Staind "goes country" and holy hell is it ever awful

it kinda freaks me out that i used to chew tobacco (kodiak) so gross :(

did that for a summer when i worked road construction, shameful part of my past

ha yeah that's exactly the type of job that's perfect for dipping

yeah dipping is kind of like putting soft, warm asphalt into your grill. i tried it once in college on a dare and wanted to kill myself, it was so bad.

Dipping should pretty much be relegated to junior high/high school.

Trust me, after 10 hours a day shoveling and spreading hot asphalt when it is 95+ degrees outside, even putting nasty shit in your mouth feels like a worthwhile distraction.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The only U.S. flag not captured or lost during George Armstrong Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn in southeastern Montana sold at auction Friday for $2.2 million.

The buyer was identified by the auction house Sotheby's in New York as an American private collector. Frayed, torn, and with possible bloodstains, the flag had been valued before its sale at up to $5 million.

Since 1895, the 7th U.S. Cavalry flag — known as a "guidon" for its swallow-tailed shape — had been the property of the Detroit Institute of Arts, which paid just $54 for it.

http://my.eimg.net/harvest_xml/NEWS/img/20101210/7f12bbcb-b555-49c9-9da0-b4068e025d6d.jpg

fyi: i got a pair of custer's underpants that i could let go for, like, a hundred bucks. possibly blood-stained.

shit stains or it isn't real

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lguvLMuQeI

Love this online discussion of dude's neck tattoo:

I think that phrase was used by our founding fathers talking to our government trying to take over, i remember watching somthing on the history channel about it. and i seen the snake picure also, lol

Maf54 (8:05:53 PM): and gram the one eyed snake
Maf54 (8:06:13 PM): grab

meanwhile, dude from staind grew up in springfield, mass which is more of a salsa/reggaeton kinda place these days.

Give him a few more years.

dude's pre-staind band will bring a tear to your eye:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WNlwk4wpuc&feature=related

Staind "goes reggaeton" and holy hell is it ever delightful! xxp

god street wine

this guy's whole career = when keeping it real goes wrong

hahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfD-E9hKCWM

A stunning return to form.

http://deadspin.com/world-series-national-anthem-botched-by-that-asshole-fr-1651071056

I hate his music with all my soul but that seemed like an honest mistake.

"shitty noise band Staind"

I'm waiting for the Staind / Merzbow collaborative 10".

i mean sure it's an honest mistake but that's the point. singing the national anthem at a major sporting event is the most scrutinized 2 minutes in any musical performer's career. not every version is gonna be great, but if you flub the words you get no sympathy, you knew people would be watching you like a hawk.

Particularly if you've made criticized someone else for messing up the lyrics.

Wtf I shouldn't post when I'm half asleep

Jurgen Van Gulchthro @swarthyvillain · Sep 22
KERRY: I love Hobostink, Mushroomdead, um, all those fellows
(boos)
BUSH: I own vinyl of Staind's rare EP "Pissed at Memories"
(cheers)

All I can say is I'm sorry and ask for the Nation's forgiveness. My nerves got the best of me and I am completely torn up about what happened. America is the greatest country in the world. The Star-Spangled Banner means so much to so many, including myself. I hope everyone can understand the intensity of the situation and my true intent of this performance. I hope that the Nation, Major League Baseball and the many fans of our national pastime can forgive me.

"Sure."

"I meant all of my music."

"Fuck you."

Does he mean Steeler Nation?

Oh, Staind can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we Staind at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright Stainds thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we Staind were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's Staind glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was Staind there.
Oh, say does that Staind-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the Staind?

http://www.soundslikenashville.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Aaron-Lewis-11.jpg

It has been a while, hasn't it.

Hadn’t heard news of this guy since around 2002, so wasn’t aware he’s a huge asshole: https://variety.com/2019/music/news/stainds-aaron-lewis-on-his-solo-country-act-and-political-correctness-1203188656/

well that wins the award for link i'll least likely click on for the year, congrats morrisp

Good call — it’s worse than you think.

morrisp, here is some more evidence of his assholery. I had forgotten about this thread so I posted it over in best Fred Durst shoutout in Staind's "Outside"

Good call — it’s worse than you think.

i just read it and this is overhyping it. he seems like a pretty dull & ignorant guy but we already knew that and the things he says here are pretty cookie-cutter.

I’m never prepared for “P-c-h-nt-s” bullshit

it's vile, for sure.

