Thanks subby! That's awesome!

No, actually you get a giant pile of overratedness.

All signs point to train wreck.

I like the Cult, but the rest of that list is puke.

mark mcgrath? from SUGAR RAY?

that right there eliminates any possible awesomeness, no matter who showed up.

What happens when you are tormented by a summer long reality series? Said series purpose was to create a front man for a group of people that were kicked out of good bands, or were from bands that fell apart. Then what happens when a skunk boy looking goth leprechaun wins and they promise to have an album out, oh say, two and a half years ago?

El Freak: No, actually you get a giant pile of overratedness.

This. THE 80s ARE DEAD.

What happens when you put Slash, Duff and Matt from Guns n Roses, Dave Navarro, Tommy Lee, two of the Sex Pistols, two of The Cult, one singer from Linkin Park and Mark McGrath on stage at The Roxy?

Well ideally, the rest would cannibalize McGrath and the singer from Linkin Park, on stage. Then the Roxy will stop watering down their booze. Then Tommy Lee catches fire, which spreads to Duff's hair. But, that's just my ideal night at the Roxy.

THE Mark McGrath?

OH BOY!!!!!!11

lucyfer: mark mcgrath? from SUGAR RAY?

that right there eliminates any possible awesomeness, no matter who showed up.

Aw, that's cute. You don't know anything about music beyond what's on the radio.

You let Clear Channel control your music exploration.

lucyfer: mark mcgrath? from SUGAR RAY?

that right there eliminates any possible awesomeness, no matter who showed up.

This.. Absolutely.. Unequivocably

I came here to say just that

Unright:Aw, that's cute. You don't know anything about music beyond what's on the radio.

You let Clear Channel control your music exploration.

you cant be serious. i comment on the fact that the lead singer from sugar ray was with some other assholes and you try to biatch slap me with your own "rock snobbery"? your comment makes me think that you heard one sonic youth album and you now think you are "beyond" anything thats top 40. or are you just a HUGE linkin park fan and your feelings are hurt?

/DIAF

lucyfer: you cant be serious. i comment on the fact that the lead singer from sugar ray was with some other assholes and you try to biatch slap me with your own "rock snobbery"? your comment makes me think that you heard one sonic youth album and you now think you are "beyond" anything thats top 40. or are you just a HUGE linkin park fan and your feelings are hurt?

No, not LP. Go check out Sugar Ray's first album. You're a tool because all you've heard is the radio stuff. You're judging a band without knowing their catalog.

And I've spent 13 years working in music stores. So my hipster cred it greater than yours.

/DIAF

Way to overuse a cliche while you're at it.

Unright: You're judging a band without knowing their catalog.

I hated "Fly" when it came out because it was on the radio all farking day long...

...But "RPM" is a great rock song.

Unright: No, not LP. Go check out Sugar Ray's first album. You're a tool because all you've heard is the radio stuff. You're judging a band without knowing their catalog.

And I've spent 13 years working in music stores. So my hipster cred it greater than yours.

soooo you are a sugar ray fan! now i know why you hurt. you are talking about the sugar ray album with "mean machine" on it? and nicole eggert on the cover? you arent the first person to work in a music store. the fact that you spent 13 years in one just means you have no higher level career skills. im pretty sure my "hipster cred" can run circles around yours. i worked in a music store for 8 years. big f'ing deal.

Way to overuse a cliche while you're at it.

you do know you are on fark, right?

lucyfer: soooo you are a sugar ray fan! now i know why you hurt. you are talking about the sugar ray album with "mean machine" on it? and nicole eggert on the cover?

I wouldn't call myself a "fan" of Sugar Ray. But McGrath has the rock chops to hang out with the others listed in the headline.

you arent the first person to work in a music store. the fact that you spent 13 years in one just means you have no higher level career skills. im pretty sure my "hipster cred" can run circles around yours. i worked in a music store for 8 years. big f'ing deal.

Then calm down Francis. I'd have hoped by know you'd realize that it's not super-important for everyone to have the save taste in music that you do.

