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What bands did you like before they were cool?
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He said "before they were cool." so I'm guessing he meant did you listen to any bands before they were generally accepted as cool.BonsaiK said:
I guess Rage Against The Machine. I didn't know them when they were actually obscure, but well before all the Guitar Hero crap that suddenly made them popular again.
Also I listened to Mastodon before the release of Leviathan, but they're still not really considered "cool" by the majority of people and they were still kind of well known in metal circles when I got into them.
I was born too late. Every band that's currently mainstream, I'd only heard after they became mainstream. I heard of Slipknot after Vol. 3, KoRn after See You On The Other Side, In Flames after they went Mainstream, etc...
Which is lucky. No bands I LIKE have pulled the plug on making good music. Well, except Children of Bodom. But I've gone off them lately. And it was after Blooddrunk that I first heard them.
So there aren't really any bands I can mention. I've noticed Into Eternity are getting slightly more well-known, though. I saw someone on the forum whose name was one of their albums, which is worrying, to be honest. If they end up being famous and/or mainstream, I'll throw myself off a bridge. They're my favourite band.
Which is lucky. No bands I LIKE have pulled the plug on making good music. Well, except Children of Bodom. But I've gone off them lately. And it was after Blooddrunk that I first heard them.
So there aren't really any bands I can mention. I've noticed Into Eternity are getting slightly more well-known, though. I saw someone on the forum whose name was one of their albums, which is worrying, to be honest. If they end up being famous and/or mainstream, I'll throw myself off a bridge. They're my favourite band.
Yeah it must suck for a band you like to actually get popularity. The horror.mrpenguinismyhomeboy said:
Radiohead were mainstream, time didn't treat them well and their recent album wasn't like their others so they've faded away a little.procyonlotor said:
Oh, you again. I noticed a bunch of your posts in a row, and then nothing, thought you were banned. Sorry if that seems weird, but I was wondering what happend to the purple guy.Mr. Purple said:
Anyway, uh, the obscure bands I like aren't really cool yet, but I'll pretend a few of them are.
They might be giants.
Reverend Horton Heat had a song on Motorstorm. So yeah.
There are more, but I can't remember them because my brain is being a ***** because I blamed it for not doing math homework right.
I'm not saying they sucked because they got popular. I'm saying, they got popular in America, and then, for some reason, whether related or not to becoming popular, I, personally, thought they started releasing shit. I still listen to their old stuff, and I tell people I'm a muse fan with pride, and Matthew Bellamy and Stephanie Myer can go be BFFs for all I care, but when Resistance came out, I didn't like it. And I, for my own reasons, attribute this new found sucky-ness to their popularity in America, because it is my personal belief that America kills everything good that doesn't originate in it. I don't hate things that are mainstream, I just hate things that I think suck.Liberaliter said:
AFI comes to mind. I've actually dug their progression from fairly standard hardcore punks to whatever they were becoming. Right up until the last couple of albums. Really has nothing to do with them becoming well known (hey, more power to ya), but Sing The Sorrow was the last album to sound like AFI (or rather the continuous evolution of sound that WAS AFI). Everything after sounded like they were a band trying to sound like AFI (if that makes a lick of sense).
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Oh, a band hits the "main stream" and starts doing well? What kind of selfish people are you that would then stop liking the band because its all of a sudden popular? Here's something to think about, if a band is FOREVER obscure, then why on earth would they continue to make music? HOW would they continue when they have no money to do so?
Never ever, ever, ever, stop liking a band just because OTHER people like it. They are not making the music for you. They are making the music for money, so that they can continue to make music.
You know what it makes you when you automatically stop liking something because they happen to be popular? A lower version of a trendy.
/rant
Dax Riggs, never been popular after Acid Bath.
Oh, a band hits the "main stream" and starts doing well? What kind of selfish people are you that would then stop liking the band because its all of a sudden popular? Here's something to think about, if a band is FOREVER obscure, then why on earth would they continue to make music? HOW would they continue when they have no money to do so?
Never ever, ever, ever, stop liking a band just because OTHER people like it. They are not making the music for you. They are making the music for money, so that they can continue to make music.
You know what it makes you when you automatically stop liking something because they happen to be popular? A lower version of a trendy.
/rant
Dax Riggs, never been popular after Acid Bath.
Okay, well in that case, all of them, because I get hear almost everything I hear before it's actually released to the public. Nothing to do with my personal taste though, I don't really have much say in the matter.TheRightToArmBears said:
The subtle implication of the OP's thread is that finding out about music before it's popular is something to be proud of, it's the whole idea that "I was listening to the cool stuff before the cool kids were, back when it was obscure, therefore this makes me cooler". I reject this notion therefore this is why I've come to the thread with a somewhat defensive stance.Gildan Bladeborn said:
I only reflexively defend pop music because everyone else here reflexively bashes it, usually with shocking (often willful) ignorance about why it exists, why people like it, the technical merits of the music or the artistic, technical and logistical processes under which it is created.
Incubus. But I don't think they have become "cool", they have such a unique sound in every single song and in every single album. They have only had a couple of radio hits, mainly because they are the only radio friendly songs they have. But I don't care if they are not well known, they have the best music I have ever heard.
All that Remains, As I Lay Dying, Breaking Benjamin, Children Of Bodom, Chimaira, Cradle of Filth, DevilDriver, Five Finger Death Punch, Gojira, Heaven Shall Burn, In Flames, Insomnium, Into Eternity, Killswitch Engage, Linkin Park (Believe it or Not), Otep, The Absence, and The Agony Scene. Thats roughly 1/30th of my music collection. Some of those are still obscure and some are questionable in their popularity. But I was into all of them before I heard other people talking about them. And I'll never stop loving them. Music is for LIFE.
<color=purple>Hah, I am very glad that people are starting to notice me on the site. Yea, I have not been on much lately. But my purple will never disappear from The Escapist community.Ironic Pirate said:
i would have to say evanescence... but i f****** hate them now they suck dogs balls.
so i listen to we are the fallen now (A.K.A evanescence without amy lee and with a new awesome singer)
so i listen to we are the fallen now (A.K.A evanescence without amy lee and with a new awesome singer)
I liked Muse before most people around me had even heard of them... I'm not a huge fan though, never really have been.