finger eleven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FQO1fj1MJU

let's see if we can get this to 5,000 posts like the daft punk thread

i wrote about them in 2001!

"Or how about Finger Eleven, whose name must be a reference to some sort of creepy extra finger that only truly creepy people have. Their song "Drag You Down" has the NIN midtempo march of the slugs thingy down pat. The lyrics sound like stuff Trent Reznor writes down in the middle of the night to help him remember his dreams better: "Teething," "It's biting," "I'm bleeding." And the video itself, much like Spineshank's and a whole lot by other nü-by bands, takes place in one of those haunted machine shops that evoke NAFTA more than they evoke some blasted postapocalyptic vision of decay. Blame it on Einstürzende Neubauten, or maybe Janet Jackson. Or Helmet, whose prescient 1992 "Unsung" video introduced warehouse space, lockstepped dude-friendly Big Black riffs, skater shorts, and Dischordian X-estential vagueness to a generation of future Finger Elevens whose previous delvings into metal consisted of their big sister's Ratt collection. Anyway, Finger Eleven's bass player, like most bass players, has one of the lamest hairdos on earth. And the guitarist is still wearing X-tremely huge pants which everyone will agree are like so over."

http://www.villagevoice.com/2001-08-21/music/heard-it-on-the-x/

The record store I worked at in the early 00s hosted an appearance by them once. I talked to one of them for a few mins about Richard Buckner.

i fuck with one thing, haven't heard anything else

I remember sort of liking this song from their first album back in the day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KTk91iHZUU

i didn't know they had any songs that ppl knew other than "paralyzer"

In 2001, my girlfriend's job was to stand outside of stores in malls and pass out promotional fliers. The three entertainment properties I remember her promoting were OTown, Finger11, and Mel Gibson movie What Women Want.

That's all I know about Finger Eleven.

I bought their single, Good Times, having heard it on SSX3, the PS2 snowboarding game. The single version turned out to be rubbish compared to the SSX one. I assumed they were some new, young, short-lived major label 'alternative' act.

for "What Women Want", we stood outside of Victoria's Secret, holding out b&w photocopies of Mel Gibson's face on lime green paper and asking each woman who walked out of the store "What Women Want?"

did they say abusive drunken australian nazis?

did anyone know back then?

i think he was just a regular ol' homophobe at that point.

i really loved one of their songs from the scream 3 soundtrack, keep in mind i was in middle school

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wluyL0S8Ld8