Usually I just find McGrath to be one of those people that casual music listeners profess a huge dislike for even though they've typically only heard a song or two on insta-radio repeat.

I singled you out because you said that anything involving McGrath instantly negates any potential "Awesomness". Which generally sounds like what a hyper 15 year-old would say because he has to tolerate the CC radio station playing "Every Morning" between tracks of Staind and Creed.

Ladies, please....you're both equally lame for arguing about music over the internet on a saturday

I'm gonna give Unright the win on this one.

McGrath's actually a pretty decent guy at heart. After "Fly" he did fully sign on to the celebrity machinery, and he was fully aware that he was destroying a part of his soul. I think he felt fairly conflicted about it; his life was a pretty big train wreck for a while.


As for the videos: "Highway to Hell" is proof that, when it comes to big, dumb, fun rock, no one delivers nearly as consistently as AC/DC.

"Bodies": That version pretty much sucked. They left out the guitar intro, and the "fark this, fark that" section.

Tony Stark: Ladies, please....you're both equally lame for arguing about music over the internet on a saturday

arguing on the internet about anything ever is always lame.

Heffaloo: I'm gonna give Unright the win on this one.

but...but... he started it!

and even though i know and have heard sugar ray's first album, mark mcgrath is still lame.

/end

Heffaloo: I'm gonna give Unright the win on this one.

Sweet. Where do I cash in?

lucyfer: but...but... he started it!

and even though i know and have heard sugar ray's first album, mark mcgrath is still lame.

Meh. "Awesomeness" is subjective. But if G'n'R, The Cult, Sex Pistols, et al. have no problem rocking out with McGrath, then what can you do?

Tony Stark: Ladies, please....you're both equally lame for arguing about music over the internet on a saturday

Shouldn't you be busy being a movie theater virgin all weekend?

yeah... but would anyone complaining really not want to be there??

And Mark isn't that bad. but sugar ray isn't exactly on repeat

Damn. Just watched that Paradise City video in the link and that KICKED ASS. Thanks submitter.

Slash, Duff and Matt from Guns n Roses, Dave Navarro, Tommy Lee, two of the Sex Pistols, two of The Cult, one singer from Linkin Park and Mark McGrath = "Rock & Roll"

You know what, it doesn't matter WHO else was on that stage....watching Slash do the riff to Paradise City made my heart skip a couple beats.

ZOMG!!!1


i'm on posting on fark.com on a saturday evening just like everyone else here, but i am way better than them all!

this is exemplified by my undoubtedly superior taste in music.

______ sucks!

____ is overrated!

______ is a trainwreck!

______ is puke!

THIS.

look at how cool i am!

i'm gonna come in here just to trash things.

//

i am better than you! my music tastes are more esoteric!

i like nothing that a single person in the world besides me has ever seen, heard, touched, or known in any way. i win.

anything else?

EPIC FAIL. THIS.

COSIGN

THIS.

submitter: What happens when you put Slash, Duff and Matt from Guns n Roses, Dave Navarro, Tommy Lee, two of the Sex Pistols, two of The Cult, one singer from Linkin Park and Mark McGrath on stage at The Roxy? Awesomeness

Really, subby. This word, etc.

Steve Jones' enormity was worth the click.

galactus5000: submitter: What happens when you put Slash, Duff and Matt from Guns n Roses, Dave Navarro, Tommy Lee, two of the Sex Pistols, two of The Cult, one singer from Linkin Park and Mark McGrath on stage at The Roxy? Awesomeness

Really, subby. This word, etc.

what point are you trying to make? i'm dumb, i don't get it...

/not subby

FiascoSauce: anything else?



Ja.

Barnacles!: Damn. Just watched that Paradise City video in the link and that KICKED ASS. Thanks submitter.

Me: You're welcome. It's all about Slash's solo

galactus5000: submitter: What happens when you put Slash, Duff and Matt from Guns n Roses, Dave Navarro, Tommy Lee, two of the Sex Pistols, two of The Cult, one singer from Linkin Park and Mark McGrath on stage at The Roxy? Awesomeness

Really, subby. This word, etc.

