The resurgence of awful bands (Panic at the Disco, Fall Out Boy, The Academy Is)

Those 3 are probably my favorite bands atm!

I must admit now FOB are on every single music channel, they're getting a pop/kid-ified.

But anyway, it's catchy, I can listen to all the albums without skipping a track. So what's the problem?

Oh and FOB are awesome live, saw them in January.
 
I think FOB and PATD are great. I've only listened to Under the Cork Tree (is it?) and a few songs by PATD but they both write damn catchy choons. The lyrics on either dont stand out to me as particular bad. I wouldnt know because i rate bands by the music :rolleyes:. It seems once they've hit and everybody wants to like them, its the same old thing going around with the Arctic Monkeys and people are starting to disassociate themselves because 'everyone knows them now' or something equally daft. For christ's sake, like a band for what they are!

The FOB song titles are great as well. And i simply cant see how you can diss PATD for stuff like that. The lyrics to 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies' are great. They tell a nice story, put to a wicked-catchy hook and overall is a fun song. You cant fault it unless you're completely stuck up your own arse in pretentious sludge or simply dont like the music (the latter of which is of course perfectly valid).
PATD's range is superb as well. Ranging from pop/punk/whatever you wanna call it as above^, to a song that i could have sworn was by Ben Folds Five: 'There's A Good Reason Why These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought Of It Yet'... (yay for long titles!)... to 'Boys Will Be Boys' which has the whole electro thing going on.

I'm no voice coach and i expect theres a lot of post-production involved but both singers have a great distinct sound (imo), especially the guy from PATD.

Um.. that was a bit of a long post. At the end of the day - i like 'em. I dont care if its now terribly uncool. I expect they'll be trodden into the bottomless pit once the current emo scene passes but until my taste in music changes dramatically i'll still listen to them. Meh.

EDIT: Additionally, just be thankful the 'trendy kids' are now listening mainly to 'proper' bands, not some half-arsed 'i won a talent competition on TV and will die out within 6 months' excuse for a singer that barely manages to sing their own song, let alone write it.

EDIT2: I do believe i posted in the music forum wihtout pimping Sonic Boom Six. What the hell was i thinking, here are the lyrics to 'The Rape of Punk to Come'. (Hey, its relevant!) :)

And now at number one is a cover version
Badly sung by someone who won a tv competition
to start a full career that lasts all of one year
Public don't shed a tear here comes another one I!

They only in it for the money but they're calling it punk-pop
Another boy band on a video in Top Shop
Forgot the message of the clash and Public Enemy
To be graduate of *******Fame Academy

Tonight Matthew they'll be head to toe
In their skater clothes singing a song about a punker show
While punk bands count their fans on one hand
It ain't easy being independant

Question

Why do they say its a shame
That every song is the same
When they only have themselves to blame?

Another sound to consume
Get ready for another one
But we be dancing to a different tune
They've hardly even begun
To manufacture the rape of punk to come
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Carzy said:
Like who :p?
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Most of the Rites of Spring discography, for a start! Embrace are about 50/50 good songs and garbage. Native Nod, Hoover and Navio Forge are about the same, and Shotmaker only have about ten good songs. So many of the 'founding fathers' as they're normally seen aren't really that great at all, especially when compared to the bands like Heroin, Mohinder, Portraits of Past etc. who followed them.
 
Scam said:
I think FOB and PATD are great. I've only listened to Under the Cork Tree (is it?) and a few songs by PATD but they both write damn catchy choons. The lyrics on either dont stand out to me as particular bad. I wouldnt know because i rate bands by the music :rolleyes:. It seems once they've hit and everybody wants to like them, its the same old thing going around with the Arctic Monkeys and people are starting to disassociate themselves because 'everyone knows them now' or something equally daft. For christ's sake, like a band for what they are!

