The AbsolutePunk Legends, Myths, And Rumors Thread • Page 29

What? No one used mIRC to get music?

 

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Someone recently asked me if I used to illegally download music and I was uuuuuhhhh yeah I think I did in fact, download an absolute shit ton of music.

 

I swear to christ NOBODY knew who sang "The Boys Are Back in Town"

I saw it as Boston. Kansas. Blue Oyster Cult. Scorpions. You name it.

 

I downloaded it as Bruce Springsteen once.

 

It's a weirdly specific and thankfully dead feeling searching over and over for a specific song every few days/weeks/whatever and then someone FINALLY putting that shit up.

This thought brought to you by the masterpiece that is "See Me in Your Eyes" by .38 Special

 

Oh this happened to me a few times.

That’s hilarious.

 

We still talk to this day. Almost daily, if not every other day.

 

Pretty much every one hit wonder got reattributed to some other larger group. Except Closing Time. That still is one of my favorite weezer cuts.

 

I used the word "pirated" for "illegally downloaded" not that long ago to my friend who's in her early 20s, & she had no idea what I was talking about.

 

Thin Lizzy weren’t a one hit wonder

 

Haha @Nick you’re right you’re right! Signature song, maybe that’s better verbage here.

 

I remember I downloaded "My Friends Over You" off Kazaa and it ended up being a 3 minutes of the chorus only.

 

I totally had a few songs where it was the chorus looped, or the opening music looped, why would people even take the time to do that hah

 

respect phil lynott

 

I had Scarface’s my block which was a loop of the chorus and honestly not mad.

 

Who among us hasn’t downloaded dozens of fake “Weird Al” Yankovic parodies

 

Hawthorne Heights

This interview is full of some real gems.

Jason ran a search in people’s profiles for people who had you listed in favorite bands, and there was a damn good amount.

Eron: They’re gonna lose a lot of scene points.

Haha, we actually got rid of those.

Eron: Yeah, I saw that.

It was just a total joke.

Eron: I thought it was hilarious.

People were scared of saying things in fear of having their scene points taking away.

Matt: Hahahahaha

and

Speaking of going online, how does it feel to go online and read so many hateful comments about your band?

Matt: Haha, what website are you talking about?

I don’t know!

Do you guys take those comments personally?

Eron: At first I think we were kind of bummed out because most people hadn’t heard us and they were already talking shit on us, but now it’s hilarious to go on there and read the ridiculous things people say. Like one song on our new album was actually named after a post that we saw on AbsolutePunk: it was the dumbest thing I’ve EVER read! And I was like, “Matt, you gotta check this out!”

Matt: He called me one day and was like, “Dude, you HAVE to read this!”

Hahaha, “Where Can I Stab Myself in the Ears,” right?

Eron: “Where Can I Stab Myself in the Ears?” and the next reply was, “In the ears?” Like, the dumbest thing I’ve ever read. So it was just like, yeah, we gotta make that a song title. So whoever that was, thank you.

Matt: So we got a little bit of AbsolutePunk on our record; we got a shout out for you.

 

people will never truly understand the impact AP.net had on this scene and emo and alternative music


I still feel thankful every day that I got to be a decent part of its existence - thank you @Jason Tate

 

I firmly believe this site broke The Dangerous Summer.

I kinda believe it about The Hotelier, too, tbh

 

I picked up Gatsby's American Dream's "Volcano" because of something Jason wrote

 

Today's updates.

The Absolute 100 (2008)

Reviews:

• The Wonder Years – The Upsides
• Acceptance – Phantoms
• The Gaslight Anthem – The ’59 Sound
• Manchester Orchestra – Simple Math
• Taking Back Sunday – Tell All Your Friends
• Underoath – Define the Great Line
• The Wonder Years – The Upsides

And interviews:

• Hawthorne Heights
• Matt Squire
• Phil Sneed of Story of the Year
• Trevor Reilly of A Wilhelm Scream

 

I remember some folks posting links to tubgirl or lemonparty under real url. From that time I always double check an url before hitting one when I'm not sure.

 

Ahh tricking somebody into going to meatspin...what a time, the internet really used to be about something

 

We also broke Julien Baker

we were the first site to premiere songs from Hotelier and Julien as well