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Post by Lord Bismarcus on Jun 19, 2008 9:34:39 GMT -5
They're not so bad, although the sound gets a bit repetitive. "If You Want My Love" is a pretty good song.
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Post by pinkard on Jun 19, 2008 9:39:45 GMT -5
Yeah, I've always liked them. They pretty much took the Big Star sound and made it popular.
I Want You To Want Me and Surrender are pretty solid pop-rock songs.
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Post by Lord Bismarcus on Jun 19, 2008 9:48:35 GMT -5
I was thinking that they sounded a lot like Big Star, except maybe Big Star + KISS, sort of.
Kind of a more hyper, party-oriented Big Star.
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Post by pinkard on Jun 19, 2008 9:50:44 GMT -5
Yeah, they were an arena version of Big Star.
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Post by Lord Bismarcus on Jun 19, 2008 9:53:10 GMT -5
That's funny. It turns out they recorded the cover version of Big Star's "In The Street" for That 70's Show.
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Post by Emuboy, VC Muppet 2008 on Jun 19, 2008 10:49:03 GMT -5
Jesus f?cking Christ, Alex. You can't be a music snob AND defend Cheap Trick.
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Post by Lord Bismarcus on Jun 19, 2008 10:50:00 GMT -5
Why not?
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Post by Emuboy, VC Muppet 2008 on Jun 19, 2008 10:50:50 GMT -5
Cheap Trick is the Fallout Boy of the 1970s.
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Post by Lord Bismarcus on Jun 19, 2008 10:51:49 GMT -5
Oh, most certainly not.
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Post by Emuboy, VC Muppet 2008 on Jun 19, 2008 10:56:16 GMT -5
Sure.
Early underground D.C. emo, Pop Sensibility, Fall Out Boy Punk rock, Pop Sensibility, Cheap Trick
They took a credible movement, aped half of its sound, glammed it up, and made it so that kids in the midwest could get their little heads around it.
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Post by Lord Bismarcus on Jun 19, 2008 10:58:33 GMT -5
I don't find punk to be any more credible than party-rock by any stretch. The problem with punk is punks. Cheap Trick, Guns N Roses, etc, had the good sense to not be so serious.
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Post by Emuboy, VC Muppet 2008 on Jun 19, 2008 10:59:15 GMT -5
That's because you're a doofus camera jock with a throbbing boner for ridiculous gear.
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Post by Lord Bismarcus on Jun 19, 2008 11:00:25 GMT -5
Yeah well maybe you're a teetotalling Faggot!
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