Awful music groups that people claim to like only because they think it's cool

[Dude!]

i keep an open mind about music
some doofus on this site said Big Star
was way under-rated and their music was great

i wasted $8.99 (plus shipping) on Amazon
to buy their album # 1 Record

there is a reason they never had
a top 40 hit: they are awful

the only possible reason anyone
could recommend this group
is because they were relatively obscure
and therefore it would be like so cool to like them

same as the loser teenagers who were
going to see Tony Bennett not because
of the music but because it was cool

i'd rather listen to Fran Drescher sing
the Star Spangled Banner
than Big Star
they just plain suck

[Kublakhan61]

You might like Pavement. Try their album "Westing (By Musket and Sextant)". It's their best work.

[TheMojoPin]

Nice try, Dude!.

[Dude!]

it's not a try
they are unlistenable

[TheMojoPin]

Your face is unlistenable.

[razorboy]

maybe they
should write lyrics

like you
post

[TheMojoPin]

My vote goes to Crankcase (with Gvac on vocals):

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[yojimbo7248]

that's really surprising. I love Big Star and have always thought they were pretty accessible. I completely understand someone calling a band like Throbbing Gristle or Sun Ra unlistenable - to each his own. Big Star to me, however, just seems like well-written, really good pop/rock

[Kublakhan61]

There is something inherent in power pop that drives casual listeners away. Personally, I get Big Star but as for the rest of power pop ... I feel gay listening to it. There was a power pop thread, I think, and I went to hoping to find something new to me - I left that thread and swore off power pop.

[TheMojoPin]

Why the fuck would someone waste time and money or music they don't actually like just because it's "cool?" How is it cool? Couldn't you just lie and say you have it already or like it? Who the fuck is going to check?

[yojimbo7248]

Maybe I am naive but I think most people listen to music they like.

many people project their own taste too much. they can't imagine liking certain music and conclude that people are pretending to like it to look cool. I think this is extremely rare.

[spoon]

Why the fuck would someone waste time and money or music they don't actually like just because it's "cool?" How is it cool? Couldn't you just lie and say you have it already or like it? Who the fuck is going to check?

Hence the reason we know you love d confessionals!

[TheMojoPin]

Hence the reason we know you love d confessionals!

I will never forgive Phishy for that lie.

NEVER.

[spoon]

I will never forgive Phishy for that lie.

NEVER.

NOW who's the liar!?

[TheMojoPin]

Maybe I am naive but I think most people listen to music they like.

many people project their own taste too much. they can't imagine liking certain music and conclude that people are pretending to like it to look cool. I think this is extremely rare.

Especially with a group like Big Star who so directly influenced so many other bands. It seems like most people here who like them found them the same way: listened to power pop bands that said they were or written up as being influenced by Big Star and so those of us that were into the power pop worked our way back. It's such a direct line from the sound of Big Star to bands like Teenage Fanclub and the Replacements that saying that Big Star is "unlistenable" is basically saying most of the bands influenced by them are unlistenable.

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Not someone's thing, fine, but "unlistenable?" Please.

[TheMojoPin]

NOW who's the liar!?

Still Phishy.

[yojimbo7248]

Especially with a group like Big Star who so directly influenced so many other bands. It seems like most people here who like them found them the same way: listened to power pop bands that said they were or written up as being influenced by Big Star and so those of us that were into the power pop worked our way back. It's such a direct line from the sound of Big Star to bands like Teenage Fanclub and the Replacements that saying that Big Star is "unlistenable" is basically saying most of the bands influenced by them are unlistenable.

amen, brother. you also described perfectly how I discovered them. Maybe people interpret finding a band this way as trying to find what is "cool" and then immediately liking them because they should. Maybe that's the case with some people but not many, in my experience.

People who get so pissed off at the Williamsburg hipsters need to a take a closer look at why they are so angry. Sure there are some fake, shallow people there but many of them are into very interesting music.

