I really hate this time of year

[Asher]

Here are two of their most recent songs that nearly causes me to commit vehicular manslaughter each time they play on the radio:

[Asher]

Two other bands that genuinely cause my skin to crawl: Blink 182 and Sum 41.

Blink 182 and all of their side/solo projects especially. The fact that the singer can't ****ing speak English properly also annoys the hell out of me.

They have that song, "Miss You" or something (CREATIVE), where he sings something like "don't waste yer time on me yer already a voice inside my ed"

I think he means "head" but he can't ****ing pronounce it.

There's a whole bunch of other words he can't pronounce either.

[giblets]

Here are two of their most recent songs that nearly causes me to commit vehicular manslaughter each time they play on the radio:

They actually play that garbage on the radio?

[Asher]

All too often.

[MRT144]

i, for one, am getting tired of seeing those f*cking sellouts in that goddamned car commercial. goddamned hipsters need to die. :wiglaf:

Seriously, I want to punch my fist through faces because of those commercials.

[MRT144]

No one is a hipster or Oerdin like proportions. Besides, the bands I've spoken highly of lately (other than Led Zep, Beatles, The Who, etc) have been the White Stripes, Vampire Weekend, Phoenix, and (I believe) Arcade Fire. I think it speaks for itself.

This is hipster bull**** right here.

[onodera]

So what you're saying is that a 25 year old couldn't be expected to be on top of several decades-old music?

No, what I'm saying is that the bieber comparison is meaningless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists

The only band from an English-speaking country I'd never heard of with more than 100 mill in total sales is "Status Quo" (?)

I think they're famous for their 'you're in the army now" song about the Vietnam war.

[Asher]

Never heard of it.

[Elok]

The Doors are certainly better than the woe-is-me NiN, Perfect Circle, Tool, etc.

I, for one, am amazed that Trent Reznor has made such a lengthy career out of lip-syncing a bunch of old Tasmanian Devil cartoons.

[Imran Siddiqui]

So you no longer like Green Day?

Au contraire! I do still like Green Day, but I find ever liking Matchbox 20 to be a worse failing. Though I don't bring it up.

[Asher]

I WANNA BE THE MINORITY!

/anger music

[C0ckney]

Weezer >>>>>>> Green Day >>>>>>> Matchbox 20

.....

I think it's actually much harder to write a simple catchy song than it is to write a complex song.

couldn't agree more.

green day are utter crap these days. dookie was good, even nimrod had its moments. the problem is that if you're going to do pop-punk then it needs to be fun and tongue-in-cheek in order to work. see for example, helen love or town bike. if you become a serious, 'think we're gonna change the world' kind of band, and you're still making pop-punk then it's going to fall flat on its arse.

weezer's blue album is good, although it hasn't aged as well as some others from that time and pinkerton wasn't bad.

[Asher]

I think it's actually much harder to write a simple catchy song than it is to write a complex song.

What an inane thing to say.

It's much harder to write a GOOD complex song than it is to write a simple catchy song. The GOOD qualifier is important.

Really great music has multiple layers of "catchiness", not a single overriding riff that repeats ad nauseum. The pop-punk genre in general are horrible, horrible offenders in this area. I don't think there's a single pop-punk band I can stand.

[Al B. Sure!]

Barnabas and Braindead, you need to freaking listen to a better producer than Puff Daddy; someone who actually does something with the sample.

And for what it's worth, that Puff Daddy song was a tribute to the dead Biggie Smalls. The woman singing on it, Faith Evans, was his wife. The song only has value with respect to it being an RIP song.

[Asher]

Nothing says "RIP" like ripping off a classic old white-man song and talking **** over it.