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Acme-143 · 08-05-2003, 11:16 PM

I have two comments:
1.) Has anyone seen the commercial for Kids albumns of pop songs on the radio at the time. Blink-182 are on there. And there songs is being sung by kids. That's probably a good sign of selling out. Kinda like when Blondie was featured on "Alvin and the Chipmunks Do Punk", you kinda know it's time to throw in the towel. I don't think anyone could take you seriously after that.
2.) I am to lazy to quote whoever said it in this thread, but it was mentioned that Sugar Ray sold out after Floored...That has always been my example. Sugar Ray's past albumns consisted of ThrashPunk. Floored haad 14 or so hard songs, and then there was "Fly". Fly was a big hit, and lo and behold, there next albumn was 15 carbon freakin copies of Fly. I can understand that bands will and SHOULD change and experiment. But it has to be a logical step, not a complete turnaround. Blink-182 did the same thing. After Dude Ranch, Blink started to use their "boysih good looks" as the selling point. They ade all their videos silly and kiddish, they sold billions of posters of themselves that pandered to 14 year old girls hormones, and they let their music go to crap. Now they are all about pop-punk. Chesire Cat was agood albumn. So was dude Ranch. After that, they became MTV and media whores. TRL is a breeding ground for Jailbait girls, and Blink suckled at its teet for all it was worth. That is my idea of selling out: when your image is more important than your music. Let the music make you a great band, not the fact that "They are soooo hot". Leave that to the Backdoor Boys and N'Suck.

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Acme-143 Tilted Location: Hellhole, Arizona	I have two comments: 1.) Has anyone seen the commercial for Kids albumns of pop songs on the radio at the time. Blink-182 are on there. And there songs is being sung by kids. That's probably a good sign of selling out. Kinda like when Blondie was featured on "Alvin and the Chipmunks Do Punk", you kinda know it's time to throw in the towel. I don't think anyone could take you seriously after that. 2.) I am to lazy to quote whoever said it in this thread, but it was mentioned that Sugar Ray sold out after Floored...That has always been my example. Sugar Ray's past albumns consisted of ThrashPunk. Floored haad 14 or so hard songs, and then there was "Fly". Fly was a big hit, and lo and behold, there next albumn was 15 carbon freakin copies of Fly. I can understand that bands will and SHOULD change and experiment. But it has to be a logical step, not a complete turnaround. Blink-182 did the same thing. After Dude Ranch, Blink started to use their "boysih good looks" as the selling point. They ade all their videos silly and kiddish, they sold billions of posters of themselves that pandered to 14 year old girls hormones, and they let their music go to crap. Now they are all about pop-punk. Chesire Cat was agood albumn. So was dude Ranch. After that, they became MTV and media whores. TRL is a breeding ground for Jailbait girls, and Blink suckled at its teet for all it was worth. That is my idea of selling out: when your image is more important than your music. Let the music make you a great band, not the fact that "They are soooo hot". Leave that to the Backdoor Boys and N'Suck. __________________ All your base are belong to us!!! You will never know the simple pleasures of a monkey knife fight.