This is quite likely the worst shit I've heard this year. Not only does this pander in a way that makes Alan Jackson sound like John Prine (it's fucking called "Country Boy" fer chrissakes), but dude uses the lyrics to whine about how the big bad label made him change his sound so his shitty band would be successful. Nevermind that this sounds pretty much exactly like the one Staind hit, mixed with a little "Wanted Dead Or Alive" (ok, a LOT "Wanted Dead Or Alive"). Add a dobro, now it's country. And why the fuck is Possum hitching his wagon to this bullshit?
The shame of it is, that's some badass dobro playing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8T7BYcvrB4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, 10 December 2010 13:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Am honestly surprised Staind were still around enough to go anywhere.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 December 2010 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, well. This song. Like, three minutes in, you're like "but he hasn't talked about the awesomeness of America yet!" and then BOOM - the song somehow gets much, much, much worse.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, 10 December 2010 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Nevermind that this sounds pretty much exactly like the one Staind hit, mixed with a little "Wanted Dead Or Alive" (ok, a LOT "Wanted Dead Or Alive"). Add a dobro, now it's country.
this is what all country music sounds like these days tbh
― lookin qwyte (crüt), Friday, 10 December 2010 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
was just about to hit stop when the final eye opening "i love my country, i love my guns .. " speech kicks in.
― mark e, Friday, 10 December 2010 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
what a stain on staind
― manic pixie dream police (s1ocki), Friday, 10 December 2010 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Holy shit.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Friday, 10 December 2010 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I love that he shouts out to Hank and then holds up a Hank Williams Jr. record. Junior? Really?
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 10 December 2010 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Like, three minutes in, you're like "but he hasn't talked about the awesomeness of America yet!" and then BOOM - the song somehow gets much, much, much worse
OMG you weren't kidding.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 10 December 2010 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
if by "worse" you mean "more amazing"
― lookin qwyte (crüt), Friday, 10 December 2010 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
haha wow. it just builds up to that speech lol
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 10 December 2010 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, I didn't think that anything could top the old guy singing the words of the Evil LA Record Execs. xpost
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 10 December 2010 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
this is a historic moment, because this is without doubt the worst song/video ever made.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 10 December 2010 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
"the old guy" is George Jones! xp
― lonely is as lonely does, lonely is an eeyore (unregistered), Friday, 10 December 2010 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Real men hunt with arrows!
― Marco Damiani, Friday, 10 December 2010 14:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Never before have I seen anyone so earnestly and lengthily declare themselves an idiot.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Friday, 10 December 2010 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
this could be the american version of that old kitkat advert
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 10 December 2010 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
i hope the klf are behind it
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 10 December 2010 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
oh ffs this is amazing
― sonderangerbot, Friday, 10 December 2010 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I can see him looking at a blank page thinking, "I will now write a song declaring I am everything they accuse Toby Keith of being."
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 10 December 2010 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link
woah, he got *old* ... I just knew that it was somebody famous, I couldn't remember who (should have recognized the voice though).
This thread needs some pictures:
http://images.starpulse.com/pictures/2008/08/13/previews/Staind-CSW-004608.jpg
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 10 December 2010 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I bet in interviews now he's all "It was when I played the 9/11 tribute...I knew my calling..."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 December 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
That would mean this song took nine years to write.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Friday, 10 December 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I wouldn't put it past him.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 December 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Since when is this country? How is this country music? He has an enviable voice though. I don't think this is the best song I've heard but it's not the worst either.
― intuit my middle finger, then (u s steel), Friday, 10 December 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
well for one thing it's called "country boy"
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 10 December 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
The Vaselines begat NirvanaNirvana begat Pearl JamPearl Jam begat Staind
I blame The Vaselines for this song
― Satantango! (Matt #2), Friday, 10 December 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
"the old guy" is George Jones!
the other old guy -- on fiddle and speechifying at the end -- is charlie daniels.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 10 December 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
man george :(
that really bums me out...
charlie daniels has always been a hateful shitbag, fuck that guy forever, his band fucking suck ass, dude is the santana of country, what a jack-off
this is pretty much as awful as it gets.
