Chris Irwin
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....the only people I could see makin' a stink over this are pearl jam fans. They're sort of like the grateful dead--people are either wholeheartedly devoted to them or they couldn't give a ****....I agree with you though.
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well, a lot of Math banRAB are losing their math, and it's been a while since I've seen a new Math band come out of the underground. It's a really good genre that shouldn't die.
And, I'd love to see an Ultra-Experimental Math band. I'd crap myself if I found one that was so experimental it's scary. I would love more Math Rock banRAB.
And, I'd love to see an Ultra-Experimental Math band. I'd crap myself if I found one that was so experimental it's scary. I would love more Math Rock banRAB.
gowrishanker v
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Why would I have that? Waste of space.
Basically. Not to mention some legendary original tunes of theirs.
That's like people who complain that Jay-Z "bites" Biggie too much... well if you count up all of the ORIGINAL stuff that Jay-Z raps and take out the Biggie lines... he is still one of the greatest rappers of all time.
Help has covers all over the place, and some of the original rip off the style of many artist of the era. Does that mean it's a bad album? Negative
That's like people who complain that Jay-Z "bites" Biggie too much... well if you count up all of the ORIGINAL stuff that Jay-Z raps and take out the Biggie lines... he is still one of the greatest rappers of all time.
Help has covers all over the place, and some of the original rip off the style of many artist of the era. Does that mean it's a bad album? Negative
masterofninjas
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First Priest album I heard was Rocka Rolla.
I really like Halford's voice, personally, but I've also never listened to any of their albums besides Screaming for Vengeance, British Steel, Rocka Rolla and Painkiller.
I really like Halford's voice, personally, but I've also never listened to any of their albums besides Screaming for Vengeance, British Steel, Rocka Rolla and Painkiller.
The Shins are overrated, thanks to Zach Braff.
The Ramones aren't the greatest band ever. In fact, they kind of suck. But I can't disown them because, well, they're the Ramones.
I really, really hate NOFX and Anti-Flag.
Also, musicians who take a few hits of acid and decide to write an album need to be shot in the face. Half of the time the end product is good, and the other half of the time the world gets saddled with godawful albums like "The Wall".
(Someone's going to hate me for this.)
The Ramones aren't the greatest band ever. In fact, they kind of suck. But I can't disown them because, well, they're the Ramones.
I really, really hate NOFX and Anti-Flag.
Also, musicians who take a few hits of acid and decide to write an album need to be shot in the face. Half of the time the end product is good, and the other half of the time the world gets saddled with godawful albums like "The Wall".
(Someone's going to hate me for this.)
I don't see how one could connect the two.Im A Proud American Women
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Yeah I was never a big fan of them. That was around the time when I started to really stay away from pop music and began finding stuff I really enjoyed.. but I still can't figure out my own tastes
little_pedro96
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I agree with this.
italianpoptart
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I like Oasis..
I don't really understand why I should respect a band for making multiple "comebacks." All that says to me is they either compromised musical integrity for the sake of being loved by the mainstream, or they never had any to begin with and just churned out crap that was so bad even the masses couldn't get attached to it.
That aside I think you may be a little off on just how many peaks they've had. Go back and look at the dates of their singles and albums. They didn't catch the attention of the mainstream at all until the release of Mother's Milk at the very end of the 80s. I suppose you could argue the album before it had some success, but not much and the point remains it would still be a progression to success from there. After that was Blood Sugar Sex Magik in early nineties, which was an even bigger album for them. So, as you can see there was no real peak-and-dip in success from the 80s to 90s.
If you follow their career after that you don't really see any substantial change either. The following album, One Hot Minute, while not as successful as it's predecessor, still had Aeroplane and My FrienRAB, which was a nuraber one single. Hardly a dip. They then followed that up with Californication (which came out at the very end of the 90s - when you claim they were on one of their supposed 'dips') which had a song that won a Grammy, as well as Californication and Otherside, two huge songs. After that was By the Way, which had two nuraber one singles and then another song that hit the top 10. So unless you consider the period when they didn't release an album as a dip in their popularity, I don't understand where there peak in the early 2000s come from if they never were unpopular in the first place. Then of course, they released their most recent album, Stadium Arcadium, which debuted at the top of the Billboard 200.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers never went away once they got into the mainstream's eyes. One album may have been less popular then the one before it (e.g. One Hot Minute following Blood Sugar Sex Magik) but that's only if you consider having one less chart topping single then the album before it a huge dip in popularity. One could go on to make a different argument, which is that "oh well that's even better that they managed to stay popular" but I don't think popularity has any relation to musical credibility. It's a bad argument if you want to defend the supposed worth of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, or any artist really.
That aside I think you may be a little off on just how many peaks they've had. Go back and look at the dates of their singles and albums. They didn't catch the attention of the mainstream at all until the release of Mother's Milk at the very end of the 80s. I suppose you could argue the album before it had some success, but not much and the point remains it would still be a progression to success from there. After that was Blood Sugar Sex Magik in early nineties, which was an even bigger album for them. So, as you can see there was no real peak-and-dip in success from the 80s to 90s.
If you follow their career after that you don't really see any substantial change either. The following album, One Hot Minute, while not as successful as it's predecessor, still had Aeroplane and My FrienRAB, which was a nuraber one single. Hardly a dip. They then followed that up with Californication (which came out at the very end of the 90s - when you claim they were on one of their supposed 'dips') which had a song that won a Grammy, as well as Californication and Otherside, two huge songs. After that was By the Way, which had two nuraber one singles and then another song that hit the top 10. So unless you consider the period when they didn't release an album as a dip in their popularity, I don't understand where there peak in the early 2000s come from if they never were unpopular in the first place. Then of course, they released their most recent album, Stadium Arcadium, which debuted at the top of the Billboard 200.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers never went away once they got into the mainstream's eyes. One album may have been less popular then the one before it (e.g. One Hot Minute following Blood Sugar Sex Magik) but that's only if you consider having one less chart topping single then the album before it a huge dip in popularity. One could go on to make a different argument, which is that "oh well that's even better that they managed to stay popular" but I don't think popularity has any relation to musical credibility. It's a bad argument if you want to defend the supposed worth of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, or any artist really.
