From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V6 #79 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Sunday, July 4 2004 Volume 06 : Number 079 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: OV: Re: oppositeview-digest V6 #73 [doug brown Subject: Re: OV: Re: oppositeview-digest V6 #73 It was funny to read this. I'm still listening to Evanescence myself. I'm impressed that they could stick out from the buzillion bands trying to do the same kind of music and not coming close. I hope they can keep it up. Rooney is pretty good too despite the hordes of 14 year old girls screaming at them heh. Pop songwriters, I remember those. I've seen them 3 times now and got to hear a bunch of their new songs last month that'll be on the next album - great stuff. And New Found Glory. Another band I dismissed as a just another Greenday spinoff. Then I saw them live with Good Charlotte haha. NFG had their mediocre moments but when they got in the groove - wow! Can't say I like their new CD as much as the previous ones though. But still my favorite CD of the moment is the remastered Yessongs I just got. It's sad that I'd rather listen to a 30 year old live CD than most of the new stuff but really it's not because I'm old - most music just sucks these days. Elizabeth Osborne wrote: Evanescence has been around for quite a while here. I finally broke down and bought their CD for my daughter for Christmas and I was surprised at how much I liked it. Amy Lee, their lead singer, is from Arkansas, of all places. Their guitarist and co-founder, Ben Moody, recently left the band, though, so I do not know how the next round with them will be. He was replaced by a guitarist formerly of the band Cold. There are actually several new bands out that my kids like that I am finding myself enjoying as well. My son loves Newfound Glory and my daughter is currently listening to Maroon Five, Velvet Revolver, Modest Mouse, and the Beastie Boys, as well as those cuties Rooney and Bowling for Soup. I took her to see Sum 41 about a year ago and they were great live. Nothing like a group of young punks that can play their own instruments, rock, and sound even better live then on their CD's. There is a local radio station here in Springfield which, although they play the same rotation over and over, they play songs by Switchfoot, Hoobastank, Dashboard Confessional, the Beasties, Velvet Revolver, STP, Rage Against the Machine, old Nirvana, Travis, Jet...etc. I still consider myself a music snob, but I think as I get older, I am becoming either more open-minded or just lazy. ;) - -Doug . Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V6 #79 *********************************