― 311 did 4/20 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 December 2010 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
it's not that this is a shitty song, it's that it's barely a song
― goole, Friday, 10 December 2010 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey come on Devil Went Down to Georgia is a classic. Love how stupid people everywhere think the devil with his enhancements and flashy studio help is the better fiddler. Even I rooted for the devil when I was a kid.
― intuit my middle finger, then (u s steel), Friday, 10 December 2010 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah but don't get it twisted, don't buy charlie daniels albums, they suck, he had one comedy devil hit that's it. piece of shit
― 311 did 4/20 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 December 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Blame Durst.. I'm pretty sure he discovered them.
OMG that dude at the end of this song is amazing.
― billstevejim, Friday, 10 December 2010 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
chesapeakeseadux2 hours ago
much better then all the crap about growing up in the country that every one else is singing thses days, at least aaron lewis feels what he sings and not just singing what someone else wrote to make money
― Moving Pixels (J3ff T.), Friday, 10 December 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
This is like some producer threw "A Country Boy Can Survive" by Hank Jr. and "Wanted Dead Or Alive' in some unholy cloning machine.
― The animal magnetism of Tim Pawlenty (Dan Peterson), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
― A brownish area with points (chap), Friday, December 10, 2010 2:36 PM (3 hours ago)
^^^ otm
― unemployed aerosmith fans I have shoved (bernard snowy), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, I will buy that Lewis wrote these lyrics himself. they're as trite and on the nose as everything he wrote for Staind.
― Moving Pixels (J3ff T.), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
this is so tuneless. I don't know how any of you even make it past the minute mark
― fuckin magnates, why don't they work (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man charlie daniels' schtick at the end about how anyone who wants to "change things" has to go through him — two words out of that fat old fuck's mouth and I'm like, okay chuck, let's fuckin do this
― unemployed aerosmith fans I have shoved (bernard snowy), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
to hear how worse it gets as it gets on. You think the guns part is the worst bit then bingo here's the speech.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 10 December 2010 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a 'slo-burner'
― unemployed aerosmith fans I have shoved (bernard snowy), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
this is just so crass and pandering... and I each country fan, but if I were, I would be as insulted as if Will Smith's wife decided to start a metal band oh wait
― Moving Pixels (J3ff T.), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
that should be "I'm not a huge country fan"
― Moving Pixels (J3ff T.), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
in fairness, Jada's metal band was nowhere near as bad as this
OMG wtf is this shit about flags
did he just attempt to rhyme "feel" with "blue", followed by "made" with "grave"
― BO (DJP), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
bleeeeeeeeoooooooo
― fuckin magnates, why don't they work (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I just... this isn't even a song, in some ways? not to get all Geir but there is NO melody, the rhythm is some sort of lumpen flatulent slow-paced nothing, there's a bunch of words hokey phrases strung together in a haphazard way, there's no chorus, there's no structure... it's just... waht
― fuckin magnates, why don't they work (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I wasn't watching the video so when I switched tabs to see Lewis stand up from the woods with acoustic guitar in one hand and rifle in the other, the roffles could no longer contain themselves
It doesn't help that an evil part of my brain keeps going "DONUT BITCH, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
― BO (DJP), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Hahaha
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 December 2010 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
lmbo tbh my favorite part is the photo a few seconds in that flashes up after the lyrics "now i grew up etc...." with 'Me - age 2' written in sharpie for clarification
― omar little, Friday, 10 December 2010 19:05 (thirteen years ago) link
jeez i didn't even see that every single photo has this shit, nm but lol
― omar little, Friday, 10 December 2010 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
He is certainly earnest about his blatant disingenuousness.
― Moving Pixels (J3ff T.), Friday, 10 December 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Bring back Garth Brooks, I really liked him.
― intuit my middle finger, then (u s steel), Friday, 10 December 2010 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
what is it with shit heavy rock/metal bands going country?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 10 December 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
And someone please explain why Hank III is so popular with a certain kind of metaller.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 10 December 2010 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
usually the only reason they go shit heavy rock/metal is because the country scene didn't want them
― BO (DJP), Friday, 10 December 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
if there's more where this came from, may god have mercy on us all.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Friday, 10 December 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
This song owns. Maybe you haters should go back to Russia.
