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Who the fuck are they and why are they allowed? And why are they aloud?! UERGH!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 19 January 2003 10:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Among the many things to loathe about Busted, the one that gets my goat the most is the excruciating way they resort to imitating the intonation and enunciation of American pop-poonk bands like Green Day etc: "I've been to the year three thou-sEnd - not much has changed but they lEve underWAHDeRR" etc. When GD and co do it it's alright, but a bunch of public school chancers from Britain ...

― Darren, Sunday, 19 January 2003 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)

But they're wacky! Look at them cut interviews in J17 about such wacky things as, I dunno, how they like mackerel. And look how counter-revolutionary they are: they hate boy bands. Oooooh, I wouldn't want to be Brian Westlife at the moment, them Busted lads have me smacked down good and proper.

Quite obviously the nadir of popular music as we know it. And, it's worth pointing out again, THEY'RE THE FUCKING DUM DUMS.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 19 January 2003 13:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't dis the best and most vital band to emerge since the Velvets, with a exemplary 3-piece dynamic not heard since the heyday of Nirvana.

Every now and again a song comes along that defines, either politically or socially, the zeitgiest of a specific time and place in history. One thinks of "Anarchy in the UK" (another punk song), "Fuck tha Police" or the defining record of the flower power generation, "Russians" by Sting.

"Year 3000" is such a record. In these troubled times of treaty withdrawls, sabre rattling and Pete Townshend, no one single piece of audio says all that needs to be said, and says it well.

"I've been to the year three thousand
Not much has changed but they lived under water"

Think about that. Think long and hard about the world and think too of those sweet words of truth. In these days of meaningless, meaningless pap being passed off as pop lyrics, think of "That's What I Go To School For". Think about how pro-active that statement is. These plucky geniuses care not for gunz, hos, and "Solid Crews", these boys are visionaries, like Martin Luther King or Ronald Reagan. They stand atop their chosen platform and deliver truth after life changing truth. Can this be said of modern bands such as Blur or the Kinks?

In short, Busted stand alone as the pinnacle of what music has been and could ever be. They can express more with 3 chords and a distortion pedal than the entire works of Mozart and Bach ever did. And they were pretty OK. They eschew the bland conformity of having a drummer and head out into uncharted territories of aural excellence without fear or favour. No drummer. Incredible stuff. Headset mics. Unbelievable.

I urge anyone alive or dead to burn your Sade cassettes, your Demonic House and your "Noise Metal" and convert to the church of Busted. Am I being literal? YES! They are Gods that walk the earth, men amongst men, the absolute and perfect conclusion of all that is true and good in the world. Including cartoons.

VIVA BUSTED! VIVA THE NEW FLESH! ALL HAIL BUSTED! ALL HAIL OUR NEW POWERCHORD MASTERS! BOW DOWN BEFORE BUSTED YET YE PERISH IN THE FIREY VAULTS! CONVERT, SINNER! CONVERT!

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Sunday, 19 January 2003 13:47 (twenty-three years ago)

They are the new manics.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 19 January 2003 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

lynskey's description has me converted to the church of busted

"that's what i go to school for" (was that them?) was horrible, tho

― geeta, Sunday, 19 January 2003 13:54 (twenty-three years ago)

They DON'T PLAY THEIR OWN INSTRUMENTS!!! (Obviously, you don't know that this isn't a rockist anti-Busted argument but a pro-Busted argument unless you know its based on how ludicrous they are jumping about with their instruments strapped on, axe-kicking the air like its the year 3000.) I worked with a girl who is the cousin of the manager of Busted.

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 19 January 2003 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

the defining record of the flower power generation, "Russians" by Sting.

flower power? the mighty Sting? 1985?

― bahtology, Sunday, 19 January 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I like them even more now I know that they're English public school poshos rather than angst ridden, blue collar Yank white trash. Not that there's anything wrong with ARBCYWT but one must have standards or where else would we be.

Plus the good looking one looks like a young Dermot Morgan which brings back fond memories of Father Ted.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 19 January 2003 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Are they actually a UK band? That's one of the funniest things I've heard in a while! Jim Reid's Americanisms are far more fun.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 January 2003 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

My favourite's the little rodenty Pete Shelley one that does all the little cheeky winks to the camera. He's dreamy.

― Ferg (Ferg), Sunday, 19 January 2003 17:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Their stuff goes for silly prices on ebay. I sold a promo of "That's What I Go To School For" that was packaged like a school notebook, with skull n' crossbones grafitti, lines and everything!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 19 January 2003 17:09 (twenty-three years ago)

The video shows the group travelling forward in time where they meet their future selves - still playing, still Busted, but old (well, middle aged by the look of it) men. And it's supposed to be the year 3000! Holy shit, Busted's thousand year Reich!