FiascoSauce: galactus5000: submitter: What happens when you put Slash, Duff and Matt from Guns n Roses, Dave Navarro, Tommy Lee, two of the Sex Pistols, two of The Cult, one singer from Linkin Park and Mark McGrath on stage at The Roxy? Awesomeness

Really, subby. This word, etc.

what point are you trying to make? i'm dumb, i don't get it...

/not subby

Me: I don't get it either... and not cause im dumb.

lucyfer: mark mcgrath? from SUGAR RAY?

He's actually a good singer, funny to think it started out as a metal band.

liberate1: Me: I don't get it either... and not cause im dumb.

This word, I don't think it means what you think it means.

That applied to the use of awesomeness in the headline.

I disagree with your deductions, submitter, and heartily abuse you for such poor choice in music. Now I will return to listening to what-ever-it-is I listen to.

when i see a picture of Tommy Lee smoking a cigarette through his nose and a bunch of rock videos, thats what i mean by awesomeness

Sounds like Slash is the only one who had his guitar plugged in.

/prolly for the better

lucyfer: mark mcgrath? from SUGAR RAY?

No silly, he's the co-host of Extra.

Who's Sugar Ray?

Was this event a round-table discussion on drug addiction, alcoholism, and sexually transmitted diseases?

And I said it before, Chester Bennington is a gifted vocalist. It's a shame that his talents are normally reserved for playing to 15 year olds.

Hmm, VR just split up and Axl is still busy releasing Chinese Democracy. I wonder if they've ever considered asking him? Linkin Park can't last forever (we can only hope).

Faux Shizzle: Who's Sugar Ray?

You must be waiting a LONG time for your tax-relief stimulus root-beer money check.

thamike: You must be waiting a LONG time for your tax-relief stimulus root-beer money check.

Heh, I thought it was a funny, if not obvious troll but I didn't honestly expect anyone to bite...

(And sadly I am old enough to recall when most of the on stage members still had relevant music careers).

Faux Shizzle: Heh, I thought it was a funny, if not obvious troll but I didn't honestly expect anyone to bite...

Yeah I got it, man.

Barnacles!: Damn. Just watched that Paradise City video in the link and that KICKED ASS. Thanks submitter.

This hereby is seconded (since I can't bring myself to use the fark cliche). I thought it rocked liked a motherfarker.

I love not being a music snob. I like all kinds of music no matter how popular or obscure it is or how much fark.com people hate it. In fact, it seems the more the music snobs of fark hate it, the more I like it.

Alot of Mark McGrath bashing in this thread.

Clearly none of the bashers have heard Mean Machine.

WhyteRaven74: This word, I don't think it means what you think it means.

That applied to the use of awesomeness in the headline.

Said the tranny, just because its not new order, disco, or techno doesnt mean it cant be awesome, too bad rock is dead now.

steamingpile: rock is dead now.

Long Live Rock!

dlpriest: Alot of Mark McGrath bashing in this thread.

Clearly none of the bashers have heard Mean Machine.


I have. It probably won't give him the credit you apparently think he deserves...

I don't know from Sugar Ray. But, you know, after watching that Mean Machine video: Velvet Revolver frontman Mark McGrath?

In regards to Mark McGrath:
The guy made, according to his defenders here, one good album (an assertion that I would normally question, but I'm feeling generous so I'll let you have it) almost 15 years ago and has spent the rest of his career selling his soul for a buck and clawing his way to C-list celebrity status culminating in a co-hosting gig on "Extra" and he doesn't suck? Seriously people, if your standards are this low you might as well get yourselves some Clay Aiken albums and a lobotomy.

Camp Freddy played my company's Christmas party a couple of years back. Great times. They're a hell of party band!

lucyfer: mark mcgrath? from SUGAR RAY?

You mean, Sugar GAY.

He apparently gets really, really upset if you say that. Sugar Gay, is the band he was lead singer of. Sugar GAY.

/no offense to gay people
/except Mark McGrath