On the topic of Radiohead reissues, they should really reissue/license the Capitol "Collectors Editions" of Pablo Honey, The Bends and Hail To The Thief at this point. Those aren't on streaming services and they do an excellent job of collecting all the odd tracks from those periods. I know the band had nothing to do with those Capitol reissues but I assume they own the rights to their masters and could definitely justify at least doing The Bends and Hail To The Thief.
On the topic of Radiohead-adjacent reissues, Coldplay is hopefully prepping for A Rush Of Blood To The Head 20th anniversary reissue next year with all those key B-sides collected. I don't know why they dropped the ball doing this for Parachutes but would be a real treat as I don't know if many of those B-sides are on streaming services.
"Chop Suey" actually did NOT disappear from the radio. There was some sensitivity for a few weeks after 9/11 but, at least on K-Rock in NYC, it was a mainstay in fall 2001/winter 2002 to the point where SOAD played their station fest in the spring. Also, does anyone remember the Serj Tankian manifest about American relations with the middle east posted a few days after 9/11 that caused a huge shitstorm? Howard Stern tried to get them banned from the very same station I just mentioned due to that.
Green Day did something similar with the song "Still Breathing" in 2016 when they, without the band asking, gave credit to The Struts since the verse melody lifted from The Struts "Should've Been Me"
I imagine the producers reached out to those acts and more but they probably declined to speak as Fred Durst has pretty much refused to go on record about the event in the last 15 years. I also think Anthony of RHCP has been press-shy ever since the #metoo movement given that his autobiography is chock full of his relationships with underage girls.
Genuine question. I'm all for the vaccine mandate but how does a negative COVID test actually help. Like, it's great the person standing next to me didn't have COVID 48 hours ago but if they picked it up this afternoon then? I suppose people providing a negative COVID test might also be vaxxed and just have lost their card but I hope more people move to vaccine-only.
Do you all think The Strokes still hang out with P.O.D?
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I'm really aging myself but I remember when Jimmy Eat World had an mp3 or maybe it was just a sample of "Bleed American" on the website. It was so jarring to me at first compared to Clarity that I never revisted it though I did end up buying the album the day of along with a few other CD's I now can't remember. For some reason, I still put off listening to it as I was usually more in the mood for late-night Clarity listening but once I gave it some proper attention, MAN, did that CD stay in my high school car a lot.
Radio 104 right? I didn't even get the station where I lived in SW CT (that was K-Rock from NYC land) but I would hear about these lineups through the grapevine and would go since Hartford as only an hour 20 drive. I believe AWK played the NEXT iteration of the festival where Blink 182 headlined again with Green DAy. Nonetheless, I always enjoyed listening to Radio 104 when I was in the area as they had a more eclectic playlist due to not having to, presumably, worry about all those major market ad dollars like K-Rock in NYC did.
I saw Jimmy Eat World perform about a week before 9/11 up in Hartford, CT at a radio festival where Blink-182 was headlining. They played the side stage and there was a clearly-in-disguise Tom Delonge watching from the side (wearing a mustache and potentially a wig I think).
Anyways, this record still rules. So crisp and concise with a nice balance of rockers and ballads. Might be my favorite dropped-D album of all time. For those who want more, the deluxe version of this packages up some essential B-sides such as "No Sensitivity".
This is interesting though not entirely unexpected. Seems like Coldplay's MO will continue to be the weirder/"experimental" records followed by pop-friendly course corrections (a la Ghost Stories to A Headful Of Dreams). Wonder why it took them so long to work with Max Martin.
Also, these dudes REALLY need to reissue A Rush Of Blood To The Head next year for its 20th anniversary and put all those excellent B-sides in one place along with a remaster.
I understand that people have a tendency to overstate the importance of certain albums due to when they experienced them (usually in middle/high school) but as someone who was aware of Blink 182 with Dude Ranch in 1997, when I eventually went back to check out Chesire Cat I could barely make it throughh. WAY too scrappy and under-developed for me to appreciate it and that was when I was in 8th grade which was prime time for dumb jokes about butts/farts, etc. "Carousel" is great but everything else on that record is completely forgettable.
I liked those albums as a kid but there was always a part of me that was annoyed at the excessive juvenile presentation of the band and, in turn, the fact that "younger" kids (11-12) liked them. Now that I'm much older, all that no longer matters and I can just enjoy the music for what it is.
Dude Ranch is good but it starts to run out of steam towards the back half. Travis Barker taught them how to vary their tempos more to remain interesting across an entire album.
The unwrapping outside the store and then putting on track 1 in your car as a teenager made for some of my favorite high school memories. Weird that kids nowadays don't have that but it's a different world now.
The AV Club article about this album written a while back is interesting. Apparently, the band recorded the album and played it to their manager who said it lacked the "fun Blink-182 summer anthem" feel which prompted them to write "Rock Show" and "First Date". Interestingly, if you were to remove those two songs and the joke "Happy Holidays You Bastard Song" this record is actually SOMEWHAT darker/more experimental than Enema Of The State (particularly on Stay Together For The Kids and Story Of A Lonely Guy).
Other funny anecdote is I saw them play a few days after this was released at K-Rock's radio festival on Long Island in NY. Them and Jane's Addiction stuck out like a sore thumb amongst the others on the lineup (Stone Temple Pilots, Staind, Papa Roach, Linkin Park, 3 Doors Down, Disturbed and Crazy Town). They more than held their own and, oddly enough, played 3rd to last as STP and Jane's Addiction closed the show.
The Cure has always been a spotty albums band to me with the exception of their 1987-1992 period (seriously, even Pornography DRAGS for me). That being said, if I was making someone a mix to introduce them to the various sides of The Cure I'd probably include "Want" and "Mint Car" from that record.
