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Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

metirish Aug 22 2012 06:35 AM

Hitching a ride on Edgy's "Bands that time forgot " thread and a recent facebook post by the same I put forward .... Red Hot Chili Peppers I know I used to like them but can't fathom why.....when I hear them now I instantly turn the station and lament how I now can't fucking stand them. In fact, looking through my iPod (thanks batnag) the other night I realized I have a lot of music on there now that I wouldn't listen too..... your turn.

Edgy MD Aug 22 2012 06:40 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

You were young and full of testosterone and their sexual subversion flattered you into thinking "Man, the world is just NOT ready for my SHIT!" They're going to make the funniest oldies band.

The Second Spitter Aug 22 2012 06:41 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

metirish wrote: Hitching a ride on Edgy's "Bands that time forgot " thread and a recent facebook post by the same I put forward .... Red Hot Chili Peppers. Ah yes, the band for straight white homos (as Bucket once eloquently described them).. And I agree with this.

metirish Aug 22 2012 06:42 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

Yes, they will need those socks on the cocks with there old limp dicks as an oldies group.

RealityChuck Aug 22 2012 06:52 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

The Steve Miller Band, though on a different basis. Their first five albums were good, but he did nothing but crap after that. And, of course, that's when he started getting popular.

The Second Spitter Aug 22 2012 06:57 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

Powderfinger are my candidates for this list. Their stuff is just so effing morbid, they would make Happy Hogan feel depressed.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 22 2012 06:59 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

Okay, they were always kind of third-wave copies-of-copies (and a pale imitation of similar peers like Operation Ivy, even), but they had an ear for sharp hooks and a way with an appealingly-bratty couplet and a stupid, kiddie-punk sort of appeal. I mean, who doesn't like a good beat-off song-- or four-- with a propulsive beat (that doubles as the song's hook)? But yeah, since they "grew up," well... the ship has long since sailed on these guys, hasn't it? [youtube:98r49mnf]IWwMqa-_210[/youtube:98r49mnf]

The Second Spitter Aug 22 2012 07:47 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

Dookie is still very listenable (and quite underrated, I think).

Swan Swan H Aug 22 2012 07:48 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

Billy Joel. I was writing for my college newspaper when 'The Stranger' came out, and there was nearly a brawl over who would get to review it. (I lost. I sucked anyway - I predicted that Talking Heads would go nowhere, and Fotomaker was the next Beatles). I just about wore out everything up to 'Glass Houses,' and saw him live at least eight or ten times. Anyway, I can't listen to his stuff any more. My daughter, on the other hand, has turned into a big fan, and she and her friends regularly see a tribute band called Big Shot.

Edgy MD Aug 22 2012 08:10 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

Top Ten Names for Billy Joel Cover Bands: 10. The BJs 9. The Zanzibartenders 8. The Cold Spring Harbormen 7. John at the Bar 6. Only Human 5. Worse Comes to Worst 4. Attila II 3. The Purveyors of Honesty 2. Psych 1, Psych 2 1. Foreign Debts, Homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, and Bernie Goetz

Vic Sage Aug 22 2012 08:20 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

you can go 2 ways with this question... (1) the bands that changed in ways you didn't like (as Chuck described with Steve Miller Band), or (2) the bands stayed the same but YOU've changed. As for Type 1, i concur on Steve Miller (to a lesser degree; i still sort of liked the later stuff, just not as much) and would add Suzanne Vega, who went from fascinatingly lyrical folk guitar waif to bizarro alt-indie band front man. As for Type 2, the stuff i loved as an adolescent (60s-70s) i love even more today, laden as it is with memories. The stuff i came to later, as a young adult (mostly 80s-early 90s), i arrived at judiciously, hesitantly and with great caution. And it never got played out for me because i rarely listened to the radio. As an older adult in the new millenium, the only new music i hear is what my daughter insists on playing in the car... Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Justin Beiber, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus... kill me now (but even among that dross i find listenable moments and try to steer her towards those songs as compromise.) But i honestly can't think of a single band that i used to like but now deplore, other than stylistic changes of the type 1 variety, in which case they're no longer "that band" anymore, but some new mutant creation. on edit: now that i think about it, i can't recall the last time i intentionally played Zappa on my ipod. It was great in college, when i was stoned and had a high tolerance and even loving appreciation for obnoxious sarcasm and condescension masking as social critique, and his virtuosity is unquestionable, but the 20 minute guitar solos and atonal modern classical digressions make the self-indulgence of even the most attenuated Grateful dead bootlegs seem tame in comparison. I can only take him in the smallest of doses at this point in my life.

