"We're goin' down, down in an earlier round and sugar, we're going down swingin.'"
There are some songs that, as soon as they catch your ear, you know that they are going to be a monumental success. Perhaps it was when you heard the chorus to "Sugar, We're Going Down" by Fall Out Boy for the first time and knew that they were no longer 'your' band or the opening "Hey" in Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle." Whatever song, you knew that the song had "it" and was going to make waves in the mainstream world.
What about the times you've heard a song from a band and knew that it was going to be huge and it never went anywhere? The mainstream is a fickle giant; two songs that sound exactly the same can have two completely different lives on the Billboard charts. And that's to say nothing about a band's image, which can play a huge role in a band's career.
We at Absolutepunk.net would like to know--what bands do you think deserved to make it but didn't? Why did they deserve it and why do you think they didn't get it?
We know that success is relative to what you consider success to be, so we'll leave your definition to your discretion. It could be a smaller band that you think had potential to catch on with the AP.net demographic or a band that had the possibility to break mainstream and never did. Is it a certain song that was released as a single that never attracted attention you thought it deserved? Maybe you think a certain band had the talent to write a hit record but just never tapped their full ability; whatever it is, we want to know what band the mainstream missed out on.
On a similar note, what bands do you think got exposure that you wouldn't have expected to? Maybe a band like Modest Mouse who has seemed too obscure for the mainstream audience or My Chemical Romance, whose I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love showed hardly any indication that the band would be where they are today.
What bands should have earned a bigger following and which "big" bands would you never have expected to be where they are?
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There are some songs that, as soon as they catch your ear, you know that they are going to be a monumental success. Perhaps it was when you heard the chorus to "Sugar, We're Going Down" by Fall Out Boy for the first time and knew that they were no longer 'your' band or the opening "Hey" in Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle." Whatever song, you knew that the song had "it" and was going to make waves in the mainstream world.
What about the times you've heard a song from a band and knew that it was going to be huge and it never went anywhere? The mainstream is a fickle giant; two songs that sound exactly the same can have two completely different lives on the Billboard charts. And that's to say nothing about a band's image, which can play a huge role in a band's career.
We at Absolutepunk.net would like to know--what bands do you think deserved to make it but didn't? Why did they deserve it and why do you think they didn't get it?
We know that success is relative to what you consider success to be, so we'll leave your definition to your discretion. It could be a smaller band that you think had potential to catch on with the AP.net demographic or a band that had the possibility to break mainstream and never did. Is it a certain song that was released as a single that never attracted attention you thought it deserved? Maybe you think a certain band had the talent to write a hit record but just never tapped their full ability; whatever it is, we want to know what band the mainstream missed out on.
On a similar note, what bands do you think got exposure that you wouldn't have expected to? Maybe a band like Modest Mouse who has seemed too obscure for the mainstream audience or My Chemical Romance, whose I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love showed hardly any indication that the band would be where they are today.
What bands should have earned a bigger following and which "big" bands would you never have expected to be where they are?
Remember, if you ever have any topic you’d like to see as a Thursday Discussion question, leave a comment detailing what you'd like to see in my blog.
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