Bands on the run: Harlow vs. Flickerstick vs. Soulcracker

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they were dicks

― charleston charge (chaki), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, they did suck. I could always refer to the CD of theirs I bought for kicks, but I'd rather not back up my opinion of a sucky band by pointing out how they suck. Pretty good production, though.

― Eleventy-Twelve (Eleventy-Twelve), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I love the invasion of Flickerstick trolls on this thread!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 18 March 2005 01:35 (nineteen years ago) link

omg i'd forgotten about this

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Harlow sounds like a fat mans ass exploding...but they're nice

My favorite quote on this thread.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link

All those bands were so generic. Josh Dodes Band was kinda generically quirky, as befits a piano-centered band (closer to Steely dan than Ben Folds, so that's something, at least) Just a matter of which approach is in the neigborhood of yr. own alley. In my case, Harlow. But accroding to their ('01) link on vh1.com, the only recording they had available was via cash-only, to one of the musos, and she would presumably send a 2-song burn. (Josh Dodes Band had an album in Coconuts soon's they got flushed, with a VH-1 Bands On The Run sticker, even!)But still I wonder: wha happened to Harlow?

― don, Friday, 18 March 2005 06:31 (nineteen years ago) link

It was a genuinely interesting premise -- Reality Tv-wise -- I can't understand why they never did another season.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 March 2005 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, don't get me wrong, I followed it closely! As to why mo more, one reason (talk about generic, but still) might be uh 9/11. Knocking all the media for a loop, for a while, so whatever team put together the first season may have drifted or been taken apart, found other porjects, either way. Probably trickier (incl. more expensive) than som e of their other stuff. Which is now usually marked all the way down to (lower case in every sense) talking heads, at least some of whom would prob pay VH-1 to be slotted.

― don, Friday, 18 March 2005 06:52 (nineteen years ago) link

might be uh 9/11

Very good point. Still.....three and half years later, with shows like "PowerR Girls" and "the Ashlee Simpson Show" clogging up the airwaves, "Bands on the Run" seems like a positive Think Tank.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 March 2005 06:56 (nineteen years ago) link

This manner of show was co-opted by Ozzy & Sharon Osbourne, Inc. The winner, a generic group of metal-playing simpletons, were awarded a slot on the Ozzfest tour. The criterion for victory seemed to be best metaphysical kneeling and kissing of the knuckles of the Ozzy & the Sharon, or some facsimile thereof.

Since young Americans wishing to be rockers or celebrities naturally practice and accept scraping before royalty, the competition was fierce.

― George Smith, Friday, 18 March 2005 07:09 (nineteen years ago) link

"Simpletons" taking us all the way down to present day, yes.Open the dooor, Gomer!

― don, Saturday, 19 March 2005 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

Soulcracker - more like Buttcracker - because that's about as interesting as they are.

― Neanderthal, Friday, 31 March 2017 04:25 (seven years ago) link

two years pass...

thought they were a poor man's Hole

― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Thursday, 26 March 2020 01:37 (four years ago) link

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