Gee whiz...I started this thread as a joke, and people take it SO seriously...
1) I was not bashing the band, nor was anybody else
2) I didn't say it was *bad* to go mainstream or anything else.
3) The only thing that influences my musical taste is if I like it or not. Not who's playing it, or ...
You know OLP went big when people bitch and moan about OLP getting a real fanbase. Quit your bitching, all of you, if you don't like OLP being known, then stop listening to them.
I was neither bitching or moaning... Quit taking everything so serious.
I just found it amusing...and so do these ...
Ahhh...........Country. See, I ride and show horses. You get into that and AUTOMATICALLY everywhere you go there is country music playing. Its like a disease. But anyways, I'm so used to it now I can listen to it for hours with no problem, and even enjoy some. Brooks and Dunn. Hehehhe ...
You just discounted your own opinion. To come out of the grunge movement, you would have had to have been apart of it. Our Lady Peace came out after the grunge scene died, so they're a post-grunge band if you're going to label them with something. Pearl Jam came out of the scene, they were apart of ...
Naveeder Val wrote:my vote went to Better Than Ezra... they're great live.
Oh yeah, BTE is awesome live...i saw them at Music Midtown last weekend...the covered two Outkast songs...Mrs. Jackson and The Whole World. it was hilarious.
Most of my friends have never even heard of them...all you hear in south GA is pop, rap, and country (TONS of country, bah). I have one friend that sings along to Life and makes fun of Starseed (she only knows it b/c its on the Armageddon sndtrk)
Only one of my friends had ever heard of them before ...