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wow what a spectrum
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 23 September 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
Jason Cohen1 month agoThese guys remind me of a rap version of ColdPlay! Awesome :-D
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 23 September 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
Heathens is fun enough my kids love it to death, stressed out is bad, ride is worse millennial whooooooop
― Spottie, Friday, 23 September 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
they sound like something that would have been welcome on alternative radio in '98 or '99 to me
― call all destroyer, Friday, 23 September 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
yeah theres some modern 311 vibes there for sure
― Spottie, Friday, 23 September 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link
I mostly remember 98-99 as a nadir for alternative radio?
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Friday, 23 September 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link
exactly
― call all destroyer, Friday, 23 September 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
oh yeah god "ride" is so fuckin hateful
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 23 September 2016 18:52 (seven years ago) link
this is the one that reminded me of sublime. but 311 works too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw-0pbY9JeU
― scott seward, Friday, 23 September 2016 18:52 (seven years ago) link
ride x-post
― scott seward, Friday, 23 September 2016 18:53 (seven years ago) link
200 million views. stressed out is almost up to 700 million views.
it's v sublime
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 23 September 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
oh but i've never heard "heathens" before. this is fine! maybe they just need to calm down and do moody shit?
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 23 September 2016 18:55 (seven years ago) link
sublime is a good comp. i was thinking they could have been like an early opener on family values. crazy town without the nu metal or something.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 23 September 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
the nu-metal was just replaced with edm.
― scott seward, Friday, 23 September 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
this song is still like...compellingly awful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92XVwY54h5k
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 23 September 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link
Me and my 11-year-old son both like these dudes
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 23 September 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link
lol i think i earnestly like "tear in my heart" now which is my own fault. catch me in this thread in september 2017 screaming "twenty one pilots are the truth"
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 23 September 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
post-crabcore
― bitcoin bajas (diamonddave85), Friday, 23 September 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link
lmao i would expect nothing less xp
― Spottie, Friday, 23 September 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link
SERIOUS earworms that's all i know. cuz i get the pleasure of hearing them so much. their hooks in my head for days.
― scott seward, Friday, 23 September 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link
that resigned "yeh" after "wake up you need to make money" kinda gets me
― seafaring funnyman Jacques Custos (rip van wanko), Friday, 23 September 2016 19:06 (seven years ago) link
searched ilx this morning to see if anyone had mentioned them, nothing.
You must have not been looking in the old "WORST SONGS" threads from like 2013 onwards.
― MarkoP, Friday, 23 September 2016 19:15 (seven years ago) link
We should all be glad that at least Fake Shark Real Zombie never really became a huge sensation.
― MarkoP, Friday, 23 September 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link
feels inevitable in hindsight that a band that's the mid point of 00s mall emo and youtube eminem ukulele covers would make it this big
― ufo, Saturday, 24 September 2016 00:47 (seven years ago) link
Turns out I accidentally saw these guys live at a festival two years ago because I confused the stage where the artist I actually wanted to be was. I don't find them awful but they make me feel old... I honestly don't understand how these guys became the 'rock' band of 2015/2016, the songs are catchy and all but is that all there is?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 24 September 2016 00:54 (seven years ago) link
I actually wanted to *see
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 24 September 2016 00:55 (seven years ago) link
i think i have heard "Ride" 1,000 times already. didn't know rock was this big in 2016. KIIS FM plays it like every hour.
"I've been thinking too much"
― Bee OK, Saturday, 24 September 2016 02:03 (seven years ago) link
this isn't rock tho
― billstevejim, Saturday, 24 September 2016 07:01 (seven years ago) link
there was a thing on the nyer website about them - http://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/the-slippery-appeal-of-the-biggest-new-band-in-america
― just sayin, Saturday, 24 September 2016 07:37 (seven years ago) link
that article was great
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Saturday, 24 September 2016 07:47 (seven years ago) link
yeah jia tolentino's been doing some really good stuff for them imo
― just sayin, Saturday, 24 September 2016 07:50 (seven years ago) link
and i've said this before, but its crazy how much stuff they have on the nyer website that's not in the magazine
― just sayin, Saturday, 24 September 2016 07:51 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmv8aQKO6k0the sudden reggae break in this one is baffling enough to almost be endearing
― ufo, Saturday, 24 September 2016 11:04 (seven years ago) link
+1 for the jia tolentino article
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 24 September 2016 11:59 (seven years ago) link
Popular with high schoolers, as I learned when a friend's kid said they were his favorite band and had seen twice. I hid under the table rather than share my opinion.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 September 2016 12:00 (seven years ago) link
*Mario voice*
"This-a band, she-a no so good"
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 24 September 2016 13:16 (seven years ago) link
Though in ilx terms I find them, and really a lot of stuff now interesting in the respect that kids totally raised in the post internet Pangaea where genres all sort of fell away into technologically produced hybrids ended up being being stuff that the popists hated, and really popular with young ppl
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 24 September 2016 13:23 (seven years ago) link
Coldplay with tattoos
― Cosmic Slop, Saturday, 24 September 2016 16:05 (seven years ago) link
the raps on the hits are terrible, just wanky stoned adolescent shit. not that that prevents it from being enjoyed among actual stoned adolescents but yeah.
― dyl, Saturday, 24 September 2016 16:20 (seven years ago) link
i think literally the only band shirts i've seen on tweens/teens in the past year have been for these guys.
i still see the occasional kid in (judging by the font) a shirt for some metalcore band i've never heard of, but yeah, this is otm for me too.
this band is terrible but yes they would have fit in fine on late 90s alt radio. (with different production choices obv.) they're no len, though.
― a basset hound (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 24 September 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
are they the flys then
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Saturday, 24 September 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
i will demure because my knowledge of current radio is sadly limited to when my boss decides to torture us with the "today's hits" station. (christ on a crutch they still play the hell out of that wiz/puth song.)
