Comments on: You Know Who Doesn’t Suck? The Vines! http://idolator.com/389625/you-know-who-doesnt-suck-the-vines Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:45:42 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: MrStarhead http://idolator.com/389625/you-know-who-doesnt-suck-the-vines/comment-page-1#comment-569572 MrStarhead Tue, 27 May 2008 02:41:29 +0000 7e126808eef3d24480767a309aceff9c#comment-569572 <p>To add to the chorus, the Vines were absolutely, positively abysmal live, and I am convinced to this day that Nicholls was trying to piss off the audience intentionally.</p> To add to the chorus, the Vines were absolutely, positively abysmal live, and I am convinced to this day that Nicholls was trying to piss off the audience intentionally.

]]> By: TheMojoPin http://idolator.com/389625/you-know-who-doesnt-suck-the-vines/comment-page-1#comment-569582 TheMojoPin Wed, 14 May 2008 03:37:58 +0000 7e126808eef3d24480767a309aceff9c#comment-569582 <P>These guys tricked me into liking them for about a month. I saw them at the 9:30 Club on their first go-around and they had OK Go opening up for them. That shit isn't fair...booze and OK Go makes ANYTHING coming afterwads look infinitely better. Especially when OK Go decide to cover the Specials. Lord, that was awful.</P> These guys tricked me into liking them for about a month. I saw them at the 9:30 Club on their first go-around and they had OK Go opening up for them. That shit isn’t fair…booze and OK Go makes ANYTHING coming afterwads look infinitely better. Especially when OK Go decide to cover the Specials. Lord, that was awful.

]]> By: Al Shipley http://idolator.com/389625/you-know-who-doesnt-suck-the-vines/comment-page-1#comment-569592 Al Shipley Tue, 13 May 2008 01:57:10 +0000 7e126808eef3d24480767a309aceff9c#comment-569592 <P>Wow, never made a connection between The Vines and Jesse & the 8th Street Kidz before seeing the picture at the top of this post, but now it all makes sense.</P> Wow, never made a connection between The Vines and Jesse & the 8th Street Kidz before seeing the picture at the top of this post, but now it all makes sense.

]]> By: Richard Dipper http://idolator.com/389625/you-know-who-doesnt-suck-the-vines/comment-page-1#comment-569602 Richard Dipper Tue, 13 May 2008 01:03:52 +0000 7e126808eef3d24480767a309aceff9c#comment-569602 <p>You know who does suck? The Vines!</p> <p>You know whose writing is filled with unfounded and unnecessary half-thought out declarations in a floundering attempt to stir up controversy and maybe get more page views? Anthony Miccio!</p> <p>Someone get rid of this guy and get Jess back to writing regularly. At least his posts made sense, even when I didn't agree with him.</p> You know who does suck? The Vines!

You know whose writing is filled with unfounded and unnecessary half-thought out declarations in a floundering attempt to stir up controversy and maybe get more page views? Anthony Miccio!

Someone get rid of this guy and get Jess back to writing regularly. At least his posts made sense, even when I didn’t agree with him.

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/389625/you-know-who-doesnt-suck-the-vines/comment-page-1#comment-569612 Anonymous Mon, 12 May 2008 11:53:04 +0000 7e126808eef3d24480767a309aceff9c#comment-569612 <p>The original version of "Factory" was far and away the best thing they ever did (ripping off Shaun Ryder ripping off Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da), but there's three or four tracks of theirs that still hold up, plus that hilarious Spin interview where the grand profound conclusion is that Craig Nicholls is... Evan Dando??</p> The original version of “Factory” was far and away the best thing they ever did (ripping off Shaun Ryder ripping off Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da), but there’s three or four tracks of theirs that still hold up, plus that hilarious Spin interview where the grand profound conclusion is that Craig Nicholls is… Evan Dando??

]]> By: Chris Molanphy http://idolator.com/389625/you-know-who-doesnt-suck-the-vines/comment-page-1#comment-569622 Chris Molanphy Mon, 12 May 2008 09:43:02 +0000 7e126808eef3d24480767a309aceff9c#comment-569622 <p>@<a href="#c5654849">AquaLung</a>: Actually, I would mostly agree with this comment. And I'm the one who defended the first album, above. Well put.</p> @AquaLung: Actually, I would mostly agree with this comment. And I’m the one who defended the first album, above. Well put.

