Er. Now that we've got THAT randomness out of the way...
I heard a lot of really amazing press about SYG as well, before I saw the AP tour last fall (which I was seeing for TAI because I would cheerily follow William Beckett to the ends of the earth and beyond). But when I got the SYG CD, it more irritated me than anything else. It's one of the ones I tend to skip when it comes up on iTunes in shuffle mode; there are only a few songs on it that don't make my skin itch immediately.
Seeing them in person was worse, however, and I just can't see them the same after. They seemed like two boys in a band that wanted to make noise and do poor rap and play in a basement while their friends slam dance (a circle pit opened in the first show I saw them in, and it may have been one of the scariest and most fascinating things I have ever seen... but I couldn't MOVE for fear of getting knocked out by the HUGEMONGOUS frat boys who didn't care who was around them). So I have to admit, their fans helped turn me off, because I just couldn't stand them, they were that drunk and rude and nasty.
I'm... not usually this vicious towards a band! I swear. But TAI just has the luck of ending up on tour with a mix of incredibly awesome discoveries mixed with bands I never want to see again (the first time I saw them, one of their openers spent the entire set FLAT... not just flat but I want to rip my ears off levels of flat). I guess it's the price I pay to see them.
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Er. Now that we've got THAT randomness out of the way...
I heard a lot of really amazing press about SYG as well, before I saw the AP tour last fall (which I was seeing for TAI because I would cheerily follow William Beckett to the ends of the earth and beyond). But when I got the SYG CD, it more irritated me than anything else. It's one of the ones I tend to skip when it comes up on iTunes in shuffle mode; there are only a few songs on it that don't make my skin itch immediately.
Seeing them in person was worse, however, and I just can't see them the same after. They seemed like two boys in a band that wanted to make noise and do poor rap and play in a basement while their friends slam dance (a circle pit opened in the first show I saw them in, and it may have been one of the scariest and most fascinating things I have ever seen... but I couldn't MOVE for fear of getting knocked out by the HUGEMONGOUS frat boys who didn't care who was around them). So I have to admit, their fans helped turn me off, because I just couldn't stand them, they were that drunk and rude and nasty.
I'm... not usually this vicious towards a band! I swear. But TAI just has the luck of ending up on tour with a mix of incredibly awesome discoveries mixed with bands I never want to see again (the first time I saw them, one of their openers spent the entire set FLAT... not just flat but I want to rip my ears off levels of flat). I guess it's the price I pay to see them.