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A thread dedicated to mediocre artists --not terrible, not good, just sort of okay or blah.
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this thread seems weird, and i'm not usually one to say threads are unnecessary.
also, i take great exception to My Chemical Romance being included in here. they're fucking great.
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It is a weird thread. But I think maybe every other topic has been discussed.Originally Posted by eversonpoe
I really don't get the appeal of MCR, another middle-of-the-road EMO band from the 00's. Not terrible, just mediocre.
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Helena is an amazing song and the entirety of The Black Parade is just top notch. None of their other stuff has ever done anything for me though.
Also, lol @ Staind.
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black parade is really good but i actually vastly prefer "three cheers..."
yeah, staind is not mediocre...they're bad. and aaron lewis is an asshole. who now plays terrible country music.
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I admit that I still have a soft spot for Dysfunction and a ramdom smattering of their songs. Yesterday's chorus is really catchy and shows off Lewis' range. But yes, @eversonpoe , he is indeed a troglodyte.
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I thought the same. A shitty music thread Paints broad strokes on what you hate or dislike. To me this thread is a one foot in and one foot out of getting the nerve to call yourself a fan of a band. Either you like them or you don’t. This comes off as a weakened attempt to say I like this band but I’m embarrassed.
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Three cheers will always be their magnum opus, i still get sad thinking about how they went out with such a wimper on danger days.
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Not really. I'm very "meh" on every band that I listed. What you are describing is a guilty pleasure. I think that Poison is pretty bad, but I enjoy them because they are a lot of fun, whereas I think Staind are just plain mediocre, not awful, not bad really, just kind of blah, paint-by-numbers generic rock that doesn't invoke any kind of reaction from me. So I would call Staind mediocre rather than just plain shitty, imho.
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I really liked Danger Days. However that album doesn’t strike me a farewell though like it should have.
I flip flop on their best album but tend to be in the Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge camp.
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@GulDukat if you post buckcherry in this thread, i'm done
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That's a tough one. Are Buckcherry mediocre, a guilty pleasure or shitty? I'd say they are all three, depending on the song.
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This sounds like some Garak would say, not Dukat
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A thousand likes! And I can hear him saying that as I read the sentence.
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best MCR is the first record, where the band's relationship to punk/hardcore is still relatively clear.
Lose me with that Queen worship stuff.
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Godsmack has a handful of good songs as well, at least on their first couple of albums. Haven't listened to anything post-2002 or so.
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The only mediocre thing here, is this thread.
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MCR were always evolving, bringing a different artistic vision to their next album. Their concepts were always coherent and with the Black Parade also quite influential in some areas - except for Weapons, which isn't an album really.
Most 'mediocre' is probably Gerards Way's solo album, but that's because it was influenced by Britpop and that genre hardly ever did anything for me.
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I would add The Mighty Mighty Bostones and The Dropkick Murphys.
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