― Princess TamTam, Friday, 10 December 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i can't believe this isn't a joke?
― erin brokovich (rip van wanko), Friday, 10 December 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
this is the most inefficient song i've ever heard
― goole, Friday, 10 December 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
he needs like 28 lines to describe two flags everyone's seen before
FLAG IN MY YARD
IT'S GOT RED STRIPES
BUT SOME STRIPES ARE WHITE
THERE'S A BLUE PART
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
AND STARS
AND THEN THERE'S THIS OTHER FLAG
― goole, Friday, 10 December 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
haaaaaaaaaa
― BO (DJP), Friday, 10 December 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― fuckin magnates, why don't they work (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 December 2010 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
this shit makes lee greenwood sound like the coup
― omar little, Friday, 10 December 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
What is that flag with dont tread on me? not seen that before
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 10 December 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
um are you an American
― fuckin magnates, why don't they work (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 December 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsden_flag
― goole, Friday, 10 December 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Noxp
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 10 December 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
jvfd17303 days agoReal musicians sing and play whatever they damn well want because they can pull anything off, exhibit A Aaron Lewis singing a song of who really is. A country boy myself I immediately relate to what he is saying, it dont matter what you put on your body or what you say, as long as its who you are your still being yourself. And that is how i can relate to this song. Sing it brotha!! Great song!
guys... its just about being true 2 urself... all u sneering cityboy liberals cant understand what its like bein a fat country boy in cutthroat hollywood.... alll tho;se slick empty suits tried 2 make him into something he isnt, bue he tsayed true to what he is!!!! now he murders deer
― Princess TamTam, Friday, 10 December 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
the Metallica flag
― people for the slutty/common/american way (kkvgz), Friday, 10 December 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Nothing says hard-working red-blooded American like a neck tattoo of DON'T TREAD ON ME ensuring that you can never, under any circumstances, hold down a day job.
xxxxxxp:There's always been a connection between biker-friendly metal and country. David Allan Coe played with the guys from Pantera, etc..
Hank III is popular because he started out playing hardcore/metal and mostly produces country so he can pay for all twelve paternity cases, right?
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Friday, 10 December 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
With Staind in between album cycles, frontman Aaron Lewis begins a 19-date solo acoustic tour tonight (Oct. 7) at Boston's House of Blues, in support of a five-song EP due out in the spring. Lewis tells Billboard.com the country-based effort, which marks his debut into solo waters, is a natural step.
"When you look at the songs in the past that I have sat down and written on an acoustic guitar -- 'Outside,' 'It's Been a While,' 'So Far Away,' 'Everything Changes,' 'Epiphany' -- if I had a country band behind me to put down country accompaniments, that would have worked, too," Lewis tells Billboard.com. "It just seems like being where I am, what my history is, country was kind of the next step. It made the most sense.
"It wouldn't have made any sense for me to put out a record that was like John Mayer," Lewis adds. "That doesn't really follow suit with the last 13 years."
The EP includes tracks "Vicious Circles," "Massachusetts" and "Country Boy," the latter of which is the lead single and was cut in both country and rock versions. Lewis said they will be serviced to radio soon, with the Nashville-sounding track debuting at the end of November on CMT.
"The country version has George Jones and Chris Young singing on it, and Charlie Daniels plays the fiddle and gives us a piece of his mind at the end of his song." Lewis says.
So is "Country Boy" the most political song Lewis, who says he's not a Tea Party member as much as he's a Constitutionalist, has ever released?
"Well, I'm pretty outspoken as to my political views, and how far this country is from what it's supposed to be right now," Lewis says. "I very strongly believe in the Constitution and I believe in the limited powers it puts forth. I believe that every person in this country would be better off if we went back to having the federal government do what it's supposed to do, and stop sticking its nose in places that it has no authority or right to be sticking it."
As for Staind, Lewis said the hard rock act starts recording in December with an April deadline to turn in its seventh studio release due out summer 2011. The new year also marks the 10th anniversary of Staind's five-times platinum 2001 effort "Break the Cycle." When asked whether the band plans on any special release to commemorate its anniversary, the 38-year-old laughs. "No. The whole concept sounds funny to me. I'd rather move forward."
