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Nuttkase

Nuttkase

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinted_Windows_(band)

Tinted Windows is an American rock band formed by guitarist James Iha, previously of The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle, singer Taylor Hanson of Hanson, bassist Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and Ivy, and Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick. This new project will run alongside all the artists' main bands. The band will play their first publicised gig at 2009's South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas on Wednesday, March 20 at The Velveeta Room.[1] The band is also scheluled at New Jersey The Bamboozle music festival on May 3.[2]

On February 19, 2009, it was announced that the band has signed with S-Curve Records, the label best known for releasing such acts as Joss Stone, Fountains of Wayne and Tom Jones. Their self entitled first album is announced for released on April 21, 2009, following an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman.[3][4]

On February 24, the band digitally released, through their website and on Rolling Stone magazine's website, their debut single "Kind of a Girl" alongside a promotional video, with a segment from a fictional music show Rock After Dark.
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James Iha? One of the Hanson Brothers? The drummer from Cheap Trick? The bassist from that band who made that song "Stacy's Mom" in the mid 90s?

WHAT

IN

THE

FUCK?

You couldn't make that shit up lol. I think someone just picked people at random as was like "Here, you guys are a band now. Good luck."
 
Nuttkase

Nuttkase

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Yeah, I don't have sound on my computer right now so I can't check out their music and I'm not going through the trouble of downloading a song and upping it on my Zune or burning it to do so.

I have to say I'm a fan of Iha's work. I'm a huge Smashing Pumpkins fan on the strength of their first three albums (Gish, Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness) alone. Everything after that is kind of meh. He more or less was just a tour guitarist for a year with APC but I saw them live while he was and it was cool to see him with them. His solo album was surprisingly above average too in my opinion although nothing to write home about. But yes, dude is weird. He even kind of out weirded (not a word, I know) Maynard inbetween songs while talking at the APC concert. And not many people are weirder then MJK.
 
Nuttkase

Nuttkase

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DubbC415 said:
"Stacy's Mom" was released in August 2003. It feels like it came out a long time ago. That song sucks balls.
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Yeah, I noticed that too afterwards. Which is odd because it sounds like one of those crappy "mall rock" songs that came out in the 1990s.

Crap is crap regardless of when it came out though... and that song is definitely crap lol.
 
Dhadnot

Dhadnot

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Nuttkase said:
Yeah, I don't have sound on my computer right now so I can't check out their music and I'm not going through the trouble of downloading a song and upping it on my Zune or burning it to do so.

I have to say I'm a fan of Iha's work. I'm a huge Smashing Pumpkins fan on the strength of their first three albums (Gish, Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness) alone. Everything after that is kind of meh. He more or less was just a tour guitarist for a year with APC but I saw them live while he was and it was cool to see him with them. His solo album was surprisingly above average too in my opinion although nothing to write home about. But yes, dude is weird. He even kind of out weirded (not a word, I know) Maynard inbetween songs while talking at the APC concert. And not many people are weirder then MJK.
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Maynard is weird in that I got into numerology and astral projection in my mid-teens.... Iha is weird in that I got touched as a kid and have been in a deep psychosis since then sort of way.

P.S. got to see him with APC aand see him backstage, even though he didn't talk.
 
Nuttkase

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Haha... you know, you are totally right with that analogy.

I guess APC is starting up again but has no real timeline for new material. I could go for a new "real" album from them and not that Emotive crap.
 
Nuttkase

Nuttkase

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Didn't care for 10,000 Days I take it?

I liked it a lot although I'd say it is probably my least favorite album of theirs minus the Opiate EP. Jambi, 10,000 Days and Right in Two I really like a lot from the album. I think if anything they should do one more album and then probably call it a day and just tour off their catalog because I haven't seen them in years but from what I understand they are still amazing live.

I don't even count Emotive as an APC album seeing it was all covers. I still love Mer de Noms and Thirteenth Step so I think it would be cool to hear all new music from them.
 
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Tool - Aenima, Lateralus, Salival, Undertow, Opiate... in that order for me. everything else is booboo.

To tell you the truth I didn't even like 13th step but I'm gonna listen to it right now.
 
Dhadnot

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yeah i dont know if they'll ever make an album comparable to aenima, they really were successful with that album, at least to me, I actually had cathartic moments listening to that album... actually felt like my soul was being cleansed... or probably I was just high as fuck.
 
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