<p>Actually, i don't think it's cool or anything, but it seems others do. i know there's some awesome bands that aren't mainstream (i listen to some myself), but other people listen to these bands that sound like pure crap. i think they believe its cool to listen to some random band no one listens to. it's usually some garage band/punk/rock group with horrible lyrics and no vocal talent whatsoever. seems like a trend to have so and so's cd. and then when you ask them "who's that?", the person will say "oh it's this undergroung band. don't worry, they're not corporate america crap." haha, but they still suck. </p>
<p>i dunno, just a thought. well i'm hungry so i'm gonna go eat....</p>
<p>Yeah I have quit smoking for like almost a year before, thats not what I worried about, I was never a heavy smoker anyways. I am just so damn hungry, I hate dieting, but I am never going to find another gf unless I shed some poundage.</p>
<p>Oh shit someone created such an apt thread...</p>
<p>Well I guess I've just been lucky in having found only good-sounding bands. Some of them got big already.. Anberlin, AFI, Early November, PPK for example.</p>
<p>Unknown/underground bands are cool... you just have to fish them out.. the good ones, that is.</p>
<p>I hate how people are like, "Oh, they're mainstream, so they suck."</p>
<p>For example, the Stone Temple Pilots. They're good (in my opinion), but they "suck" 'cos they're "popular." Or other bands, such as Nirvana, etc. etc.</p>
<p>But This Band No One Has Heard Before (TBNOHHB for short) is <em>way</em> awesome because... well, no one has heard them before. No matter how absolutely craptacular they are, they are freaking cool because they're totally <em>not</em> mainstream.</p>
<p>I'm sick of that mindset.</p>
<p>Remember those shirts that said: "You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same"?</p>
<p>Geez, it was the most ironic, paradoxic shirt ever. Why? 'Cos everyone who wanted to be different had one and wore them. Everywhere I turn a corner, I saw one. It should say instead: "Don't laugh at us because we look the same, laugh at me because I think I'm different."</p>
<p>Individuality is becoming conformed, guys.</p>
<p><em>sigh</em> It's so depressing how they all think they're just so cool and fabulous.</p>
<p>Effulgent: I couldn't help but notice that you made a very long abbreviation (TBNOHHB) and didn't use it once more in your entire post. Gave me a chuckle.</p>
<p>It's cool to listen to unknown bands because it's not conforming to MTV bs. It's not wonder why most people who aren't crazed girls wasting their whole day outside of MTV's Time Square studio actually think that MTV2 is better, because it's more underground bands and stuff. Still MTV affiliated though. Plus, it's cool when mostly unknown bands get their songs on TV Commercials! For example, the numerous Daft Punk songs in commercials (GAP and others) and my fav. "unknown" band Entrain's song "Dancing in the Light" being the song for a Sylvania commercial (it helps that both the band and company are based out of the metro-Boston area though).</p>
<p>joev, haha, I did use it first, but then went back to make the parenthetical expression later, but I erased the sentence with the acronym... then forgot about the parenthetical expression. Yeah.</p>
<p>And not everything on MTV sucks. Most does, but just because it's on MTV doesn't mean it sucks. I hate that kind of thinking. It's just about as sensible as, "Oh, the race dog is brown. It must not run as fast. Pink dogs run fastest, 'cos they're rarer."</p>
<p>Gangly is almost like twiggy. And some GC fans are so not twiggy.</p>
<p>I CANNOT STAND GC AND SP, and not because of people say they suck either.</p>
<p>There's a reason why people call them 'poseurs.'</p>
<p>They are awful to the core. And c'mon, folks, that 25 year old (or around there) Joel of GC is dating Hilary Duff <---the worst singer to have ever walked the planet.</p>