Bands No One Admits Listening to That Have Sold Millions of Albums

From Mike Gitter at Noisecreep:

Nickelback
Disturbed
Creed
Insane Clown Posse
Korn
Styx
Limp Bizkit

How many of them will you rep for? Who else belongs on the list?

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Metallica

I will admit that I am cool with Korn. I realize they helped invent/popularize a bunch of stuff I cannot stand, but when they came out they were quite unique. I had to see them numerous times back in the day and they always put on great shows too.

I'll rep for Korn's first two albums and the majority of Creed's first album.

DJP is pretty open about his love of ICP

Metallica?
I'll rep for Styx

Hootie

Boney M and Modern Talking sold hundreds of millions of records yet despite the general rehabilitation of disco no-one with a reputation to lose reps for them.

Xhuxk reps for Boney M all the time!

he said "with a reputation"

Modern Talking never charted in America

I will kinda sorta rep for Styx tho

The mid/late nineties kind of own this category: Hootie, Third Eye Blind, Train, etc.

Boney M fucking rule, guys!

Counting Crows? Not sure they managed "millions."

Counting Crows gained popularity following the release of its debut album, August and Everything After (1993), which featured the hit single "Mr. Jones". They have sold more than 20 million albums worldwide and received a 2004 Academy Award nomination for their song "Accidentally in Love", which was included in the film Shrek 2.[2][3][4]

The band's influences include Van Morrison, R.E.M., Mike + The Mechanics, Nirvana, Bob Dylan, and The Band.

I thought Third Eye Blind were an ILM favorite.

Pieces of Eight and The Grand Illusion are good albums; Styx II isn't bad either.

xposts I know lots of people who admit to listening to Counting Crows though.

Third Eye Blind and Styx too for that matter.

20 million albums...if you played each sold counting crows album back to back, assuming an average length of 45 minutes, you could listen to the counting crows for 1,761 years without stopping.

:(

I gotta say, they did their roadwork. They were still playing dives in Oxford, MS, after "Mr. Jones" hit big. Hootie too.

I must admit I've met a few Cunting Crows fans over the years. Also seen Counting Crws tour tshirts being worn in Glasgow.

yeah counting crows are huge and have a pretty devoted following.

Boney M fucking rule, guys!

Cosign.

I dunno that I'd *rep* for Korn but I liked the first 2 albums. I feel okay about them.

Styx, sure. They've got some jams!

Boney M are pretty great. Good childhood memories of them.

counting crows can suck my fat one though.

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yeah i have always been vocal about my boney m love too. but i don't have too much of a reputation either. been a fan since high school.

Il Divo: To date, they have sold more than 26 million albums worldwide.

i love listening to those early styx records. pre-superstardom albums. i never listened to them years ago so they are cool and unfamiliar to me.

Boney M were obviously great but I also have a certain amount of time for Modern Talking. Atlantis Is Calling is terrific.

the Osmonds

I didn't really grow up with Styx so they were a fun discovery for me. Also I was obsessed with their episode of Behind The Music when I first moved to the states. I think I watched that episode 10 times.

i rep for disturbed

Also I was obsessed with their episode of Behind The Music when I first moved to the states. I think I watched that episode 10 times.

lol <3

I dont know anyone who likes Adele

I love the rollercoaster ride of awesome rockin Styx to poppy rockin Styx to whoooa ballad Styx then kiiinda rockin Styx and then Mr roboto lols and then aaaggggh the rollercoaster crashed lol

xpost yes you do

ME

I'll admit it: the Vanilla Ice Behind the Music was formative for me

Mordy you are disturbed

xpost ooh that's a good one too

I dont know you irl though vg

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha come on, Adele is the worst possible candidate for a thread like this unless you only know 2 sulky teenagers who listen to nothing but crabcore

best behind the music - milli vanilli

AG you're just nitpicking to skew the results, lol :)

well i online know an ex sulky teenager who likes ICP

does anyone admit to listening to Milli Vanilli? I'm looking at you, Boney M fans.

Coldplay
U2

Don't get me started on Modern Talking. They are all-time.
ShariVari is right, "Atlantis Is Calling" is probably their best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB57CuT4smM

I know shitloads of U2 fans and i believe a cousin of mine likes coldplay

yeah the undisciplined raucousness of ELP was a wonder to behold. i miss their oversexed caveman abandon.

You mean like when Emerson was sticking knives into his keyboard? Me, too.

BTW, Pink Floyd were never worth a shit until they booted Syd Barrett. English teacup/lace-cuffs psychedelia is maybe the only thing worse than English theater-twat "rock."

It meant they got detention for not handing in their work, and they never went!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPL_SV3n7IU

FEEL THE OVERSEXED CAVEMAN ABANDON

http://siteservices.ancestry.com/chartservice/genfacts/chart.aspx?fid=2&lid=1&fn=&ln=challop&yr=

dionysian batshittery has been played out since it became compulsory for healthy male teenagers i.e. sometime around 1964 i guess

IF YOU'RE NOT ROCKIN' YOU'RE PROBABLY A COMMUNIST

Also, Barenaked Ladies fans are ubiquitous in Canada.

I've said it before, but I had a mild case of culture shock during my first week of college, in Michigan, when it felt like I was surrounded by Barenaked Ladies fans. This was 1996 (before "One Week" hit); most were from the Detroit suburbs, which I gathered occasionally felt the creeping effects of Canadian pop culture.

hmm, challop keeps you alive!

okay is old Pink Floyd really really different from Animals/Dark Side/Wish/The Wall

Yes.

Dark Side Animals Wish The Wall

Try Ummagumma, DJP.

