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18 July 2005

Q: How badly can a rock band sell out? A: This badly.

post by: veedubya at: 09:16 | 20 comments

oh don't make me start
i'm just glad i didn't associate ten years ago

posted by ethylene 18 July | 09:19

They're showing it on CBS here..it's not good.

posted by amberglow 18 July | 09:21

No, not good. I watched it last week and was roundly embarrassed for all involved.

posted by iconomy 18 July | 09:22

All of the contestants are young and foxy, though. The men with just the right amount of stubble, the women with just the right amount of hair.

posted by omiewise 18 July | 09:34

I think this is even sadder than selling out. It's one last grasp at straws before they begin the summer county fair circuit ("...stick around for Peoria's best Molly Hatchet tribute band Gator Country, but first, put your hands together for INXS!").

posted by Slack-a-gogo 18 July | 09:36

Boy is that ever crass.

posted by ITheCosmos 18 July | 09:44

Dave Navarro looks more and more like an end-of-the-pier hypnotist every day.

Personally I don't have much to say about INXS - I think they're better remembered for Hutchence than for any of their records. Suicide Blonde anyone?

posted by dodgygeezer 18 July | 09:53

"don't change a thing for me--"

posted by ethylene 18 July | 09:55

someone smack some sense into that navarro
he becomes more horrifying by the minute

posted by ethylene 18 July | 09:57

You know if Hutchence had survived he'd now be fronting The Doors instead of Ian Astbury.

How's that for parallel universe style irony?

posted by dodgygeezer 18 July | 10:01

oh, man, i almost forgot about ian
damn you
i have a cult/metallica story for another time

posted by ethylene 18 July | 10:03

There's no such thing as selling out.

posted by kenko 18 July | 10:55

INXS played pop music. Or new wave. They weren't a rock band in the first place.

And since pop is all about selling, selling out is the goal.

Kudos to them for strapping wheels to a dead horse.

posted by Hugh Janus 18 July | 11:16

I used to love INXS. I still like a lot of their songs. But the band was over the moment Hutchence offed himself. This is sad.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 18 July | 11:24

I fell in love with Mr. Navarro when he rocked the socks off of One Hot Minute. Then I found out he was that creepy dude from Jane's Addiction...

posted by muddgirl 18 July | 12:39

This is one of the most excruciating things I've read about in a long time, and I didn't even like INXS in the first place.

I'm just too sensitive for this world.

posted by nylon 18 July | 13:07

I'm just amazed that so many people think that winning a contest to be lead vocalist in a washed-up band is some kind of coup.

Also, INXS were OK at what they did, but too much of the world seems to think that all rock and roll means is music with guitars and wearing leather.

posted by jonmc 18 July | 13:22

All I know is, rock'n'roll ain't noise pollution.

posted by Hugh Janus 18 July | 15:03

holy shed!

posted by dabitch 18 July | 15:59

too much of the world seems to think that all rock and roll means is music with guitars and wearing leather

Yeah! You gotta have a well practiced sneer too!

posted by PinkStainlessTail 18 July | 21:41

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