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[quote]WORDS FROM NICK:
Greetings friends.
im talkin about havin faith in your team. you can know they're gonna lose a game, but you still gotta have faith in them to pull throughJuicyJ wrote:Ugh...that's just being an ignorant/blind homer. If I remember correctly, you play fantasy and do pick'ems like I do.....do you always pick your team to win no matter what?$lmjimy311 wrote:unless you believe that your team is gonna win everygame...you arent a fan.
Come on....I bleed Burgundy & Gold but there are certain games in the season where you just know that you'll come up short. I believe my team HAS A CHANCE at winning every game but you have to be realistic sometimes and not let your fandom skew your judgement~
This is true in the case of things like sports where there is a black and white difference between winning and losing. There is no distinct "winning" or "losing" in the field of creativity. Negativity towards 311 is not a clear parallel to negativity towards a sports team that doesn't win.JuicyJ wrote:Do you follow any sports? Do you have a favorite team? If so, how do you feel/react when your team loses games they should have won? You'll probably say things like...wbrycew wrote:I'm sorry guys. I thought this was a 311 fan board. Clearly I'm mistaken.
"There's absolutely NO excuse why _________ shouldn't be winning with all those talented players"
(or in this case, musicians)
311 is like the Washington Redskins or several other franchises....they have a history/tradition of being a winning team & have trophies/rings to prove it. However, they are currently a losing team & definitely not making it happen out there.....
Hopefully this "Uplifter" album will turn around the "311 franchise" and make them a contender again~
I tried. The data isn't there. It's a low-res web photo. Marcello Ambriz (the photographer) probably has the source RAW image which could possibly yield actual results.prsand311 wrote:Does anyone have any Photoshop/ zooming skills? If so, we may be able to get some song titles.
http://www.311.com/Picture/PNUT-AT-THE- ... 0700A6F0F7" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
You see the Dry erase board in the background, it has song names on there. I tried zooming in but it was very blurry. There are a couple other pics on the official site that may work.
I don't think they are done....I still love, listen to, and support 311. Going back to the sports analogy real quick (sorry), you judge a team based on their last/most recent season. 311's last season was DTOM and it was a losing one.....even the band wasn't happy with where they went on DTOM. They ended up taking an "indefinite hiatus" and rather than hyping up this new album like they did with DTOM, they kept quiet & went to work.wbrycew wrote:We're talking about a band, and everybody on this board thinking that they're "losing" is what I'm tired of. People thinking that they're done is a matter of opinion (and highly debatable opinion at that)
And you qualified to make such a judgement? I can understand people not liking a bands last few albums but to make assertions like that is just stupid.Nate wrote:They've pretty much exhausted all of their creativity...and that was about a decade ago.
Freeze Time wrote:And you qualified to make such a judgement? I can understand people not liking a bands last few albums but to make assertions like that is just stupid.Nate wrote:They've pretty much exhausted all of their creativity...and that was about a decade ago.
I had a buddy in middle school we called AP (short for ass pumper). We just call him the Tooth, now.Samsupnthismothafuka wrote:anyone ever call anal sex "asspumping"
I think you're misunderstanding this situation. 311's music doesn't sound outdated. If anything, there old records are too familiar, rather than sounding old. After appreciating the subtle subtleties for so long, there is nothing new to enjoy. There is only the same sounds you've enjoyed for a while, and unfortunately, those sounds carry a lot of memories from a long span of time. It's not so much that I don't like 311 anymore, it's that I'm not at a point in my life where I need to be reliving my past. There's too many new experiences that allow me to grow into a better (hopefully) person. I will always love the classics, and Transistor will forever rest easily in my top 3 favorite albums of all time, but there new material, thus far, appeals to that same person that fell in love with 311 nearly 13 years ago (whoa).$nipe wrote:This Uplifter discussion is a bit complicated. I mean, most of you don't like 311 anymore because it sounds outdated. Think about it, you don't listen to their albums anymore, because all of your music is way different; yet you still get annoyed if they pull out a sound different than their old style. So if they pull out another Blue Album, would you still enjoy it?
You're right, not much did improve after demos. How can I complain? I have invested a lot of time and money into the success of this band. If you buy something and it does not perform the way you want it to, then you bitch about it and return said band from where you bought them.rAzzeL wrote:only reason dtom failed was because we all heard nearly the entire album before it came out, and when it did... not much improvement from the demos?>~
i never post, but i see a lot of bitchin goin on hard.
uplifter will be better than everything you hear on the radio and mtv by a longshot. Even if it isn't 311's best... how can u complain?
I got a chuckle out of that.Jorge wrote:subtle subtleties