Rage Against the Machine at Voodoo Fest!! (1 Viewer)

[TPS]

My kids told me that the gym class heroes are complete ****. Aren't they the ones that remixed that old Supertramp song "Girlfriend" into possibly the most annoying song ever? I have 3 times busted out laughing in the middle of a lifting set at the sheer stupidity of the gym playing the Top 20 XFM station. When the owner isn't there, we usually at least get the Boneyard which isn't great, but it's better than Fergie, Avril Levigne and Gym Class Heroes.

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[Jacob]

I don't know. They had a catchy hook on that MySpace song and I had marked them down to see. I am looking at their page now and there is some video on there, so I'm assuming that squealy sounding dude is the FOB guy. Yeah, that sucks.

 

[waldo22]

+1 for Porcupine Tree... great stuff.

 

[Optimusaint]

Wait a second, isn't the guy from FOB in their music video and sings background vocals on that song and quite a few others on their latest album? I'm not saying, I'm just saying.

yeah, one of the guys in falloutboy is childhood friends with the singer from gym class heroes. he hooked them up with a record deal.

as far as their sounds, its nothing alike. gym class heroes has more in common with the roots than fallout boy (although admittedly, the roots are a lot better)

give gym class heroes a shot, ive seen them live twice and they put on a pretty good show. plus, the singer is a real cool guy, who talked to me for about an hour outside of the venue. we talked about rare adidas, graffiti, and hall and oates. it was pretty cool.

 

[kewee]

Yeah, that awful song they did called "Cupid's Chokehold." After hearing it about 5 times, I wanted to vomit.

 

[Optimusaint]

Yeah, that awful song they did called "Cupid's Chokehold." After hearing it about 5 times, I wanted to vomit.

that song is the furthest from their sound out of all of their recordings. well, that and the other song with the fallout singer on it.

 

[St. Reginald]

My kids told me that the gym class heroes are complete ****. Aren't they the ones that remixed that old Supertramp song "Girlfriend" into possibly the most annoying song ever? I have 3 times busted out laughing in the middle of a lifting set at the sheer stupidity of the gym playing the Top 20 XFM station. When the owner isn't there, we usually at least get the Boneyard which isn't great, but it's better than Fergie, Avril Levigne and Gym Class Heroes.

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On top of that, their newest single is a re-vamped version of Jermaine Stewart's "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off." Get this, they changed it to "We Have To Take Our Clothes Off." YUK YUK YUK

 

[TPS]

>>On top of that, their newest single is a re-vamped version of Jermaine Stewart's "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off." Get this, they changed it to "We Have To Take Our Clothes Off." YUK YUK YUK

Cheap ploy to reclaim turf from perhaps the worst band ever, Surfpunks? Not that I'm opposed to the possibilities....



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[St. Reginald]

Hey, the Surfpunks were pretty bad, especially their cheesy live shows; it might have something to do with their founder being the brother of the Captain of Captain and Tenielle fame. I see Gym Class Heroes as more of a crappier rap/rock version of Vanilla Fudge.

 

[TPS]

>>Hey, the Surfpunks were pretty bad, especially their cheesy live shows; it might have something to do with their founder being the brother of the Captain of Captain and Tenielle fame.

Yeah, but legend has it that the bikinis came off at their shows. I can't vouch because I always hated them from the first time I heard, "Somebody ripped my stick."

>>I see Gym Class Heroes as more of a crappier rap/rock version of Vanilla Fudge.

Vanilla Fudge the blues/rock band? They were pretty cool back in the 1960's. Kinda trippy-psychdelic anyway.

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[keepoursaints]

Can we please move away from the FOB discussion and back to Rage

 

[St. Reginald]

>>Hey, the Surfpunks were pretty bad, especially their cheesy live shows; it might have something to do with their founder being the brother of the Captain of Captain and Tenielle fame.

Yeah, but legend has it that the bikinis came off at their shows. I can't vouch because I always hated them from the first time I heard, "Somebody ripped my stick."

>>I see Gym Class Heroes as more of a crappier rap/rock version of Vanilla Fudge.

Vanilla Fudge the blues/rock band? They were pretty cool back in the 1960's. Kinda trippy-psychdelic anyway.

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What I meant was, the Fudge were a group that prided themselves on re-vamping popular hits into their own style. Hence, it seems Gym Class Heroes are a crappier version of that.

 

[Optimusaint]

Can we please move away from the FOB discussion and back to Rage

yeah thats cool. and coheed and cambria as well. ill go from never seeing them live, to seeing them twice in one year.

 

[St. Reginald]

Back to Rage. Here's a question. How many on the board here can actually empathize with De La Rocha's anti-capitalist lyrics that he espouses on an album distributed by Sony and concerts funded by Sony? I'll be the first to say that Morello is quite an innovator of his instrument and I can dig the funk grooves that they churn out, especially their self-titled debut. However, I find De La Rocha's desperate pleas against capitalism and the "establishment" to be quite absurd.

 

[Jacob]

Meh, you gotta get your stuff out there somehow. I have no problem with them using that vehicle. I certainly don't agree with a lot of their politics, etc. I just dig the chaos and the middle finger to the GOP.