[Glice]

Originally Posted by Glice

Not everyone has something to contradict everything.

Prick.

[Glice]

Originally Posted by Glice

Prick.

Cunt off, twatwaste.

[batreleaser]

hahaha

[HECKLER SPRAY]

ah ah ha ah !!!

A good super group : Audioslave ?
No, I'm kiddin'.

[pokkeherrie]

All super groups suck.


The end.

[HECKLER SPRAY]

Crosby, Stills and Nash ?

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

ohh man, the music i like doesn't count because millions of people don't like it!!!!

OHH MY GAWD WHAT AM I GONNA DU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It counts MORE. That's the indie way.

but it is NOT a supergroup.

[acdc518]

Cream is considered a supergroup isn't it?
I thought I remembered them being referred to as one

[drrrtyboots]

In reference to that Wu-Tang thread, the Wu are super super group.

[o'connor]

GWAR!




















kidding.

[super_charger]

Originally Posted by batreleaser

Yona Kit: Jim O'Rourke, KK Null, Darin Gray of the Dazzling Killmen, and Thymme Jones of Cheer Accident. These guys were basically like a skin graft all star team, if anyone hasnt heard them i suggest they do so right away, really agressive, super intricate math rock.

I forgot to add that this band is fuckin brilliant.

[Everyneurotic]

gwar is one of the best most unrecognized bands around.

and i'm not kidding.

[pbradley]

Originally Posted by pokkeherrie

All super groups suck.


The end.

That's pretty much what I keep thinking.

[Dead-Air]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

if you are just dudes in other bands that formed a new band, that is just a BAND, not a supergroup.

a suprgroup is so titled because, due to the supposed worth of the individual famous artists involved, everyone expects something transcendent from the supergroup, something even greater than the sum of their parts.

kurt cobain's clothes are more "famous" than King Buzzo. hell, courtney love is more famous than everyone in fatomas put together.

Fame is NOT relative. the more people know you the more famous you are. it is as simple as that, and easily quantifiable.

there ahve been a lot of supergroups that amounted to flat out shit.

one that did not, and I am not a fan of eitrher the or their previous bands, is crosby stills and Nash (and later young, whom I do admire and listen to).
crosby was in The Byrds
Stephen Stills was in Traffic
Grahma Nash was in The Hollies
(neil Young was also in Buffalo Springfield)


The backbeat band is as close to an indie/alternative supergroup as there ever has been, with key members from REM, Sonic Youth, Afghan Whigs, Soul Asylum.



if the criteria were otherwise then any band is a supergroup, since most musicians have been in countless previous bands before they hit it big.

I sort of agree except the people in the bands don't have to be famous themselves, just the bands they are from (I'm just basing this on how I've seen the stupid term used in the media to begin with). The ultimate example is Asia who were tauted as the "first supergroup of the '80s". Nobody in that band was a household name, they just played in top-selling FM prog rock groups. Based upon that successful marketing and some stupid ass videos of a gymnast on MTV they got a huge string of hits with songs that nobody in their right mind would have listened to if it weren't for the "suprergroup" label.

So yeah, real supergroups tend to suck by definition. I do think there is an indie scene equivalent, like the Halo Benders when you have two demi-famous guys getting together and performing caricatures of themselves. I even like the results in that instance. Obviously it isn't a bound for the arenas real supergroup, but in their little world it has an instant popularity quotient.

The ultimate "alternative" real supergroup would be Temple of the Dog, who I would rather not even know existed.

[Death & the Maiden]

Originally Posted by acdc518

Cream is considered a supergroup isn't it?
I thought I remembered them being referred to as one

I'm pretty sure they're a supergroup.

[Rob Instigator]

I forgot about the horrid temple of the dog!

[LittlePuppetBoy]

Mudhoney
Fugazi

[SonicBebs]

The Good The Bad and The Queen didn't suck completley
Blur, The Clash, The Verve and that drummer (who is fuckingnamazing idontcarewhatyousay)

there. Supergroup. Dont suck completley

[Rob Instigator]

how is mudhoney a supergroup?

[Glice]

Originally Posted by SonicBebs

The Good The Bad and The Queen didn't suck completley
Blur, The Clash, The Verve and that drummer (who is fuckingnamazing idontcarewhatyousay)

there. Supergroup. Dont suck completley

Tony Allen [Fela Kuti], and yes! You're entirely right.

*Edit - except it's possible that Blur & the Verve are only supermassive in the UK, and Fela only well-known to Afro-heads.