HahnSolo Aug 22 2012 08:37 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

Okay, they were always kind of third-wave copies-of-copies (and a pale imitation of similar peers like Operation Ivy, even), but they had an ear for sharp hooks and a way with an appealingly-bratty couplet and a stupid, kiddie-punk sort of appeal. I mean, who doesn't like a good beat-off song-- or four-- with a propulsive beat (that doubles as the song's hook)? But yeah, since they "grew up," well... the ship has long since sailed on these guys, hasn't it? [youtube]IWwMqa-_210[/youtube] I have a confession: I kinda like this new Green Day song.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 22 2012 09:44 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

The Rolling Stones, post Mick Taylor. I can't prove what I'm about to write, but if Black and Blue (1975), Ron Wood's first Stones album was also the Stones' first album, the group would be a minor blip in the history of rock-n-roll. Some Girls and Tatoo You (the latter, mostly a remixing and polishing up of earlier studio stabs), without the benefit of riding the Stones' rock-n-roll royalty '60's-early '70's pedigree, would never be deemed as the monster rock classics they apparently are. Ron Wood blows.

Edgy MD Aug 22 2012 09:49 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

Well, to be fair, if the post-Taylor Stones blow, it's not just on Ron Wood, but I hear ya'. My question is: Why didn't Mick Taylor go on to become anything more than that guy who used to be in the Stones?

batmagadanleadoff Aug 22 2012 09:51 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

Edgy DC wrote: My question is: Why didn't Mick Taylor go on to become anything more than that guy who used to be in the Stones? Good question. One that's been asked plenty. Maybe it's that sum of the whole thing thing. I dunno.

soupcan Aug 22 2012 10:11 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

Swan Swan H wrote: Billy Joel. I was writing for my college newspaper when 'The Stranger' came out, and there was nearly a brawl over who would get to review it. (I lost. I sucked anyway - I predicted that Talking Heads would go nowhere, and Fotomaker was the next Beatles). I just about wore out everything up to 'Glass Houses,' and saw him live at least eight or ten times. Anyway, I can't listen to his stuff any more. My daughter, on the other hand, has turned into a big fan, and she and her friends regularly see a tribute band called Big Shot. DING fucking DING. I loved Joel. Turnstiles, The Stranger, etc. I know all the words to all the songs. One day a friend of mine said ' Billy Joel sucks, name ONE good song he has.' I thought about it and just couldn't. Same kinda thing with Elton John. At some point I developed an issue with a piano being the primary instrument of a Rock N Roll artist. It just doesn't really sit well with me.

soupcan Aug 22 2012 10:13 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

batmagadanleadoff wrote: The Rolling Stones, post Mick Taylor. I can't prove what I'm about to write, but if Black and Blue (1975), Ron Wood's first Stones album was also the Stones' first album, the group would be a minor blip in the history of rock-n-roll. Some Girls and Tatoo You (the latter, mostly a remixing and polishing up of earlier studio stabs), without the benefit of riding the Stones' rock-n-roll royalty '60's-early '70's pedigree, would never be deemed as the monster rock classics they apparently are. Ron Wood blows. Wow, really? I love Some Girls.

Fman99 Aug 22 2012 10:29 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

soupcan wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: The Rolling Stones, post Mick Taylor. I can't prove what I'm about to write, but if Black and Blue (1975), Ron Wood's first Stones album was also the Stones' first album, the group would be a minor blip in the history of rock-n-roll. Some Girls and Tatoo You (the latter, mostly a remixing and polishing up of earlier studio stabs), without the benefit of riding the Stones' rock-n-roll royalty '60's-early '70's pedigree, would never be deemed as the monster rock classics they apparently are. Ron Wood blows. Wow, really? I love Some Girls. I love all girls.

Edgy MD Aug 22 2012 10:34 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

We should all start a conspiracy to bring about a Fotomaker comeback. Who the fuck is Fotomaker?

soupcan Aug 22 2012 10:34 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

POW! I was Fmanned!

Edgy MD Aug 22 2012 10:35 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

"Cover your genitals in the photo kids, or else you end up like me."

batmagadanleadoff Aug 22 2012 10:38 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

Edgy DC wrote: Who the fuck is Fotomaker? Weren't they gonna be the next Beatles?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 22 2012 10:40 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

Edgy DC wrote: We should all start a conspiracy to bring about a Fotomaker comeback. Who the fuck is Fotomaker? Singer from the Raspberries and a couple guys from the Rascals.

