SUM FORTY WHA?
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 at 3:00pm by Axl RosenbergMetalSucks Maniac Matt Fields sent us the below clip this morning, bringing up all sorts of repressed demons I’d been trying to forget for years. I can’t say I’m at all surprised that Tommy Lee agreed to play with these douche chills – after all, Lee is an even bigger whore than Pamela Anderson – but I gotta ask: Why, Halford, why?!?!
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That was actually much better then expected.
Halford couldn’t make it more clear that he’s gay with that outfit. But he was the only that made me not consider those 4 minutes wasted.
Eh, sum 41 isn’t that bad. There are far worse MTV bands to moan about.
Remember when Sum 41 tried to convince everyone they had metal cred on their second or third album which basically amounted to them showing that they were aware of Maiden and Metallica and could imitate the most basic principles of their style?
this was pretty tight. I really like Sum41, and if Tommy Lee and Rob Halford think their cool, they really must be.
I actually enjoyed Chuck, it was a good album…
Sum 41 is pop punk and thus inherently disliked by metal heads. At least they do it in a less annoying way than most bands and outwardly respect metal roots, which is more than can be said for most bands out there.
Also, if you think they are somehow more cheesebag than Motley Crue you’ve got to be kidding me. I mean, i know the creators of this site “jizz in their pants” over 80’s hair metal, but the ridic outfits, makeup and hair are just as played out and cheesy as high striped socks, chain wallets, and spiked hair.
I don’t like Sum 41 as much as the next guy, but I’m realizing more and more that the “I don’t like them so they must be sucky douche-whatevers” is a really retarded thought process.
…except for the bands I dislike that really ARE douche-whatevers, of course.
Sometimes people give me shit for using the word “gay” too much, and I always tell them that gay does not necessarily mean “homosexual”. This video proves my point. Rob Halford is a homosexual. Sum 41 are gay all day.
Reminds me of the interview that Juliya (sp?) from that pseudo-metal show on Fuse did with Metallica a few years back. She asked them if they were excited about any up-and-coming bands, clearing expecting to hear about something metal-related. Lars immediately chimed in that they loved Sum-41 and that they reminded him of the Metallica guys when they were younger. I remember an awkward silence from Juliya as she did NOT have the same appreciation for them and she didn’t quite know what to say.
Anyway, to someone’s earlier point, at least these guys seem to have some fans (and credibility) among the older metal musicians out there. However that happened, I don’t know, but I guess it has to count for something. I will say that I like that they don’t seem to take themselves too seriously, which is always a good thing for a pop-punk band (unlike, say, the guy from Blink-182 that now thinks he’s writing ‘important’ U2 songs or some shit in that Angels and Airwaves band).
That was actually cool…..
Did everyone forget that Kerry King played on one of their songs and was even in a video with them.
Two of them formed a metal band called the Brown Brigade. It’s a stupid name, but I heard some riffs from a demo, and they sounded pretty tight.
I’d bet that most of those douches in the audience had no idea what half of those songs were that they were playing, or who Halford was. They probably thought Tommy Lee was that guy from Methods of Mayhem and were wondering why he was on the drums.
Sum 41 are the least annoying of their genre of crappy pop-punk. They have talent, which is something that most of their peers can’t brag about.
Wait, you mean Tomy Lee jumped aboard something trendy? No fucking way.
this vid is beyond old… sum 41 ain’t bad.
Seems like the audience didn’t really know who Halford was…
Remember when Kerry King appeared in the music video for their Spider-Man soundtrack song? Good times.
i dont care what he does halford is a god.
In all honesty, I really like Sum 41’s Chuck album, and I’m glad I’m not the only one who did. It’s still got some pop-punk stuff in there, but there’s also some decent proto-thrash stuff that’s pretty catchy. The album really grew on me, surprisingly enough.
Everything telse they’ve done, on the other hand, has been crap. Kind of like Incubus (S.C.I.E.N.C.E. was a great album, everything else sucks horribly).
I disagree that SCIENCE was the only redeeming Incubus album. I mean, it was BY FAR the best and most innovative, and by far my favorite, BUT I thought that Make Yourself and Morning View both had plenty of redeeming tracks (although littered between them were seveal pop-friendly hits that by no means reinvented the wheel).
That being said, Morning View was about the time Brandon began his “I am going to hum and draw out all my vocal lines so that I sound like a total d-bag” stage. Also, that was the last album for bassist Dirk Lance before being booted, or quitting, or both. After that they were never the same…Oh well…
you should link Billy Idol’s “Rebel Yell” performance from this same show….that was rad as hell.
watching them sing “No Sleep Til Brooklyn” makes me want to murder everyone in Williamsburg.
I wish I could punch the thought of Sum 41.