Sell outs.

[Ninty]

After hearing the new single by Skylar Grey, I started thinking about who the biggest sell outs are.

Holly Brook/Skylar Grey -

Good:

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Terrible, sold out:

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Black Eyed Peas -

Good:

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Terrible, sold out:

[insert anything from their last two albums]

Who else is there?

 

[omit]

Bep's sold out with elephunk.

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

Kings of Leon

Good: Youth and Young Manhood. Aha Shake Heartbreak

Big steamin' bag o' shite: Every ****in' thing since!

 

[FlyingBurittoBro]

The Who Sell Out!!!!!

 

[FlyingBurittoBro]

makes me think of anton.
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[JP Sauce]

lol at this thread

 

[boydl]

Dizzee Rascal

Good: Maths+English and Boy in da corner
Bad: His new radio friendly album Tongue n' cheek

 

[HugeJohnson]

Metallica. I love all their stuff minus a couple of songs on St. Anger, "Escape" and "Mama Said", but they did have quite a notable change in musical direction due to the commercial success of The Black Album. They have returned to their roots with Death Magnetic though.

 

[GhostofJimJess]

Red Hot Chili Peppers.

But when you have a read of "Scar Tissue" you kinda get why.

 

[Upgrayedd]

Cradle of Filth, From garbage to Garbage assessable to 14 year olds

Greenday (warning was a boring album and everything after that not only sucked, was done for commericla gain)
Flavor Flav
Offspring (first 2 albums are probably the greatest example of "pop/skater punk", everything else pretty much sucks
u2 (last good album was 20 years ago)


Also, Black eye Pea's are the biggest ****ing hacks around, They used to be damn good

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Now let me quote a song they did called "going gone"

Johnny wanna be a big star
Get on stage and play the guitar
Make a little money buy a fancy car
A big old house and a alligator
Just to match with them alligator shoes
He�s a rich man so he�s no longer singing the blues
He�s singin songs about material things...
And platinum rings and watches that go bling,
But
Diamonds don�t bling in the dark
He a star now, but he aint singin it from the heart
Sooner or later hes just gonna fall apart
Cause his fans can�t relate to his new found art
He aint doin what he did from the start
And that�s putting in some feeling and thought
He decided to live his life shallow
Cash in his love for material
And it's gone

 

[Heisenberg_]

Kings of Leon

Good: Youth and Young Manhood. Aha Shake Heartbreak

Big steamin' bag o' shite: Every ****in' thing since!

They own this thread, has one of the best debut releases you will ever hear and the second album was even better. Because of the Times has some good tracks but then Sex on Fire came out and it was just horrible and all the ****wits who love Nova thought they were the greatest band ever.

 

[La Dispute]

Not really sure how Black Eyed Pea's sold out given they were always pretty terrible.

Was probably good for them in some ways.

I'd say most bands who make the transition into the mainstream are classified as selling out. Generally don't go back to making quality music in any case.

 

[mickelboy182]

Metallica. I love all their stuff minus a couple of songs on St. Anger, "Escape" and "Mama Said", but they did have quite a notable change in musical direction due to the commercial success of The Black Album. They have returned to their roots with Death Magnetic though.

I never really subscribed to the sell-out theory with Metallica. They certainly changed (for the worse), but it always seemed to me that it wasn't necessarily forced by money. They just became different people.
Not sure we will ever see a high quality release from them again.

 

[AndSmithMustScore]

 

[BABYBOMBERS2007]

Bep use to be so good

 

[Plugger35]

Live are probably as bad or worse sell outs than Kings of Leon.

Throwing Copper is a great album, Secret Samadhi is OK too in patches but then they just churned out commercialised dross ala Nickelback with the rest of their albums.

 

[HyperAgressiveDonk]

Kings of Leon

Good: Youth and Young Manhood. Aha Shake Heartbreak

Big steamin' bag o' shite: Every ****in' thing since!

Bingo.

Listened to their first two albums daily for a long time. ****ing unbelievable stuff

You're right, they make music that's a big stinking pile of shit now. Horrible.

The worst thing is, the band know it as well. They have even acknowledged it publicly, and also stated how they hate their new fans and new music. But they won't do anything about it, because money talks.

 

[La Dispute]

I think Cold Desert is a top track.

Come at me.

 

[krusden]

They own this thread, has one of the best debut releases you will ever hear and the second album was even better. Because of the Times has some good tracks but then Sex on Fire came out and it was just horrible and all the ****wits who love Nova thought they were the greatest band ever.

I'm so stoked i saw em supporting pearl jam bak in the day.

it's the hair that did it, back then it was all "the bucket" and long hair. For the sex on fire album the hair was gone and "blam!" sold out.

BEP post elephunk are just awful, but round the elephunk time they were okay then they sold all their songs to Coke and Pepsi and were presented by Nokia etc and thus sold out and were shit.

Does Moby count?

Play came out, he sold every song for commercial gain and since then has never reached the same heights again.

 

[Ninty]

BEP changing "Let's Get ******ed" to "Let's Get It Started" for radio play is also a big selling out point.

 

[krusden]

BEP changing "Let's Get ******ed" to "Let's Get It Started" for radio play is also a big selling out point.

that, in hindsight, is their "sell out tipping point" IMO. the place where the rot began.

 

[Damon_3388]

I think Cold Desert is a top track.

Come at me.

I seriously think it's the best song Kings of Leon have ever done, and I've been a fan of theirs since 2002.

 

[Heisenberg_]

I'm so stoked i saw em supporting pearl jam bak in the day.

it's the hair that did it, back then it was all "the bucket" and long hair. For the sex on fire album the hair was gone and "blam!" sold out.

Saw them when they last toured, made me sad on the floor with all the metro gaylords screaming for Sex on Fire for most the show and looking completely confused when they played the old good shit.

I wish I was exaggerating as well

 

[Ninty]

At least they played old shit.

I made the huge mistake of going to BEP last time they were here. Nothing at all from the first two albums, and a heap of shit from Fergie's album.

 

[krusden]

Saw them when they last toured, made me sad on the floor with all the metro gaylords screaming for Sex on Fire for most the show and looking completely confused when they played the old good shit.

I wish I was exaggerating as well

horrible, just horrible.

unfortunately, that's all they'll be known for certainly for the forseeable future.
I'm not a fan of the album that has Pyro etc on it either...........