MFS62 Aug 22 2012 10:44 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Edgy DC wrote: Who the fuck is Fotomaker? Weren't they gonna be the next Beatles? No, that was going to be the Dave Clark Five. Or was it the Monkees? And Don Imus called the Commodores "The Black Beatles". Later

batmagadanleadoff Aug 22 2012 10:44 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

soupcan wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: The Rolling Stones, post Mick Taylor. I can't prove what I'm about to write, but if Black and Blue (1975), Ron Wood's first Stones album was also the Stones' first album, the group would be a minor blip in the history of rock-n-roll. Some Girls and Tatoo You (the latter, mostly a remixing and polishing up of earlier studio stabs), without the benefit of riding the Stones' rock-n-roll royalty '60's-early '70's pedigree, would never be deemed as the monster rock classics they apparently are. Ron Wood blows. Wow, really? I love Some Girls. I kinda do, too. Only I wonder if the album's truly great, or I can listen to it because I heard the songs hundreds of times when back in the day, there was only one way to get your music without owning the album, and classic rock radio could hypnotize you into liking something by force of repetition. In any event, like I said, I rarely listen to it anymore. I'd rather spin Get Yer Ya's Ya's Out 20 times before I dig into the Ron Wood portion of the discography just once.

Mets – Willets Point Aug 22 2012 10:49 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

I would not blame Ron Wood so much as that Keith Richards was so immersed in heroin and legal battles at the time that it left Mick Jagger in charge. Nothing goes well with Mick Jagger in charge.

Mets – Willets Point Aug 22 2012 10:51 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

batmagadanleadoff wrote: The Rolling Stones, post Mick Taylor. I can't prove what I'm about to write, but if Black and Blue (1975), Ron Wood's first Stones album was also the Stones' first album, the group would be a minor blip in the history of rock-n-roll. Some Girls and Tatoo You (the latter, mostly a remixing and polishing up of earlier studio stabs), without the benefit of riding the Stones' rock-n-roll royalty '60's-early '70's pedigree, would never be deemed as the monster rock classics they apparently are. Ron Wood blows. I would make this same argument for the Beatles' solo careers and Wings. They would have been blips if they emerged in the 1970s without the Beatles' pedigree. I know some would disagree, but I'm of the opinion that all the good post-Beatles material by all four members would fit on one compilation album.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 22 2012 10:52 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

soupcan wrote: Swan Swan H wrote: Billy Joel. I was writing for my college newspaper when 'The Stranger' came out, and there was nearly a brawl over who would get to review it. (I lost. I sucked anyway - I predicted that Talking Heads would go nowhere, and Fotomaker was the next Beatles). I just about wore out everything up to 'Glass Houses,' and saw him live at least eight or ten times. Anyway, I can't listen to his stuff any more. My daughter, on the other hand, has turned into a big fan, and she and her friends regularly see a tribute band called Big Shot. DING fucking DING. I loved Joel. Turnstiles, The Stranger, etc. I know all the words to all the songs. One day a friend of mine said ' Billy Joel sucks, name ONE good song he has.' I thought about it and just couldn't. Same kinda thing with Elton John. At some point I developed an issue with a piano being the primary instrument of a Rock N Roll artist. It just doesn't really sit well with me. I know it's a greatest-hits-live, but 'Songs from the Attic' is pretty great. Some Girls I felt was the last good Stones' record.

Swan Swan H Aug 22 2012 10:57 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Edgy DC wrote: Who the fuck is Fotomaker? Weren't they gonna be the next Beatles? You must have read a review of their eponymous debut LP in Newsbeat, Queens College's oldest and largest newsweekly, back in 1978. Some hack thought they were going to be huge. What a tool he was.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 22 2012 11:09 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

[youtube:1450k4zj]0TAK4tKI_bI[/youtube:1450k4zj]

Swan Swan H Aug 22 2012 11:20 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

Bands I Used to like but now can't stand (deplore): Billy Joel Fotomaker

Edgy MD Aug 22 2012 11:31 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: [youtube]0TAK4tKI_bI[/youtube] Surely I'm not the only one rocking out here?

metirish Aug 22 2012 01:34 PM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

Soundgarden........ Christ, how I deplore them now........that fucking whiny voice ........used to like them a lot, saw them at Lollapalooza I think it was........they come on my music player they are getting the ole FF treatment......go whine somewhere else asshole......

