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ToxicSlurpee posted:Kerplunk, Dookie, Insomniac, and Nimrod are all great albums that have held up. After that they fell into the music industry trap of "let's make an album that rides on one hit and one or two other good songs. Everything else is filler." Minority and American Idiot are good songs but basically everything else around those songs is forgettable. American Idiot sucks but it’s not a bunch of filler. Isn’t the whole thing supposed to be a rock opera?
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also the offspring were better than greenday ever was as far as that genre/era goes.
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When I think of Green Day, I think of the worst era of music. Specifically, the whiny assholes who sing through their nose, whose songs were as bad as the people they were getting mad about (See: Every song on American Idiot) And on the other hand Gorillaz's Demon Days had very good commentaries on the same kind of stuff nerds like Green Day were getting mad about (see: Fire Coming Out of The Monkey's Head, Kids with Guns, Feel Good Inc, pretty much every song on that album) yeah I eat rear end posted:also the offspring were better than greenday ever was as far as that genre/era goes. ![]()
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yeah I eat rear end posted:also the offspring were better than greenday ever was as far as that genre/era goes. offspring have a good number of brilliant songs bad religion have two blink 182 were unironically my favourite band for a time
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The singer of The Offspring has a Biology PhD and it's like what the gently caress, you can't be successful in science and art you greedy rear end in a top hat.
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The Offspring is legit good and was the first tape I ever bought as a kid. Still holds up today
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Mu Zeta posted:The singer of The Offspring has a Biology PhD and it's like what the gently caress, you can't be successful in science and art you greedy rear end in a top hat. I just found that out after i posted and looked at their wiki and i was also like what the gently caress. It's not even an honorary one in some fluff subject, it's a real one.
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All you all idiot bitches ain't heard of Choking Victim in this thread.
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Yeah he's like the opposite of Dave Grohl since not only does he believe HIV causes AIDS, but he also wrote a scientific paper about HIV.
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Solice Kirsk posted:All you all idiot bitches ain't heard of Choking Victim in this thread. they were not played on the radio station the bus driver played for us in the mornings so they didn't exist to me back then.
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Solice Kirsk posted:All you all idiot bitches ain't heard of Choking Victim in this thread. I was like ten lay off me
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BtMI! never sold out.
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Unpopular opinion: "selling out" is not a negative thing, it is a synonym for "was successful".
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'Success' in this era is fleeting and suicidal narcissism.
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I sold out long before you ever even heard my name
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Unpopular opinion: "selling out" is not a negative thing, it is a synonym for "was successful". It can be a negative thing. Smash mouth for example sold out hard. Rammstein did not. Though yeah I'll agree with you that a lot of people accusing a band of selling out are wrong. Bands change and evolve over time. Making dramatic changes to make a label happy, sell more records, and appeal to the least common denominator is selling out for sure. Just becoming popular and successful while maintaining your roots is not.
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What is the extreme opposite of selling out. Bands like Radiohead that progressively make weirder and more boring music. Should be a term for that.
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Caufman posted:BtMI! never sold out. Debatable https://thehardtimes.net/hardstyle/jeff-rosenstock-sold-now-found-ten-dollar-bill-ground/
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Unpopular opinion: "selling out" is not a negative thing, it is a synonym for "was successful". but what about the cure
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Mu Zeta posted:What is the extreme opposite of selling out. Bands like Radiohead that progressively make weirder and more boring music. Should be a term for that. Being shite? For the record i love everything up to kid a, even pablo honey. Everything since has not been good music.
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y'all are some basic bitches
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Mu Zeta posted:What is the extreme opposite of selling out. Bands like Radiohead that progressively make weirder and more boring music. Should be a term for that. Literally dying for the cause, like the musicians on the Titanic or MLK Jr for a non-musical example.
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Mu Zeta posted:Dave Grohl ![]()
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"I only listen to rap, country, and Top 40."
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Country in general is actually good, the reason it's bad now is the hegemonic nature of the country music industry.
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purple death ray posted:"when I come around" is the best song green day ever did. Also green day kinda sucks but Dookie is still a really listenable album It’s funny I had the exact same thought just yesterday. Personally I think Green Day’s output since the late 90s is some of the worst poo poo I’ve ever heard but Dookie and even insomniac are pretty hard to dislike. Both them and Weezer started out good and went down the toilet in a pretty spectacular fashion.
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veni veni veni posted:It’s funny I had the exact same thought just yesterday. I talked to a guy who was a roadie off and on over the years. He went on tours that involved both Green Day and Weezer. Apparently the guys in Green Day are swell dudes that are nice if a bit rough around the edges. The guys from Weezer he described as "impossible assholes that nobody liked."
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Will Smiths and DJ Jazzy Jeff's Summertime is the perfect summer anthem. There was no point in making anymore after it was released.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:The only reason I think Green Day is noteworthy is that they created the song that 90% of highschool senior classes throughout all of history and the future will use for their graduation song. Green Day is Vitamin C?
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yeah I eat rear end posted:The only reason I think Green Day is noteworthy is that they created the song that 90% of highschool senior classes throughout all of history and the future will use for their graduation song. It's not even a good song but if you go to a relative's graduation you better believe you're going to be listening to that song. It's funny because that song is a break-up song from the perspective of the person cheated on. The name of the song is good riddance, as it's about him saying goodbye to a cheating girlfriend. The lyric "I hope you had the time of your life" is him basically saying, "hey, I hope you had a great time and that it was worth destroying our relationship over." Makes me want to just sit back and just listen to some happy patriotic songs about how great America is. Like Born in the USA or Keep on Rockin in the Free world.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8BRWNaOdlc Ah that classic Reagan
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MizPiz posted:Will Smiths and DJ Jazzy Jeff's Summertime is the perfect summer anthem. There was no point in making anymore after it was released. loving word
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MizPiz posted:Country in general is actually good, the reason it's bad now is the hegemonic nature of the country music industry. yea once I heard like outlaw country that bitched out at the rich that wasn't on the radio and was hella mad that pop country rules the radio market
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MizPiz posted:Country in general is actually good, the reason it's bad now is the hegemonic nature of the country music industry. No. The authoritarian side took over too much of country. If Woody Guthrie showed up nowadays with a guitar that said "This machine kills facsists" he would be shot straight away. If a modern country musician were to cover a John Prine song, they'd rephrase the whole thing as a pro-coal anthem and denounce any complainers as lazy and wanting a hand out.
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I don't know what country you're listening to. The new stuff I listen to is mostly about getting drunk, hot women, trucks and/or tractors and occasionally dip. Maybe I glossed over the goosestepping and submitting to authority subtext.
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Johnny Cash is the best country band.
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Neko Case is saving country
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I don't know what country you're listening to. The new stuff I listen to is mostly about getting drunk, hot women, trucks and/or tractors and occasionally dip. Maybe I glossed over the goosestepping and submitting to authority subtext. lol its because you already believe that poo poo you dont notice it anywhere else
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# ? Jun 13, 2024 07:34 |
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Just point me to a few of these so-called authoritarian country songs that are supposedly taking over the radio. I am saying there is no subtext to notice unless you're using an exceptionally twisted logic that hears something like "god bless the USA" as "destroy the atmosphere with coal, kill the poor".
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