― omar little, Friday, 10 December 2010 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I grew up more country that pretty much anyone else on the boards aside from jjjusten so don't think I don't know from country.
massive lol at "now he murders deer" tho
xp: oh man, that was my wife's birthday, I should have taken her to that
― BO (DJP), Friday, 10 December 2010 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
he's not a Tea Party member as much as he's a Constitutionalist
Huh, a bald man actually fighting over a comb.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 December 2010 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
There's always been a connection between biker-friendly metal and country. David Allan Coe played with the guys from Pantera, etc..
yeah i wonder what this connection could be
― goole, Friday, 10 December 2010 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
lol so did no one tell george jones that this song doesnt have a melody?
― max, Friday, 10 December 2010 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
the poor guy is trying to sing along but its like a horrible prank was played on him
― max, Friday, 10 December 2010 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Is Jones hurting for money?
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Friday, 10 December 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
this should be aaron lewis f. alex jones... spoken word pieces about contrails and shit
― Princess TamTam, Friday, 10 December 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
anybody who wants to pack me off to a FEMA UFO excavation forced labor site has to come through me first
― Princess TamTam, Friday, 10 December 2010 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpUehXXOG4U
― goole, Friday, 10 December 2010 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
― BO (DJP), Friday, December 10, 2010 1:58 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
uhhhh
i grew up on a farm outside of Frost, MN (pop 193)...Hastings is like the upper west side by comparison!
― 311 did 4/20 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 December 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
goes back farther than that (ie Motorhead)
― fuckin magnates, why don't they work (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 December 2010 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
jjj and I didn't live in Hastings, though; that was the closest town. We were in Ravenna Township (pop 110 when we lived there).
Although in practical terms I concede the point.
― BO (DJP), Friday, 10 December 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
let's not have a "who's more country?" pissing contest.
if you grew up as country as i did btw you'll find that is actually a real contest.
― omar little, Friday, 10 December 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I wonder how painful the rock version of this song is
― fuckin magnates, why don't they work (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 December 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh great, just what this thread needed, a dick-waving contest about who is more "country".
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 December 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
my dark secret: i practically grew up in iowa (7 miles from the border)
but it was those 7 miles that made all the difference
*waves dick*
― 311 did 4/20 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 December 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder if the record company forced him to do a rock version..
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 10 December 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
xp
― goole, Friday, 10 December 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
only on ILE would people complain about an "argument" that had already resolved itself
must be a city thing
― BO (DJP), Friday, 10 December 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
*goes bow hunting*
― 311 did 4/20 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 December 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
*lives off the land*
*stands up for freedom*
(btw nothing on that alex jones video? come on u guys)
― goole, Friday, 10 December 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Except not.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 December 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
*nukes a deer*
― fuckin magnates, why don't they work (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 December 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
*gives George Jones a job*
*reads the Constitution*
― fuckin magnates, why don't they work (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 December 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
it kinda freaks me out that i used to chew tobacco (kodiak) so gross :(
― 311 did 4/20 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 December 2010 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah having grown up on the prairies I can attest that the dudes who liked country often liked metal and vice versa, with no contradictions seen at all. At my old store you'd get guys walking up with Metallica and Randy Travis CDs so I don't really see this as being some massive departure.
― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 10 December 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
why would there be any contradictions involved? the genres share a lot.
― fuckin magnates, why don't they work (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 December 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
early in HS i bought three pixies albums and two husker du albums off a kid for ten bucks. he had them cos some songs were on a thrasher video. then he decided he'd rather be a shitkicker and it was all brooks and dunn all the time. he friended me on facebook a while back and he's super into demo derby. i remember getting into a huge argument with him once about whether mariah carey was black or not.
― goole, Friday, 10 December 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
no real point to that story i guess
did that for a summer when i worked road construction, shameful part of my past
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 December 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
ha yeah that's exactly the type of job that's perfect for dipping
― 311 did 4/20 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 December 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah dipping is kind of like putting soft, warm asphalt into your grill. i tried it once in college on a dare and wanted to kill myself, it was so bad.
