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I must have tripped and fallen into the time machine again.
The original singer of BNL left for mental health reasons, and imo the band never recovered.
But also, I agree with you xD
I remember when Red Hot Chili Peppers released Stadium Arcadium and it was kinda well known that this album was done completely sober after some of the members went through rehab, so I half expected it to actually suck. So glad it didn’t.
Yeah, it was just like that time Anthony Kiedis banged a 14-year old and then wrote about it in his autobiography, that was so sick bro
That’s only cuz the Hook brings you back. I ain’t telling you no lie!
I agree with you wholeheartedly.
I’m surprised this would be an unpopular opinion.
John Popper is a harmonica virtuoso; Barenaked Ladies aren’t known for much musically outside their hits.
I’ll add, John Popper is such a virtuoso that he would show up in weird places. Like, I remember listening to the Metallica cover of Tuesday’s Gone, and who shows up? John Popper! He does a great job. The cover wouldn’t be nearly to as good without him. He accompanies the entire song, it rules. Best part of the song.
I saw Blues Traveler live a couple of weeks ago.
Nobody in that band works harder than the harmonica tech. John had her fiddling with the settings on his harmonica amp (yes, really, he has a harmonica amp) for about half the show.
Whatever she kept changing, I couldn’t tell the difference. Eventually John was either satisfied or gave up.
ITS BEEN…
ONE WEEK SINCE
I think this woulda started some fights 30 years ago.
The cool thing about music is it’s not sports. We can enjoy both. And I do.
Whoaaa there…is this unpopular opinions or unnecessary opinions?
I don’t know if this is an unpopular opinion. It’s definitely out left field and I haven’t heard it before. I can’t even argue against it.
First of all, how do you do fellow middle ager.
2nd of all, your just wrong.
Achy joints.
- Then I’m in the right place
This post made me listen to Four. No post has ever made me listen to the Barenaked Ladies.
I agree completely
You mean BNL?
After never hearing about Bliss Troubler and then randomly listening to two songs on YouTube (im a blue twobler expert now) I disagree, Barebacked Lady’s is the superior sound.
Some mighty impressive harmonicoing by the Blurs Traveling singer tho
I don’t like either of them.
Wow, there were two sides given by the OP but you somehow found a way to be wrong about both of them.
Let me rephrase; neither of them make it into my regular listening cycles.
… lots of “great bands” don’t, because their music got saturated long ago. The culture listens and remembers which makes it impossible for me to because music for me, is something to escape with, be taken away by… Not something to conjure a sense of being in a mall decades ago, or a particular TV advertisement or sequence in a movie trailer.
That’s the curse of popular music. It becomes commercial, gets over used, and loses it’s emancipatory weight.
It just needs time to fade away. I have reintroduced a bunch of stuff into my regular rotation that was overplayed all to shit. One of the benefits to being old. But, the biggest hit can still leave me cold. Second biggest is usually great. Run Around is still a banger, I feel. Hook maybe lesser these days. Same with BNL. Alcohol is fun as hell. In a 90’s frat boy vibe kind of way, admittedly.
