Classic or Dud: Blue Man Group?

I wish the simpsons would stop making blue man group jokes

I saw them when I was younger and thought they were awesome but it was lame/stuffy to have them in theaters.

(I think this was the thread that brought me to ILx... I'm so ashamed that it's been brought back -_-

I don't think it's the greatest album ever anymore but it's still quite good)

greatest album ever made?

no

but not worst or anything.

pretty good.

It's valuable to have people out there who build their own instruments getting recognition from the public, and the music is fun but not particularly interesting. I was kind of expecting some Reich inspired minimalism or some interesting sounds but it was basically pop music on the home-built instruments. It's entertaining but it's not revolutionary, and I think a lot more interesting things could be done with their setup.

All three of the original blue dudes are very nice, thoughtful guys.

Audio was my favorite album in 8th grade lol

the stuff they did after that is wack though

are you serious, omar? isnt one of them bette midler's husband?

No.

Dud. "Cutting edge" for people who still use the words "cutting edge" (except in quotation marks, of course).

-- hstencil, Sunday, September 22, 2002 9:28 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link
dud performance art for smurf-fetishists

-- geeta (geeta), Sunday, September 22, 2002 10:13 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

I don't know about the albums, but the show was great fun, which most performance art is decidedly not. Get over yourselves, ilxors of 2002.

oh god, worst band ever. saw them on late-night a week or two ago (letterman/leno i think?) and absolutely everything about the performance was just wrong.

the stuff they did after that is wack though

-- Curt1s Stephens, Friday, October 19, 2007 2:38 AM

I once listened to that Dave Matthews collabo like 80 times in a row.

Not because it was especially good, I was just something of a tool.

Their version of "Baba O'Reilly" is a hanging offence.

Dud.

loling at hoos's "something of a tool"

http://laist.com/attachments/nyc_monica/HB13_BMG_640x426.jpg

Saw them live. They were trying too hard and the show relied too much on the audience. An international tour wold be a disaster. Only few countries are willing to clap along ugly new age musak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2VhMtMyp2o
"Other Berlin short films reinforce the destruction-as-escape theme. In Horst Markgraf and Rolf S. Wolkenstein's 1983 Craex Apart, an intense, wordless actor simply pounds huge logs, pipes, and sledgehammers on the interior of an abandoned room."
from "assimilate: a critical history of industrial music"

at one point dude is covered in blue paint, too.

maybe bluing yourself and banging on shit was in the air in the early 80s, just a coincidence .