Finally, An Excuse To Discuss Rock Star: INXS

it took me a while to realize i needed to turn my head a little.

damnit.

Posted by: anon at 09/08/05 4:21 PM | Reply
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eww, that stupid thing... I had a friend that loved it with a passionate desire (desirable passion?), silly little asian!

Posted by: thejc at 09/08/05 4:34 PM | Reply
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yeah, i get it now.
maybe i will...

Posted by: hubba at 09/08/05 4:42 PM | Reply
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The irony of it all is that the wearer of this clever shirt, JD, is fucking himself really, really hard by appearing on this train wreck of a show for a band that no one could care less about. Seriously dude, if a bands former lead singer dies jerking off, there is NO FUTURE for the band, and you are better off going back to serving me mochas with a scowl on your face and a headshot in your back pocket.

Posted by: david brent at 09/08/05 4:44 PM | Reply
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yep, amen to that comment.....

Posted by: yep at 09/08/05 4:49 PM | Reply
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hah....

Posted by: brandy at 09/08/05 6:18 PM | Reply
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i actually think the last 4 singers in are quite good. but maybe that's just me.

Posted by: char at 09/08/05 7:29 PM | Reply
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I agree with you char... I enjoy watching the program.

Posted by: Courtney at 09/08/05 7:41 PM | Reply
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ok you suckered me in..... i do think Marty has some serious talent, as well as Susie........

Posted by: d at 09/08/05 8:43 PM | Reply
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahah! I just got it. That is really not very funny. I wonder if he realises what it says. Maybe he thought the chinese writing looked cool. Who cares?

Posted by: BS at 09/08/05 9:22 PM | Reply
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There is some kind of tracking device around his neck. 'Splains why he starts beeping whenever he gets within twenty feet of a microphone.

Posted by: loveanddeath at 09/08/05 9:39 PM | Reply
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i like the shirt. anyone know where i can get it?

Posted by: gofuckyourself at 09/09/05 1:51 AM | Reply
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They had some really goos songs but let's face it, Michael Hutchence was INXS.
Having said that, I think the last 4 are talented. I like that they're older and have all been playing clubs for years and not 17 yr olds

Posted by: Rina at 09/09/05 9:29 AM | Reply
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The better version of that shirt is the the one that says "Ancient Hebrew Proverb" and it's written like Hebrew letters.

That being said, I think it's weird if a girl wins the contest. Bands don't change the sex of their lead singers, ya know? I mean, Weezer with a girl singer would not make any sense. Or would it...

Posted by: andrew at 09/09/05 10:27 AM | Reply
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Just yesterday, I was thinking of Kelly Clarkson (as I'm sometimes wont to do), and I thought of the possibility of a new rock cliche. The reverse sell-out. Where you start out as commercial and *then* get more interesting. As a paradigm, this may be more legit than the classic sell-out, y'know?

Posted by: janine at 09/09/05 10:35 AM | Reply
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Andrew makes a great point, one that I've been thinking about for some time now. It was a very PC move on the network's part to include both genders, but a woman singing INXS' past catalog? It would be bad--I can't see the members of the band looking past it.

Not that women can't lead rock groups (Pretenders, Big Brother and the Holding Co. come to mind), but, I mean, come on, there's a certain unwritten law in rock music that an attractive (to the point of almost being feminized) but cocksure male is the logical choice to lead the group (Robert Plant, Mick Jagger, Michael Hutchence, etc.).

Posted by: marathonpacks at 09/09/05 12:00 PM | Reply
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Janine: Radiohead and Beck are both great examples of the reverse-sell-out.

Posted by: Tim at 09/09/05 12:58 PM | Reply
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Totally, I forgot what they were once like.

Posted by: janine at 09/09/05 1:24 PM | Reply
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I got another one: Flaming Lips! Remember "She Don't Use Jelly?"

Posted by: janine at 09/09/05 2:10 PM | Reply
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Flaminbg Lips were around for a very VERY long time before "She Don't Use Jelly." Indie as F**K back in the day.

Posted by: blankwave at 09/09/05 2:42 PM | Reply
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I didn't know that. I'm wracking my brain here for more reverse sell-outs (sell ins?), man! The Flaming Lips is part of a whole other subset, then. Let's call that the Chumbawumba, when you have a long, storied past interrupted by a unique (I'm not necessarily talking about quality, but rather different from all others) hit single. A blip on the radar, if you will.

Posted by: janine at 09/09/05 3:52 PM | Reply
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How about a chumbawumba album?

Band toils away in hell-hole venues for years only to make it big on a single shitty album. Said album goes plat and you play at the White House for the pres' daughter. Lead singer dumps long-term squeeze to date Winona "I'm with the band" Ryder. Then the inevitable backslide into obscurity begins, only this time new and old fans alike hate you.

Nomination: Soul Asylum - Grave Dancer's Union

Posted by: Paul Westerberg at 09/09/05 4:11 PM | Reply
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how about the beatles? they were pretty much a boy band at the start.

Posted by: ringo at 09/09/05 5:38 PM | Reply
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The arguable original starts-commercial-then-becomes-more-interesting band is -- again, arguably -- The Monkees. Chosen by audition for a TV show, provided nothing but vocals and one or two songs and guitar tracks on first four albums, then take over their own writing, playing and production, and finally go out in a blaze of self-destructive glory with a trippy de-mythologizing movie and well-written accompanying soundtrack album.

Posted by: Phil at 09/10/05 8:23 PM | Reply
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Well maybe they have a new audience and a new appreciation for the rockers who are in the finals...and maybe..just maybe..it's not a 16 year old unsophisticated jerk..maybe it's somebody who isn't sucking off momma's money...maybe it momma!

Posted by: momma at 09/13/05 11:55 PM | Reply
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