that stage where you think they aren't popular anymore but are actually way more popular than they were when they had "buzz"

The 17 year olds Kip was singing about in 1988 are now 40, and I'm sure they're just as desperate for his attention now.

i have personally witnessed kip winger sell out a standing room crowd of 850 or so in times square.
and yeah, it's almost invariably a special variety of woman living out th' dream.

Winger and Kip Winger
at Havana



Havana
New Hope, PA, US
Friday 03 June 2011
Winger and Kip Winger
at Crazy Donkey



Crazy Donkey
Long Island, NY, US
Saturday 04 June 2011
Winger and Kip Winger
at Recher Theatre



Recher Theatre
Towson, MD, US
Friday 15 July 2011
Kip Winger and Winger
with Soft Parade at Showcase Live



Showcase Live
Foxboro, MA, US
Buy tickets Saturday 16 July 2011
Winger and Kip Winger
at The Cube



The Cube
Newark, DE, US

would go to all these crazy donkey winger shows.

Yeah, Winger would be a way more fun show than, say, Fleet Foxes, or whatever (seriously.)

one of the best shows i ever saw was ace frehley at a bar in brewster, new york. kicked ass. ace! and he was like five feet from you. this was before the whole reunion thing. obviously.

the Recher Theatre is a pretty big place! they used to get the same kind of cool acts as the 9:30 club, but then they got a new booking guy or something and started leaning real hard on nostalgia acts and tribute bands.

I remember loving a Vinnie Vincent Invasion show in, like, 1986, even thought the rest the audience was booing (or boo-urnsing.)

thought= though (duh)

Sure, it was ages ago (pre-"Dookie"), but Green Day used to be underground critics darlings at one stage too. They aren't anymore, yet they are more popular than ever in terms of live appeal and album sales.

Jack Johnson

Jack Johnson, Ben Harper et al will be popular for as long as PUA types in Australia use their music to lure gap-year girls away from the campfire.

does reb beach still play for winger? that dude can shred! (would pay approx $5 to see him shred)

Sometime in the mid-to-late-nineties, Kip Winger came and played at the Stone Balloon (RIP) in Newark, DE so my friends and I got high and went down to Main St. to see what kind of people would come to see Kip Winger solo in the mid-to-late-nineties. (answer: lots of people.) Two metal dudes and a woman with huge hair metal hair were walking towards the venue when they got into a loud, raucous screaming fight. Finally, one of the dudes broke away and stalked angrily towards the venue while the other dude pulled the woman back towards the car. She turned and reached her one free hand toward the Stone Balloon and cried wrenchingly, "WIIIIINGEEEERRRRRR!!!!!"

Jack Johnson, Ben Harper et al will be popular for as long as PUA types in Australia use their music to lure gap-year girls away from the campfire.

― broodje kroket (dog latin), Friday, May 20, 2011 7:27 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

didn't really need to even say "in Australia" here

^ t bomb

Cake comes to Milwaukee every 2 years or so and I always want to go but the tickets seem to sell ridiculously fast. Was kinda floored that their latest album seems to be selling well. They haven't had a good single in a decade and I would think their fans would be over them by now. And yet here we are.

holy shit, I thought Short Skirt, Long Jacket was like 5 years ago. wrong

Guster

talking to some friends the other day re: Ben Folds, I realized that he almost certainly fits this category — critically panned, artistically irrelevant, and unfathomably popular among people we will never associate with (the phrase "bro-rock circuit" was used)

xxp yeah and the weird thing about that was that most Cake fans at the time thought it was kind of a self-parody, which it is (still a great tune though)

i dunno, i've always been a fan, i guess there are a lot of people to whom this band really MEANT something like, 10-15 years ago. that's why I don't find it surprising that TMBG still is a huge draw, because i know what it's like to be 14 and obsessed with the band, and their albums hold up as you get older. Cake on the other hand; I don't really see myself ever anticipating a new release by them again.

the elephant itt: U2

I see the Violent Femmes are touring again

Lana Del Rey's Summertime Sadness is #16 on the Billboard Hot 100. Does that count?

jimmy eat world just sold 4500 tickets in nyc

the elephant itt: U2

They can't be MORE popular than they were in the late 80s and early 90s, can they?

and yet...

post-buzz records All That You Can't Leave Behind and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb both outsold trailing-buzz records Zooropa and Pop, and their last two tours (2009-11, 2005-6) are both among the top five concert tours of all time in inflation-adjusted gross and very nearly in actual attendance as well even though neither you nor i know a single person who would consider themselves a fan

by contrast, they pulled in slightly fewer dollars and butts on the 1987 Joshua Tree tour than NKOTB managed in 1990.

Wow.

the U2 thing is tough to quantify because, while the last couple records have sold pretty well for classic rockers, they're still very much in that Stones zone where it's all about their back catalog and their 'brand.' not really what this thread is about.

joan osborne

Weezer?

I dunno, Weezer was selling out summer sheds on their own ten years ago, but they've been doing theaters/package tours recently.

They're definitely not bigger than when they had 'buzz' but they're bigger than most people would probably assume they are at this point. The massive success of any/all of those post-reunion albums just boggles the mind. There was probably a point around 'Beverly Hills' where they were 'bigger' than the Blue Album although I'm not sure by which metrics.

Could they have seriously gotten away with doing things like the Weezer Cruise around the time of the first record?

I never really knew much about Passion Pit but a friend is working for them and they play really big gigs

I think they were popping before they had internet buzz actually

Ok yeah I don't have a frame of reference but they sound like they are pretty huge on the tour circuit

Death From Above 1979 have a charting single right now, in 2014

I dunno, Weezer was selling out summer sheds on their own ten years ago, but they've been doing theaters/package tours recently.

― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, August 15, 2013 10:52 PM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Egg on face.

An easy answer to this thread is: everything that has an RSD exclusive release specifically for Black Friday

mass appeal ≠ critical acclaim

For UK people of a certain age.

Ocean Colour Scene released SIX studio LPs between 2001 and 2013, all six charted, their next one will too.

They are playing Birmingham O2, Manchester O2, Dublin Olympia, London Roundhouse and a four-night residency at Glasgow Barrowland this December. Two of the Glasgow dates are sold out.

huh that is wild

hold on no, those dates are for next year. the dates are sold out *more than a year in advance*

Tame Impala is playing Toyota Center (Basketball arena) in Houston next summer.

Maybe that goes here: How did they sell out THAT place? - venue size shocker

I'm starting to think Ween are one of those bands

yeah Push the Daisies isn't even in their top Spotify tracks

Tame Impala is playing Toyota Center (Basketball arena) in Houston next summer.

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, December 9, 2019 10:47 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

headlining coachella

Every Eminem album is massive and just not a critical event at all. Obviously he's not MORE popular than when he was at his peak but he's still the best selling artist on the century despite having been officially past his best for most of it.