(Untitled)

[veganinja]

If there is a song that makes me feel like I'm flying in an awesome spaceship over a beautiful lit-up alien city at night on my way to get drunk on alien-wine and make out with hot aliens, more than "Flugufrelsarinn" by Sigur Ros does, I'd like to hear it

Comments

[brymulder]

My favorite band of that type is System of a Down. They take that style of music and blow it open to such a ridiculous level that it becomes a form of self-satire. They have a level of creativity not common to the genre. All my friends who were listening to Weezer and Dashboard Confessional at the time were merciless when told them I liked SoaD though.

[veganinja]

I agree with that, actually. Why? Because System of a Down have one song that I actually like un-ironically, called "Spiders." Also, I don't know, something about them does just seem a cut above the rest of that crap. Plus in highschool when I had a really long beard, people told me I looked like the singer.

Weezer's album "Pinkerton" still gets listened to by me. I actually got on the Weezer bandwagon when emo kids started thinking they were hip, which was actually long after their original run with "Buddy Holly" and "Sweater" and other such hits. Dashboard Confessional, though, I'm not so sure about. Though I went to a Saves the Day show in 11th grade and DashCon opened, and instead of a bunch of preteen girls who shop at Urban Outfitters, like their fans are now, it was a bunch of drunken, bearded streetpunks singing their hearts out along with it.

[hippiepixie]

I saw Dashboard once, maybe a year or so ago. (They were opening for Beck, shut up). It was painful and I try not to think about it. It's interesting how much the other people at a show affect the experience - would it have been slightly less awful if they hadn't been Urban-Outfitters-wearing preteen girls? I don't know.
Only sort of relatedly, it's interesting, I think, how even one particular person at a show will stick in my memory, and years later I can say, "Wow, what a great show, but that one person who did ______ was so ridiculous!"
For example, Liz, if you're reading, remember that girl at The Stills? I know you do...

[mathpunk]

OMG, the drunken, badly dressed one who thought she was a scenester but very clearly was not and who wanted to bone the band and was standing on that concrete thing near the front? How could I forget? She was second worst part about that show (the worst part was that opening band who wanted to be FUGAZI but sucked my big black dick).

[hippiepixie]

Also, I will always remember the girl from Dropkick Murphys who said she would be wearing her "Kiss me I'm shitfaced" shirt to a frat party. Booo.

[xxxhris]

i remember one of the first shows i went to in jacksonville was a dashboard show. my friend's band was opening for him. i went when dashboard was still a him and not a them. LOVE ME! I HAVE CRED!
i had a bunch of drunken, stoned skatepunks singing their hearts out all around me. it was amazing.

i won't even lie, i kinda like the green album. i mean, every song is made with the exact same formula, but the album isn't even 40 minutes long. blue album and pinkerton are great, though. maladroit actually stuck it's tongue in my butthole when i didn't ask it to, so we're not speaking anymore.

you had a serj-like beard in high school? ew.
i also used to be a huge soad fan. i still don't mind them, actually.

[veganinja]

Hey, I saw him when he was a him, too. I have more cred than you. Plus I was listening to The Clash and Bauhaus and the Stooges in 8th grade, bitchbezzle. I could take on any fucking hipster in the world and kick his or her ass in a cred-off.

teehee

[hippiepixie]

"Cred-off." That made me giggle.

As we all know, I would not fare well in a cred-off.

[xxxhris]

you wanna cred-off? let's whip out our creds and see whose is longer, then. i've had in utero on cassette since THE DAY IT CAME OUT, bitch. i was nine.