[Crispy123]

Especially with a group like Big Star who so directly influenced so many other bands. It seems like most people here who like them found them the same way: listened to power pop bands that said they were or written up as being influenced by Big Star and so those of us that were into the power pop worked our way back. It's such a direct line from the sound of Big Star to bands like Teenage Fanclub and the Replacements that saying that Big Star is "unlistenable" is basically saying most of the bands influenced by them are unlistenable.


I think you mean Dogstar.

[TheMojoPin]

People typically like what they like musically without having to "force it." Personal tastes and preferences change over time, but people are usually into the music they say they like at any given point in time.

[paulisded]

i keep an open mind about music
some doofus on this site said Big Star
was way under-rated and their music was great

i wasted $8.99 (plus shipping) on Amazon
to buy their album # 1 Record

there is a reason they never had
a top 40 hit: they are awful

the only possible reason anyone
could recommend this group
is because they were relatively obscure
and therefore it would be like so cool to like them

same as the loser teenagers who were
going to see Tony Bennett not because
of the music but because it was cool

i'd rather listen to Fran Drescher sing
the Star Spangled Banner
than Big Star
they just plain suck

Um, no.

[Stankfoot]

i keep an open mind about music
some doofus on this site said Big Star
was way under-rated and their music was great

i wasted $8.99 (plus shipping) on Amazon
to buy their album # 1 Record

there is a reason they never had
a top 40 hit: they are awful

the only possible reason anyone
could recommend this group
is because they were relatively obscure
and therefore it would be like so cool to like them

same as the loser teenagers who were
going to see Tony Bennett not because
of the music but because it was cool

i'd rather listen to Fran Drescher sing
the Star Spangled Banner
than Big Star
they just plain suck

Who buys music these days without hearing at least some of it first?

[IamFogHat]

maybe they
should write lyrics

like you
post

It literally has no logical pattern. It drives me batty.

[mikeyboy]

i keep an open mind about music
some doofus on this site said Big Star
was way under-rated and their music was great

i wasted $8.99 (plus shipping) on Amazon
to buy their album # 1 Record

there is a reason they never had
a top 40 hit: they are awful

the only possible reason anyone
could recommend this group
is because they were relatively obscure
and therefore it would be like so cool to like them

same as the loser teenagers who were
going to see Tony Bennett not because
of the music but because it was cool

i'd rather listen to Fran Drescher sing
the Star Spangled Banner
than Big Star
they just plain suck

You were never my favorite poster, but now you dropped to the very bottom of the list.

[IamFogHat]

Who buys music these days without hearing at least some of it first?

Especially almost ten dollars worth at once:wacko:

[KnoxHarrington]

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[IamFogHat]

Fuckin' philistine
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[Dude!]

here is a group that will
probably have some revival
of awfulness, like Big Star

people who want to seem cool:
be the first on your block
to start talking-up Sweetwater...


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my uncle is a fan 'cause he is
a retarded ex-hippie
with no brain
most of my friends never heard of them
though

Sweetwater is Big Star horrendous
so enjoy

[tanless1]

ryan adams- i keep thinking im not hearing the right song, and the next one will get me hooked.... and then , no.

[TheMojoPin]

here is a group that will
probably have some revival
of awfulness, like Big Star

people who want to seem cool:
be the first on your block
to start talking-up Sweetwater...


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my uncle is a fan 'cause he is
a retarded ex-hippie
with no brain
most of my friends never heard of them
though

Sweetwater is Big Star horrendous
so enjoy

That sounds nothing like Big Star, you deaf mongoloid. That's freeform jamming. Big Star were all about tight hooks.

[TheMojoPin]

ryan adams- i keep thinking im not hearing the right song, and the next one will get me hooked.... and then , no.

So you think everyone who likes his music does so because it's perceived as "cool?"

[mikeyboy]

Can I have a list of music I should like so I can be cool?

[Dude!]

That sounds nothing like Big Star, you deaf mongoloid. That's freeform jamming. Big Star were all about tight hooks.

i didn't suggest they sound anything
like Big Star...they don't

i put them on the same level
of awfulness as Big Star
and never suggested similar sounds

just similar in that they are both horrible

[Snoogans]

Can I have a list of music I should like so I can be cool?

soulja boy

[Dude!]

