worst / most washed-up / weakest link band in the HELLA MEGA TOUR (Green Day / Fall Out Boy / Weezer)

All of Weezer's albums are pretty great tbh don't know what the fuss is about

Whiney & milo's examples otm. Maybe also like Tori Amos and Malkmus (have not kept up with their more recent stuff). It's mostly a question of a) who's still out there doin' it after all these years and b) who among those still doing it are finding ways to keep it fresh. Less of a damning indictment of those who've failed to do so and more like mad props to the outliers who are managing to outlie in their 50s.

The contrast between what the Breeders have been doing in the 21st Century and what the Pixies have been doing in the 21st Century is stark to say the least

xp Malkmus is boring af live (and I’m a Pavement megafan)

Curious about Veruca Salt to the extent that they're still performing at all these days. They tore it up a quarter century ago.

This is the band that's opening, who has a legit Alternative Radio smash with a ska song somehow in 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq2jJLswL8I

_"Boulevard of Broken Dreams"_


Pretty sure we've done a side-by-side comparison of the lyrics of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" with those of Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again."

What sort of road am I on? Behold: you can see that is a lonely one.

In what fashion am I walking on this road? Alone. That is how I am walking on this road which is lonely.

Who is with me on this road? No one. I am the only one who is walking alone upon this lonely road. To put it another way, I am on my own.

Am I aware of any other type of road? Why, no. This is the only sort of road with which I am familiar: a lonely one.

Aimee Interrupter is very late 2010s appropriate because she was on the Alex Jones show multiple times.

It's mostly a question of a) who's still out there doin' it after all these years and b) who among those still doing it are finding ways to keep it fresh.

Not getting too big seems like a key here. PJ and the Breeders and Dino Jr. all had hits and big records and have plenty of money but having a plotline on One Tree Hill or a Broadway musical were never options.

The thread has moved on, but reconstructing when I saw Foreigner, it was definitely not Lou Gramm but the other guy, but goddamn if it didn't sound just like Foreigner

Would u say it felt like the first time

Hey, at this point they're all jukebox heroes.

So many dirty white boys...

it’s an urgent emergency

Nine Inch Nails got pretty big and they’re still good and win Oscars and stuff

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Correct

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgEPJRWfP7c

only one of these bands has done a feature with godzilla

Give Weezer time, they'll get there eventually.

Weezer is definitely the one I dislike the most but I think by any measure Green Day is way more "washed up", I get the feeling that Weezer could still crank up decent material if they wanted to but they're more interested in doing stupid viral shit

This thread made me wonder what Everclear were up to, looking at some recent videos they are definitely very bad and washed up. clicked around on their new album and every song sounded like it was generated by AI. even Art's voice feels weirdly autotuned and fake now, like that shit they did with Michael Jackson after he died. then I watched some old videos and found out they sucked pretty bad back in the day too. but they had some good tunes at least

i thought the last two everclear albums were pretty ok for what they are. art alexakis' voice has definitely lost a lot of the (minimal) range it used to have, weird seeing them during summerland in 2013(?) and noticing that all of the hits were being played a step down

Everclear's playing here next week as part of a package tour with Living Colour, Hoobastank, and Wheatus.

jfc Living Colour is going to kill the other bands on that bill

Well, yeah.

Looking deeper, that package tour (Summerland) dates back to 2012, and is the brainchild of Alexakis and Mark McGrath. Other washed-up bands featured in prior lineups include:

Sugar Ray (duh)
Marcy Playground
Lit
Sponge
Filter
Live
Gin Blossoms
Eve 6
Spacehog
Soul Asylum
Fuel
Toadies
American HiFi
Local H

UMS has a Spacehog tattoo

Should mention the Summerland-participating version of Live was the sans Kowalczyk lineup.

Summerland bands minus Living Colour would be a good poll

Soul Asylum & Gin Blossoms don’t seem to quite fit with the theme…

only one of these bands has done a feature with godzilla

Wish Godzilla had guested on more tracks, tbh. His rhymes were always the freshest.

― Hi My father very Rusted Root with me what can I do? (Old Lunch), Wednesday, July 25, 2018 5:45 AM

Fall Out Boy have pulled out of their New York and Boston "Hella Mega" dates due to an "individual on the band's team" testing positive for COVID-19: https://t.co/U5lDOhqwxo @FallOutBoy pic.twitter.com/Lbq9Rfw6m4

— Consequence (@consequence) August 4, 2021

Sugar, We're Going Down (With Covid-19)

Thus calling into question the integrity of this epic lineup? Say it ain't so!