I’d have to add Rush here. I’ve only listened to 2112, Moving Pictures and Grace Under Pressure. I guess this isn’t a sufficient sample to truly understand.
Anyway they are a band that seems to have a loyal following.
Sister Hazel - REALLY? I barely remember that band for their forgettable Blues Traveler soundalike single, and the idea that they have dedicated “Hazelnuts” is mindblowing. Seriously, what am I going to learn next - that Dishwalla or the Gin Blossoms have International followings that hold conventions? What about Spacehog or Silverchair? No, how about Letters to Cleo or the Toadies!? :eek: :eek: :eek:
I lived in Gainesville, Florida (Sister Hazel’s hometown) in the late '90s when they were starting to make it “big” with their one radio hit, and it really was insane how huge they were at the time. Then again, it was their hometown, so at least I could understand having a dedicated LOCAL following. The “Hazelnuts” thing is news to me. At least Gainesville also had Less Than Jake hitting the big-time during the same era.
And I kinda dug Letters To Cleo!
Speaking of, are the Gin Blossoms as big outside of Phoenix as they are in? Cause here they are HUGE, but they’re homegrown.
I like Over the Rhine (introduced to them by friends from Cincinnati back about 10-15 years ago). Have a couple of their albums, seen them live a couple of times. Had no idea they had a rabid fan base! (For that matter, didn’t know they were a Christian band, either…if this is evidenced in their lyrics, it is VERY subtle! Anyway, they are good, and I would maybe go see them again if I heard they were in town, but rabid devotion I don’t get.
I’m pals with their drummer’s wife and was at UF when they were getting started. I understand they’re big in Japan as well.
Wow, I just got called:
subhuman
a redneck moron
and “the lowest form of life”
for liking a group. Thanks guys.
I realize there’s a lot of Juggalos out there who don’t make their mothers proud. But you guys are painting with a pretty broad brush to call all ICP fans subhuman.
Well, the OP is referring specifically to rabid fan bases: clearly not everyone who has a couple of ICP CDs is subhuman, a redneck moron, the lowest form of life, or (to me, the nastiest thing said so far) “likes rap music, but hates black people.”
… and have just landed a #3 spot on the Billboard with their new record…
truly a novel way to define “fringe”
I have never heard of Cowboy Mouth, I might have heard their one “hit” but I could not associate it with Cowboy Mouth. So I decided to “youTube” them and see what I could find.
And holy shit my god-damned horse of another color are they awesome. I like the music and Fred is a marvel. He has a great voice AND he plays the drums while he sings.
I’ll be buying a couple of albums tomorrow.
then turn up the radio
Hey, it took a lot of courage for you to come out here and admit that. And admitting you have a problem is the first step in recovery.
Maybe ICP is sort of like Tool. Maybe you can like their music. But nobody likes Tool fans. Even Tool hates Tool fans.
I’m getting to this a little late, but still. VCO3: there’s a fine line between insulting a fan group, and insulting individual posters on this message board who might belong that that group. Let’s please avoid personal insults, OK?
Are you joking? He made a blanket statement that, while harshly phrased, is eerily accurate when describing most self-identifying Juggalos (ICP fans). There was no way in hell you could read his statement as attacking any individual SDMB poster. Any Juggalos in the audience could either take offense or shrug it off and go back to banging their sisters.
There was a theory circulating on another message board I used to post at that said “Play ‘Possum Kingdom!’” will one day become our generation’s “Freebird.”
And Letters To Cleo were the biggest band in the world the week 10 Things I Hate About You came out.
Hey well done Rush - 84,000 records sold - but still a fucking godawful bunch of shit, really.
I wouldn’t wipe a shoe with a Rush album. But hey! The drummer is really good.
My roommate loves Cowboy Mouth. A lot. I remember when that song “Jenny Says” came out.
Guster is a band that I personally enjoy, but for being a band that until recent years had little to no radio/TV exposure, they have a huge fanbase. And concert antics that include people bringing ping pong balls and throwing them during a certain part of one of their songs. I’ve seen them 3 times (once free) and the two pay shows sold out and the free concert was jampacked. They seem to sell out most of their shows. They are a fun band to see - watching the percussion guy slam him bongos and cymbals with his bare hands, hard, is a sight to behold.
One of my friends loves this band called Big Country. They had a mild hit like ten years ago, maybe more. The frontman is dead. But she knows a ton of people obsessed with them as well, and they had a convention.
Hey, I’m still holding my breath for a Tonic reunion.
Rajas is the only band in this thread that I don’t know anything about. I bet if people listened to “Cathedrals” by Jump, Little Children and “Give Me Strength” by Over The Rhine, they’d vaguely recognize them as something they’ve heard before because both were featured on TV shows. I can’t remember which show the JLC song was on, but the other was played almost in its entirety during a Third Watch episode.
That said, I’m not sure I get the rabid fan bases of any of them, either. Except Guster. I mean, I have a couple cds each by Cowboy Mouth and The Gin Blossoms, and a cd each by a few of the others (Toadies, Sister Hazel, Silverchair etc), but none of them are that good. But whatever makes people happy, right?
Guster, however, I used to get. I know most people didn’t hear a single song by them until sometime over the past five years, but the band has been around for a long long time. They were very popular with college kids in northern New England when I was still a student in the mid-to-late 90s. And with reason since they were phenomenal live. They were also very popular on NE radio stations for years before they made their big break by break by having one of their songs featured on a show popular with teens and twenty-somethings. I want to say it was The O.C. but it may not have been. Sadly, that’s about the time they also radically changed their sound. Less bongos and more electric guitars worked out pretty good for the Lost And Gone Forever cd, but they really got away from their roots with the next cd, and that’s the first time since discovering them in 1996 (I saw them with Tonic and The Verve Pipe, Argent Towers!) that I didn’t see them live. I keep hoping they’ll go back to songs more like “Demons,” “Airport Song” and “Rocketship” than “Amsterdam” but I guess only time will tell.
You laugh, but the Toadies reunited and played two nights at Stubb’s right before SXSW this year. Sold out both nights. (Stubb’s holds about 2100, IIRC.)
To be fair, they’re from Texas, so they had a big fan base in the area.