The FOB song titles are great as well. And i simply cant see how you can diss PATD for stuff like that. The lyrics to 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies' are great. They tell a nice story, put to a wicked-catchy hook and overall is a fun song. You cant fault it unless you're completely or simply dont like the music (the latter of which is of course perfectly valid).
PATD's range is superb as well. Ranging from pop/punk/whatever you wanna call it as above^, to a song that i could have sworn was by Ben Folds Five: 'There's A Good Reason Why These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought Of It Yet'... (yay for long titles!)... to 'Boys Will Be Boys' which has the whole electro thing going on.
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There's nothing I can say to that really that wouldn't be bashing bands you like. Back in the days when we were campaigning for a music forum on OcUK one of the main rules we wanted was no bashing of other peoples opinions, so I'll hold myself to that.

Personally, I hate PATD's lyrics, as they're assinine, nonsensical and have about as much cultural significance as a stick of bubble gum. I never liked them, it's not a case of 'now they're trendy'. The same goes for the Arctic Monkeys - the drummer is the only one with even a soupcon of musical talent and even then he's not that tight.

I'm quite happy to be stuck up my own arse in pretentious sludge if it means I can avoid PATD ;)
 
Scam said:
The lyrics on either dont stand out to me as particular bad. I wouldnt know because i rate bands by the music :rolleyes:.
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Come again? Please tell me you're not saying that lyrics are irrelevant when it comes to music.
 
chrisd said:
Come again? Please tell me you're not saying that lyrics are irrelevant when it comes to music.
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They're not irrelevant but in my opinion a lot of people seem to get far too hung up on what a song is about, whats the musician is trying to say, whether theyre breaking new boundaries or have some sort of 'cultural significance' (;)) etc... why not just listen to the friggin' song? If it's good, it's good. Hell some of the best music out there has no lyrics/singing so why the hell do people get so worked up when a singer opens his mouth? :confused:

Hell, Sigur Ros sing half their songs in a made-up language dont they? Nobody seems to mind :confused:

IceBus said:
Personally, I hate PATD's lyrics, as they're assinine, nonsensical and have about as much cultural significance as a stick of bubble gum.
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Case and point^. Not every band has to have 'cultural significance' or whatever term you want to throw about. Just enjoy the music, or dont!! :)
 
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P!ATD are a fun band with a decent album, obviously if you want music which changes the world then 'Radiohead' and 'Tool' (;)) are better bets, but not everyone cares about pretentious things like that when they are trying to get a boogy on. :D
 
Royality said:
P!ATD are a fun band with a decent album, obviously if you want music which changes the world then 'Radiohead' and 'Tool' (;)) are better bets, but not everyone cares about pretentious things like that when they are trying to get a boogy on. :D
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No i care about something decent being on when trying to get a boogy on, can't say i find boogying to rock and metal much cop anyway, but hey, if i want to dance then i listen to some good drum and bass or descent dance music, not PATD or FOB.

Although i can't say either can be classed as emo, although there is one bit on one of FOB's albums where there is this highly emo bit, about as innefectual as it gets tbh.
 
lemonkettaz said:
emo in the 80s...
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Yes, emo in the 80s.

Arcade Fire said:
Most of the Rites of Spring discography, for a start!
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Heathen! A lot of the old emo stuff is a bit pap but you can't surely be saying that about RoS?

I love RoS and can no longer be your e-friend :(

As far as the OP goes, I'm happy to admit I love P!ATD, but I don't think much of most of FOB's catalogue. The 'big' songs they've done are decent, I like them, but the two albums I've got are spectacularly uninspiring.
 
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P!ATD were signed by FoB weren't they?

Apparently they were a cover band for FoB until they started playing their songs better than them so they signed 'em and they produced their own stuff.

Owned tbh. :p


p.s, somebody told me this and i have no evidence to back it up. kthnx
 
Spunj99 said:
P!ATD were signed by FoB weren't they?

Apparently they were a cover band for FoB until they started playing their songs better than them so they signed 'em and they produced their own stuff.

Owned tbh. :p


p.s, somebody told me this and i have no evidence to back it up. kthnx
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As far as I know they're chummy chum chums and FOB 'got them in'.. shot themselves in the foot tbh. Panic are much better, if I was in FOB I'd had sabotaged them :D
 
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