I like Britney Spears
 

I think Britney Spears' songs are pretty good

How is that even embaressing? Are they not 'alternative' enough or you or something?

The fact that he bought an album by a shitty band simply to make a good impression on a girl he liked is embarrassing to him. What's so hard to understand about that?

Meh, i don't view it as embaressing at all. I'd view buying Coldplay or some wallpaper ****e like that much more embaressing than something like FOB. Personal preference i guess.

"Wallpaper shite" sounds like a perfect description of Fall Out Boy to me.

There a pop band. They have poppy, catchy, upbeat tunes. Coldplay or a similar binman indie band who have inexplicably managed to fill stadiums are just completely bland and tedious and are designed to be played in supemarkets or during the 'emotional' scenes in Hollyoaks.

I don't find Fall Out Boy poppy or catchy at all, and I'd say your choice of the words "bland and tedious" would suit them pretty well actually.

...and so on...and so on...

How are they not poppy? You can call them ****, but i would have thought the fact that they are poppy is pretty undisputable.

To me poppy music has to have that hooky, catchy, get-stuck-in-your-head quality to it. FOB don't have that for me.

Do you think Coldplay do? Purely out of interest.

I guess. The handful of songs I've heard by them seem somewhat catchy. Nothing amazing, mind you, but I'm sure "Clocks" has been stuck in my head once or twice.

I own 3 P.M. Dawn albums... and love them

OOhhh...PM Dawn...forgot about them. That takes me back...

I actually never minded the small amount of PM Dawn I heard back in the day... and I'm not really a fan of that style of music...

I like Just Dance (or whatever it's called) by Lady Gaga

I also went to a Papa Roach concert because my friend wanted to (at least there were four other bands also playing...NO. NO EXCUSES!! XP).

Yeah, same here. I had an ex-girlfriend who used to listen to them. I thought they were okay.

I don't know if this is necessarily a bad thing, but i definitely have a weak spot for Placebo. I know alot of people hate them, think they're posers, whatever... but I really like their blend of pensive tracks, atmospherics and their rockers, and I thought Meds was a fine album. They aren't perfect - the references to drugs and sexuality on each album is getting a bit repetetive, but musically and mostly lyrically they hit the right spot for me... not nearly the awful band I always hear people complaining about.

More of a singles band if you ask me, i can't sit through an album but the likes of Pure Morning, Nancy Boy and Taste In Men are great.

They have some great album tracks that are just as good if not better than their big hits. There's some really great tracks on the first album such as Come Home, Bionic, Hang On To Your IQ and Lady Of The Flowers. Also Meds is a great album to listen to from start to finish, it really takes you on a journey.

Sugar We're Going Down was one of my favorite music videos for awhile... That's definitely my biggest musical shame.

Only my second post, so probably enough to get me slung off the forum, but...

One of the first cd's I bought was the Johnny Hates Jazz album.

I started to listen to it the other day, and didn't know whether to laugh or cry...

Not that deep as I am an uberfan and will talk to anyone for hours about it (whether they wanna hear it or not!) about pendulum, but yeah, im just mad about pendulum !

I love listening to Torn...
:(

Foo Fighters are my favorite band... Eh, why should i be ashamed of that? They rock! :)

I hate Robbie Williams!
His songwriter on the other hand, I do like.

i like country
 

=)

I'm down with the clowns....

I absolutely adore latter day Genesis... so there, I'm going to be sledged by prog purists...

Genesis didn't get truly awful until Steve Hackett left ('86 I believe?). I'm fond of a few later albums; the 1982 self-titled is alright I guess. I'd say post-Gabriel Genesis was just about as good as post-Genesis Gabriel ever got.

The other day I put on a song by Jimmy Eat World and I enjoyed it god damn it.

But then I but on Yoko Ono and felt better about myself

Well... please, nobody hurt me I apologize sincerely from the bottom of my heart for this but I kinda, sort of, a little bit, like Metro Station's Shake It... :o:

The two guys from ABBA were musical geniuses.

I've tried to explain this to people but they just won't listen. But behind all the camp costumes and silly accents were actually some of the greatest pieces of popular music ever written.

I don't think that anyone really disputes this. Even if you are not an Abba there is no denying that they wrote very good Pop music. Maybe genuises is stretching it a little and it is a word I barely bandy around but they were a great Pop band.

The fact that they're the most beloved of Sweden's rich musical history is a little irksome.

I have Bang Shang a Lang by the Archies on my songlist. Jughead was an awesome drummer before he died in that explosion in his methamphetamine lab.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...te/archies.jpg

i agree.
Winner takes it all is actually heart renching and makes me cry.
It was about their divorce and I think the line "the judges will decide, the likes of me abide" is simply genius with the music.
IT also rings chimes with many people.
I heard it on the radio coming from my brothers in greenhithe back to herne bay and I actually began to well up.
Love is, to me the only worthwhile thing us humans live for and the end of love or the end of something that was once so funny and happy is just so sad.
I also think that great bands express what they are going through and we as the public follow their path and often see parralels.
Abba arrived with waterloo and it was so full of youthful optimism then they showed through song their lives and their pain.
Like the beatles grew up with a whole load of people and the start was so upbeat and full of hope and light heartedness and later it was showing their separations and hurt like let it be.
I see oasis the same. When they arrived it was like a bomb going off of youth and what the hell happiness then songs like let there be love and stop crying your heart out showed the end of the dream.
I think great bands capture a young audience then grow with them.

I have a Lynyrd Skynyrd shirt, a Disturbed shirt, and a "Sammy & the Wabos" shirt, which is Sammy Hagar's band, I guess. I didn't buy any of them, but the only one that I feel proud to wear is my Disturbed shirt, since I've actually been to a concert and looked into their work.

So I'll work on getting this shirt:
http://www.rockabilia.com/files/img/TSHIRT/80453F.JPG

I need some fall of troy. <_<

I really fail to see how Opeth's 'Black Water' gets so much praise.

And I used to own a Slipknot shirt.
._. Until I used it as firewood.