BadComrade wrote:Chip and one of the other "Z'nuff" guys once came in to one of the stores that I've worked at. The non-Chip one brought one of their CDs up to the counter to sell, and asked "Hey, what do you think about these guys?" and my co-worker, not knowing that the 2 guys were in the band, said "They fucking suck...". The guy at the counter turns around and yells across the store, "Hey Chip! This guy thinks we suck!"

Oh for fuck's sake. Who does that? Other than them, obviously...

For all the defending of hair metal i do on this board and in my life, i can honestly say that even the 17-year-old Winger fan i once was looked at Enuff Z'Nuff and thought, "you've gotta be fucking kidding me."

Fall Out Boy's drummer is from a Milwaukee suburb. There are plenty of terribly awful metal, nu-metal and screamo/"hardcore" bands in the area, but they don't warrant the energy to search their names and list them in a thread. God forbid someone accidentally discovers them via some convoluted Google surfing that takes them through my post, causing them to discover some horseshit like Once the Sun and be all, "wow, awesome!"

Oops.

prplmtngal wrote:

Peripatetic wrote:Mise en Place

They suck a big bag of dicks.

I heard their drummer was the best dick sucker of the bunch!

That's true. It's their only redeeming factor.

The Smoking Popes are the worst band in the history of Chicago, a fucking pitiful wussy little disgrace in every way. They make me absolutely sick with their bullshit. Oh yeah and now they are into Jesus as well. I would love to beat that singer with a pipe or baseball bat. I know they are from some rich northern suburb and not Chicago but they are still seen as a 'Chicago' band.
Do other cities have this phenomenon? Any band from 100 mile radius of Chicago is all of a sudden a 'Chicago' band.

The Pumpkins can eat a dick, Wilco can eat a dick, Bumpus can eat a dick, Mr. Blotto can eat a dick...oh yeah, all the alterna-cover bands at our practice space can eat a bunch of dicks as well.

STF wrote:Rustic Overtones. They were a "jazz/funk/rock" band and "one of the most successful to ever come out of Maine." Sad.

"Jazz/funk/rock" is probably the most unappealing genre description I can think of.

throw the word "fusion" in there and it becomes much much worse.

Marsupialized wrote:Do other cities have this phenomenon? Any band from 100 mile radius of Chicago is all of a sudden a 'Chicago' band.

before i was in bang bang, they played a show somewhere on the east coast, and the band playing before them was like, we're so and so from chicago. and jack/gretta (the other ppl in the bang bang) were like, huh that's wierd - we've haven't heard of them but that's cool - chicago's a big city. then during thier last song they were like, "thanks for coming out, there's some other band from chicago playing later, but we've never heard of them - so i can't recommend them to you or anything" which of course is kind of a dick move in itself.

so after they get off stage jack is like, where do you guys live? we live right around the corner from the empty bottle. and the dude in said band is like, i've never heard of the empty bottle. jack's like, really? that's a pretty major place to play in chicago. other dude's like, we're from gary, indiana.

new black had a similar phenomenon with a "band from chicago" on tour that was actually from kankakee.

nick92675 wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:Do other cities have this phenomenon? Any band from 100 mile radius of Chicago is all of a sudden a 'Chicago' band.

before i was in bang bang, they played a show somewhere on the east coast, and the band playing before them was like, we're so and so from chicago. and jack/gretta (the other ppl in the bang bang) were like, huh that's wierd - we've haven't heard of them but that's cool - chicago's a big city. then during thier last song they were like, "thanks for coming out, there's some other band from chicago playing later, but we've never heard of them - so i can't recommend them to you or anything" which of course is kind of a dick move in itself.

so jack asks them after they get off stage where in chicago they live - jack is like, where do you guys live? we live right around the corner from the empty bottle. and the dude in said band is like, i've never heard of the empty bottle. jack's like, really? that's a pretty major place to play in chicago. other dude's like, we're from gary, indiana.

I can not blame this band one bit, if you were from Gary Indiana would you admit it???

I've seen a lot of crap in my area, but nothing on the level of Coheed, or "Fusion". But I know the feeling of seeing a shitty band that's from the same woods as you are.

They can go somewhere else.

nick92675 wrote:before i was in bang bang, they played a show somewhere on the east coast, and the band playing before them was like, we're so and so from chicago. and jack/gretta (the other ppl in the bang bang) were like, huh that's wierd - we've haven't heard of them but that's cool - chicago's a big city. then during thier last song they were like, "thanks for coming out, there's some other band from chicago playing later, but we've never heard of them - so i can't recommend them to you or anything" which of course is kind of a dick move in itself.

so after they get off stage jack is like, where do you guys live? we live right around the corner from the empty bottle. and the dude in said band is like, i've never heard of the empty bottle. jack's like, really? that's a pretty major place to play in chicago. other dude's like, we're from gary, indiana.

Ok, why in the hell would you not own a shitty town of origin like Gary, Indiana? Think of what you can do with that. "Yes, our home town is a shithole, but it's our shithole and it hasn't stopped us from being in this band and going on tour, so our shithole town can fuck off! WE'RE SO AND SO FROM GARY, INDIANA!" Triumphing over oppressive surroundings!

Shit, being from Chicago means that you're one of 5823 bands in Chicago. No offense to the 12 of those who kick ass, but really, is it that much of a trade-up to lie?

Easy, The Fray.


-Jeremy

Words can't describe how bad these motherfuckers are. They are a shitty wildly successful COVER band. They play almost every night in various shitty sports bars in Chicago. They also play every Summer festival in Illinois. If you go to a summer festival you will see them. AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! They have been around for years and dumb ass chicks love them(look at their myspace comments.)

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