I saw them twice on this tour, their absolute peak as a live band. I remember buying this CD along Weezer's green album (do we get a write-up on that)? Hilariously, Lateralus was replaced by....Staind's "Break The Cycle" which did about what Lateralus did in a week in a day so that shows you what modern rock radio was like (Seriously, K-Rock in NYC played Staind once an hour at that time). Great record and great write-up. Now I just need to hear "Ticks & Leeches" live someday...
Green should be in the Great category, Black is in Good while Make Believe and Red should be in Bad. I'd also probably make a case for Raditude to be mostly bad.
That Fiery Furnaces anecdote is so great and exemplifies what was so hilarious about the "indie blog rock" boom of the 00's. For as much column space that indie bands got, the emo/WarpedTour scene ran circles around the Pitchfork darlings in terms of cultural impact and, eventually, longevity.
Noel and his record company must still be living in the 90's. If you have two new songs, just release it as a stand-alone single. You've had 3 modestly received albums in the past decade. There is no need for a greatest hits.
The one time I saw Pete Yorn it was at Roseland Ballroom in NYC in 2001. He was part of NYC's K-Rock's "Claus Fest" and he shared the stage with (drumroll please): Cypress Hill, Nickelback, Bush and P.O.D
This record is alright but, to no fault of LDR's, I think it just gets harder to hold onto relevance as a pop act once you reach your mid-30's. Your life is significantly different than the majority of the audience your music is targeted to and chances are, if you've had a career for a decade, you've built up some wealth which will lead to some out-of-touch statements being made.
I can't say for sure since I don't work in the industry but I believe ticket price covers most of the artist fee and the venue makes money off merch, coat check, bar, etc.
I don't know if the Wallflowers could have been a bigger. They're a classicist rock band that cuts records and goes on tour which, for a brief period, was able to function during the in-between period of alt-rock/grunge and the nu metal/pop-punk explosion of the late 90's. Modern Rock radio essentially pivoted from the polite pop/rock groups and, as such, The Wallflowers had no momentum for the follow-up to Bringing Down The Horse which was every bit as solid.
Make Believe is the absolute lowest in my opinion. Red Album is slightly more interesting because of the added ambition and forays into other members writing songs.
One interest tidbit everyone forgets about the Foo Fighters is that they didn't become arena-conquering rock stars really into album number 5 when they, funny enough, did a co-headlining tour with Weezer. Throughout the 90's they were dwarfed not only by the alt-rock heavyweights but even by the likes of Bush, Third Eye Blind, Live, Matchbox Twenty, Counting Crows and The Wallflowers (seriously, even on their 3rd album they were still doing 2 nights at 3500-capacity Roseland while Third Eye Blind were headlining ampitheaters). The steady build worked out for them and since 2005's "In Your Honor" they've been updating the brand with a few new flourishes in order to keep playing the hits for the masses. I actually enjoy this new album a lot more than Sonic Highways and Concrete And Gold since the Grohl is finally allowing himself to embrace a bit of power-pop/new wave flavor that has been sorely missed in the last few releases.
I like Weezer but I think their 90's output is a little bit TOO acclaimed and some of their 00's/10's work is under-rated. Blue and Piinkerton are indeed great records but I can also listen to Green Album, White Album and Pacific Daydream front to back with no issue. This new album is an interesting turn and while I'm sure it'll drop out of the discourse in a week, it'll be one in their cannon that may fans will prop up as being underrated.
On a final note, Weezer is long overdue for some sort of B-Sides collection as there are a number of songs from the Green/Maladroit era that have been hanging around with no real proper release except for import singles.
As someone who has always voted Democrat since I was able to vote in 2004, this really resonates with me. Democrats have great policies but their campaigning is atrocious. While they may be in the right when they make these claims of certain people being racist and sexist, too much of their rhetoric involves patronizing and shaming as opposed to trying to reach out and understand. The Republican party, for as backwards as their policies are, definitely know how to campaign given how they are able to get people to vote against their own self-interests.
You know what, you bring up a good point. I don't believe it was Blindside as they opened P.O.D's tour the very NEXT year (when they were touring on Satellite) at the same venue (along with Fenix TX which...was an odd fit). Project 86, as the astute user mentioned below, was the other band. Also, not sure how (hed)PE managed to sneak on their bill with their misogynistic swagger.
Funny you mention P.O.D. The first time I saw Linkin Park was at Roseland Ballroom in NYC on P.O.D's "King Of The Game" tour. Oddly enough, even though "One Step Closer" was gaining traction on radio, LP went first as Hybrid Theory had only been out for about 3 weeks. P.O.D. and LP were the two bands I came to see (I know, I know but I was 16 at the time) so I had to suffer through (hed)PE and Blindside, another Christian "metal" band. This album still holds up really well. Even if the angst tropes are a bit outdated, the production is ridiculously good and the band's execution sells it so well.
If these events took place in 2009, the original guitarist and bassist were still there so, yeah, imagine they were all involved. Brandon having a bus for him and his wife seems to check out from everything I’ve read about them.
I know everyone hates this guy BUT I've been at social gatherings playing songs on acoustic guitar and whenever someone asks about "Yellow", it always takes me at least 3 min to explain to someone why I have to re-tune the strings.
I bought this at Tower Records my junior year of high school in the "emergist artist" section. I could be wrong, but I believe Coldplay was briefly a hip band in the way that other UK guitar bands were considered somewhat hip at the time since they were polar opposites from the nu metal, post grunge dominating alt-rock radio. I feel like K-Rock in New York finally begrudgingly started playing "Yellow" because it was so undeniable.
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