Can I have a list of music I should like so I can be cool?

the list is in your MPW thread
keep looking...it's there

[TheMojoPin]

i didn't suggest they sound anything
like Big Star...they don't

i put them on the same level
of awfulness as Big Star
and never suggested similar sounds

just similar in that they are both horrible

So the thread is just music you don't like.

[spoon]

the list is in your MPW thread
keep looking...it's there

nice

[Dude!]

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:aJZjAuB2otxIPM:http://morejpegs1.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/Shredder2.jpg


mojopin, need help with getting
MB's avatar changed?

[IamFogHat]

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:aJZjAuB2otxIPM:http://morejpegs1.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/Shredder2.jpg


mojopin, need help with getting
MB's avatar changed?

http://www.terrible2z.com/coleco-wh0rehouse/sewer/super_shredder_demutator.gif

[Snoogans]

way to ruin it mojo. And mikey looks way more like cartoon shredder

[TheMojoPin]

Cartoon Shredder was Uncle Phil. I will not sully Uncle Phil's name by associating him with mikeyboy.

[Snoogans]

fuck it doesnt work

[Snoogans]

Cartoon Shredder was Uncle Phil. I will not sully Uncle Phil's name by associating him with mikeyboy.

im pretty sure he sullied it himself when he did Nancy Drew

[epo]

If and IF this argument maybe sorta wanted to work, he should've claimed that "Third/Sister Lovers" was the problem. But claiming that #1 Record is bad is especially hideous when it comes packaged in current form WITH Radio City.

Lets face it, Dude! has no taste.

[Snoogans]

If and IF this argument maybe sorta wanted to work, he should've claimed that "Third/Sister Lovers" was the problem. But claiming that #1 Record is bad is especially hideous when it comes packaged in current form WITH Radio City.

Lets face it, Dude! has no taste.

what the fuck does this have to do with Ninja Turtles?

STAY ON TOPIC, BITCH

[TheMojoPin]

im pretty sure he sullied it himself when he did Nancy Drew

Yeah, but he also did Nancy Drew.

[paulisded]

My favorite band of all time covering one of my favorite songs of all time.

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1549631/Replacements%20shit%20shower/September%20Gurls.mp3

[Snoogans]

Yeah, but he also did Nancy Drew.

dude she was like 13

[epo]

My favorite band of all time covering one of my favorite songs of all time.

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1549631/Replacements%20shit%20shower/September%20Gurls.mp3

Achin' to bleed for a bunch of nimrods!

[mikeyboy]

dude she was like 13

Somehow Snoogans brings it back around where we're on topic.

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[Snoogans]

Somehow Snoogans brings it back around where we're on topic.


i hate you

[TheMojoPin]

My favorite band of all time covering one of my favorite songs of all time.

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1549631/Replacements%20shit%20shower/September%20Gurls.mp3

Wilco's version. (http://hypem.com/track/305238/Wilco+-+Thirteen)

Elliott Smith's version:

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Whiskeytown doing "Give Me Another Chance." (http://coverlaydown.com/tunes/giveme.mp3)

Kelly Willis doing "When My Baby's Beside Me." (http://coverlaydown.com/tunes/whenmy.mp3)

Superdrag doing "September Gurls." (http://coverlaydown.com/tunes/sg.mp3)

Okkervil River doing "O, Dana." (http://coverlaydown.com/tunes/odana.mp3)

[mikeyboy]

i hate you

liar

[TheMojoPin]

Check out Mikeyboy when he gets all pissed at the posters here. (http://babiesbabies.ytmnd.com/)

[Snoogans]

liar

shhhhhh. Im supposed to hate you to be cool

[paulisded]

Achin' to bleed for a bunch of nimrods!

Love that line!

