i'd like to shit on TSOL for a second if i may

Read this as Future Sound of London and rushed in looking for a fight and then just walked away.

I don't really care about TSOL other than the fact their logo looked cool on a shirt way back when.

Same here, except I was going to halfway agree. Who are TSOL?

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i listen to tsol.

I always think of TSOL whenever an episode of LOST ends. Surely I can't be the only one?

heh, I was just thinking of that. Future Sounds of London, Stars of the Lid, LOST, anything except True Sounds of Liberty.

"Beneath the Shadows" is front to back classic, but otherwise, yeah, they were always playing off whatever everyone else was doing.

I heard a pop-punk cash-in they did a few years ago, and some of the filler tracks were leftovers from "Beneath the Shadows" and those were pretty darn good too.

BtS is an anomalous bit of keyboard driven pop that Alternative Tenticles put out. Anomalous in both the TSOL catalog, and everything else going on at the time, tho' it's not far off from Paisley Underground stuff.

Abolish Government/Silent Majority rocks.

code blue!

They weren't the best of their flock, but they certainly had their moments (and by this I'm talking about the Jack Greggors incarnation, not the ersatz-metal one that soldiered on without him -- although "Flowers By the Door" and "Nothing for You" were alright).

"Wash Away" is still a great song.

..case in point

OMG I was just coming here to mention their spot in that film Alex!

i guess one of the guys from the group lives (lived?) where i grew up and my little sister went to day care w/his kid.

but i've never heard their music

I liked how they went goth but all the punx still liked them because they had a really good-for-writing-on-your-jeans name

For those days when "Uplift Mofo" or "Suicidal" just wasn't enough.

"tsol are sissies" is a good song.

I thought this said "TSOP" for the longest time

Tesco Vee to thread.

http://www.touchandgorecords.com/images/bands/full/80-1.jpg

That's one of my fave pix ever.

code blue is one of those inexplicably great teenage songs that you try to make sense of when you're older:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7KkY8wSeM4

Does it seem weird that teenagers are often exposed to this kind of stuff, which, in general, adults reject as garbage and nonsense? It reminds me of the 5 or 6 year old girl I saw the other week singing "suicidal, suicidal" refrain from Sean Kingston's Beautiful Girls tune and then turning to ask her mom what suicidal meant. I was 12 or 13 being exposed to stuff that I would've never thought about in a million years otherwise: necrophilia in this case, but taking into consideration all of the punk available at that time, it could be anything from violence/murder/suicide to rape and dangerous drug usage. I mean, shit, why do people sing about this shit? And why are John Zorn's album covers so disgusting?

Anyway, great tune. I still like it. In private. When nobody else can hear it.

Please excuse the editorial or whatever that was and just enjoy the code blue link.

hey had a really good-for-writing-on-your-jeans name

Bahahahahahahahaahahahahaha -- otm!