any love for popular rock bands?

angryyoungman

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

suckfest.

+1

angryyoungman

not a huge indie fan but my morning jacket is great to me. . .seeing them open for pj 3 times on this last tour and then buying their album z, it took a minute but now im a fan. . .they kinda remind me of pink floyd

angryyoungman

illegal_pants wrote:

i have no shame in saying i heart matchbox twenty

nothing wrong with liking a wide variety of music

have you no shame??

i actually thought their first album was a decent pop album but after that they just got to soft and adult contemporary for me

angryyoungman

tonadax wrote:

please ´´not indie,underground,not my morning jacket, kings of leon, the decemberist, the rapture, etx..´´i respect them as a musicians, but i don´t like their music...

i´m a big fan of the strokes, QOTSA, interpol, Foo fighters, also i like panic at the disco, A.F.I, slipknot and trivium, maybe i´m dumb..........

those bands you mentioned arent THAT popular, i mean i guess the foo fighters are but the rest arent. i couldnt name one song by interpol or trivium. . . im a fan of qotsa and foos outside of that the list is bullocks as our english friends would say. strokes are ok i guess

TheGossman

I have no choice but to listen to mostly indy rock with all the crap on the radio now adays, I also just listen to old stuff, classic rock, the stuff today doesn't even compare!

facepollution

Todd76 wrote:

great minds think alike

.....its so nice to feel accepted after getting slagged on a bunch of threads over the weekend I HATE being called annoying :(

.....what should we call our club? nobody else can join though - otherwise we would be getting a little to mainstream and we might lose our indie street cred

Was not slagging you off!! Just saying that you often seem to find the need to name check these random bands in loads of your posts. Trust me on this one, it's not the best way to get people to listen to them! I've had people in the past put off Pearl Jam cause I talked about them all the time, yet when they finally heard them they actually enjoyed it. Anyway I had a butchers at your list and it seems you do have some taste, nothing we can't work with;)!!!

facepollution

angryyoungman wrote:

have you no shame??

i actually thought their first album was a decent pop album but after that they just got to soft and adult contemporary for me

Downfall from their last album was an amazing song, very Fleetwood Mac influenced.

libragirl

Anyone get the new Shins albums? So far I really don't like it..except for a few songs. MMJ is overrated in my opinion. I really dont see what is so great about them.

CM1847

libragirl wrote:

Anyone get the new Shins albums? So far I really don't like it..except for a few songs. MMJ is overrated in my opinion. I really dont see what is so great about them.

The new Shins is really good IMO. I don't like the pre-Z stuff I've heard from MMJ, but Z is a great album and they put on a good live show as heard in their live album released last year.

seagoat2

angryyoungman wrote:

not a huge indie fan but my morning jacket is great to me. . .seeing them open for pj 3 times on this last tour and then buying their album z, it took a minute but now im a fan. . .they kinda remind me of pink floyd

MMJ is awesome! I just got Z & It Still Moves - so great. Can't stop listening.

Igottago

angryyoungman wrote:

not a huge indie fan but my morning jacket is great to me. . .seeing them open for pj 3 times on this last tour and then buying their album z, it took a minute but now im a fan. . .they kinda remind me of pink floyd

That's because they aren't really and indie band, they are just a fucking amazing rock band....they are the best band on the planet right now, and if the world had any taste, they'd be the most popular band too.

I hate categorizing music by indie or popular..I prefer to categorize it by good or bad. For example..My Morning Jacket are brilliant...the Decemberists suck ass...Nickelback sucks hard...Tool is amazing...the National are outstanding...the Strokes are really good...AFI suck. Quality of music is not defined by record sales. Period.

angryyoungman

Igottago wrote:

That's because they aren't really and indie band, they are just a fucking amazing rock band....they are the best band on the planet right now, and if the world had any taste, they'd be the most popular band too.

I hate categorizing music by indie or popular..I prefer to categorize it by good or bad. For example..My Morning Jacket are brilliant...the Decemberists suck ass...Nickelback sucks hard...Tool is amazing...the National are outstanding...the Strokes are really good...AFI suck. Quality of music is not defined by record sales. Period.

good observation. . .and i agree for the most part. i dont see the big deal about tool though, they're ok

libragirl

CM1847 wrote:

The new Shins is really good IMO. I don't like the pre-Z stuff I've heard from MMJ, but Z is a great album and they put on a good live show as heard in their live album released last year.

yeah i dunno maybe i need to listen to it more.

Lifted

music that i listen to is popular in my collection, therefore in a way it's popular so yes i love popular music, here's some of the best....

pearl jam#1
bob dylan
my morning jacket
red hot chili peppers
sonic youth
ccr
blind melon
rusted root
radiohead
tom petty
pink floyd
led zeppelin
rem
fugazi
the beatles (most popular band ever)
neil young
the who
dixie chicks
oasis
coldplay
the pixies
nick drake
the fugees
miles davis

chrisopalooza

pearl jam is probably the only one i am a fan of.

tonadax

i think Deftones is a good band, their music is over other nu metal band alive...

the pixies, guns and roses and the cranberries....

soulsinging

chrisopalooza wrote:

pearl jam is probably the only one i am a fan of.

somehow im not surprised.

rearviewmiror

angryyoungman wrote:

its ok to be eclectic in your musical taste, i just dont know how pj fits in with your other favorites there. . .i mean the bon jovi's and journey's of the world

I like some fun stuff every once in a while. PJ are my favorites, with the indigo girls second. Although they have not gotten better with age unlike PJ. If you listen to Bon Jovi, it might be formulaic but Jon still writes some decent stuff lyric wise. I even heard an interview where Stone and Mike mentioned how awesome Wanted Dead or Alive is.

Bon Jovi->Aerosmith->PJ It's evolution baby. (for me at least)

soulsinging

rearviewmiror wrote:

I like some fun stuff every once in a while. PJ are my favorites, with the indigo girls second. Although they have not gotten better with age unlike PJ. If you listen to Bon Jovi, it might be formulaic but Jon still writes some decent stuff lyric wise. I even heard an interview where Stone and Mike mentioned how awesome Wanted Dead or Alive is.

Bon Jovi->Aerosmith->PJ It's evolution baby. (for me at least)

i dont care what anyone says, that IS a great song

DOSW

soulsinging wrote:

i dont care what anyone says, that IS a great song

The lyrics are tacky, but if PJ released the exact same song with different lyrics everyone here (OK, including myself) would think it was the greatest song ever.