[paulisded]

Wilco's version. (http://hypem.com/track/305238/Wilco+-+Thirteen)

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Whiskeytown doing "Give Me Another Chance." (http://coverlaydown.com/tunes/giveme.mp3)

Kelly Willis doing "When My Baby's Beside Me." (http://coverlaydown.com/tunes/whenmy.mp3)

Superdrag doing "September Gurls." (http://coverlaydown.com/tunes/sg.mp3)

Okkervil River doing "O, Dana." (http://coverlaydown.com/tunes/odana.mp3)

Don't forget Elliott Smith doing "13".

BTW, the Big Star box set that just came out is one of the best boxes I've purchased in quite some time.

[TheMojoPin]

Don't forget Elliott Smith doing "13".

That's what the YouTube clip is.

Evan Dando's got a good live version, too.

BTW, the Big Star box set that just came out is one of the best boxes I've purchased in quite some time.

Definitely. The songs have never sounded this good.

[Dude!]

That's what the YouTube clip is.

Evan Dando's got a good live version, too.



Definitely. The songs have never sounded good.

agreed

[paulisded]

That's what the YouTube clip is.

Evan Dando's got a good live version, too.



Definitely. The songs have never sounded this good.

Ugh, I missed it on my itouch.

[GregoryJoseph]

Awful music groups that people claim to like only because they think it's cool

Pink Floyd

Radiohead

Weezer

Husker Du

[epo]

Pink Floyd

Radiohead

Weezer

Husker Du

I may hate you, but Pink Floyd & Weezer are garbage.

[TheMojoPin]

agreed

You gotta explain this.

What, you don't like power pop?

[TheMojoPin]

Dude!'s preferred style:

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He's crabcore all the way!

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[realmenhatelife]

Husker Du


Because nothing says cool like a fat, bitter gay guy.

[grlNIN]

Pink Floyd

Radiohead

Weezer

Husker Du

Pink Floyd-check
Weezer-check
Radiohead after Ok Computer-check

but i will never give you Husker Du.

[Dude!]

Dude!'s preferred style:

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He's crabcore all the way!

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i'm more of a gwar guy

[spoon]

Pink Floyd

Radiohead

Weezer

Husker Du

Momentary Laspe if Reason, Wish You Were Here, The Wall and even The Division Bell are pretty darn tight.

The Bends is simply an amazing cd, ok computer isn't that far off either.

Weezer has some fun music, but they're not anything special...yet not terrible either.

Husker Du, not for me at all.

[PapaBear]

i'm more of a gwar guy
It's cool to like Gwar.

[HBox]

I can think of a million better things to pretend to like to seem cool before I got all the way down to Weezer.

[PapaBear]

All bands are good, and all bands suck to someone (except Coldplay. They just suck. But I just hate them, because I think that makes me cool). I think, in most cases, people who think other people like a band because it makes them cool, are actually just insecure about something.

[Stankfoot]

Husker Du

You're dead to me.

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[epo]

The Bends is simply an amazing cd, ok computer isn't that far off either.



Can we finally admit that the Bends is Radiohead's best album?

[spoon]

Can we finally admit that the Bends is Radiohead's best album?

In my mind it isn't even a question...and I really like OK Comp.

[epo]

In my mind it isn't even a question...and I really like OK Comp.

Its just a stellar record. You are right that the others are good, but its not even close.

[HBox]

The Bends is a great record but I hadn't heard anything like OK Computer before that. Paranoid Android is the best song they have ever done. I've listened to both recently and OK Computer is better.

[hedges]

What's cooler than Pink Floyd playing "Echoes" Live At Pompeii

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[grlNIN]

What's cooler than Pink Floyd playing "Echoes" Live At Pompeii

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96% of everything else in existence.

[underdog]

Can we finally admit that the Bends is Radiohead's best album?

This is shocking, but I don't agree with your music opinion.

I find Kid A to be an absolute masterpiece and one of my favorite albums of all time.

[GregoryJoseph]

What's cooler than Pink Floyd playing "Echoes" Live At Pompeii

96% of everything else in existence.

Ha!

Agreed.