]]> By: HUGE_Hefner http://idolator.com/389625/you-know-who-doesnt-suck-the-vines/comment-page-1#comment-569632 HUGE_Hefner Mon, 12 May 2008 09:26:21 +0000 7e126808eef3d24480767a309aceff9c#comment-569632 <p>I was gonna say The Vines sucked and all that but it doesn't seem necesary anymore. Someone even said the thing about the VMAs and The Hives.</p> I was gonna say The Vines sucked and all that but it doesn’t seem necesary anymore. Someone even said the thing about the VMAs and The Hives.

]]> By: Homage http://idolator.com/389625/you-know-who-doesnt-suck-the-vines/comment-page-1#comment-569642 Homage Mon, 12 May 2008 09:19:51 +0000 7e126808eef3d24480767a309aceff9c#comment-569642 <p>I can't WAIT till the Vines set up a transcendental-meditation mecca in partnership with... David O Russell, maybe? That's a toughy.</p> I can’t WAIT till the Vines set up a transcendental-meditation mecca in partnership with… David O Russell, maybe? That’s a toughy.

]]> By: AquaLung http://idolator.com/389625/you-know-who-doesnt-suck-the-vines/comment-page-1#comment-569652 AquaLung Mon, 12 May 2008 08:58:45 +0000 7e126808eef3d24480767a309aceff9c#comment-569652 <p>The Vines were an okay pop-rock band with a promising debut album that got blown out of proportion by an early decade media hungry for the "Return of Rawk!" trend story (THE strokes! THE hives! THE vines!) that got written over and over and over.</p> <p>For their part, The Vines didn't help with horrible and dispassionate live performances, second only to their even more disappointing follow-ups.</p> <p>Most of the blame fell on Craig Nichols' Asperger's diagnosis, but that doesn't explain his bland work since.</p> <p>And I'm pretty sure The Vines have vowed to never tour again, which may actually help their cause.</p> The Vines were an okay pop-rock band with a promising debut album that got blown out of proportion by an early decade media hungry for the “Return of Rawk!” trend story (THE strokes! THE hives! THE vines!) that got written over and over and over.

For their part, The Vines didn’t help with horrible and dispassionate live performances, second only to their even more disappointing follow-ups.

Most of the blame fell on Craig Nichols’ Asperger’s diagnosis, but that doesn’t explain his bland work since.

And I’m pretty sure The Vines have vowed to never tour again, which may actually help their cause.

]]> By: TheRunningboard7 http://idolator.com/389625/you-know-who-doesnt-suck-the-vines/comment-page-1#comment-569662 TheRunningboard7 Mon, 12 May 2008 08:53:04 +0000 7e126808eef3d24480767a309aceff9c#comment-569662 <p>When I hear musicians, I do not expect them to live up to someone else, I just expect them not to repulse me. The Vines failed me, there.</p> <p>Of course I'm not one to understand the ebb and flow of music: 80s rock left rock inflated and over the top, but the solution everyone seemed to cling on to was Kurt Cobain and assimilating his ethos. Which to me said "what the world wants is to be mundane." Muddy boring music, muddy personalities, muddy tone... muddy.. banks of the wishkah.. It was a time of change, man! people heard that music and thought: I don't have to get a job! I can mumble and feel bad for myself.. by rocking out... to some 90 bpm jams.. about being sad... and stuff.. um..</p> <p>Yeah, I hope that frames my view of it all and anyone who may put out similar music. I bitch not to say I'm right on this one (as cannot be: opinions/assholes/etc.), but because I think a few more people felt the way I did than they care to admit. The bands that stuck out to me from the 90s were bands that sounded much clearer and interesting: Alice in Chains, STP.. um... STP.. RATM.. they just seemed to (musically only, of course) have their shit together.</p> When I hear musicians, I do not expect them to live up to someone else, I just expect them not to repulse me. The Vines failed me, there.

Of course I’m not one to understand the ebb and flow of music: 80s rock left rock inflated and over the top, but the solution everyone seemed to cling on to was Kurt Cobain and assimilating his ethos. Which to me said “what the world wants is to be mundane.” Muddy boring music, muddy personalities, muddy tone… muddy.. banks of the wishkah.. It was a time of change, man! people heard that music and thought: I don’t have to get a job! I can mumble and feel bad for myself.. by rocking out… to some 90 bpm jams.. about being sad… and stuff.. um..

Yeah, I hope that frames my view of it all and anyone who may put out similar music. I bitch not to say I’m right on this one (as cannot be: opinions/assholes/etc.), but because I think a few more people felt the way I did than they care to admit. The bands that stuck out to me from the 90s were bands that sounded much clearer and interesting: Alice in Chains, STP.. um… STP.. RATM.. they just seemed to (musically only, of course) have their shit together.

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