2014: "All I can say is I'm sorry and ask for the Nation's forgiveness."

Many great artists have had to make abject apologies to the country, although they were mainly in Stalinist Russia and it was Shostakovich and Prokofiev, not the bloke from Staind

And speaking of Russia...

https://www.nme.com/news/music/stainds-aaron-lewis-on-ukraine-maybe-we-should-listen-to-what-vladimir-putin-is-saying-3187630

i'll always have a soft spot for Staind because they were my first opening band at my first concert (Korn in 2000 lol)

there’s a lotta crazy stuff in this video but none of it comes close to the absolute insanity of having 4 monitor wedges for a solo acoustic show https://t.co/uFMEEgdHbD

— eve6 ha (@Eve6) March 21, 2022

he released a song where he tells an anecdote about yelling at his television.

something tells me he's pretty comfortable with the sound of his own voice.

He actually did manage to make at least one good country album(haven't heard any before or since, and recent videos have me in no hurry to catch up)---from Rolling Country 2016, with eventual curmudgeon pushback, forcing me to improve:

Aaron Lewis, Sinner: title and theme song doesn't give us the devilish details, nor does Lewis's voice (though common-man robust and expressive, like the production) project the shadow of dark thangs you shouldn't ask about (so he gets a bit upstaged when Willie Nelson shows up occasionally on this track, although with an somewhat messed-up voice, alarmingly enough after two good albums this year: can go fast at that age). And Lewis is unwise enough to ask for even more comparison with Chris Stapleton by covering "Whiskey and You", this soon after the original release, too. Oh well, this album turns out to be all about a self-destructive man, after all, and about how there's more than one way to figure the damage.
Not that he can't enjoy it, and doesn't have a sense of humor, like "That Ain't Country" is not the usual tiresome sermon, and he does have a point, complaining about "good times and happy endings", at least, I'd like to think, if they're fake, but he (the guy in the song anyway) does seem to be a stubborn cuss, who wants it to be all bar-breath miserabilism all the time--then again he gets so happy with his Christmas misery list ( of tropes as sung by his hee-ros) that it starts to sound (well kind of) like "Twistin' The Night Away."
Also, there is kind of a perhaps accidentally pre-emptive strike/parody/answer song (re xpost Maren Morris on country as church), "Sunday Every Saturday Night", in which "whiskey fills the cracks in my soul...the preacher calls "Last Round"...Jesus says, "Son, you'll be alright", for a little while, o' course. It is whiskey and wry, close enough (and not too close) to deadpan to get banned, so far.
There are several a little too crisply articulate and well-balanced for convincing desperation---again, considering his handy, familiar vocal skills and their limits---but others tilt toward chaos or inchoate just enough---- the guy in "Mama" laments being "pieces glued together" instead of scattered, and it unsettles me every time---he may be the guy (or a forerunner, John the Baptist) of the self-made, outward success in "Lost and Lonely", who is also a Richard Cory in the making, "an albatross around my own neck", hoping his wife (or maybe the other, previous woman) can hold everything together 'til he gets back, and they can "get back to where we started so long ago, before my demons took over"---a long-distance trucker with a speed habit (among other problems)? A serial killer? Surely something more like the former--"He sounded so normal, Officer."
"I Lost It All" is a very tuneful, graceful, soulful (not over- or undersung) blurt, and his 13-year-old daughter Zoe gets to rush the beat but not over- or undersing "Travelin' Soldier", yay.

"Lewis is unwise enough to ask for even more comparison with Chris Stapleton"
hmmmm. Almost stopped reading your post there.
― curmudgeon
He gets wiser pretty soon.
― dow,
Perhaps its me, but wasn't sure from your lyrics-heavy description whether you liked the record, or not
― curmudgeon
I liked the *sound* right away---he recently closed out some late night talk show, you know how they usually put the musical artists right at the end, and I was shuffling by, getting ready for bed, but he caught my attention, held it, and I perked up enough to go google his album title (no idea of the Staind connection, had completely forgotten about them. Liked the sound of the stream right away too: Lewis's voice (though common-man robust and expressive, like the production) quite tasty high generic neurotic grooves, for the most part. I've come to like a few tracks more, a few less than I did early on, but it's worth checking out (especially on free Spotify, but might buy a nice-priced copy for somewhat spooky traveling companion, to keep me on my toes). I was also glad to find something sustaining yet plainer than much of my recent subtext-laden listening fare, something with yer more basic ups and downs.
― dow