Bands-Artists You Thought Were Awesome in High School
52...ninth grade it was REM and the Cure, though I still kinda like the Cure, and a bunch of shite I'd see on 120 Minutes (the most embarrasing artifact from that era, if I can find it, would probably be the Bolshoi album.)
Then it was SNFU, Mr. T Experience, All...poppy punk shite
Okay...later on, I'd actually booked shows, and the last show I did was with Primus. So...yeah, the whole slappy white funk thing was what all the too cool musicianly people who I'd looked up to and so whose tastes I respected and aped listened to and tried to replicate. So, yes, I have to own up a little guilt on that one. That and the art metal stylings of Voivod, Mind Over Four, Soundgarden and Jane's Addiction...all for pretty much the same reason.
Oh yes, let's not forget Victim's Family, or Operation Ivy...Verbal Assault?
the Doughboys?
To some small degree of credit, I can say I still really like Government Issue, and they were my favorite band in high school. I was also really into Naked Raygun, Wire, Mission of Burma, Television, Scratch Acid, NoMeansNo, Minutemen, Rapeman and a bunch of stuff I would still more than willingly listen to. I was also into Cheap Trick when all my high school hipster friends still found thought of them as useless classic rock.
However, I also owned a Birthday Party record wanting to really like them, but didn't. That had to come later.
Oh well...I graduated high school in '90 and was- okay am- a big dork, what do you want?
Then it was SNFU, Mr. T Experience, All...poppy punk shite
Okay...later on, I'd actually booked shows, and the last show I did was with Primus. So...yeah, the whole slappy white funk thing was what all the too cool musicianly people who I'd looked up to and so whose tastes I respected and aped listened to and tried to replicate. So, yes, I have to own up a little guilt on that one. That and the art metal stylings of Voivod, Mind Over Four, Soundgarden and Jane's Addiction...all for pretty much the same reason.
Oh yes, let's not forget Victim's Family, or Operation Ivy...Verbal Assault?
the Doughboys?
To some small degree of credit, I can say I still really like Government Issue, and they were my favorite band in high school. I was also really into Naked Raygun, Wire, Mission of Burma, Television, Scratch Acid, NoMeansNo, Minutemen, Rapeman and a bunch of stuff I would still more than willingly listen to. I was also into Cheap Trick when all my high school hipster friends still found thought of them as useless classic rock.
However, I also owned a Birthday Party record wanting to really like them, but didn't. That had to come later.
Oh well...I graduated high school in '90 and was- okay am- a big dork, what do you want?
You call me a hater like that's a bad thing
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Bands-Artists You Thought Were Awesome in High School
53As a youngster I took someone's advice and sought out every form of music I could possibly find. Which in retrospect really wasn't that wide ranging, but still I was trying. A lot of the shit I was listening to is stuff I wouldn't put on in a million years now, some of it I'll still listen to from time to time. Getting out to shows and seeing good punk and hardcore bands live in small venues really cut the bullshit out of my listening habits, but prior to junior year or so I could be found digging on some awful stuff:
Phish (but to be fair this was like 1990 or so, they were just some jazz/rock dudes from Vermont, not a cultural phenomenon)
fusion stuff like Weather Report, Return to Forever, christ I saw Spyro Gyra at the Berklee performance center in Boston.
bad metal, I listened to good metal as well, but shit like Helloween, Queensryche, 80's Judas Priest, I liked Suicidal Tendencies' How Will Laugh Tomorrow record a lot.
and Rush. way, way too much Rush.
Phish (but to be fair this was like 1990 or so, they were just some jazz/rock dudes from Vermont, not a cultural phenomenon)
fusion stuff like Weather Report, Return to Forever, christ I saw Spyro Gyra at the Berklee performance center in Boston.
bad metal, I listened to good metal as well, but shit like Helloween, Queensryche, 80's Judas Priest, I liked Suicidal Tendencies' How Will Laugh Tomorrow record a lot.
and Rush. way, way too much Rush.
Bands-Artists You Thought Were Awesome in High School
54Dr. Venkman wrote:Alright, motherfuckers. I have enjoyed the perverse culture of hair bands of the mid-to-late-eighties ala Crue, Maiden...I have been to a Warrant Concert. I liked Primus in college. I still like Sebadoh.
But, Live!? C'mon, people. If you have ever REALLY enjoyed Live, kill yourself. I'm sorry if this offends anyone.
Fuck Pearl Jam.
My high school years were tempered a good mix of Pavement, Polvo, SOD, Anthrax, Beatsie Boys, AC/DC, NWA, Ramones, Wu-Tang, Archers, Ice Cube, Sebadoh, Eric B. and Rakeem, Hendrix, Tribe, Stones, EPMD, Metallica, Megadeth, Chubb Rock, Run-DMC, Led Zeppelin, The Who, James Gang, Suicidal, Replacements, Sabbath...I can't complain...
I'll stop...Fuck Live..that's what I'm trying to say. If I ever write a song about crying dolphins, you have my full permission...shoot me in the dick.
Alright, let me clear this up before anyone gets any funny ideas. I did and do not enjoy Live but when ERawk mentioned them, It reminded me of some other lame bands my brother was into.
On another note, they wrote songs about crying dolphins? They are my new favorite band and I'm going to go blare that song on repeat in front of Wholefoods until the environment is saved.
lemur68 wrote:Why would you be where a jam band is playing in the first place?
Bands-Artists You Thought Were Awesome in High School
55AnthonyVillalobos wrote:Dr. Venkman wrote:Alright, motherfuckers. I have enjoyed the perverse culture of hair bands of the mid-to-late-eighties ala Crue, Maiden...I have been to a Warrant Concert. I liked Primus in college. I still like Sebadoh.