I don't mind the others but the dopey, lanky streak of piss is dating Hiedi Sugababe. That's enough for me to hate them.

― DavidM (DavidM), Sunday, 19 January 2003 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)

What I don't get is the lyric -

"we went to the year three thousand / everyone bought our seventh album"

Now, I think The Stone Roses, Massive Attack, Elestica and Mark Hollis have got pretty respectable levels of insouciance when it comes to BIIIIIIG gaps between albums, but

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:26 (twenty-three years ago)

TO ONLY MAKE 7 ALBUMS IN 998 YEARS IS A TAKING THE FUCKING PISS!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Whoever wrote this clearly wanted it to be about the year 2050 but realised that wasn't very catchy at all.

― Ferg (Ferg), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, but all the woman have three breasts so it's no surprise that making their all important 6th album takes a back seat.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

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*red flashing lights/sound of klaxons followed by 20 tons of quickset concrete*

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Monday, 20 January 2003 13:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably the worst thing in the charts at the moment, just when you thought noone could do wacky punk worse than Greenday and co, Britain manages to go one further.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 20 January 2003 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

They obv don't pull on their sleeves when they cry and that's why they only managed #2 this week.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 20 January 2003 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Busted have taken me a bit by surprise - don't think there's anything inherently wrong in what they do, it's all down to the quality of the ideas/songs/good lines, "Year 3000" is bad although nowhere near as bad as D.Sneddon - the chart rundown yesterday was the first time I'd heard him, and the first time I'd heard anything off the recent Flaming Lips album, and both of them genuinely shocked me with how poor they were. The Sneddon tune in particular is grotesquely bad - Del Amitri songwriting with Westlife production, ugh ugh ugh.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

They're Busted! They are the wandering soulpoets of Generation Ringtones! The only people in this flapping swadgasm we call "the pop scene" to dare to speak the truth and rock out unabashed on a tide of screaming aural ecstacy.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

the sleeve to this single bites a bis sleeve, the one where they're in a crudely drawn rocket ship and their 3 heads are in the windows looking punx0r. anyone concur?

― gi66y, Monday, 20 January 2003 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what have they been busted for anyway? being dullards?

― gi66y, Monday, 20 January 2003 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.nstop.com/bis/images/atom1.gif http://www.studentmax.co.uk/entertainment/busted_year_3000/img/busted_main.gif

hmmmmmmm

― zebedee, Monday, 20 January 2003 15:18 (twenty-three years ago)

well, that's my wrist well and truly slapped

― zebedee, Monday, 20 January 2003 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

haha busted zebedee!

― gi66y, Monday, 20 January 2003 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Dude on the end looks like Hidetoshi Nakata after using one of those skin bleaching things.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

the middle one = ronan!

― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 20 January 2003 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

the one on the left = FischerSkinner!

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 20 January 2003 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

TO ONLY MAKE 7 ALBUMS IN 998 YEARS IS A TAKING THE FUCKING PISS!

Hey, it worked for the Beastie Boys. (viz their "appearance" on Futurama)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Monday, 20 January 2003 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Each time they made an album, they had to be cryongenically frozen for 100 years to preserve them, so it really does make sense.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 20 January 2003 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

nine months pass...

I'm reviving this even though I was totally wrong on it about Y3000. Isn't the new album meant to be out today?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Busted are fucking ace! They're hysterical! I love them!

It just shows the depths of sexism on this board that people are willing to take the Sugababes seriously - on this very thread - for being punk bubblegum, yet Busted are reviled for being bubblegum punk.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, they've got my Alice acting like a teenager, rushing the TV and doing drum rolls on the sofa when they're on. Alice man, yer only three....

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

?? Where's the Sugababes bit Kate?

We were talking about Busted in the pub and decided that pop fans who hate Busted need to be thrown out of the Poppist International.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Busted rock!

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

A good thing about Busted and Sugababes is that they're prolific - an album a year-ish is cool. Just like the good old days.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

It's Lynskey's "they are the wandering soul poets of generation ringtones" line that sums it up for me.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't get how Chris can like Busted but hate The Darkness (i know they are fairly different)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Even if they make nothing but records like "Sleeping With The Light On" they will always get a free pass from me now for putting out "Crashed The Wedding" around the time I got married.

But I repeat - has anyone heard the album??

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

ALBUM?

(*Prepares Poppist International expulsion form*)

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Busted say being called a boy band is 'degrading'

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't mind the others but the dopey, lanky streak of piss is dating Hiedi Sugababe. That's enough for me to hate them.

