Aerosmith. They had, like, 3 good songs in the 70s and have been coasting on that ever since, but they're treated as some kind of rock gods.
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Alright, so another great band:
Type O Negative.
So when I was in middle school I was familiar with the name from magazines and online and such, but hadn’t actually heard them. Coal Chamber came to town and I needed someone to go with me to the show so I invited a kid from my math class. My parents dropped us off. It was at the state fair grounds. The headlining act was Type O Negative. The first band was Full Devil Jacket, then Coal Chamber. We left before Type O Negative came on. A few weeks later he told me he saw their CD in a catalog and so he ordered it and thought they were decent. So then I went to Napster and downloaded “My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend” and thought it was alright, but I didn’t get the whole thing since it took a year and you’d have some people cancelling the file share while you do it, so you download the file from someone else and it may have different tracking time so you get weird skips/repeats in the middle of songs.
But it wasn’t until about a year or so later that I actually heard any more when my cousin had October Rust. After that they were one of my favorite bands in high school (and still). I went and saw them live downtown. I forget the name of the venue, but when I was looking for parking I saw Brian David Mitchell (the guy who kidnapped Elizabeth Smart) start to approach my car. He was decked out in robes of what looked like some middle-eastern garb. This was during the time she was missing, too.
Anyway, if you’re going to listen to any of their songs, this is it. @colton liked each time I suggested Anathema. Curious if he’s like this. Need to make it past the initial doom.
Type O Negative.
So when I was in middle school I was familiar with the name from magazines and online and such, but hadn’t actually heard them. Coal Chamber came to town and I needed someone to go with me to the show so I invited a kid from my math class. My parents dropped us off. It was at the state fair grounds. The headlining act was Type O Negative. The first band was Full Devil Jacket, then Coal Chamber. We left before Type O Negative came on. A few weeks later he told me he saw their CD in a catalog and so he ordered it and thought they were decent. So then I went to Napster and downloaded “My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend” and thought it was alright, but I didn’t get the whole thing since it took a year and you’d have some people cancelling the file share while you do it, so you download the file from someone else and it may have different tracking time so you get weird skips/repeats in the middle of songs.
But it wasn’t until about a year or so later that I actually heard any more when my cousin had October Rust. After that they were one of my favorite bands in high school (and still). I went and saw them live downtown. I forget the name of the venue, but when I was looking for parking I saw Brian David Mitchell (the guy who kidnapped Elizabeth Smart) start to approach my car. He was decked out in robes of what looked like some middle-eastern garb. This was during the time she was missing, too.
Anyway, if you’re going to listen to any of their songs, this is it. @colton liked each time I suggested Anathema. Curious if he’s like this. Need to make it past the initial doom.
Nah, didn't grab me at all. I'd forgotten about Anathema though, haven't listened to them in ages. Need to remedy that tomorrow.
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I just got into Anathema a couple of years ago. Phenomenal band, don't know why they have absolutely no traction in the US. Although hearing "The Lost Child" literally minutes after finding out my son was dead was pretty wrenching, to say the least.
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**** yes to this. Jesus Christo, that band is embarrassing
Hell, their best song is just a remake of an old song but adding rap to it.
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I feel like you can know an unfortunate amount about someone if they like Aerosmith and/or Bon Jovi. They may be perfectly good people, of course.... but there’s very little chance that I could hang with them.
There was a brief period, around the time of their first album, where VU was simply the best rock & roll band out there. I loved one reviewer's description of Mo Tucker's drumming on "I'm Waiting for the Man," saying that you came into the song with that simplistic beat already going, and it sounded like it had been booming since the beginning of time and would keep going until the end. So goddamn good.