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Post by minimatt on Jun 23, 2024 22:15:52 GMT
i used to commute down the a40 between cheltenham & oxford, basically the most waitrose road in the country on two occasions i've found myself at the traffic lights alongside a police car with the windows down, singing at the top of my tiny lungs a wildly inappropriate tune fuck 'em and their law by the prodg is the first, but i like that band (and met keef, story another day) so that's not for this thread second was a banging tune by an artist who made some god awful homophobic bullshit talk but banging tune: (plod rolled their eyes and moved on) |
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Post by simple on Jun 23, 2024 22:42:48 GMT
I feel I’ll be well out on my own with this one but watching Green Day at Isle of Wight on Sky tonight has really reminded me how much I never clicked with them despite being a teenager in the 90s. With only really two exceptions - Warning and Minority.
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Post by cubby on Jun 23, 2024 22:48:02 GMT
I was at a small punky festival a few years back, just waiting for the next act, and Basket Case came on the speakers. Every single person in the crowd started singing along and smiling because everyone realised that everyone else knew the lyrics too. Twas a great shared moment.
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Post by Ulythium on Jun 23, 2024 22:53:38 GMT
I feel I’ll be well out on my own with this one but watching Green Day at Isle of Wight on Sky tonight has really reminded me how much I never clicked with them despite being a teenager in the 90s. With only really two exceptions - Warning and Minority.
'Minority' is a song I don't like by a band I do - it sounds like the Levellers to my ears, and that's not good.
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Post by simple on Jun 23, 2024 23:06:13 GMT
I don’t know why they never did it for me. I was a huge Offspring fan and enjoyed Bad Religion and Descendents and NOFX and Rancid and all the other usual suspects for someone who read Kerrang in the mid-late 90s.
I don’t think they’re bad, it just never happened for me. Apart from those two songs for whatever reason.
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Post by Ulythium on Jun 23, 2024 23:12:27 GMT
That's perfectly fair.
I guess most of us will have a blind spot or two within a given genre. Take post-rock, for instance: I loved Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky, but never 'got' Godspeed You! Black Emperor, even though they were totally my bag in theory.
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Post by rawshark on Jun 24, 2024 9:21:48 GMT
I feel I’ll be well out on my own with this one but watching Green Day at Isle of Wight on Sky tonight has really reminded me how much I never clicked with them despite being a teenager in the 90s. With only really two exceptions - Warning and Minority. I was surprised at how the members of Green Day had been replaced by three ageing dinner ladies. |
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Post by retro74 on Jun 24, 2024 21:16:28 GMT
I have never heard another song they’ve done but one of my favourite songs is 74/75 by the Connells
I don’t dislike them or anything because I have no idea who they are but that song is the business
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Post by elstoof on Jun 25, 2024 6:32:16 GMT
Dookie was a good album. The rest is various shades of shit
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jun 25, 2024 7:26:43 GMT
I liked Greenday Kerplunk up to Warning. Dookie and Nimrod are the standouts though, and I'd still happily listen to those now.
American Idiot onwards they just started to go downhill, though I didn't mind American Idiot too much. Anything after that was just dull.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jun 25, 2024 7:35:38 GMT
Used to like him/them as a younger person but, with the exception of a couple of songs, can't stand NIN now. The lyrics are cringe inducing and his voice is really grating, It's either whining (about being broken or some bollocks) or shouting (about being broken or some bollocks)
Head Like a Hole is still good
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 25, 2024 7:39:02 GMT
I have never heard another song they’ve done but one of my favourite songs is 74/75 by the Connells I don’t dislike them or anything because I have no idea who they are but that song is the business Have you seen the (now quite old) revisit video? It’s genuinely quite depressing |
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Post by Ulythium on Jun 25, 2024 8:08:33 GMT
I liked Greenday Kerplunk up to Warning. Dookie and Nimrod are the standouts though, and I'd still happily listen to those now. American Idiot onwards they just started to go downhill, though I didn't mind American Idiot too much. Anything after that was just dull.
I thought American Idiot was superb, but I agree that everything they've put out since has been pretty dull.
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Post by Ulythium on Jun 25, 2024 8:13:27 GMT
Used to like him/them as a younger person but, with the exception of a couple of songs, can't stand NIN now. The lyrics are cringe inducing and his voice is really grating, It's either whining (about being broken or some bollocks) or shouting (about being broken or some bollocks)
Head Like a Hole is still good
I still like them, but I'd rather listen to modern NIN (anything from With Teeth onwards) than classic NIN (anything from The Fragile backwards) nowadays. It's less overtly angsty.
