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mcpunky

usually I'm right about these things...

Dec 05, 2005 18:10

I was looking back at all these predictions I have made about bands getting big before they actually became either superstars or semi household names and I am right like 90 percent of the time when I go out on a limb ( Read more... )

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shes_a_giant December 6 2005, 20:00:06 UTC

SHEIT the walkmen have been around for ages and were already in commercials and stuff. i saw them a couple years ago with hot hot heat when they were really huge. i loooove the walkmen. they are really great live too!

mcpunky December 7 2005, 03:52:01 UTC

I've seen them once and I saw Johnaton fire*eater once but even though they are underground darlings in the next year or two they will be household names.... breakout of the underground and be more mainstream, there next album will definately give them a more mass apeal, that is kinda what I'm predicting... just like death cab was underground three years ago and slowly became one of the biggest bands in the country.

redelephant December 15 2005, 23:38:17 UTC

Death Cab was selling out three consecutive nights at the Crystal Ballroom four or five years ago.

mcpunky December 16 2005, 02:20:31 UTC

so was modest mouse back in 97 or pre 97 whenever the fuck I graduated high school but stil I wouldn't call them even close to big on a national scale.

ditto for Ben Gibbard and his various bands... I saw his supporting kols just a couple years ago and even then it seem like most the crowd was oblivious.

redelephant December 15 2005, 23:35:45 UTC

Lawrence Arms were on the Daily Show with John Stewart.

mcpunky December 16 2005, 02:22:23 UTC

really? seems weird... i guess the guys are during better than i'd realized.

redelephant December 17 2005, 00:14:05 UTC

Well, it was just the singer. And basically he was just getting an ass made out of him by one of the Daily Show guys. He was making fun of that douchebag Michael Graves guy who had a stint as the Misfits singer for having face paint on all the time. And the Daily Show guy said something like "so...temporary face paint equals lame. permanent arm paint equals kickass!"

mcpunky December 17 2005, 07:05:58 UTC

The lead singer of Lawrence Arms did have a good essay last election cycle that postulating that if Americans are dumb enough to make Kangaroo Joe (i think that was the name of the movie) the number 1 movie in the country maybe we really are dumb enough to re-elect Bush.

I thought it was much more clever than the typical election cycle fare from concerned musician.

and of course Michael Graves is a giant douche..