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Post by Gecko on Jun 14, 2017 13:16:55 GMT -5
does anyone remember which Attitude Era PPV it was where there was a promo with a song by System of a Down? I think I remember JR or King even shouting the band out afterward on commentary, I just can't remember which show it was or what it was a promo for. You mentioning that made me remember that they used a couple of Fear Factory songs around that time as well. Turns out it wasn't just around that time, it was exactly that time. Unforgiven 99 promo
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Post by RedSmile on Jun 14, 2017 14:44:51 GMT -5
There's also that Ozzy Osbourne, guy.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2017 16:42:02 GMT -5
They're nowhere near the weirdest, IMO. I'm glad this thread is here, though. I was a HUGE fan during my teenage years and I still enjoy every album.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jun 14, 2017 18:35:08 GMT -5
That's a funny way to spell shittiest.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2017 19:52:43 GMT -5
Insane Clown Posse.
And before people say they are just an underground thing, remember they have had albums in the Billboard Top 10 and got a lot of radio and MTV play in the late 90's.
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Post by Malibu Stacy on Jun 14, 2017 20:12:57 GMT -5
As long as Manson lives, he'll be the weirdest guy to make it big. And one of the smartest in terms of knowing exactly what buttons to push and when to do it. Which is exactly why I don't think he really fits the definition of weird. He's just a long-lasting, well marketed addition to goth shock rock genre. Big, yes. Weird, no.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jun 14, 2017 20:19:13 GMT -5
David Bowie anyone? Prince? Both were groundbreaking for their artistic talent but their image was definitely gender bending for their day. Marilyn Manson as well, although I wouldn't consider him on the musical level of the aforementioned two. And whomever said Tool, ya, no. I love that band but the only weird element is Maynard James Keenan. Guy is his own form of showman and he's brilliant. But the rest of the band are ordinary dudes. And while Prince and Bowie's backing musicians were probably "normal" too, they weren't part of the creative driving force of the music they played. Tool's sound is comprised of four guys making it. You wouldn't have Tool if any one of them wasn't contributing for Tool it isn't that they're weird visually, it's that the play a bizarre form of prog/post-metal that sounds nothing like anything mainstream and they have some of the trippiest music videos known to man. and yet somehow they're massive.
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Post by ERON on Jun 14, 2017 20:40:16 GMT -5
Depending on how you define "hit it big" an argument could be made for Devo.
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Post by mizerable on Jun 14, 2017 21:00:22 GMT -5
Faith No More is weirder in my opinion. I'm sure there's plenty of weirder acts that made it big. Also depending on what were defining as big I wouldn't say Faith No More got mainstream for their more experimental stuff since The Real Thing was mostly straight forward. While Angel Dust was a masterpiece, it didn't live up mainstream at the time and their popularity slipped. And I say that as a FNM fan.
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Jun 14, 2017 22:07:33 GMT -5
The Butthole Surfers should probably be in contention for the title.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Jun 14, 2017 22:37:28 GMT -5
I mean they weren't really that weird...
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Post by Manute Bol on Jun 14, 2017 22:53:32 GMT -5
The Butthole Surfers should probably be in contention for the title. Stole my answer.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Jun 14, 2017 22:56:37 GMT -5
I find it much weirder in retrospect that big band/swing music was briefly a thing again in the late 90's.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Jun 14, 2017 22:58:04 GMT -5
I find it much weirder in retrospect that big band/swing music was briefly a thing again in the late 90's. Huh, I never thought about that until now. Ska was a very brief thing that came and went. Wonder why?
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Post by Knailsic From Now On on Jun 14, 2017 22:59:53 GMT -5
First we really need to define "big". I love Zappa but he only had 2 Top 40 hits and 1 top 10 album. Nothing to sneeze at but not the most impressive discography sales wise.
Bowie and Prince are definitely up there, if not the top 2.
Going with artists I haven't seen named in this thread
-Kanye, no mainstream rapper could do something like MBDTF and then Yeezus and then TLOP. Even if he's not weird musically, personally the guy is in the top 10. -Björk, over 20 million records sold with almost each album belonging to a different genre -Beatles, people tend to forget they had some pretty weird shit.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Jun 14, 2017 23:06:00 GMT -5
I find it much weirder in retrospect that big band/swing music was briefly a thing again in the late 90's. Huh, I never thought about that until now. Ska was a very brief thing that came and went. Wonder why? My theory was that post-Cobain the big labels were just throwing anything out to see if it stuck.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Jun 14, 2017 23:18:22 GMT -5
Well, I don't know about sales, but Tom Waits is in the Hall of Fame and seems to be pretty much universally respected.
His material ranges from "Ol''55" "Downtown Train," and "Jersey Girl," to "The Earth Died Screaming," "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me Today," and "What's He Building In There?"
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Post by chazraps on Jun 14, 2017 23:41:19 GMT -5
1999 was like the one time that System of a Down's music wouldn't be considered weird, so for them I think it was the stars alligning. Their contemporaries were Static-X, the aforementioned Rammstein, The Prodigy, Bif Naked, Mindless Self Indulgence, Slipknot, Powerman 5000, Harvey Danger and Coal Chamber. There was A LOT the music industry was letting fly in 1999.
Sort of like the super weird bands that were on major labels and developed massive cult followings in the early 90s like Ween and Primus.
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Post by BrodietheSlayer on Jun 14, 2017 23:57:29 GMT -5
A new contender enters the arena....
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2017 23:59:04 GMT -5
1999 was like the one time that System of a Down's music wouldn't be considered weird, so for them I think it was the stars alligning. Their contemporaries were Static-X, the aforementioned Rammstein, The Prodigy, Bif Naked, Mindless Self Indulgence, Slipknot, Powerman 5000, Harvey Danger and Coal Chamber. There was A LOT the music industry was letting fly in 1999. Sort of like the super weird bands that were on major labels and developed massive cult followings in the early 90s like Ween and Primus. Yeah when some of the biggest artists at the time were KoRn, Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock & Eminem the late 90s were an interesting time to be alive.
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