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Friday, February 27, 2009

I'm Drunk! Bands the World Can Do Without

Posted by Maranda Bish on Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:23 PM

I was thinking. I was thinking that there is a unique status that belongs to bands that you don't hate, that don't make your blood boil with murderous rage (for me, for example, this would be Limp Bizkit...GRRR), but that you would be OK to never hear speak of again. I have solemnly concluded that one of these bands I feel this way about is Aerosmith, as implicated by their activity from around the Clinton years on.

I can't deny that the band did have a golden era, uniquely styling that early '70's feel with powerful jams like "Dream On" (later bastardized by Enimem...another one of my blood boilers). In the ensuing years they made some good videos (see above), and Steven Tyler made a real good-lookin' daughter.

But dammit, the world really did not need their cover of "Come Together", and that song from Armageddon continues to suck souls daily on soft-rock radio. Also, I am offended by the gratuitous amount of scarves that can be seen draped around Stephen Tyler's mic stand during live shows. Ultimately, I think it is the band's seemingly self-determined descent into standard, generic rock (new descriptor: generiROCK? Does that work?) that turned them into ghosts of themselves and makes me turn away in indifference.

Yeah, I could do without, forever. Sorry Aerosmith. What about y'all? Any bands you feel this way about?

 

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Coldplay, Third Eye Blind, Matchbox 20, Everclear, Nickelback, and Bowling for Soup. The fact that any of them ever sold a single record is proof that Faustian bargains really exist.
Posted by Gorilla Monsoon on February 27, 2009 at 3:56 PM · Report
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Aerosmith's "Come Together" ruined the original for me. I skip it nearly every time I listen to Abbey Road.

But I used to play some awesome NERF basketball games in my room to the sounds of Pump.

So: I don't know.
Posted by ROM on February 27, 2009 at 4:41 PM · Report
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Limp Bizkit announced a couple weeks ago that they are reforming for a new tour and album.

"We decided we were more disgusted and bored with the state of heavy popular music than we were with each other," Durst and Borland said in a joint statement.

"Regardless of where our separate paths have taken us, we recognize there is a powerful and unique energy with this particular group of people we have not found anywhere else. This is why Limp Bizkit is back."

JUST FYI!
Posted by Carls on February 27, 2009 at 7:38 PM · Report
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fleet foxes, of montreal, hold steady, counting crows, grizzly bear, fleetwood mac, candlebox, the list goes on and on...
Posted by bp baggins on February 28, 2009 at 8:33 PM · Report
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Carls, that is awesome. That comment redeems them just the slightest bit in my book, and reduces the heat of my boiling blood to, oh, 98 degrees (that band I think the world HAS forgotten about...)

BP: Fleetwood Mac! I kinda love em. They were just so incestuous.
Posted by maranda on February 28, 2009 at 9:10 PM · Report
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arewe talking bands or brands, b/c I reallyreallyreally can't take anymore references to Gucci & Gabbana in hiphop.
Posted by Mr. Chuck on March 2, 2009 at 4:01 PM · Report

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