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10-05-2016, 07:12 PM | #31 |
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Underrated considering they have a shit ton of legendary hits. Way more than a far superior band like Boston.
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10-05-2016, 07:14 PM | #32 |
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10-05-2016, 09:52 PM | #33 |
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It's funny because they actually do
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10-05-2016, 10:51 PM | #34 |
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if any genre of music dodges sounding dated it's punk that's the beauty of bare bones production
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10-06-2016, 12:49 AM | #35 |
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fuzzy put on your thinking cap
if foreigner has a "shit ton of legendary hits. Way more than a far superior band like Boston," I am pretty sure that is called overrated |
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10-06-2016, 08:09 PM | #36 |
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Nope.
Bostons pretty much my favorite arena rock band and Aerosmith is a lot more legendary than they are. I don't think there's any other rock band with as many memorable hits that dominate classic rock radio yet are regulated to playing state fairs while only being considered a minor foot-note in the history of rock fans today than Foreigner. If you can name some I'd love to hear em. |
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10-06-2016, 09:13 PM | #37 |
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so let's try this again. Boston is a better band. Yet Foreigner has more hits, which means they had more songs people went out and bought and got played on the radio. Even though Boston is a better band, Foreigner was more popular. This does not make foreigner underrated
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10-06-2016, 09:14 PM | #38 |
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they are considered a footnote by modern audiences because they suck and their music made no impact. the people who still want to hear foreigner are almost certainly 95% the people who thought they were good in the 70s.
which is also the same people who are still listening to classic rock radio. old and non-serious music listeners |
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10-06-2016, 09:21 PM | #39 |
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Blue Oyster Cult is underrated. They only had a handful of songs which made a mark on the charts. Though at their height they played arenas, they now play state fairs and small theaters to a small group of hardcore fans (compare to the Pumpkins' career arc maybe). Their early music is very interesting and substantially influenced a generation of artists, especially guitarists. Despite their uniqueness and their talent, they are hardly remembered in the mainstream for anything beyond more cowbell. Blue Oyster Cult is underrated.
Foreigner being reduced to state fairs just means that they are now playing where they have always belonged after being vastly overrated by stupid people in the 70s |
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10-07-2016, 05:48 PM | #40 | |
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I'm simply talking about where they stand today among all the other 70's arena bands. |
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10-07-2016, 05:53 PM | #41 | |
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10-07-2016, 05:59 PM | #42 |
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Blue Oyster Cult is overrated too only good for the cowbell joke
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10-07-2016, 06:31 PM | #43 |
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Burning for you is dope
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10-07-2016, 08:08 PM | #44 |
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Burning 4 u is an undying classic. That intro sequence hooooolllllly shit
Kinda stuff make u wanna spend a summer afternoon in the garage, head under the hood of some deadend friend's brokedown trans am, crackin cans, sparkin cigs |
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10-07-2016, 08:37 PM | #45 |
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Burning For You and Reaper are to BOC what Teen Spirit is to Nirvana or BWBW is to SP. They have so many great songs, they don't deserve to be reduced to that. this song is about a biker gang who, knowing their time has passed them by, blindly pull team colors out of a bag and then have a war to destroy themselves in the desert. I'm sorry, that's just fucking badass.
then the wind whipped the desert like a giant hand and the humans and the Harleys caught the shifting sand the old ranger weathered the storm and he topped the rise by the middle of morn he saw rippled dunes calm and surreal and the glimpse of a solitary shaft of chromium steel |
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10-08-2016, 03:01 AM | #46 |
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i like at least one other song by Pilot than "Magic," which is the only song anyone ever fuckin' talks about or plays by them, so i guess they can have my vote on this one
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10-08-2016, 12:29 PM | #47 |
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I love that Magic song. They recently changed the playlist at my work and it's got the more old shit and that song always come on. Such a treat.
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10-08-2016, 12:32 PM | #48 | |
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Iced Earth has a pretty bitching cover of it too. |
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10-08-2016, 01:44 PM | #49 | |
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10-08-2016, 01:45 PM | #50 | |
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they musta been on "uppers" for every show or maybe the 70s just were that damn giddy |
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10-08-2016, 01:47 PM | #51 |
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the type of music where you go no wonder no one wants anything to do with electric guitar these days
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10-08-2016, 01:53 PM | #52 |
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I'm not following the logic that foreigner is not underrated but blue oyster cult somehow is just because you like them more
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10-08-2016, 01:56 PM | #53 |
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well it's the same logic everyone uses in all of these threads, including yourself
so you must be LOST, mothafucka! |
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10-08-2016, 01:59 PM | #54 |
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I don't think so
something probably has to not be an incredibly popular rock band everyone knows about to be underrated idk like Blue Oyster can't sell out shows not because people don't know they exist, but because nobody wants to go see them anymore lol these were pop acts super popular in their time completely dated outside of it |
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10-08-2016, 02:18 PM | #55 |
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To be fair, Blue Oyster Cult did seem to be more concerned about putting out an artistic statement whereas Foreigner was just about trying to write the most infectious memorable rock hooks. But it's fucking all arena rock music, so who really cares in the end?
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10-08-2016, 02:20 PM | #56 |
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I forgot to mention Bad Company. There's another legendary arena rock band who is seemingly forgotten in the ether of rock and roll importance.
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10-08-2016, 02:34 PM | #57 |
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Elphenor how do you like Smashing Pumpkins when you hate all their influences
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10-08-2016, 03:23 PM | #58 |
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SP has a bunch of post punk influences too
They sound like Bowie and The Cure meets Sabbath or something Last edited by Elphenor : 10-08-2016 at 03:35 PM. |
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10-08-2016, 03:38 PM | #59 |
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I really liken them to 2nd half of The Cure when they moved from minimalist wire-esque post punk to big lush guitar playing
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10-08-2016, 03:44 PM | #60 |
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that's true but listening to that song I posted, I can't not hear how music like this heavily shaped SP. The non-traditional structure, the huge guitar riffs, the self-indulgence and swagger of the music. Bloated arena rock is like a third of their sound.
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