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Post by cosmonaut on May 5, 2002 19:53:28 GMT -5
You Know, Sometimes you hear everyone talking about a band and about how great they are. You listen to their music and you hate it. Two weeks later, you've got everysong of that band and every demo tape.
Just a couple weeks ago, i said i hated Trail of Dead, but now i just love them. I burn their Cd yesterday while i'm collecting money to buy it. They are awesome. Another Morning Stoner and Relative Ways are masterpieces.
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Post by soniktruth on May 5, 2002 22:54:03 GMT -5
i'd say mine is the strokes
i heard last nite & it was pretty trippy for my taste but different...i dig the different...i went to artist direct to hear a few samples of their s.h.i.t....and i took a chance ..i heard it ..it was kinda different...but listen after listen, i started diggin the phuck out of it. catchy and cool as hell. now i gotta hear it all the time..
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Post by Quarantined_Girl on May 7, 2002 2:53:55 GMT -5
I still hate the strokes. I use to dis like bikini kill with a raging passion, now i love them.
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Post by Fermented_Milk on May 7, 2002 3:32:20 GMT -5
i used to hate Depeche Mode... oh wait, i still do. never mind.
i still love the strokes. one of the most origional/its-about-time-inventive bands to to come around in a while. kinda of sick of em now , though after driving around bored and listening to them stoned endlessly. but i respect them keying in the need to bring back that kind of rock. I see a bright future on the horizon for good rock n roll. I.E. the Hives, International Noise Conspiracy, the White Stripes, and yadda yadda yadda...
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Post by Quarantined_Girl on May 7, 2002 3:35:50 GMT -5
white stripes kicks as s
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Post by Counterfeit on May 13, 2002 20:55:49 GMT -5
ATDI is one of the bands i hated. but now its all good.
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Post by Fermented_Milk on May 16, 2002 2:53:40 GMT -5
one of my friends was the exact same way with ATDI. she despised them at first, or at least denied liking them for a while. but i was continually like, listen here! give em a shot. i guarantee approval. and wouldn't ya know..
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Post by cosmonaut on May 16, 2002 20:10:44 GMT -5
the thing with atdi is the song they first heard was one armed scissor. when i heard it, i wasnt hooked and it took a boring afternoon to make me discover other Atdi songs on napster. That's what happens often: people hear the single and like or don't like it, but the other songs are much different...
singles are not always representatives of a band's real sound.
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Post by soniktruth on May 17, 2002 17:44:25 GMT -5
ANOTHER ONE WOULD BE JIMMY EAT WORLD.
I THOUGHT THEY WERE TOO DAMN SOFT BUT THEIR MELODIES AND SOME HARD GUITAR CHANGED MY MIND. I GUESS THEY HAD TOO MANY BALLADS OR SOMETHING
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Post by MercurySolo on May 24, 2002 9:56:57 GMT -5
I would have to say that, for me, that band would be The Smashing Pumpkins. I used to hate them, the whiny voice, the whininess of the vocals, the egotisticalness of Billy Corgan, all 14 year old girls owned 20 of their posters and wore SP tees all the time... I hated them.
Then I gave them a chance, and now they're one of my favorite bands. the music (not just the singles) really spoke to me. so yeah, that's my story
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Post by soniktruth on May 31, 2002 0:34:24 GMT -5
merc solo
you like they're softer stuff or harder stuff, or both?
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Post by soniktruth on Jul 15, 2002 1:54:56 GMT -5
this is ol school, but back in the day i hated faith no more....but it just sunk into me. i guess i judged a metal band with a keyboard player. it's pretty bad. angeldust is cool and so is album of the year. if you don't know who faith no more is........you're phucking young.
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Post by 3o1Mhz on Jul 15, 2002 16:55:36 GMT -5
Dashboard Confessional (That guy and his damn lyrics are hypnotic)
The Hives
The Vines
The sTrokes
........is all i got off the top of my head.
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Post by MercurySolo on Jul 15, 2002 18:34:15 GMT -5
Sorry, Paranoid, didn't see the question... Anyway, I like all of their stuff that I've heard. The music just speaks to me, I guess. I seen them once before they broke up, in Santa Barbara in May of 2000, they were awesome. They're not together now, but I still listen to their music, same with ATD-I. Mostly, the Smashing Pumpkins were the band that got me into rock again, they proved to me that just because the Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix are gone doesn't mean that newer bands can't connect with their audience in the same way.
