"It's impossible to be Actual* Pop and Actual Rock simultaneously!"

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the lex just claimed this: is he korrekt?

my response = it is NOT COMMON CERTAINLY but it has happened, like a kind of harmonic convergence within recorded music after -- with things after never the same as before

for example:
i. stones
ii. sabbaf
iii. slade/pistols (=essentially the same thing anyway)
iv. pulp fiction inspired resurgence of SURF sound

obv plenty of bands have been one then the other but not simultaneously, and some have even switched back again

*note use of ACTUAL here must not be employed in any kind of essentialist slipperiness, bcz that kind of behaviour is INDIE

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Definitely. Katatonia (misspelling deliberate) are alright, too but nothing I'd deliberately listen to.

Actually, thinking about it (and I may get lynched for saying this) but Linkin Park had an interesting style on their first album, it was semi-groundbreaking and sometimes I think you can hear a bit of that sort of noise in Girls Aloud's first album. Probably just me.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Linkin Park's "Numb" and "Faint" are loads better than anything I've ever heard by worthy-but-dull SOAD.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

only decent SOAD song = THE ONE ABOUT CIDER

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i like the one about the pogo stick

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Well, "Grafitti My Soul" always struck me as a deliberate Nine Inch Nails tribute, so...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

dude, it's EARL BRUTUS! wake me up is the NIN one ;)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

That was 'Wake Me Up' surely? 'Graffiti My Soul' was Prodge tribute innit.

[juror8.livejournal.com]

(In my defence, I did only wake up at half noon. Alex is CORRECT)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

When WWTNS? was released I thought 'Wake Me Up' was a major stand-out non-single (at the time). A year on I tend to skip it. 'Thank Me Daddy' is the WWTNS? long-term gem which no one picked up on at the time.