the faint are touring with no doubt

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discuss!

― new wave slut, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like the Faint. No Doubt, I pretty much despise with the exception of that new Hey Baby Hey song. Bringing together pop kids and indie kids, priceless.

― bnw, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i hope this means gwen stefani will be at transit tomorrow night!!!

― maura, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

BULLSHIT!! Give me the details.... where did you learn this??!!

― Andy, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it's not bullshit.newwave slut is right. someone from saddle creek told me. its on the hush hush right now.

― chaki, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hope to hell they stay on their headlining tour right now, the Faint that is. They play with Adult. and I am Spoonbender around here early March -- after which time they can fuck off with No Doubt as much as they please.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the faint are pretty contrived and sucky but I AM SPOONBENDER! rulez.

― chaki, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There was some sixties semi-Mod revival guy around here in OC interviewed in the OC Weekly complaining about the Faint and their 'outdated' image. I had to laugh.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

they arnt out dated. they're right on time. just not the best at it.

― chaki, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

just cos they're right on time it doesn't exclude them from still being outdated, though. Hmm. god that sounds horribly wanky and oh-so-deep...oh well

― pete^f, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two weeks pass...

I used to have respect for the faint. but this is really sad. I know a lot of people love the faint. and they're pretty popular as-is. but I want them to be the same only-30-people-at-a-show band I loved a year and a half ago. not some fucking teeny bopper bitch band.

― christopherrrrrrrr, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sucker.

― chaki, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

six months pass...

(Aaron lifts hands, mutters incantations and the thread is revived)
There was a great article in the New York Times a few months ago that said that No Doubt were better because they took all of their 80's influences and made a unique sound, whereas the Faint were nostalgics. The jist of the article is that the mainstream is more innovative, whereas the underground is constantly looking backwards, at least nowadays.
I dunno if I agree, but it was certainly an interesting read.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 23:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Unfounded generalizations make for all sorts of fun. Wheeeee.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 23:51 (twenty-three years ago)

well yes that is why I don't completely agree with the article. I think, to be fair, the author was really saying that it is not automatic that underground music comprises the avant-garde of music. Which is a truism, but maybe not to some out-of-date modernists or snobs. I think there are some out there who automatically assume that popular music is shit, and unpopular music is unpopular because the masses just won't understand. These people should probably visit ILM and see how the same people are posting about free jazz and Aaliyah!

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 23:58 (twenty-three years ago)

There was a great article in the New York Times

If we're talking about the same article, I remember it as awful and probably insincere. One of the conclusions re: mainstream genre synthesis (ouch, I'm saying it again) was that Linkin Park and the ilk are the music of the future by (eureka!) combining rap and metal.

There's a point to be made about backward-gazing undergroundists, but the idea that rap-metal -- or No Doubt's Lauper +/- ska combo -- is unique and/or some sort of leap forward is pure bunk.

― wl, Thursday, 12 September 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh shit I forgot about the Linkin Park thing!!!! But now that I think about it, the article said that Linkin Park sucked, but that they were more interesting than the Strokes.
Still, now that I remember that other part of the article, I am less willing to defend it any longer!

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 12 September 2002 00:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't remember it saying that Linkin Park sucks, but if so, I stand corrected. Still, yuck.

― wl, Thursday, 12 September 2002 00:33 (twenty-three years ago)

well they said that Linkin Park was not that amazing. The word "suck" is rarely used in the NYT, I imagine.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 12 September 2002 00:39 (twenty-three years ago)

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