[TheMojoPin]

What's cooler than Pink Floyd playing "Echoes" Live At Pompeii

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[TheMojoPin]

The Bends is a great record but I hadn't heard anything like OK Computer before that. Paranoid Android is the best song they have ever done. I've listened to both recently and OK Computer is better.

I agree that OKC is definitely the more "unique" of the two albums, but personally I prefer The Bends.

[Death Metal Moe]

This thread confuses me. I don't know anyone who has music they don't actually like at least one song on the CD from. I also don't know anyone who would think a person was cooler because that person said they like a certain band.

I won't go into my own personal tastes but I usually go the other way. I don't like bands that everyone else seems to enjoy.

[Ocho Cinco]

thanks for putting up those youtube videos mojopin, i had no idea who big star was but man they're pretty f'n good, i can def hear how they must have influenced a ton of bands.

i'd pick them up now, not to seem cool but because i listened to them first and dug their style. seems that's the way most people pick up new music but that might just be me

[TheMojoPin]

thanks for putting up those youtube videos mojopin, i had no idea who big star was but man they're pretty f'n good, i can def hear how they must have influenced a ton of bands.

i'd pick them up now, not to seem cool but because i listened to them first and dug their style. seems that's the way most people pick up new music but that might just be me

Nah, that's how most people get into something new music-wise. We're right there with you! Glad you like them!

[August_West]

Anything MojoPin likes fills the bill.

[TheMojoPin]

I like everything.

[paulisded]

thanks for putting up those youtube videos mojopin, i had no idea who big star was but man they're pretty f'n good, i can def hear how they must have influenced a ton of bands.

i'd pick them up now, not to seem cool but because i listened to them first and dug their style. seems that's the way most people pick up new music but that might just be me

Do yourself a favor and buy this:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wt%2BYrXP9L._SL500_AA240_.jpg

[realmenhatelife]

This thread confuses me. I don't know anyone who has music they don't actually like at least one song on the CD from. I also don't know anyone who would think a person was cooler because that person said they like a certain band.

I won't go into my own personal tastes but I usually go the other way. I don't like bands that everyone else seems to enjoy.


The more appropriate thread title would be 'Music that makes me feel inadequate for not liking"

[JimBeam]

Rage Against The Machine and Norah Jones ( not a group but I went w/ it ).

[TheMojoPin]

Who thinks listening to RAtM and Norah Jones is "cool?"

Dude! is the worst for this thread.

[Death Metal Moe]

The more appropriate thread title would be 'Music that makes me feel inadequate for not liking"

Pffft. Fuck that shit. I usually won't shit on a band but if I don't like them, I don't like them. It doesn't make the fans any better or smarter for "getting it" and it doesn't make me any smarter for not being into it, it's just taste.

[Dude!]

Who thinks listening to RAtM and Norah Jones is "cool?"

The Due! is the worst for this thread.

i think you'd be more at home
in the MPW thread

[TheMojoPin]

I think you'd
be
more at home in
the grave.

[Dude!]

I think you'd
be
more at home in
the grave.

that's not very nice

[mikeyboy]

Can we just agree that Dude! is worse for this board than 900 MPW threads?

[Dude!]

Can we just agree that Dude! is worse for this board than 900 MPW threads?

way to deflect attention
away from yourself
site-killer

[mikeyboy]

way to deflect attention
away from yourself
site-killer
I'd like it just dead enough that you aren't here anymore.

[Dude!]

I'd like it just dead enough that you aren't here anymore.

just for that
i will be the last man standing

i don't walk away when needed

[west milly Tom]

Nah, that's how most people get into something new music-wise. We're right there with you! Glad you like them!

never heard of them, but me likey. I'm going to steal some of their music now. thanks budday.

[tanless1]

So you think everyone who likes his music does so because it's perceived as "cool?"

well, i know how much you like ryan adams. so i have given him multiple chances as its statisticaly improbable for you to be wrong about everything.
.... i see youve taken this personaly, so ill offer you some fodder.
... im thought men w/o hats second 2nd album " pop goes the world" was a very good concept album. and abc's "alphabet city" was there finest work.