I don't know if I'd call it "oversexed caveman abandon" but it is very different. (Tbh, I wouldn't even really apply that description to Elvis or the Beatles.)

"BTW, Pink Floyd were never worth a shit until they booted Syd Barrett."

:(

I love Barenaked Ladies, but then again I'm also Canadian.

Queen have some good songs which are undoubtedly overplayed and many which are just plain terrible (Bicycle Races b/w Fat Bottomed Girls has to be one of the worst 7" singles of all time) but their best stuff really is great, I've certainly got a lot of time for Queen II and Sheer Heart Attack. Does anyone admit to liking 'Queen + Paul Rodgers' though? 2008's The Cosmos Rocks went platinum.

I knew lots of people who liked the BNL in the US too, though, tbh. That was after "One Week", admittedly.

xpost that's just gross

Anyway, iatee was OTM. It's not hard to find people who admit to liking any of these bands.

English teacup/lace-cuffs psychedelia is maybe the only thing worse than English theater-twat "rock."

Wrong wrong/wrong-wrong wrong is wrong the wrong wrong wrong than Wrong wrong wrong-wrong "wrong."

I had a roommate (from England!) in lolcollege that brought three cassettes with him, the first Cranberries, the Barenaked Ladies one with "Yoko Ono", and a dramatic reading of War of the Worlds. Insanely pleasant, super smart guy and a solid roommate, but he had nearly the literal worst taste in music.

Listening to the Cranberries and BNL in the 90s (I assume) makes him no different than like half the people I knew.

although having to hear nothing but those two does sound pretty miserable, admittedly!

Yeah, this was '95-96, and the problem was that those two albums were ALL he listened to. Both myself and my other roommates had huge collections which we told him to listen freely from, but it was always those two albums.

(And yes, even seemingly hyper-disciplined prog bands like Yes and Genesis had elements of anarchy and raucousness I have never heard from arched-eyebrow bands like Queen, T.Rex or Roxy Music. Hell, ELP went berserk all the time, especially live.)

I would agree, to a point. Yes and Genesis in their prime could go off on batshit tangents, although Yes would frequently balance these out with interminable stretches of bland cooing.

But Roxy (pre-Manifesto) slays them all because of Paul Thompson. Nobody in any of those bands (with the possible exception of Phil Collins) swings harder. And if you haven't heard Roxy's "Editions of You" (or anything off the first three records), then no, you haven't heard elements of anarchy and raucousness.

Was gonna say, "Do The Strand" alone has more anarchy and raucousness than all of, say, Fragile. And I like both! A lot!

who needs trolls when we can troll ourselves

Seems to me that there's a complete misreading of T-Rex going on on this thread. How is Marc Bolan more "arched eyebrow" than Genesis?

oversexed abandon of yes and genesis and atomic rooster as opposed to t.rex, roxy, and bowie. can't stop thinking about that. but maybe t.rex and roxy and bowie were all about the wrong kind of sex. hmmm?

also this:

"crudely sugary production/neutered mix" to describe how t rex records sound makes me think someone hasn't heard too many t rex records. cuz you can't just point to one of their records and say that's how they sounded. they were all over the map.

i mean you could just say glam is gay and prog rules and be done with it.

With a side order of England is gay and America rules. Marc Bolan's "arched eyebrow" period was surely all the capering pixie nonsense (which I like too btw) which preceded his teenybopper period and which said teenyboppers' older brothers were happy to embrace.

we just need geir to show up and the circle will be unbroken.

i thought adele was a good nomination, she is so populist in a weird and old fashioned way. i genuinely think most of my friends couldn't name an adele song.

I can't name a song U2 have recorded in the last 20 years

that's cool. have a BEAUTIFUL DAY!

Oh there's that one

the song that put me off hearing new songs by u2 forever

well actually that vile sweetest thing song did that (except it was an old song reworked). but the video pushed me over the edge(no pun intended)

i mean you could just say glam is gay and prog rules and be done with it

Come on, dude. You ought to know me better than that at this point. My objections to glam (and whatever Queen and Roxy Music call(ed) what they do/did) are purely aesthetic, not about sexuality.

its a tone thing. that's how it kinda comes across. to me anyway.

Prog isn't very gay, that much is true

Well then the problem is you, not me. I am aesthetically conservative, but I am not some kind of gay-basher.

my point was that the particular theatricality of Queen, T.Rex, Roxy Music, and pre-Berlin Bowie were all in some sense antithetical to the undisciplined raucousness of rock

Whatever dude

(Bicycle Races b/w Fat Bottomed Girls has to be one of the worst 7" singles of all time)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrjwaqZfjIY

Styx is the only one up there I like, unless by "Creed" we're talking about the 70s Creed that George Smith is always repping for

yah i dig 70's creed too. great album!

i suppose the bootleg cut "fingal's cave (sex vocal)" might qualify as oversexed caveman abandon. i mean, if you also assume cavemen were high and goofy.

"my point was that the particular theatricality of Queen, T.Rex, Roxy Music, and pre-Berlin Bowie were all in some sense antithetical to the undisciplined raucousness of rock"

i mean, if this were true would it be a bad thing? there's nothing wrong with striving to do things differently last time i checked

i mean you could just say glam is gay and prog rules and be done with it

Come on, dude. You ought to know me better than that at this point. My objections to glam (and whatever Queen and Roxy Music call(ed) what they do/did) are purely aesthetic, not about sexuality.

― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, February 28, 2013 11:06 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha you're a fuckin moron

my objections to glam are purely aesthetic, not about one of the biggest component of pop music aesthetics.

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