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 22 2012 02:00 PM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

I find myself being more receptive to shit I used to hate, rather than hating shit I used to like, as I get older. The exception is the Mets. I fucking hate those guys but used to really love 'em.

seawolf17 Aug 22 2012 02:10 PM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

Mets – Willets Point wrote: I know some would disagree, but I'm of the opinion that all the good post-Beatles material by all four members would fit on one compilation album. There was a blog a year or so back who put together a series of Beatles "records" as if they'd replaced John with Sean and/or Julian. They "released" seven or eight records made up of stuff off the various time-appropriate solo records. Really well done, I thought.

sharpie Aug 22 2012 02:45 PM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

The Fab Faux did a concert of what they surmised would have been the next Beatles album to be released (in '70 or '71) based on songs from the first solo albums by the lads. Clever idea. In an early post-Beatle interview, John said that if people want another Beatle album that they should take tracks from their solo albums. His point being that they weren't really a band at the end.

Vic Sage Aug 22 2012 03:23 PM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

At some point I developed an issue with a piano being the primary instrument of a Rock N Roll artist. It just doesn't really sit well with me. yeah, screw Billy Joel and Elton John. and screw Jerry Lee Lewis and Fats Domino. and screw Little Richard and Little Stevie Wonder. and screw Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson. and screw Ray Manzarek and Billy Preston. and screw Dr. John and Professor Longhair. and screw Joe Jackson and Warren Zevon. and screw Carol King and Alicia Keys. and so on... folks like whatever the hell they like for whatever reasons they like it, obviously, but it seems to me a pretty arbitrary issue to have with some pretty great artists and their pretty great songs. Sure, the zither or the kazoo or the timpani as a lead instrument? that might be trouble. but the piano? I defy anybody to watch or listen to Jerry Lee Lewis play the piano and declare that its not a rock n roll instrument.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 22 2012 03:33 PM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

I don't disagree with your main point, Vic, but... well... your examples don't exactly speak to the essentiality of piano as a living rock instrument. Save Alicia Keys-- who may never have been called a "rocker" before just this moment-- every one of the artists named had their heyday at LEAST 30 years ago. (Ben Folds? Rufus Wainwright? Lady Gaga?)

RealityChuck Aug 22 2012 05:25 PM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

I really can't think of any band I really liked who I no longer care for, though usually I listen to their older material. I can understand the dislike of late Elton John, but then I put on 11/17/70 to remind myself he could really rock out. Music starts about 30 seconds in: [youtube]2LPSMDYzDGM[/youtube] Not at that concert, but close (long, but worth it): [youtube]4SX6CYvW-1A[/youtube]

batmagadanleadoff Aug 22 2012 05:40 PM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

RealityChuck wrote: Elton John ... could really rock out. It was 40 years ago, today. And Sidney Lumet's vision of a sweltering Brooklyn, musiced by early Elton, apropos..... (This vid should be seen in full screen mode). [youtube]rhyjIMrFlpw[/youtube]

soupcan Aug 22 2012 06:40 PM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

Vic Sage wrote: At some point I developed an issue with a piano being the primary instrument of a Rock N Roll artist. It just doesn't really sit well with me. yeah, screw Billy Joel and Elton John. and screw Jerry Lee Lewis and Fats Domino. and screw Little Richard and Little Stevie Wonder. and screw Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson. and screw Ray Manzarek and Billy Preston. and screw Dr. John and Professor Longhair. and screw Joe Jackson and Warren Zevon. and screw Carol King and Alicia Keys. and so on... folks like whatever the hell they like for whatever reasons they like it, obviously, but it seems to me a pretty arbitrary issue to have with some pretty great artists and their pretty great songs. Sure, the zither or the kazoo or the timpani as a lead instrument? that might be trouble. but the piano? I defy anybody to watch or listen to Jerry Lee Lewis play the piano and declare that its not a rock n roll instrument. Right after I posted that I was going to edit and amend it by saying '....except if they are pounding the keys like Jerry Lee Lewis or Little Richard'. So I agree with you there. Of course Stevie Wonder is a god but do you consider him more 'Rock' or more R&B'? Billy Preston also. The rest of the artists you list are fine but I was never a big fan of any of them. Carole King and Alicia Keyes are Rockers? I never said that just because an artist features a piano that they aren't playing R&R, just that it's not necessarily a style that appeals to my personal definition of the genre.

SteveJRogers Aug 22 2012 09:13 PM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

sharpie wrote: The Fab Faux did a concert of what they surmised would have been the next Beatles album to be released (in '70 or '71) based on songs from the first solo albums by the lads. Clever idea. In an early post-Beatle interview, John said that if people want another Beatle album that they should take tracks from their solo albums. His point being that they weren't really a band at the end. That's very true. One can just give someone The White Album, Abbey Road, Let It Be or The Blue Album to someone as a primer for the solo works of Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison.

