
   
Quote
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
 
 But I still have a special dislike reserved from the White Stripes. Though if Meg played naked, there would be some redeeming value.
ugh...she's a skanky looking bitch with a nice rack.
 
 unquote [/b]
[/b]
True, very true...a nice rack is a nice rack at the end of the day.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: ebeniezer on August 15, 2008, 11:28:00 am
The Hold Steady is pretty darn terrible.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on August 15, 2008, 11:34:00 am
And they don't even have a nice rack.
 
 I dare you to listen to the Girls and Boys in America album and not enjoy it.
   :p  
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by ebeniezer:
  The Hold Steady is pretty darn terrible.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: DeathFromAbove1979 on August 15, 2008, 12:12:00 pm
Ratatat literally puts me to sleep and I just don't get it.
 
 Girl Talk is overrated and done
 
 Coldplay, clap your hands say yeah, LCD Soundsystem. Im sure more will come to me.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Cali on August 15, 2008, 02:10:00 pm
shudder to think. had to leave the shade tent b/c i couldnt take listening to them anymore
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Frank Gallagher on August 15, 2008, 03:05:00 pm
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Originally posted by Cali:
  shudder to think. had to leave the shade tent b/c i couldnt take listening to them anymore
I did exactly the same thing with Jimmy's Chicken Shack at some festival in DC a few years ago.
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: mr. pretentious on August 15, 2008, 04:21:00 pm
I think I made this clear in another thread, but just for kicks...
 
 Animal Collective
 Devendra Banhart
 Joanna Newsom
 She Wants Revenge
Title: Re: Bands that people like but you think suck
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on August 15, 2008, 04:36:00 pm
Let me end Friday on a positive note. I'll wholeheartedly agree with all of those selections.
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by mr. pretentious:
  I think I made this clear in another thread, but just for kicks...
 
 Animal Collective
 Devendra Banhart
 Joanna Newsom
 She Wants Revenge