― omar little, Friday, 10 December 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Dipping should pretty much be relegated to junior high/high school.
― "Kiss Players♥" (DJP), Friday, 10 December 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Trust me, after 10 hours a day shoveling and spreading hot asphalt when it is 95+ degrees outside, even putting nasty shit in your mouth feels like a worthwhile distraction.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 December 2010 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The only U.S. flag not captured or lost during George Armstrong Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn in southeastern Montana sold at auction Friday for $2.2 million.
The buyer was identified by the auction house Sotheby's in New York as an American private collector. Frayed, torn, and with possible bloodstains, the flag had been valued before its sale at up to $5 million.
Since 1895, the 7th U.S. Cavalry flag — known as a "guidon" for its swallow-tailed shape — had been the property of the Detroit Institute of Arts, which paid just $54 for it.
http://my.eimg.net/harvest_xml/NEWS/img/20101210/7f12bbcb-b555-49c9-9da0-b4068e025d6d.jpg
― scott seward, Friday, 10 December 2010 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
fyi: i got a pair of custer's underpants that i could let go for, like, a hundred bucks. possibly blood-stained.
― scott seward, Friday, 10 December 2010 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
shit stains or it isn't real
― fuckin magnates, why don't they work (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 December 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lguvLMuQeI
― that's not funny. (unperson), Friday, 10 December 2010 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Love this online discussion of dude's neck tattoo:
I think that phrase was used by our founding fathers talking to our government trying to take over, i remember watching somthing on the history channel about it. and i seen the snake picure also, lol
― He stayed true to what he is. Now he murders deer! (Dan Peterson), Friday, 10 December 2010 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Maf54 (8:05:53 PM): and gram the one eyed snakeMaf54 (8:06:13 PM): grab
― omar little, Friday, 10 December 2010 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
meanwhile, dude from staind grew up in springfield, mass which is more of a salsa/reggaeton kinda place these days.
― scott seward, Friday, 10 December 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Give him a few more years.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 December 2010 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
dude's pre-staind band will bring a tear to your eye:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WNlwk4wpuc&feature=related
― scott seward, Friday, 10 December 2010 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Staind "goes reggaeton" and holy hell is it ever delightful! xxp
― Simon H., Friday, 10 December 2010 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
god street wine
― omar little, Friday, 10 December 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
this guy's whole career = when keeping it real goes wrong
― fuckin magnates, why don't they work (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 December 2010 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha
― "Kiss Players♥" (DJP), Friday, 10 December 2010 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfD-E9hKCWM
― omar little, Friday, 10 December 2010 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
A stunning return to form.
http://deadspin.com/world-series-national-anthem-botched-by-that-asshole-fr-1651071056
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 October 2014 01:49 (nine years ago) link
I hate his music with all my soul but that seemed like an honest mistake.
― Moka, Monday, 27 October 2014 08:26 (nine years ago) link
"shitty noise band Staind"
I'm waiting for the Staind / Merzbow collaborative 10".
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 27 October 2014 09:30 (nine years ago) link
i mean sure it's an honest mistake but that's the point. singing the national anthem at a major sporting event is the most scrutinized 2 minutes in any musical performer's career. not every version is gonna be great, but if you flub the words you get no sympathy, you knew people would be watching you like a hawk.
― some dude, Monday, 27 October 2014 12:19 (nine years ago) link
Particularly if you've made criticized someone else for messing up the lyrics.
― kissaroo and Tyler, too (DJP), Monday, 27 October 2014 12:55 (nine years ago) link
Wtf I shouldn't post when I'm half asleep
― kissaroo and Tyler, too (DJP), Monday, 27 October 2014 13:30 (nine years ago) link
Jurgen Van Gulchthro @swarthyvillain · Sep 22KERRY: I love Hobostink, Mushroomdead, um, all those fellows(boos)BUSH: I own vinyl of Staind's rare EP "Pissed at Memories"(cheers)
― ciderpress, Monday, 27 October 2014 13:51 (nine years ago) link
All I can say is I'm sorry and ask for the Nation's forgiveness. My nerves got the best of me and I am completely torn up about what happened. America is the greatest country in the world. The Star-Spangled Banner means so much to so many, including myself. I hope everyone can understand the intensity of the situation and my true intent of this performance. I hope that the Nation, Major League Baseball and the many fans of our national pastime can forgive me.
