Nooooooooo!!!! Dashboard Confessional on MTV

[weezergirl]

<< hmmm. DC and JEW are hardly pioneers to the "emo" scene. I really don't care that they are gone. I spoke with Jim Aktins From JEW about 6 years ago, he said he'd rather be the new radiohead than the next sunny day real estate.

my suggestion: Q and not U. unbelieveable musicianship/tightness. >>



radiohead > SDRE.

anyways, q and not u rocks. check out 9 things everybody knows!

 

[punkrawket]

Dashboard Confessional will be on Conan O'Brian tonight.... stright from nbc.com


<< Tonight Conan welcomes Paula Zahn and DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL. TV-14 >>

 

[gopunk]

i don't really like emo, but i feel your pain. now whenever they come to town, the venue's will be all crowded and filled with giggly teenage girls and mammoth drunk guys that want to kick your ass.

 

[punkrawket]

<< i don't really like emo, but i feel your pain. now whenever they come to town, the venue's will be all crowded and filled with giggly teenage girls and mammoth drunk guys that want to kick your ass. >>

finally.... someone who understands... i'm still going to the concert next month... i already have the ticket

 

[Joyride]

<----Sheltered smalltown Iowa boy

Anyone want to explain what exactly Emo is and name some other bands who are Emo?

Also what bands constitute Nu-Metal?



<< At The Drive In >>


I heard a song from them on MTV I would say 2 years ago. Haven't heard a peep from them since

 

[Uclagamer_99]

hmm well they've had dashboard confessional on mtv2 for awhile now so if they sold out they sold out a long time ago

 

[halik]

well the mtv version of the song is totally f*cked up, they added base/percussions and it sounds bad. The acoustic version is very good

 

[Uclagamer_99]

if you want to hear some good music go buy john mayer's cd, he's even better in concert

 

[punkrawket]

wow... this thread was resserected (sp?) from the dead...


but as for

<< << At The Drive In >>
I heard a song from them on MTV I would say 2 years ago. Haven't heard a peep from them since >>

they broke up

 

[woodly6]

This is one of the designs for stickers and shirts that I made for a local band here in Sacramento, candyfarm...link in my sig for band info.

Sticker Design.

 

[punkrawket]

<< This is one of the designs for stickers and shirts that I made for a local band here in Sacramento, candyfarm...link in my sig for band info.

Sticker Design. >>

ahahahahaha..... nice.... me likey

 

[AMDJunkie]

Yes, finally girls are going to like the music I listen to!

Why the hell are you complaining?

 

[hopeless879]

<< I guess I'll be content knowing that NOFX and LTJ will never be on MTV? Emo's alright......but I guess it's not totally for me. >>



Actually LTJ has been on MTV2 a couple of times with some live videos. I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing alot of emo/punk/ska bands on mtv and on the radio.

 

[JimmyEatWorld]

First of all, look at the day I joined and you'll see my name is not the afterthought of this so-called 'craze'. I with Weezer Girl (as usual =) ) I love hearing my music on the radio and on MTV, cus it means not only are people starting to listen to what I consider good music, but it also means my favorite artists will get the money and recognition they deserve. What I hate is when the mainstream causes my favorite artists to become egotistical maniacs, and to alter why they starting playing in the first place. I've been listening to JEW, and Dashboard for a long long time now, and so far JEW is handling the fame quite nicely, even though I do prefer their older stuff, and they sounded like crap on SNL due to bad mixing. However, I'm not please with how Chris is handling his new found glory (buh dum pish). I've seen Dashboard on the last 4 tours he stopped near me, the first of which was in Houston in a little pizza place where it was just about 20 people. However, the last time I went out to see him with Ben Kweller (who is amazing), he was horrible. He was prancing around stage, throwing up his hands to the crowd, and would just plain stop singing at times. His vocals had changed into surges of off pitch banter rather than smooth melodic emotional lines. He needs to get his stool back, sit the **** down, and play for the audience like he used to, and not have the audience play for him. Anyways, I ended up leaving that show in the middle of his set, because not only did he sound bad, he was ruining the meaning the songs he was playing had. If that makes me an elitest, then too bad. Thank you to all who read this in its entirety.

