Poll of the Day > Whatever happened to Sum41?

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https://youtu.be/CMX2lPum_pg

people grew beyond age 11

DirtBasedSoap posted...

people grew beyond age 11

Jesus H lol.

People realized they were too generic even for mainstream.

I guess you could say their success didn't...

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They got absorbed by Blink182

Apparently they never really broke up, they still tour and stuff and released albums every few years but music saw an upheaval in the mid 2000's where rap became the dominant genre where prior rock had been dominant. You just don't hear much about rock bands since like 2006.

I actually went to high school with the woman who is married to the lead singer so I see random updates about that dudes personal life on social media sometimes. They both went sober within the last few years and I think shes currently pregnant with their second child. Pretty sure Sum 41 still tours and plays shows, but no one cares. Including me. Was never into them. Wish my one degree of separation to a formerly famous musician was someone way cooler than the dude from Sum 41 of all things

JigsawTDCII posted...

I actually went to high school with the woman who is married to the lead singer so I see random updates about that dudes personal life on social media sometimes. They both went sober within the last few years and I think shes currently pregnant with their second child. Pretty sure Sum 41 still tours and plays shows, but no one cares. Including me. Was never into them. Wish my one degree of separation to a formerly famous musician was someone way cooler than the dude from Sum 41 of all things

Yeah. It's not like you had Thanksgiving dinner with Eddie... sorry, Edward Van Halen at the same table. That's a totally different story.

BlackScythe0 posted...

You just don't hear much about rock bands since like 2006.

It's the same for every decade/generation, honestly. Some acts (and genres) survive and continue on, others die but remain in people's memory, but dozens upon dozens of acts simply fade away and are almost completely forgotten, until you hear one of their old songs on an oldies weekend on the radio and go "Oh yeah, that's right, they were a thing."

It's also the root of nostalgia. We generally remember all the best bands or our favorite bands, and remember a few terrible bands just for the novelty of it, but for the most part we tend to forget about all the lame and mediocre bands that flooded the airwaves in any given era. So we only remember the good parts and overromanticize it, while comparing it directly to the ever-present mediocrity of today.

Every generation does it. Every generation will continue to do it. That's just life.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's the same for every decade/generation, honestly. Some acts (and genres) survive and continue on, others die but remain in people's memory, but dozens upon dozens of acts simply fade away and are almost completely forgotten, until you hear one of their old songs on an oldies weekend on the radio and go "Oh yeah, that's right, they were a thing."

It's also the root of nostalgia. We generally remember all the best bands or our favorite bands, and remember a few terrible bands just for the novelty of it, but for the most part we tend to forget about all the lame and mediocre bands that flooded the airwaves in any given era. So we only remember the good parts and overromanticize it, while comparing it directly to the ever-present mediocrity of today.

Every generation does it. Every generation will continue to do it. That's just life.

Yea kinda? I mean just simply it's my reason for "Whatever happened to Sum41"

their songs were in a lot of american pie movies. At least they really really liked them

They got in too deep.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's the same for every decade/generation, honestly. Some acts (and genres) survive and continue on, others die but remain in people's memory, but dozens upon dozens of acts simply fade away and are almost completely forgotten, until you hear one of their old songs on an oldies weekend on the radio and go "Oh yeah, that's right, they were a thing."

It's also the root of nostalgia. We generally remember all the best bands or our favorite bands, and remember a few terrible bands just for the novelty of it, but for the most part we tend to forget about all the lame and mediocre bands that flooded the airwaves in any given era. So we only remember the good parts and overromanticize it, while comparing it directly to the ever-present mediocrity of today.

Every generation does it. Every generation will continue to do it. That's just life.

Thats deep. While we're at it. R.i P. Rich and Devin LFO

https://youtu.be/7nEdGVgRsV4

I still listen to In Too Deep sometimes

BlackScythe0 posted...

You just don't hear much about rock bands since like 2006.

2008 at the earliest, All Hope is Gone by Slipknot and it's singles were pretty big, Psychosocial and Dead Memories were huge songs that even were played on regular MTV among the like of Lady Gaga and whatever else was big at the time

I think you could argue Nightmare got A7X into the mainstream consciousness too, and Ghost seems to have made an impact on the mainstream for rock/metal (though I think that mostly has to do with their image/branding) but yeah, arguably 3 big bands in the last 15 or so years is pretty bad

idk wtf y'all doin but i hear about rock bands all the time

highly suspect and nothing more just released new albums too

13 Voices is a damn fine album, don't know what y'all are on about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2nwioKr3o0

We can debate back and forth about specific dates and stuff but I'll adamantly state that by 2010 rock collapsed. The video I link is a dude who used to be music journalist and has some interesting takes on the subject.

They became a casualty of society!!!

My buddy and I were talking about how much more musically interesting they are compared to Blink-182. I never got into Blink.

What the? Thats his wife?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/1/9/AADUYLAADzdj.jpg

Guess ya'll never knew about this
https://imgur.com/ffYZKCP

Damn thats a helluva lineup. Is it outdoor at the same spot of the las vegas shooting?

Storming through the party like my name was El Nio

Damn that opening line went hard

Ferarri619 posted...

Guess ya'll never knew about this
https://imgur.com/ffYZKCP

Fuck, might have to do Vegas next year at that time

I saw them and Simple Plan this summer, and they both sounded pretty good.