― a basset hound (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 24 September 2016 16:51 (seven years ago) link
Coldplay sound like a very classicist pop/rock band to me. Like, it's easy to draw a direct line to them from the Beatles. This is some hyper-digital genre mash-up shit, which sounds good on paper, but the results don't do much for me. Pro-Tooled 311 seems closer to the mark to me.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Saturday, 24 September 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
reiterating what's been said upthread, but i'm a 6th grade teacher and these guys are absolutely huge with my students, when i let them pick music in my classroom this is always the consensus first pick.
― intheblanks, Saturday, 24 September 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link
i think literally the only band shirts i've seen on tweens/teens in the past year have been for these guys.i still see the occasional kid in (judging by the font) a shirt for some metalcore band i've never heard of, but yeah, this is otm for me too.
is it pierce the veil? That's another big one.
i think the last one was asking alexandria. which is actually a band i've heard of. (but never actually heard.)
― a basset hound (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 24 September 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
they are truly awful. Metalcore is the pits
― Cosmic Slop, Saturday, 24 September 2016 17:11 (seven years ago) link
Metalcore has its good and bad bands, just like every genre except black metal, which is 99% shit. Asking Alexandria are direct descendants of Mötley Crüe and Skid Row.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 24 September 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link
pierce the veil are great btw
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Saturday, 24 September 2016 17:15 (seven years ago) link
Solid mainstream band I think
― i was too much listening to your accent (Spottie), Saturday, 10 April 2021 23:37 (three years ago) link
relistening to trench today, even better than i remembered, probably better than i characterized it upthread
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 April 2021 15:04 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_9Kf0D5BTs
aiight maybe i've done the full heel turn, i love this song
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 April 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
"bandito" is so good, i nearly forgot
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 April 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
also i will halfheartedly defend most of blurryface at this point. i... like "ride" now?
here let me ruin vampire weekend for you *slowly turns up volume dial on twenty one pilots "ride"*
most 21 pilots superfans would tell you that blurryface is a mainstream concession and vessel is the real shit but i find vessel real juvenile still. some of the hooks are wonderful ("ode to sleep") but many of the almost-good songs are still like rube goldberg machines of bad decisions. what's worse than the rapping? nearly every time this band breaks out the ukulele
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 April 2021 21:40 (three years ago) link
of course, trench is >>>>>>>>>>
even the uke tracks work
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 April 2021 21:44 (three years ago) link
"shy away" is underwhelming, just feels like part of that small wave of major label pop rock bands who tried to sound like the strokes (neon trees etc.)
it's not bad but kinda forgettable and uninteresting which is the last thing this band should be. even when they've been horrible they were at least interestingly horrible making the worst musical decisions possible etc.
― ufo, Saturday, 17 April 2021 06:20 (three years ago) link
on the plus side: no rapping!
idk it’s a really well-written song imo. everything a hook
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 17 April 2021 13:57 (three years ago) link
been stuck in my head for a week
I will rep for blurryface. Great songs, great visual aesthetic too. Saw them twice live in this time (w/ my teen kids) and the energy start to finish was impressive (band and crowd). Surging quasi pit filled most of the room. Many backflips were flipped. Show climaxes with Tyler on a 30 foot steel pillar above the crowd singing Car Radio.
― Psychocandy Apple Grey (Pyschocandles), Saturday, 17 April 2021 16:32 (three years ago) link
i really like blurryface at this point. even lowlight “lane boy” has a sick dnb freak out
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 17 April 2021 17:12 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sBRnnnZyFw
really good imo
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 30 April 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link
it's good until the second half where it goes into half-time and then the outro rap is dreadful
― ufo, Friday, 30 April 2021 16:14 (three years ago) link
god what a weird record
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 21 May 2021 13:12 (three years ago) link
like in many ways it is deeply unweird, cf. "saturday" is just a groovy song about the weekend! until it consumes itself pixel by pixel
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 21 May 2021 13:13 (three years ago) link
they largely make the weirdness work for them for this time instead of making you go "that is one of the worst musical decisions i've ever heard"
― ufo, Friday, 21 May 2021 13:23 (three years ago) link
"bounce man," tho... i don't hate it but they gotta lock the uke in the closet
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 21 May 2021 13:27 (three years ago) link
and his rapping too, though it's not quite as bad on this one as it's been in the past
"bounce man" isn't good but it's not like bafflingly in the way say the "guns for hands" bridge is or anything
― ufo, Friday, 21 May 2021 13:31 (three years ago) link
i think dude's rapping majorly improved between blurryface and trench, so for the most part i think it's rad, another tool in the unexpectedly deep toolbox this band's working with. still a few lines that make you clutch your forehead and wish you didn't know what words are
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 21 May 2021 13:40 (three years ago) link
in mood/songwriting/everything else this feels like a complete photonegative of trench and i'm really about bands that make these kind of hard right turns between records
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 21 May 2021 13:41 (three years ago) link
"mulberry street" -> "formidable" is the part of the album i could credibly describe as sophistipop
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 21 May 2021 13:51 (three years ago) link
it's mostly just i hate the sound of his rapping, he just sounds like a less technical eminem or something and it's not pleasant
― ufo, Friday, 21 May 2021 14:16 (three years ago) link
his rapping is more pleasant than his singing
― Left, Friday, 21 May 2021 14:22 (three years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/fQn4050/21pilots.png
― StanM, Saturday, 2 July 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link
no security or anything - just now on Rock Werchter (Belgian festival)
― StanM, Saturday, 2 July 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
the grin when he walks back to the stage at the end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu9UOzYPu24
― StanM, Saturday, 2 July 2022 21:32 (one year ago) link