 

[Hooligan]

JimmyEatWorld, I'm actually starting to like JEW, I used to be a punk, ska lover but ever since The Get Up Kids I have started liking EMO. Could you suggest to me some good JEW songs?

 

[PsychoAndy]

Bah. So Chris Carraba (sp? I'm not a big fan as you can see) "sells out" by making his music more accessable? Does that mean you're gonna stop listening to him just because he's on MTV? I can see a problem with people who you think are assholes suddenly listening to dashboard, like your kid sister, neighbor, drunk guy, millions of teenage girls who suddenly "feel" the music to be popular, but hating the people that do this is one thing. Not listening to a band just because it's suddenly popular is another. I realize that noone has SAID that they are, but if they are, I think that's plain stupid, and hope that noone that listens to him suddenly stops, due to his new found glory *cough intake, punkrawket cough*. sheesh, so maybe a couple million people now know what emo is. Big deal, your whole world isn't going to explode into a million friggin pieces. Maybe when his music starts to change drastically DUE TO POPULARITY will I think that there is reason behind your post. I don't think i'm speaking out of my ass at ALL because i've seen times where people will suddenly hate a band just because they become popular.
And I do listen to a fair share of emo. Dashboard, get up kids, juliana theory, thursday, at the drive in, etc., so i don't entirely hate it...just when it's way too whiney and crappy sounding And I listen to a little too much hardcore :disgust:

 

[JimmyEatWorld]

Ususally I'd reserve this for a PM, but maybe others here are interested....soo....
This is just off the top of my head, but based on your background of punk/ska, you'll problably prefer The Static Prevails, or Singles
a couple of songs off Static to download would be "claire" "call it in the air" , "robot factory", and "digits"
a couple of songs off Singles to download would be "christmas card", "H model", "Carbon Scoring", "Ramina"

Basically this is the harder, more raw JEW.
If you like those, please go buy the CD....I'm fine with you burning bleed american, but buy the other ones

 

[20_MuleTeam_Borax]

Oh please! Chris has been on Drive-Thru and Vagrant. Yeah, those are real DIY labels. Hell, even FAT, Epitaph, Victory, etc aren't very underground. The Vagrant Across America tour this year is playing mostly arenas. Is MTV really a huge leap?
I'm not saying he sucks b/c he's big. I saw him in Philly over the summer. Not liking bands b/c they're popular is ridiculous. The only downside to popularity, from my perspective as a fan, is bigger venues. I hate ticketmaster.

 

[CrazyDe1]

If it wasn't for dashboard confessional being on MTV2 I never would have heard of them...my roommate saw them on mtv2, downloaded a few songs...and played them. I heard them and thought they were good...we went to the show..thats all we've been listening to since for about 2 weeks...my roommate went out and bought the CD and I have all the mp3s...good stuff...I can see where you're comin from when you know somethin thats good and everyone doesn't and you kind of want to keep it that way...its kind of like the hot deals forum...you know about it and can get awesome deals on stuff and you want to keep it secret so that its exclusive or so that the deals don't die as fast...but if it wasn't for someone telling me about it I wouldn't have known about it...I'd much rather know about dashboard than not...after all they're still not that popular...
theres somethin to be said about having something awesome to you or a gruop of your friends...such as a favorite campsite or soemthin...its always nice when you start listening to somethin and everyone around you starts listenin too...and then it gets real popular and everyone starts listenin to it and you're like I knew about them forever...but it kinda sux cause now its not exclusive

 

[Siva]

for the most part, the best bands are the one that don't play anymore

 

[20_MuleTeam_Borax]

<< for the most part, the best bands are the one that don't play anymore >>


I'm sure there were people saying that exact thing when your "best bands" were still playing. Where do we get by holding on to the "old school" bands? did your "best bands" become so good by being exactly like what came before them?