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Post by headINcortex on Jul 15, 2002 23:48:38 GMT -5
well, i dont think thats ever happened to me with a band, but it has with albums. the white album i didn't think much of when i first heard it but i listened to it a year later and now its definetly one of my faves. i didn't like acrobatic tenement at first for some reason but it grew on me in a span of like 2 weeks.
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Post by soniktruth on Jul 16, 2002 1:45:57 GMT -5
hey merc,
please explain ZWAN''s sound. i myself dig {the} smashing pumpkins sound..i personally dig the harder s.hit,...but the best album is of course melon collie and the infinite sadness. do you own that box set (made during the melon collie sessions)?. i heard that s.hit on k-roq...it was pretty bad. ..anyways, what do you think is their best album.? GISH is not too bad either. ..trip on this , in the arms of sleep, is on a cd i burned for my lady. lyrics are phuck'n soulful............sorry, i'm incoherent..is zwan kick ass or what ?...intiendes?
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Post by MercurySolo on Jul 16, 2002 17:57:40 GMT -5
Paranoid, Zwan is good, at least I like them. They call themselves "The most X-rated band in Rock", due to their on-stage antics such as, at their first show before playing "Jesus I", Matt Sweeney, their guitarist said "What's the difference between a priest and acne? Do you know? Acne waits before you're a teen before it comes on your face." There's a lot of tongue-in cheek references to Christianity, with lyrics such as "all you sinners gonna turn up missing one of these days, I'm gonna climb climb climb up Jacob's Ladder...". It sounds like how SP sounded during Gish and Siamese Dream, but with the softer, more mellow tones of Adore, but they can still rock, I mean, they have Jimmy Chaimberlin on drums, so that's a given. Plus, they have Paz Lenchantin from A Perfect Circle on Bass now. They really have different sounds and different songs, though. Sometimes, they're like an acoustic church singalong, and sometimes they're hard rocking psychadelic-sounding again. Personally, I like them, but some SP fans I know don't really care for them all that much.
I bought the box set, The Aeroplane Flies High, a couple of years back, it's great. All those songs could have been their own album. The Bullet with Butterfly Wings single has cover songs, like "You're all I've Got Tonight" by the Cars, "Dreaming" by Blondie, "Destination Unknown" by Missing Persons and James Iha singing "A Night Like This" by the Cure. The 1979 single is my all around favorite, it sounds more like the blue Mellon Collie disc. The Zero single is flat out rock, it kicks ass. It has a 22 minute medley at the end, "Pastichio Medley", of non-stop guitar riffs that's pretty awesome, especially while incoherent. Tonight Tonight is all acoustic, it's pretty good, and 33's b-sides are awesome too, especially The Aeroplane Flies High.
I don't have a "favorite" SP album, but if i had to choose, I'd say either Adore or Machina II. Machina II is an awesome album, it rawks hard, they should have released that one instead of Machina.
Yeah, I put In The Arms of Sleep and By Starlight on a tape for my girlfriend before we moved in together. SHe's a big Pumpkins fan too, since '91. Me, only since '98. Sorry for writing so much, hope I helped.
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Post by soniktruth on Jul 16, 2002 20:04:20 GMT -5
my bad merc,
my all time SP fave album is saimese dream. i absolutely love the entire album. the riffs, vocals and ballads. quiet, soma, spaceboy, today are among SP classics in my book. i had recently downloaded the songs on the album because i had the ol school cassette. when i bought i did not own a cd player at the time. ..shows how old i am , huh? anyways machina ii is phucking awesome. is white spider on that one? so a zwan album is worth owning bro?.....
