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The Official What is Your Top 5 Favorite Bands Thread?
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Use to Listen to Brand New. I heard them live once at the Mandalay Bay in Vegas when I was in High School... They were opened for Dashboard Confessional (Please don't make fun of me for going to a Dashboard Concert... I was with a girl
Did your mother enjoy the concert too?
Why you hating on Blink? Yeah, their newer stuff is pretty lame, but their old stuff is pretty hard to hate in my opinion.
Technically it's good, but it's mostly bubble gum with no soul.
There are much worse bands though....like simple plan, sum 41, good charlotte, etc
true story:i did get high with the band in santa cruz. i believe they were still called blink(minus the 182 at that point), and they were the first to open a bill of 4/5 bands. i was there with pennywise who we had met in tokyo.
they are very cool with their fans, invited us to the dressing room where blink was. they were smoking a bowl, face full of zits, and eating pizza. they shared, and were pretty nice. i dont remember travis, maybe
he wasn't with them at that point.
good times. we helped carry some of their gear onto stage.
NAOS
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In terms of musical TECHNIQUE it is extraordinarily simple. That doesn't mean it can't absolutely nail that simplicity, but I've never heard Blink as a band that really strives for that kind of musical perfection/vision. Rather, they are lifestyle peddlers, and the only thing they know is a very rarefied air of SoCal...
Not really getting any kind of "lifestyle peddling" vibe from them at all. Their (early) music was just simple pop-punk with the humor of a 16 year old. Not saying it was perfect music, but it has a nostalgic factor, for me at least.
NAOS
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You'd see it differently if you spent time out here.
I'm not saying blink themselves are consciously pushing lifestyle... that's operating on the level of assumption/unconscious. The people who made them big, however, saw the market for their kind of slacker/rebellious/harmless ethos. Whom do you think comprises that market? There's a whole history of this kind of music-industry meddling in SoCal going back to the Beach Boys. Look into that history and you'll see exactly what I mean. Ace of Base is their most embarrassing puppet.
I'm not saying blink themselves are consciously pushing lifestyle... that's operating on the level of assumption/unconscious. The people who made them big, however, saw the market for their kind of slacker/rebellious/harmless ethos. Whom do you think comprises that market? There's a whole history of this kind of music-industry meddling in SoCal going back to the Beach Boys. Look into that history and you'll see exactly what I mean. Ace of Base is their most embarrassing puppet.
NAOS
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...also, your locating their value in "nostalgia" does more to prove my point. Nostalgia is comprised more of lifestyle than of pushing musical boundaries/language with instruments. In other words, you're CORRECT to associate them with nostalgia rather than pure musicality.
Duck Rodgers
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NOAS, did you go to Coachella?
NAOS
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Hell no. I went the year the Pixies played (right after they re-united). It was the biggest sham of a festival ever. You'd have to pay me and provide all my drugs in order to get me there again.
Duck Rodgers
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Haha. The Palm Desert flirting with 100 degrees by the end of April would be a good enough reason for me to never consider going.
NAOS
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haha, I saw that segment! funny stuff!!!!
Talking about the Jimmy Kimmel thing, right? Funny, but I thought it seemed pretty over-dubbed to me.