Red Mosquito

southp wrote:I actually purchased CDs by:

Nickelback
Korn
Creed

I don't actually listen to Korn anymore....well, occasionally a track or two on a workout mix. I think the first two records captured something cool before the whole scene became a over-saturated and watered-down.

Yeah, I too once owned (who knows where it is now) Korn's Life is Peachy.

Me too. And Follow the Leader. And Issues.

And Limp Bizkit's Significant Other.

And the Vengaboys Party Album.

Never owned a Korn or Limp Bizkit album.

Simple Torture wrote:

I still enjoy this song.

I went through a .38 Special phase in the early 80s

cutuphalfdead wrote:Never owned a Korn or Limp Bizkit album.

Likewise, I always hated that shit.

Stickman should be posting in this thread, but he isn't and that concerns me.

cutuphalfdead wrote:Never owned a Korn or Limp Bizkit album.

Neither did I, but I did have "Devil Without a Cause," and I loved that thing dearly.

There was a time when I thought "Black Chick, White Guy" was a deeply poignant song.

You guys have a couple years on me, you were probably old enough to know better at that point.

No Korn or LB here.

Plenty of bad 80s metal, soft/heavy/hair. And lots of bad 90s stuff like Tea Party, Counting Crows, Gin Blossoms.

theplatypus wrote:You guys have a couple years on me, you were probably old enough to know better at that point.

I don't think so -- "Devil Without a Cause" and "Significant Other" came out the same year, and both "Follow the Leader" and "Issues" were out within a year of both. I think Kid Rock just had a whimsical side that appealed to me that I never heard in Korn or Bizkit -- he never struck me as overly aggro, he just seemed like a fun-loving hick who found his niche.

Man, what sad times.

LetMeSleep wrote:Gin Blossoms.

I still listen to New Miserable Experience a few times a year. Some great songs on that album.

LetMeSleep wrote:And lots of bad 90s stuff like Tea Party, Counting Crows, Gin Blossoms.

It seems an immutable truth that every Australian of a certain age with a passing interest in rock music owns a Tea Party album.

theplatypus wrote:You guys have a couple years on me, you were probably old enough to know better at that point.

I was in the 8th grade when Faith dropped. Everyone in my class was going crazy for 3 Dollar Bill Y'all.

Birds in Hell wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:And lots of bad 90s stuff like Tea Party, Counting Crows, Gin Blossoms.

It seems an immutable truth that every Australian of a certain age with a passing interest in rock music owns a Tea Party album.

I meant to add this earlier but I was on my phone - this is my perception, and I have no idea whether it's actually supported by sales evidence and so on, but The Tea Party's Australian popularity always stuck me as one of those curious examples of a band whose popularity in a foreign country inexplicably outstrips their impact in major markets like the USA or the UK. I guess the inverse of this is bands like Dave Matthews Band or Rush who seem wildly popular in the USA but made no (or very little) inroads over here.

Birds in Hell wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:And lots of bad 90s stuff like Tea Party, Counting Crows, Gin Blossoms.

It seems an immutable truth that every Australian of a certain age with a passing interest in rock music owns a Tea Party album.

I meant to add this earlier but I was on my phone - this is my perception, and I have no idea whether it's actually supported by sales evidence and so on, but The Tea Party's Australian popularity always stuck me as one of those curious examples of a band whose popularity in a foreign country inexplicably outstrips their impact in major markets like the USA or the UK. I guess the inverse of this is bands like Dave Matthews Band or Rush who seem wildly popular in the USA but made no (or very little) inroads over here.

Absolutely agree. Ben Harper would be another on that list. Gomez another.

btw I saw Tea Party last year and it was like a parody act.

I used to be into german folk-medieval-metal stuff when I was 14. (Next to things everyone listened to like Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Sum41...)


(Subway to Sally are still famous enough to headline the Wacken Open Air. That was fun to watch for nostalgic reasons this year )

I don't know the Tea Party, what's a good song to check out?

Never liked the Gin Blossoms or the Counting Crows either.

re; hair metal / glam metal,I have a soft spot for a few of the bands like Motley Crue, Van Halen, and Def Leppard. Especially their early stuff. Motley Crue's first two albums are pretty solid, and Def Leppard's first 3 are pretty good too. The Roth stuff from VH still holds up for me as well.

I'm guilty of once liking a few Poison, Cinderella, Kix, and Warrant songs though, and those songs, in hindsight, are indeed pretty terrible.

Here is their most well known track plus below is my favourite. I'm a sucker for that single note piano playing.