lol maybe this poll was a harbinger of huegness to come: R WE Human or are we SEX ON FIRE?
― in movie 2001 resurrect thread on planet jupiter (Pillbox), Sunday, 2 May 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
THIS SEX IS ON FIRE
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― in movie 2001 resurrect thread on planet jupiter (Pillbox), Sunday, 2 May 2010 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Pink sold out 12 shows or some ridic amount in a stadium in Melbourne, not sure if you'd count her as a "rock" act but I dont see why not.
― Eyjafjallalalalalatrolololol (Trayce), Sunday, 2 May 2010 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
what about, like, Death Cab?
― ksh, Monday, 3 May 2010 00:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Interpol
― ksh, Monday, 3 May 2010 00:21 (fourteen years ago) link
both restricted to large theatre status, along w/ The Shins, Modest Mouse & other OC-era kinda-big indie bands.
― in movie 2001 resurrect thread on planet jupiter (Pillbox), Monday, 3 May 2010 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Stadiums? I doubt it.
xpost re interpol
― Eyjafjallalalalalatrolololol (Trayce), Monday, 3 May 2010 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link
in most US cities, at least
― in movie 2001 resurrect thread on planet jupiter (Pillbox), Monday, 3 May 2010 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, fair enough
― ksh, Monday, 3 May 2010 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I think this has more to do with the music press than with digital downloading. The press doesn't give bands the time to develop, they are constanctly on the lookout for the "next big thing", meaning debut albums, and then tend to tear them down already by the time of the 2nd or 3rd album. And it is very rare for a band with 1-2 albums behind them to be able to fill stadiums (even though I guess Coldplay did)
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 3 May 2010 01:25 (fourteen years ago) link
it is very rare for a band with 1-2 albums behind them to be able to fill stadiums
That is the exact opposite of America. Here it's very rare for a band to fill a stadium without being around for 1-2 decades.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 3 May 2010 01:33 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah geir, like the music press hyping up bands, dropping them, hyping up newer bands has only happened in the internet age..
― Dastardly & Müttley Crüe (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 3 May 2010 01:37 (fourteen years ago) link
But it wasn't always like this. I think in the 60s through the 90s, bands could do this without being around for very long.
― Vanilla Douche (res), Monday, 3 May 2010 02:57 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, thiking of gnr at the kingdome (50k+), being popular less than 5 years
― cheap phentermine (jergins), Monday, 3 May 2010 02:59 (fourteen years ago) link
It happens to a larger and larger degree. Surely didn't happen a lot in the 60s and 70s, when many of the still stadium filling dinosaur acts were slowly building their careers.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 3 May 2010 09:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I think in the 60s through the 90s, bands could do this without being around for very long.
Many of the biggest bands of the early 70s were so-called "supergroups" consisting of members who were already partly famous from other bands. Making it easier for them to establish a name quickly.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 3 May 2010 09:55 (fourteen years ago) link