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Post by MercurySolo on Jul 17, 2002 20:14:29 GMT -5
Yeah, Siamese Dream is awesome. That's one of the few albums I can press play on track one, and doesn't have any dead time from the first track to the last. That's definitely their best put-together album, in that sense. White Spider is on Machina II, that's an awesome song, I remember the first time I heard it, I thought that my CD player was dying at first, it had been screwing up for a while before that. I remember I had got my copy of it from my girlfriend last year on April 20th (4-20-00), I listened to it on the way back home (I still lived in SoCal at the time), and was blown away. I thought "Why the hell didn't they release this one?!!" Then again, Virgin records kinda screwed them over, so it was Corgan's way of saying "I could have done this all along, so f|_|ck you, it's going for free now." Yeah, if you like Siamese Dream, Gish, and Machina II, and like the ballady stuff on SD, then you'd, at the very least, think Zwan makes some great music, if you don't become a fan or anything like that. Personally, I'm waiting for their first album to come out, although my girlfriend scored a boot of one of their shows, it was more acoustically, it's good, but I'd definitely like a fuller compilation with their rock stuff. If you'd like just to hear their stuff, www.aet08.com has a Zwan Radio section with a good selection of their stuff. They also have great Pumpkins radio stations, too. Rock
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Post by soniktruth on Mar 28, 2003 2:01:30 GMT -5
i actually thought the smiths were pretty lame ass 80's music. then i just started getting into them. johnny marrs guitar and morrisseys vocals and lyrics. i think they are one of the best bands coming out of the 80's.
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Post by Kurtz on Mar 28, 2003 11:51:51 GMT -5
Incubus...awhh man did i hate that band... I heard "Drive" from "Make Yourself".I dissed on it so hard.but hten i started hearing Science and Fungous Amongus and simply fell in love with it.and now it's one of my faviroute funk-metal bands...
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Post by CoKeS on Mar 28, 2003 12:56:36 GMT -5
I remember when I used to hate Queens of the Stone Age... "No One Knows" used to annoy the hell outta me, but now Queens is one of my favorite bands. When I heard "Song for the Dead," I fell in love with them.
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Post by Kingofcretins on Mar 28, 2003 13:16:00 GMT -5
Hmm well I didn't really like Pinkerton by Weezer or Jupiter by Cave In for about 3 months each when I got them and now they are 2 of my favourite albums ever. Can't really think of the same thing for bands themselves though.
David W
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Post by clintonbignell on Mar 28, 2003 15:16:11 GMT -5
Everyday in strenght training I have to lift wieghts and listen to nu-metal like slipknot, korn, hoobastank, linkin park, cold, all that crap. but after all this time Disturbed really grew on me. that one newer song is awesome. I still hate the other bands though.
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Post by soniktruth on Mar 29, 2003 3:31:25 GMT -5
hey kurtz, i was the other way around. i used to live like a 25 miles from calabasas so i heard of INCUBUS a long time ago. i had all their shiz, fungus amongus, enjoy incubus, and their best album to date S.C.I.E.N.C.E. they weren't big at all. i used to try to spread the word about their uniqness and awesome musicianship. then they got soft on me. i still dig 'em but i still prefer their older shiz.
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Post by Kurtz on Mar 29, 2003 14:50:38 GMT -5
Yeah their older shit is way better...Fungous Amongus is funkilicious...
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Post by MercurySolo on Mar 30, 2003 22:34:56 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm starting to pique my curiousity with the Smiths... on the way back from New Mayheeco (as Clinton would say), my cousin, a huge Smiths and Cure fan, played Louder than Bombs for me... great album, great music... I didn't care much for them or Morrisey before (mainly from watching Beavis and Butt-head dis them hardcore in my teens), but they're great... I might need to get a Smiths album soon.
True quote from Robert Smith (the Cure's lead singer): If Morrisey became a vegetarian, I would eat red meat every day of my life... I fĂșcking HATE Morrisey!
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Post by powerranger86 on Mar 30, 2003 22:40:03 GMT -5
i didn't really care for coheed and cambria A LONG time ago, same with Mr. Bungle, now I can see the pure genius by Claudio (Coheed and Cambria) and Mike Patton (Mr. Bungle) oh yea, and all of those other bands he is/was in.
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Post by soniktruth on Apr 5, 2003 0:39:56 GMT -5
coheed and cambria is pretty cool
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Post by jason on Apr 5, 2003 21:09:32 GMT -5
definetly the strokes.... hated "last nite" picked up the album and loved every song except last nite and hard to explain... i hated 311 and the whole cali ska sound as a kid now i like it... tend to like the harder punk and ska stuff more tho... love the suicide machines and the voodoo glow skulls
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