I respect Trent Reznor for growing up without becoming dull, while Marilyn Manson - his erstwhile protégé - hasn't grown up at all, and is still peddling the same "ooh, scary!" Rocky Horror Picture Show shtick as he was in the '90s.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jun 25, 2024 8:30:19 GMT
I get the impression Reznor is more interested in soundtrack work these days, which he and Ross do very well.
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Post by cubby on Jun 25, 2024 9:07:12 GMT
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jun 25, 2024 9:15:47 GMT
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Post by elstoof on Jun 25, 2024 9:17:02 GMT
With Teeth is probably the only one I’d put on now, probably because it reminds me of a particular timeas kuch as anything
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Post by Ulythium on Jun 25, 2024 9:19:57 GMT
Year Zero is probably my favourite, although I do like the ambient Ghosts albums a lot.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 25, 2024 9:27:00 GMT
I will still listen to most of their albums but I am fond of year zero. I caught them touring it and the bass lines on some of those songs were heavier than when I saw the prodigy. ‘Me, I’m Not’ actually made me stagger backwards when it kicked in.
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Post by Ulythium on Jun 25, 2024 9:29:21 GMT
I wish I'd seen them on the With Teeth/Year Zero tours, when they had Aaron North from The Icarus Line on guitar.
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Post by darkling on Jun 25, 2024 9:32:21 GMT
Dookie was a good album. The rest is various shades of shit I agree, but some songs from this album annoy me now, due to being massively overplayed, like Good Riddance and Basket Case. Even back in the day I was sick of those 2 songs in particular, due to getting played daily in the 6th form common room by popular twats who thought they were into alternative music. |
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Post by Ulythium on Jun 25, 2024 9:36:40 GMT
[pedantic nerd] Good Riddance is on Nimrod. [/pedantic nerd] |
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Post by darkling on Jun 25, 2024 9:54:04 GMT
You're right! My bad, I'm normally good at remembering things like that.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 25, 2024 9:55:38 GMT
I wish I'd seen them on the With Teeth/Year Zero tours, when they had Aaron North from The Icarus Line on guitar. They were great but they always are. I'm not a mega-fan but I will always go and see them with my mate (who is) when they come to the UK. They always have interesting support, too. I got quite into Ladytron after seeing them in Wolverhampton a few years ago. Actually, back on topic slightly, I've accidentally seen the Foo Fighters a number of times despite not really liking them at all. I like a lot of things Dave Grohl features on but I really don't care for the Foos at all. |
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Post by Tuffty on Jun 25, 2024 10:30:52 GMT
My guilty pleasures come from pop rock bands:
Weightless - All Time Low
Ocean Avenue - Yellowcard
Misery Business - Paramore
And a real guilty pleasure being She's The One by Robbie Williams
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Post by damagedinc on Jun 25, 2024 10:57:43 GMT
Yeah never massively into greenday, American idiot and dookie great albums though. The set on Isle of white was very impressive.
I was an offspring/nofx/rancid guy. Was absolutly obsessed with offspring. Almost daily play along to every album start to finish. Which I'm sure my parents and neighbours loved.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jun 25, 2024 11:05:08 GMT
I fell off The Offspring after Splinter. The albums after were okay but didn't really grab me, and I think I totally lost interest when they released the Cruising California single which I though was utter dog shit.
Heard their last album was okay but never gave it any time.
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Post by darkling on Jun 25, 2024 11:09:22 GMT
Talking of Paramore, something's really been bothering me recently. Do people see acts like Paramore, Panic at the Disco, Avril Lavigne, My Chemical Romance, and Fallout Boy as legitimate? ie. Not a bunch of cynical bands dreamed up by a record company?
In the mid 2000s I remember practically everyone I knew - including myself - being very sniffy about these bands. We viewed them as laughable even, mainly aimed at kids, yet these days I keep seeing them revered as figureheads of the alternative scene for this period, which I find baffling.
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Post by simple on Jun 25, 2024 11:26:15 GMT
The most recent Offspring album I own is Americana but there was a period between Ixnay and that one where they were a band I listened to a ridiculous amount. They’d certainly have been in the mix for being my favourite band then (alongside Pantera, Fear Factory, Deftones, Metallica, Sepultura, Kyuss and QOTSA) Like I’ve said before, I read *a lot* of Kerrang back then. I still have a near complete run from 1998-2002 with a scattering of issues 96-97 and 03 in boxes at my parents’ house. Basically anything thats on Mosher Mags I probably owned or still own www.instagram.com/moshermags |
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