Does anyone suck worse than Gin Blossoms?
Daniel Sassoon
>live, hootie, collective soul, the toadies, silverchair, toad the wet
>sprocket. they all have the same suckage level.
> Oldsoom (old...@aol.com)
>wrote: : I didn't think so.
You're being hard on Gin and Toad/Sprocket! They have got a few good
tracks; Toad's _Bread and Circus_ album had Way Away, which was a
brilliant song...
Furthermore you left out Loud Lucy, Seven Mary Three, SpaceHog,
practically every band on Sarah Records except East River Pipe and
Heavenly, Northern Uproar, The Bluetones, Blur, post 1988 Stone Roses,
Poe...
Regards,
Daniel Sassoon
dino...@pacific.net.sg
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Oldsoom
photon boy
basilisk
Amy
Ro He
I don't know, Collective Soul comes pretty damn close.
They are equally annoying and I hope I never come in
contact with their sounds again!
David Hose
I would say band like the Gin Blossoms and Collective Soul are bands that
come a little too close to the "easy listening" genre if they aren't to be
labeled as such. Yes, the sound is very annoying and every time I hear it
I shudder in hatred and disgust. I can respect these bands (as I respect
all bands) but I cannot agree with the music; too listener-friendly and
contrived with no room for real musical progression.
Jun.
"Life is too short to listen to mediocre music"
Dr. Rock
Toadies are a good rock & roll band...listen to their ALBUM and give them
a chance...
JoshShirk
Blossoms get signed to A&M, record a record with Doug Hopkins, use his
songs for the singles, get huge, kick him out, keep on playing those hits
while Doug kills himself. They are the lowest of the low. Imagine if
you're band got huge on your songs and then threw you out.
Josh...@aol.com
Mark Allen Kellner
Green Day, Offspring, Alanis Morisette, Silverchair, Bush, Hole
Nuff said
Cory S. Rau
(JoshShirk) wrote:
Funny...you didn't mention a thing about the fact that Doug Hopkins was a
raging alcoholic and tearing the band apart while he was in it...
I despise the Gin Blossoms but let's be fair about it. Your account of
the story is a bit one-sided. I think they're a bunch of whimps but
"lowest of the low?" Please...
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Systems Analyst
Stimpson Co., Inc.
stim...@i-2000.com
Opinions are not necessarily those of Stimpson
Brett Norris
Allen Kellner) wrote:
>Don't forget these shit bands...
>
>Green Day, Offspring, Alanis Morisette, Silverchair, Bush, Hole
I'd agree on the Silverchair, some Morisette and Offspring, but I like the rest.
However, I've always found the arguments and the "this band sucks"
discussions to be silly. Music is such a subjective media, and what is
one man's Mozart is another's bird cage liner. Why fight over it?
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Sugar
Good point, but there are some thing that just suck.
For example. Silverchiar., that Canadian chick...and eveything else./
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hecubus
Because that would be too reasonable! If everyone decided not to fight
over whose
band sucked more, this newsgroup would spontaneously combust
hecubus
The Oder
Grateful Dead. The list could go on forever...
Kris Srinivasan
: Lots of bands suck worse than the Gin Blossoms. Pink Floyd, U2, the
: Grateful Dead. The list could go on forever...
Uh, no.
Love,
Kris
John Walker
Not in recent memory.
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Phil Spector's music took me to outer space.
Maybe I'm having a hard time finding my way back. Brian Wilson
Tim S DArne
Bush X, Goo Goo Dolls, Collective Soul come CLOSE, but are not worse.
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Jesse LeDoux
Your mom.
Jason Nussbaum
Jenny
>Blur, They even swallow.
>
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Aah, fuck off. Blur are great.
Jason Nussbaum
>
>Your mom.
>
Your Dad.
Jonah5092
Andrew E Hime
: Deep Blue Something
Odlly enough, the original "Red Light" is almost a Sunny Day Real Estate
song, except for the vocals.
Gary Kercheck
Does anyone suck worse than the Gin Blossoms?
That's a very good question. My first instinct
is to say "no", however, there are bands that
suck equally. Toad the Wet Sprocket comes to mind.
They are about as generic. Also, Milwaukee's own
"the Guf's" is worthy of a nomination. They sound
like Toad the Wet Sprocket trying to rock out. Lame.
As always, flames welcome.
Gary Kercheck
gary.k...@adicon.com
Christopher Foster
Does anyone suck worse than the Gin Blossoms?
Yes, Hootie and the Blowfish
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RCook50359
A better question: How many times will the radio stations play those
horrible songs before someone kills the band?
RCook50359
Counting Crows.
SilverGOO
Alanis Morrisette
Bon Jovi &
POTUSA
mike
R.E.M.
Andrew Virnuls
> Does anyone suck worse than the Gin Blossoms?
Yes, they're fairly mediocre, but surely you're forgetting:
Boyz II Men
Color Me Bad
3T
(in fact any American fake soul group with 3 or 4 teenage males in)
Mariah Carey
Celine Dion
Dana Dawson
Wet Wet Wet
Los Lobos
Michael Bolton
Chicago
Reo Speedwagon
(in fact any middle-aged AOR groups, especially ones with long hair)
Blimey, the list is practcally endless
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Michael dAVies
There's some pathetically weird song I saw on Mtv by someone named
Tracy Bonham that
I think is called "Mother, Mother". Its chorus sounds like this.
