Once I heard (band A), (band B) didn't seem so (adjective)

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Once I heard Merzbow, Sonic Youth didn't seem so noisy

― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I heared Rick James, MC Hammer didn't seem so original

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I heard Gin Blossoms, Toad The Wet Sprocket didn't seem so nauseating.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I heared Dr Hastings Banda, Bandb didn't seem so... umm

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I heard the Raunchy Young Lepers, GG Allin didn't seem so confrontational.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I heard Joy Division, Sonic Youth didn't seem so original.

― Snoozefest, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I heared The Fall, Graham Parker and the Rumour didn't seem so exciting.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

once i heard bob dylan, everything else i hated in the whole fucking universe didn't seem so bad

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I heard Killing Joke, Motley Crue didn' seem so relevant (as if they ever had been).

And now they're touring together! The end is nigh!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I heard Dr. John, Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem didn't seem so groundbreaking.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I heard Stephin Merritt, Morrissey didn't seem so clever.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I heard Simple Plan and Good Charlotte, Green Day didn't seem so fuckin' bad.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I heard Led Zeppelin, Billy Squier didn't seem so original and heavy.

(My musical education was backward in this regard.)

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I heard Green Day, I remembered how much better Stiff Little Fingers were at doing the same damn thing.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I heard Thursday, Pearl Jam didn't seem so much like the musical analog of every self-obsessed, mama's boy, spineless milksop I dated in college.

― amy's robot, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I heard Joanna Newsom, Belle and Sebastian didn't seem so twee.

― The Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I heard Green Day, I remembered how much better Stiff Little Fingers were at doing the same damn thing.

You may have lifted that bit of misinformation from "High Fidelity," but as completely devoid of originality though they may certainly be -- Green Day don't sound like the Stiff Little Fingers. Billie Joe's voice sounds nothing like Jake Burns' implausibly gruff bark, and Green Day has never sounded as savage as the SLF. Green Day sound like THE DICKIES, not the Stiff Little Fingers.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

oh boy

― come on sock it to me (kephm), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

once i heard joy division the cure didn't seem so gloomy.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I heard The Monks, [Insert Almost Any Band Here] didn't seem so original or crazy after all.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I heard The Rapture, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan didn't sound so incorrigible.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I don't think Green Day sound like an exact Stiff Little Fingers clone. I just think they were trying to do a very similar thing early on and not doing as good a job of it.

I remember that being in High Fidelity, but I also remember agreeing with it.

I never much thought about Green Day sounding like The Dickies, but then I haven't listened to Green Day in years, and I listened to the Dickies a few days ago. So hey, what do I know?

(Come to think of it, "Suspect Device" is also featured in the soundtrack of the Playstation game I've been playing lately, so I've listened to those guys recently as well. Maybe I should pull out Dookie or Kerplunk and get my girlfriend to help me out with a blind comparison test.)

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

once i heard the arcade fire, the arcade fire didn't seem so good.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I heard Screeching Weasel.... and then10 years later the entire pop-punk ripped them off exploding with Green Day whose bass player actually played on one SW album.

Woops! Broke format.

― Snoozefest, Friday, 28 January 2005 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I wrote something down, Alex in NYC attacked it. ;)

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"Suspect Device" is in a video game? You're shittin' me! What game? Grand Theft Auto: `77 Portobello Road or something?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I was surprised as well. It's in the first Tony Hawk's Underground. Then again, it's in decent company on that soundtrack, and the games in the series preceding it have also had some interestingly good choices as well.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually there's a GBH song in there too ("Crush 'Em").

Of course, one of the secrets unlocked by beating the game is the ability to skate as Gene Simmons, so...

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

once I heard of montreal, chicago didn't seem so far away.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Saturday, 29 January 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I heard The White Stripes, The Rolling Stones didn't seem so old.

― Matt Chesnut, Saturday, 29 January 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

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