Edgy MD Aug 22 2012 09:53 PM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

Early on, it was a defining and near essential characteristic of the gennre --- the piano as a rhythm instrument being a key part of the thread that stitched country & western together with rhythm & blues. That was downplayed by the mid-sixties. The British invaders generally favored crude organs for their keyboard players, as the London scenesters were all blues fanatics. Rock 'n' roll becoming rock called for a new type of versatility --- with mellotrons and other synths taking melodic orchestral lines for arena rockers, and better amplification of the low end obviating the need for keyboardists as rhythm players. Left hands were left free for the likes of John Bonham and Geddy Lee to play a bassline on a second keyboard while aping orchestration with their right hand. But there were still rock 'n' roll rhythm pianists out there. Ian Stewart. Elton John, more or less 40% of the time. Nicky Hopkins was great. Warren Zevon was a fighter. We just watched Murphy's Romance tonight featuring a love theme from Carole King, and we couldn't help noticing that her style was pure rock 'n' roll even when pushed to write and perform something more sophisticated. The problem to me with Billy Joel is that he never could really rock authentically, even as he donned his retro persona. Living in a rock zeitgeist made him have to present himself as a rocker even though his real voice lay elsewhere, so if you couldn't buy that persona from him, you rejected him outright. But if you didn't view him through that filter, you could come to see him in a nu light. Luchie's right --- Songs from the Attic was pretty excellent. I don't think of it as "greatest hits live" so much of "songs that could have been hits if I had the market position back then that I had today so I'm re-releasing them in these live versions." But they show what his real strength is --- reflective ballads, and when he gets louder, it's not rock 'n' roll but operatic storm und drang. Great rock 'n' roll pianists of today? Well, they're out there (Ezra Lee?), but nobody making a big living at it. Jools Holland was probably the best of the eighties. But I'm a big fan of Roy Bittan and Benmont Tench. Since then? Well, I've hardly kept it a secret that I suspect Kurt Cobain killed rock 'n' roll. I don't think he meant to as he did so much to bring it back, but it was just an accident, like he backed over it on the way out of the driveway. And maybe that's why he hated himself enough to kill himself --- because he killed rock 'n' roll and he wanted to die and be reunited with it. Anyway, maybe that's my contribution to this thread... Bands I Used to Like but Now Deplore: Nirvana

The Second Spitter Aug 22 2012 09:59 PM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

Vic Sage wrote: As for Type 2, the stuff i loved as an adolescent (60s-70s) i love even more today, laden as it is with memories. The stuff i came to later, as a young adult (mostly 80s-early 90s), i arrived at judiciously, hesitantly and with great caution. And it never got played out for me because i rarely listened to the radio. As an older adult in the new millenium, the only new music i hear is what my daughter insists on playing in the car... Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Justin Beiber, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus... kill me now (but even among that dross i find listenable moments and try to steer her towards those songs as compromise.) But i honestly can't think of a single band that i used to like but now deplore, other than stylistic changes of the type 1 variety, in which case they're no longer "that band" anymore, but some new mutant creation. Pitbull represents this for me. When he first came on the scene in 09 I thought he was the greatest....whatever he is. Now I can't stand his hubris filled lyrics. Gonna go watch him on Sept 1 but that's only cos Taio Cruz is performing at the same show.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 23 2012 05:42 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

Here's one: Dave Matthews Band. I felt like a (relative) early adopter, seeing them in a small college gym in 95; the next time they came around they played stadiums. What I never got was how they kept getting bigger while the music kept getting boring-er. Rusted Root. Also a jammy 90s band with a bad singer, they were always kind of boring, although I actually bought the CD.

Mets – Willets Point Aug 23 2012 10:35 AM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Here's one: Dave Matthews Band. I felt like a (relative) early adopter, seeing them in a small college gym in 95; the next time they came around they played stadiums. What I never got was how they kept getting bigger while the music kept getting boring-er. Ditto. Since they were a Virginia band they were playing bands and local festivals when I was in college. And it was like, hey, this local band is pretty good, they've got a nice unique sound. Then they got big and started sounding more and more like every bland rock post-grunge band out there. Also, Dave Matthews is a douche. I've always thought the Band was better than him.

HahnSolo Aug 23 2012 08:51 PM Re: Bands You Used to like but now can't stand(deplore)

The Smithereens. Because they're performing on Francesas show tomorrow.