I'm bleeding
I'm freezing
I'm crying
EVERYTHING'S FINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm bleeding
I'm useless
I hate you
EVERYTHING'S FINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These pants itch
My arm hurts
I hate you
EVERYTHING'S FINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hate you
You moron
I hate you
EVERYTHING'S FINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(inhale)
RGZERDFZCOOHFWEHFHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
I didn't pay attention to the verse much, but I'm pretty sure it's
about oppression of women or something fun like that because the woman
is rushing about the house doing the houework and occasionally some
males show up in the foyer playing in a rock band and wearing absurd
clothes. Would this song ever be on Mtv without
Alanis Morrisette's help? I like Morrisette's songs but I think
Tracy Bonham is only the first of a lot of future imitators of her
style, which is taken from PJ Harvey anyway. (Ever heard "Man-size"?)
I like the Gin Blossoms anyway, so I think a lot of people are worse
than them; I just wanted to complain for a while about "Mother, Mother".
Michael davies
mis...@epix.net
mike
I really can't stand REM. Michael Stipe has an annoying voice, and I
think the lyrics are really dumb.
StephD73
a hypothetical question recently posed by one of my friends:
If you knew you were going to hell, and had to listen to either gin
Blossems or Counting Crows for all of eternity, but could pick you fate,
which one would you pick and why?
9 out of 10 people pick Counting Crows, figureing they could deal with
them for at least a few milenium, unlike Gin Blossems, which would become
excruciating torture after only a decade or two.
Steph
jason
NIN
Scott Slonaker
mike wrote:
>
> I really can't stand REM. Michael Stipe has an annoying voice, and I
> think the lyrics are really dumb.
Definitely, a LOT of bands suck worse than Gin Blossoms. They are way
better than you might expect live, and the vast majority of their songs
are well constructed (except for those horrendous country things on New
Miserable Experience!) The new album is way underrated. So who's worse?
One easy answer is Hootie and the Blowfish, another is Blues Traveler.
Why? In the former case it's the vocals and the same-speed arrangements,
in the latter it's the excessive harmonica solos in EVERY FRIGGING SONG.
(Meanwhile, "Follow You Down" has the best use of harmonica that I can
remember in recent music.) Just my two cents.
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*THIS WEEK'S ALTERNA-ROCK SONG QUOTE-"SERIOUSLY BAD ADVICE"*
"I shoulda been a whole lot farther/I'm never going back to college/
For just one good day job."-Gin Blossoms, "Day Job"
Persinthia Lawdro
In article <4m2r12$l...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, step...@aol.com says...
See...the GIn Blossoms write some extremely catch songs (and for those who
didn't pay attention to the words on the first album...some extremely
depressing and thoughtful lyrics). I really don't look at them much more than
a good American band that writes some damn catchy songs!
Then again...trying to reason with an AOLer is like trying to have a decent
conversation with a 2 year old
Food for Thought!
StephD73
Date: Wed, May 1, 1996 11:16 AM EDT
From: StephD73
Subj: Re: Does anyone suck worse than Gin Blossoms?
To: cow...@ix.netcom.com
If you read the subject, the entire thread was "does anyone suck worse
than the Gin Blossoms", inferring that the gin Blossoms suck in the first
place. If you like the Gin Blossoms, more power to you, but personaly,
they are not to my taste-at all.
The hypothetical question was perfectly fitting in the thread of anybody
sucking worse then the gin blossoms. In realtion to the counting crows.
No.
If you don't agree with me you are more than entitled to point that out.
But what gives you the audacity to say "Then again...trying to reason with
an AOLer is like trying to have a decent conversation with a 2 year old"
Excuse me? Before you ramble on using a unfounded generalization to insult
people, maybe you should consider who your talking to.
I work for a sales promotion agency in mid-town Manhattan and I am on the
internet almost exclusively at work doing reasearch *about * commerical
servers. I have accounts on AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy, Pipeline, Juno, and
- if this is a *real* account* to a self-righteous internet-snob like
yourself d.
I use my aol account to check newsgroups, since I usually hit aol around
lunchtime, I can take time out and check the topics I find relavent -
therefore, I respond to usenet with my aol account.
DO NOT think you are superior becuase you are not on a commericial online
service. It doesn't make you any more intellegent then the junior high
school student who is signing on to the internet in their "intro to
computers" class.
Any moron can sign on the internet - even on aol - its what you say once
you get there that proves your intellect.
Making a statement like your afformentioned one does nothing for you. Next
time you decide to make such a broad statement, think, however difficult
it may be, before you type.
Bill Anderson
Red Hot Chili Poopers.
Bill Anderson
http://www.thefirm.com/nakedhoof/
rockstar
how about BUSH?....they really rucking SUCK
Mike Johnson
: Red Hot Chili Poopers.
: Bill Anderson
You got to be kidding...
Bill Anderson
No joke, amigo. The band is OK, but the singer sucks...
Bill Anderson
http://www.thefirm.com/nakedhoof/
kim
I don't like the Gin Blossoms, but The Presidents suck worse.
Dave Wanamaker
kim <jo...@chesco.com> wrote:
>I don't like the Gin Blossoms, but The Presidents suck worse.
What about Stone Roses? Now they suck, bite, and swallow...
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Dave
Jello Biafra
Bill Anderson <Nake...@aol.com> wrote:
>Bill Anderson
>http://www.thefirm.com/nakedhoof/
I'm not sure at what point you became an authority on music but it was
a little premature good news I'm sure somebody cares what you think