But, Live!? C'mon, people. If you have ever REALLY enjoyed Live, kill yourself. I'm sorry if this offends anyone.
Fuck Pearl Jam.
My high school years were tempered a good mix of Pavement, Polvo, SOD, Anthrax, Beatsie Boys, AC/DC, NWA, Ramones, Wu-Tang, Archers, Ice Cube, Sebadoh, Eric B. and Rakeem, Hendrix, Tribe, Stones, EPMD, Metallica, Megadeth, Chubb Rock, Run-DMC, Led Zeppelin, The Who, James Gang, Suicidal, Replacements, Sabbath...I can't complain...
I'll stop...Fuck Live..that's what I'm trying to say. If I ever write a song about crying dolphins, you have my full permission...shoot me in the dick.
Alright, let me clear this up before anyone gets any funny ideas. I did and do not enjoy Live but when ERawk mentioned them, It reminded me of some other lame bands my brother was into.
On another note, they wrote songs about crying dolphins? They are my new favorite band and I'm going to go blare that song on repeat in front of Wholefoods until the environment is saved.
You love Live. Admit it. It'll feel good. You love everything about the band Live. You want to fuck Live. In the ass, maybe. Live. LIVELIVELIVELIVELIVLEIVELIVLEIVLIEVLIELVIELIELIVLEIVLEIVLEIVLEVILEIVE. Fucking Live. It's Live. And you fucking love them.
Bands-Artists You Thought Were Awesome in High School
56Dr. Venkman wrote:AnthonyVillalobos wrote:Dr. Venkman wrote:Alright, motherfuckers. I have enjoyed the perverse culture of hair bands of the mid-to-late-eighties ala Crue, Maiden...I have been to a Warrant Concert. I liked Primus in college. I still like Sebadoh.
But, Live!? C'mon, people. If you have ever REALLY enjoyed Live, kill yourself. I'm sorry if this offends anyone.
Fuck Pearl Jam.
My high school years were tempered a good mix of Pavement, Polvo, SOD, Anthrax, Beatsie Boys, AC/DC, NWA, Ramones, Wu-Tang, Archers, Ice Cube, Sebadoh, Eric B. and Rakeem, Hendrix, Tribe, Stones, EPMD, Metallica, Megadeth, Chubb Rock, Run-DMC, Led Zeppelin, The Who, James Gang, Suicidal, Replacements, Sabbath...I can't complain...
I'll stop...Fuck Live..that's what I'm trying to say. If I ever write a song about crying dolphins, you have my full permission...shoot me in the dick.
Alright, let me clear this up before anyone gets any funny ideas. I did and do not enjoy Live but when ERawk mentioned them, It reminded me of some other lame bands my brother was into.
On another note, they wrote songs about crying dolphins? They are my new favorite band and I'm going to go blare that song on repeat in front of Wholefoods until the environment is saved.
You love Live. Admit it. It'll feel good. You love everything about the band Live. You want to fuck Live. In the ass, maybe. Live. LIVELIVELIVELIVELIVLEIVELIVLEIVLIEVLIELVIELIELIVLEIVLEIVLEIVLEVILEIVE. Fucking Live. It's Live. And you fucking love them.
Well, if you put it that way...:
Even that, would not be as gay as this photograph of your back taken at that Warrant show:
lemur68 wrote:Why would you be where a jam band is playing in the first place?
Bands-Artists You Thought Were Awesome in High School
57The Misfits.
I still love 'em, but no nearly as much as I did.
I still love 'em, but no nearly as much as I did.
Bands-Artists You Thought Were Awesome in High School
58burun wrote:Skronk wrote:If you ever wrote a song about the sacred moment of childbirth it's safe to say you never had a dick.
lemur68 wrote:Lightning crashes, a new mother cries
ok, whatever
her placenta falls to the floor
WHAT
jimmy spako wrote:jeff porcaro may be gone but his ghostnotes continue to haunt me.
Bands-Artists You Thought Were Awesome in High School
59AnthonyVillalobos wrote:Even that, would not be as gay as this photograph of your back taken at that Warrant show:
You made me spray coffee all over my monitor and keyboard you fuckstick!!!!!
iembalm wrote:Can I just point out, Rick, that this rant is in a thread about a cartoon?
Bands-Artists You Thought Were Awesome in High School
60Radiohead (Kid A, Amnesiac, and OK Computer mainly)
Nine Inch Nails (The Fragile, et al)
techno, lots of techno - Global Underground mixCDs, some of the electronic acts on Ninja Tune like Amon Tobin, The Orb, Aphex Twin, Daft Punk, etc. Eventually this would lead me to Brian Eno, but not until after high school did this interest take off.
Smashing Pumpkins (Machina, Mellon Collie)
Some "classic rock" like Pink Floyd. I loved "The Wall" movie.
Random radio and movie soundtrack fodder, like The Matrix soundtrack and Rage Against The Machine - Renegades.
Then one night I came across Sigur Ros on MTV2 at midnight. Blew my mind, and I started looking around for other things that weren't mainstream... the rest is history.
Nine Inch Nails (The Fragile, et al)
techno, lots of techno - Global Underground mixCDs, some of the electronic acts on Ninja Tune like Amon Tobin, The Orb, Aphex Twin, Daft Punk, etc. Eventually this would lead me to Brian Eno, but not until after high school did this interest take off.
Smashing Pumpkins (Machina, Mellon Collie)
Some "classic rock" like Pink Floyd. I loved "The Wall" movie.
Random radio and movie soundtrack fodder, like The Matrix soundtrack and Rage Against The Machine - Renegades.
Then one night I came across Sigur Ros on MTV2 at midnight. Blew my mind, and I started looking around for other things that weren't mainstream... the rest is history.
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