[tanless1]

I think you'd
be
more at home in
the grave.

now thats just hostile and uncalled for.

[TheMojoPin]

well, i know how much you like ryan adams. so i have given him multiple chances as its statisticaly improbable for you to be wrong about everything.
.... i see youve taken this personaly, so ill offer you some fodder.
... im thought men w/o hats second 2nd album " pop goes the world" was a very good concept album. and abc's "alphabet city" was there finest work.

I'm not taking anything personally. I just think it's a stupid idea to think that people spend money and time listening on music they don't even like just to seem "cool." I don't care if you don't like Ryan Adams; if that's not your thing, hey, life goes on.

[TheMojoPin]

now thats just hostile and uncalled for.

Oh, it's very called for.

[yojimbo7248]

The more appropriate thread title would be 'Music that makes me feel inadequate for not liking"

:lol:

[hedges]

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Nice Mojo, nice.

[JimBeam]

Who thinks listening to RAtM and Norah Jones is "cool?"

The Due! is the worst for this thread.

Were we talking about current groups ?

Clearly when Rage Against The Machine was MTV big there were a lot of people that loved them because of that social awareness and anti-gov't nonsense.

As far as Jones goes I think people liked her because it was trendy and without a doubt her music sucked. There was nothing at all musical about it. It was essentially her talking over music. Dreadful.

[mikeyboy]

As far as Jones goes I think people liked her because it was trendy and without a doubt her music sucked. There was nothing at all musical about it. It was essentially her talking over music. Dreadful.

I'm not a fan, but that doesn't sound accurate in the least.

[Bob Impact]

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Seriously, I just danced around my house like an idiot, thanks Mojo. This is one of those songs I forget about for long chunks of time at a clip and then hear it and go on a beastie boys tear.

[Kublakhan61]

As far as Jones goes I think people liked her because it was trendy and without a doubt her music sucked. There was nothing at all musical about it. It was essentially her talking over music. Dreadful.

Not a musician, are you? Or do you just have a tin ear?

I'm not a fan of the girl by a long shot, but 'nothing musical about it' are words spoken for the sake of speaking. People liked her because she had a pleasant voice, good instrumentation, and delivered warm pop sentiment. C'mon!

[paulisded]

As far as Jones goes I think people liked her because it was trendy and without a doubt her music sucked. There was nothing at all musical about it. It was essentially her talking over music. Dreadful.

Yeah, I can't agree with this at all. I'm not a fan, but she was never "trendy". She sold primarily to housewives, and she's arguably a bit better than the MOR that crowd usually buys.

[tanless1]

Oh, it's very called for.

ok, ill conceed that. i am out of touch at times.
.... and some of that other stuff you said too.

[TheMojoPin]

Seriously, I just danced around my house like an idiot, thanks Mojo. This is one of those songs I forget about for long chunks of time at a clip and then hear it and go on a beastie boys tear.

Easily one of my favorite songs by them. I think Check Your Head is right up there with Paul's Boutique as their very best.

[TheMojoPin]

Not a musician, are you? Or do you just have a tin ear?

I'm not a fan of the girl by a long shot, but 'nothing musical about it' are words spoken for the sake of speaking. People liked her because she had a pleasant voice, good instrumentation, and delivered warm pop sentiment. C'mon!

It's the same thing as calling Big Star "unlistenable." I'm not a fan of Jones, but "just talking over music?"

[vjr97]

depache moode or what ever. no in the band could play an instrument or sing well.they suck major dick!! that 's why fags like them

[Bob Impact]

Easily one of my favorite songs by them. I think Check Your Head is right up there with Paul's Boutique as their very best.

I may argue that Check Your Head is the better of the two... though I would probably argue with myself that Pauls Boutique is better... once I figure out which one wins I'll let you know and come and argue with you.

[TheMojoPin]

depache moode or what ever. no in the band could play an instrument or sing well.they suck major dick!! that 's why fags like them

Hmmmmm.

Power lines?

Paint chips?

[Tall_James]

I've always felt that Sonic Youth sucks an atonal bag of dicks.