"Sure."
"I meant all of my music."
"Fuck you."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 October 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
Does he mean Steeler Nation?
― kissaroo and Tyler, too (DJP), Monday, 27 October 2014 15:04 (nine years ago) link
Oh, Staind can you see by the dawn's early lightWhat so proudly we Staind at the twilight's last gleaming?Whose broad stripes and bright Stainds thru the perilous fight,O'er the ramparts we Staind were so gallantly streaming?And the rocket's Staind glare, the bombs bursting in air,Gave proof through the night that our flag was Staind there.Oh, say does that Staind-spangled banner yet waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the Staind?
― example (crüt), Monday, 27 October 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
http://www.soundslikenashville.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Aaron-Lewis-11.jpg
― hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 15:55 (seven years ago) link
It has been a while, hasn't it.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 16:29 (seven years ago) link
Hadn’t heard news of this guy since around 2002, so wasn’t aware he’s a huge asshole: https://variety.com/2019/music/news/stainds-aaron-lewis-on-his-solo-country-act-and-political-correctness-1203188656/
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Saturday, 13 April 2019 04:08 (five years ago) link
well that wins the award for link i'll least likely click on for the year, congrats morrisp
― cheese canopy (map), Saturday, 13 April 2019 05:32 (five years ago) link
Good call — it’s worse than you think.
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Saturday, 13 April 2019 05:47 (five years ago) link
morrisp, here is some more evidence of his assholery. I had forgotten about this thread so I posted it over in best Fred Durst shoutout in Staind's "Outside"
― ☮ (peace, man), Saturday, 13 April 2019 09:50 (five years ago) link
i just read it and this is overhyping it. he seems like a pretty dull & ignorant guy but we already knew that and the things he says here are pretty cookie-cutter.
― buttigieg play the blues (crüt), Saturday, 13 April 2019 13:57 (five years ago) link
I’m never prepared for “P-c-h-nt-s” bullshit
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Saturday, 13 April 2019 14:12 (five years ago) link
it's vile, for sure.
― buttigieg play the blues (crüt), Saturday, 13 April 2019 14:18 (five years ago) link
2014: "All I can say is I'm sorry and ask for the Nation's forgiveness."
Many great artists have had to make abject apologies to the country, although they were mainly in Stalinist Russia and it was Shostakovich and Prokofiev, not the bloke from Staind
― sbahnhof, Saturday, 20 April 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link
And speaking of Russia...
https://www.nme.com/news/music/stainds-aaron-lewis-on-ukraine-maybe-we-should-listen-to-what-vladimir-putin-is-saying-3187630
― peace, man, Friday, 25 March 2022 18:29 (two years ago) link
i'll always have a soft spot for Staind because they were my first opening band at my first concert (Korn in 2000 lol)
― DT, Friday, 25 March 2022 20:20 (two years ago) link
there’s a lotta crazy stuff in this video but none of it comes close to the absolute insanity of having 4 monitor wedges for a solo acoustic show https://t.co/uFMEEgdHbD— eve6 ha (@Eve6) March 21, 2022
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 June 2022 13:46 (one year ago) link
he released a song where he tells an anecdote about yelling at his television.
something tells me he's pretty comfortable with the sound of his own voice.