-- DavidM (i...), January 19th, 2003. (DavidM)

Mind you, that's probably due to jealousy, but still.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Indeed. I wish he was dating me too.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I've only heard one Busted song and it was good. That hot-for-teacher teen anthem one. So, classic.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I think of it this way -- Van Halen's horny hot-for-teacher anthem: uncontrolled mania. Busted's: dull VH1-ready bleah.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

ned the link to subscribe to your newsletter is broken

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

WAH

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

MTV Unplugged, featuring Busted.

What will they do?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The Busted one is not dull! Plus the Busted song actually sounds like it's being sung by a teenager, which gives it an added pathos.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Plus the Busted song actually sounds like it's being sung by a teenager

It sounds like it's being sung by a ProTools program (especially on the chorus, obv.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

It is actually being sung by a teenager o.nate!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not saying that there isn't something to savor in the spectacle of a grizzled David Lee Roth pretending to be a high school student, but there is an added dimension that youth brings to the narrative.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I poop too much.

― Labia, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME PRO-TOOLS DOES NOT EQUAL PROCESSING!

It's like saying when you hear Duane Eddy's guitar "Oh thats all 2" tape". If anything causes that effect its Antares Autotune.

Jesus Christ it's like talking to art critics who don't know what a brush is.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Wowzer! (But note taken to heart, fret not. It sounds like it's being sung by Antares Autotone then!)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

That's better.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

two of their vids have spanking in. at least.

― enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, one of their videos has three hott teenage boys abandonning underage anorexic chixors dressed like Britney Spears to go chasing a plump middle aged woman through a field of flowers. How could I not love this?

― Citizen Kate (kate), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

yeh but every subsequent video involved them pining over underage anorexic thickory chixors innit

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

one: Miss Mackenzie is not middle aged - she is in fact 33

2: she ain't plump at all, she's lovely

and Busted v Darkness = pop v pomp - pop wins every time, especially when the pomp is done so awfully (I hate Queen too)

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

http://members.lycos.co.uk/paulcalf/gal2.gif

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

one: Miss Mackenzie is not middle aged - she is in fact 33

I am 33. Trust me, it's middle aged.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

as a mere two years and two months off it, it ain't.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.ananova.com/images/web/76076.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 12 March 2004 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

busted rule!! i saw them on tour n they put on a gr8 live show!! they were original because they are a boyband who play their own instruments n write their own songs but now mcfly are here so busted arent 1 of a kind nemore dammit!!! matt willis (the bass player) is well sexy

― ash, Sunday, 28 March 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i've noticed that young girls ALWAYS finish their reasonably argued case for a much-maligned boyband by throwing in that comment that one of them is 'well sexy' or similar. it happens on things like Big Brother as well (the SMS message on screen ticket-tape sorta thing) on TV. it's interesting* that it's always presented as the afterthought, the less important point - or the conclusion that has more gravitas than anthing else outlined beforehand...

*not really i guess

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 28 March 2004 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Did I mention that James is hott?

;-)

― Super-Kate (kate), Sunday, 28 March 2004 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, this thread reminded me about my whole rant about that "protools" logic upthread being TOTALLY WRONG, but that's probably for another thread...

Yes, "ProTools" does not equal processing, but ProTools ENABLES processing and cutting and pasting and other digital manipulation on a scale that no other format before it ever did... it's like saying PHOTOSHOP DOES NOT EQUAL PICTURE-FIDDLING!!! but when you a giant cat shooting laser beams at Gareth's head floating over LA, do you say "wow, digital picture manipulation" or do you say DUDE! PHOTOSHOP!!!

No, you wouldn't say "Dude, it's all two inch tape" any more than you'd look at a photograph and say "dude, it's just a Nikon single lense reflex" but when you see the musical equivalent of photoshopping - i.e. beatmatching and step delay and autotune and cutting and pasting of licks and sequencing etc. etc. etc. it is PERFECTLY JUSTIFIED to say "dude, it's all ProTooled".

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 29 March 2004 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Hold on are you saying that giant cat was some kind of fake?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 29 March 2004 09:20 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, I know that Gareth actually *can* make laser beams shoot out of his eyes, but no, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus!

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 29 March 2004 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I've gone off them now. Little scroats.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 29 March 2004 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't care. Address my "Pro-Tools" issues already. Humph!

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 29 March 2004 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

HOLY SHIT!!!