― I'm ANTIFA and I vote. (Austin), Thursday, 9 June 2022 14:03 (one year ago) link
He actually did manage to make at least one good country album(haven't heard any before or since, and recent videos have me in no hurry to catch up)---from Rolling Country 2016, with eventual curmudgeon pushback, forcing me to improve:
Aaron Lewis, Sinner: title and theme song doesn't give us the devilish details, nor does Lewis's voice (though common-man robust and expressive, like the production) project the shadow of dark thangs you shouldn't ask about (so he gets a bit upstaged when Willie Nelson shows up occasionally on this track, although with an somewhat messed-up voice, alarmingly enough after two good albums this year: can go fast at that age). And Lewis is unwise enough to ask for even more comparison with Chris Stapleton by covering "Whiskey and You", this soon after the original release, too. Oh well, this album turns out to be all about a self-destructive man, after all, and about how there's more than one way to figure the damage.Not that he can't enjoy it, and doesn't have a sense of humor, like "That Ain't Country" is not the usual tiresome sermon, and he does have a point, complaining about "good times and happy endings", at least, I'd like to think, if they're fake, but he (the guy in the song anyway) does seem to be a stubborn cuss, who wants it to be all bar-breath miserabilism all the time--then again he gets so happy with his Christmas misery list ( of tropes as sung by his hee-ros) that it starts to sound (well kind of) like "Twistin' The Night Away."Also, there is kind of a perhaps accidentally pre-emptive strike/parody/answer song (re xpost Maren Morris on country as church), "Sunday Every Saturday Night", in which "whiskey fills the cracks in my soul...the preacher calls "Last Round"...Jesus says, "Son, you'll be alright", for a little while, o' course. It is whiskey and wry, close enough (and not too close) to deadpan to get banned, so far.There are several a little too crisply articulate and well-balanced for convincing desperation---again, considering his handy, familiar vocal skills and their limits---but others tilt toward chaos or inchoate just enough---- the guy in "Mama" laments being "pieces glued together" instead of scattered, and it unsettles me every time---he may be the guy (or a forerunner, John the Baptist) of the self-made, outward success in "Lost and Lonely", who is also a Richard Cory in the making, "an albatross around my own neck", hoping his wife (or maybe the other, previous woman) can hold everything together 'til he gets back, and they can "get back to where we started so long ago, before my demons took over"---a long-distance trucker with a speed habit (among other problems)? A serial killer? Surely something more like the former--"He sounded so normal, Officer.""I Lost It All" is a very tuneful, graceful, soulful (not over- or undersung) blurt, and his 13-year-old daughter Zoe gets to rush the beat but not over- or undersing "Travelin' Soldier", yay."Lewis is unwise enough to ask for even more comparison with Chris Stapleton"hmmmm. Almost stopped reading your post there.― curmudgeon He gets wiser pretty soon.― dow, Perhaps its me, but wasn't sure from your lyrics-heavy description whether you liked the record, or not― curmudgeonI liked the *sound* right away---he recently closed out some late night talk show, you know how they usually put the musical artists right at the end, and I was shuffling by, getting ready for bed, but he caught my attention, held it, and I perked up enough to go google his album title (no idea of the Staind connection, had completely forgotten about them. Liked the sound of the stream right away too: Lewis's voice (though common-man robust and expressive, like the production) quite tasty high generic neurotic grooves, for the most part. I've come to like a few tracks more, a few less than I did early on, but it's worth checking out (especially on free Spotify, but might buy a nice-priced copy for somewhat spooky traveling companion, to keep me on my toes). I was also glad to find something sustaining yet plainer than much of my recent subtext-laden listening fare, something with yer more basic ups and downs.― dow
"Lewis is unwise enough to ask for even more comparison with Chris Stapleton"hmmmm. Almost stopped reading your post there.― curmudgeon He gets wiser pretty soon.― dow, Perhaps its me, but wasn't sure from your lyrics-heavy description whether you liked the record, or not― curmudgeonI liked the *sound* right away---he recently closed out some late night talk show, you know how they usually put the musical artists right at the end, and I was shuffling by, getting ready for bed, but he caught my attention, held it, and I perked up enough to go google his album title (no idea of the Staind connection, had completely forgotten about them. Liked the sound of the stream right away too: Lewis's voice (though common-man robust and expressive, like the production) quite tasty high generic neurotic grooves, for the most part. I've come to like a few tracks more, a few less than I did early on, but it's worth checking out (especially on free Spotify, but might buy a nice-priced copy for somewhat spooky traveling companion, to keep me on my toes). I was also glad to find something sustaining yet plainer than much of my recent subtext-laden listening fare, something with yer more basic ups and downs.― dow
― dow, Thursday, 9 June 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link