He's turned into Little Jay Ferguson from Sloan! Parka and everything! No wonder he hath won my heart!

http://www.busted.com/images/news_uploads/4159D63C5633.jpg

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 29 March 2004 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Mathematically ProTools does not equal processing. It's like saying a match equals arson. While your point does have some merit, I regret to inform you that I am now existing in a world of numbers and may only be contacted through my solicitor, who is both lost in the Amazon basin and a figment of my imagination. Good luck.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 29 March 2004 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

All letters to me must be sent attached to non-existant macaws.

― Lynskeys lawyer (jarlrmai), Monday, 29 March 2004 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Ash is wrong in one respect anyway; Matt's surname is Jay, not Willis. What she talkin' 'bout?

― Nick H (Nick H), Monday, 29 March 2004 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

actually for ur information matts surname IS willis, he used to use jay because he didnt wanna pick a surname wen his mum n dad split up, so he shortened his middle name (james) to jay so HAH GUTTED nick h

― ash, Friday, 2 April 2004 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I am kind of scared to come to London now because my brothers wife kept telling me last time I saw her that I look like........a certain member of Busted, eep.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 2 April 2004 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, boo-hoo, Ronan, then you and Stevem can go down the pub and commiserate about how awful and demeaning and terrible it is to be perved on. Oh god, the objectification, etc. blah blah blah...

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 2 April 2004 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe we can form a band to commiserate about it!

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 2 April 2004 10:06 (twenty-two years ago)

And exploit me even further. You bastards!

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 2 April 2004 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate, hit me with an email if you really do want the video to Air Hostess.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 2 April 2004 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I have just done so. I can't believe I actually forgot about that. D'oh!

I blame stress and hangover and, erm, the menopause.

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 2 April 2004 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

THERE IS NOTHING EVEN REMOTELY FUNNY ABOUT THE MENOPAUSE!

Apparently.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 2 April 2004 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, I just had to post this somewhere:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid109/p6fa1bb02b64fcdfef5d4a84f4542cf06/f92db136.jpg

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 2 April 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

THAT'S WHAAAT I GO TO SCHOOOOL FORRRRRRR

Was just exposed to this tonight. Um......

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Monday, 8 November 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Are Busted the Biggest Band in Britain now that Coldplay have buggered off?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 8 November 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

no band this decade can beat this run of singles.

3 Busted What I Go To School For Sep 2002
2 Busted Year 3000 Jan 2003
1 Busted You Said No May 2003

and the album is great!

― acrobat (elwisty), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

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i used to fuckin like busted and then i just started to listen to this stuff because of my brother who always played rave music my fav techno song is this and pretty green eyes

― Go Go Padgett Binoculars (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Sunday, 14 December 2008 12:41 (seventeen years ago)

no band this decade can beat this run of singles.

3 Busted What I Go To School For Sep 2002
2 Busted Year 3000 Jan 2003
1 Busted You Said No May 2003

and the album is great!

― acrobat (elwisty), Thursday, February 1, 2007 5:03 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol what happened to this mad bastard?

― Just Johnson (special guest stars mark bronson), Sunday, 14 December 2008 12:44 (seventeen years ago)

my kids loved Year 3000, but it kind of wears off after they hit 10 yrs old

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 14 December 2008 12:51 (seventeen years ago)

seven years pass...

hoo boy do i love the new busted album

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 20:53 (nine years ago)

they made the most obvious and stupid 1975 record they possibly could / they made a good 2016 maroon 5 album

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 21:07 (nine years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YQ_UY11uMw

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 21:12 (nine years ago)

The new album sounds very Australian to me and I'm not even sure what I mean by that.

― Tim F, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 21:46 (nine years ago)

i am soooo in love with "without it"

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 22:27 (nine years ago)

it feels like... johnny hates jazz?

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 22:28 (nine years ago)

eight years pass...

TIL that, President, the oddball masked sort of metal buzz band with only two singles out that played Download this year to much cries of "industry plant" is actually Busted's Charlie Simpson's vanity project.

https://townsquare.media/site/366/files/2025/06/attachment-president-2025-download-debut.jpg?w=780&q=75

― better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 June 2025 21:18 (eleven months ago)

I saw this pop up on my socials and I'm a sucker for a bit of mystery so I watched a YT of the Download appearance, great visual appeal but the music was rilly bad.

Wonder if this is Sleep Token's legacy, are we gonna get 30 masked bands playing meme metal by next year.

― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 1 July 2025 15:05 (eleven months ago)

I'm fine with masked bands, but good lord the trajectory of crap is awful. I thought Sleep Token was bad, but President is truly terrible.

― better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 1 July 2025 15:33 (eleven months ago)

Yeah, the opening tune was like Richard Marx with downtuned guitars. Uh oh, am I old now? dang

― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 1 July 2025 15:35 (eleven months ago)

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