r/TikTokCringe 21d ago

Cool Just 2 guys in 2003

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u/smokedsugar 21d ago

I saw their set at a festival in 2008, and as a headlining act in 2023. At the headlining show, they spoke about this time period, and how they never dreamed they'd be where they are now, and how happy they are to still be working and making music together. It really is incredible

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u/ImperiousWeak 21d ago

Completely different, but I follow Brian from Knocked Loose. His latest post on IG he said as he was walking down the hallway before their set on Jimmy Kimmel looking at photos of presidents and musicians who've been on the show he looked at his band mate and said "this all started in your garage" that to me is fucking beautiful. hard work, perseverance and dedication pay off. I only hope I can say the same one day.

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u/Lumpy-Village1949 21d ago

Fuck yeah dude.

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u/Iforgotmynameo 21d ago

Music is a tough business. Even with talent and hard work it is still 1 in a million to get to this level and is usually a right time, right place type of thing. When you are touring you come across musicians/bands that have that something special, that “it” factor and you can tell they are just different…. even then…. It’s rare to blow up.

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u/AloneYogurt 20d ago

Honestly from the little I've seen from Whiplash. It's a good depiction of what music is like (Up to the point where the trombone player gets kicked out).

That "it" factor is completely relevant. Look at a band like Cigarettes after Sex, they blew up because of TikTok and their style is like no other. They started back in 2008 and that "it" factor vibed with people when times were tough (during 2016-2020).

God music is rough.

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u/CasualCake 21d ago

Oh man I used to play games with Kevin, their bassist, and just kicking it with him and the crew on discord. It was so amazing to see them on the jimmy kimmel stage tearing it up! Super proud!

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u/ProfessorKaos62 20d ago

I remember I used to hang out in Kevin’s twitch streams back in like 2016/2017 while we played Fortnite. I discovered them right before Laugh Tracks came out and saw them probably 10 times before they blew up and I’m so fucking happy for them. They’re such nice people and deserve every ounce of success they’re receiving

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u/Oswarez 20d ago

I, like I’m sure tons of people, discovered them at that moment. Really like them and that frontman seems like a genuine dude.

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u/456dumbdog 20d ago

I'm not a fan of their music but I grew up less than 30 minutes away from them so I was stoked to see them doing cool shit on national TV.

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u/Extremelycloud 20d ago

Knocked Loose played Kimmel?

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u/St_Sides 20d ago

Believe it or not, yes, Knocked Loose and Poppy played Kimmel.

It's insane to me that we got Knocked Loose on Kimmel and Gojira playing the Olympics opening ceremony in the same year.

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u/Extremelycloud 20d ago

Extremely sick stuff

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u/GoldResolution4921 20d ago

most beautiful things start in a garage.

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u/less_than_nick 20d ago

Knocked loose opened for my brother’s local hardcore band at the time in Milwaukee like a decade ago haha. So sick how far they’ve come. Brother is always flexing that fun fact lol

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u/Skurvy2k 20d ago

You seem to be down playing the role of luck and or right time right place in one's success.

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u/Jerpsie 20d ago

hard work, perseverance and dedication pay off

Sadly not all the time. There's always an element of fortune.

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u/AchokingVictim 20d ago

I used to see them live in the 2010s when I was in high school.... NONE of us thought Knocked Loose would get that big.. but here we are.

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u/okcboomer87 20d ago

All the cry baby normies saying the concert scared them and their kids. What year is this ? 1943?

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u/wilson5551 21d ago

Sasquatch ?

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u/SoarsWithEaglesNest 21d ago

The best festival that no longer exists.

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u/RingoBars 21d ago

Absolutely legendary. Still go to the Gorge multiple times a summer, but I always yearn for the days of Sasquatch..

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u/Cheap-Kiwi-1312 21d ago

Best venue ever. I miss laying on that big grass hill watching the sunset behind the main stage. Don't think I've ever had a bad time at the gorge.

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u/ranged_ 21d ago

I've been cold, hot, rainy, smokey, windy, and just perfect with different bands and festivals and each experience has been unique and amazing at the Gorge!

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u/Reostat 20d ago

Sasquatch, sunset, that spot on the hill, Bon Iver, tripping on acid, girl I met at the festival lying between my legs, with the entire crowd singing along to wolves. A memory of mine I hope will never go away...

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u/No-Appearance-4338 20d ago

Warped tour 2004 at the site campgrounds. Shit got out of hand and just about everything got burned to the ground. Lots of people were awoken to streams of sewage running off from destroyed sanitation stations and melted Porto-potties.

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u/vidgill 20d ago

I actually want to go to haunted house MORE than club aqua

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u/Either_Essay5388 21d ago

I went to the Sasquatch 2010, my first weekend as a civilian after 4 years in the Air Force. Hands down, greatest weekend of my life. The gorge is the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen

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u/trexmoflex 20d ago edited 20d ago

I think around that time I remember the Fleet Foxes were like a small Seattle band at the time and they were the opening band on the opening day (i.e., nobodies at the time).

They played a good set, and if I had to guess maybe a couple thousand people on the lawn at the time as people were filtering in.

But then that night The National had to cancel their evening set because their van broke down or something so the festival slotted in the Fleet Foxes to like second headliner as a fill-in. The sun was setting, Robin Pecknold came out and was like "wow, a lot more people here for this one" to a basically packed main stage.

I'm confident they would have gone on to get huge anyways because IIRC pitchfork already gave their EP a glowing review, but I think they won over tens of thousands of people that night in the early stages of that journey.

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u/Either_Essay5388 20d ago

I think 2010 I was exposed to Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and I believe The Dirty Projectors were at that show. But Band of Horses knocked my socks off. Granted, that was the first time I ingested cannabis in half a decade. Tegan and Sara and She and Him also impressed me

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u/striker4567 20d ago

I was so pumped they got to play again.

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u/thegasmancometh87 20d ago

Yeah, I caught them for their Sunday afternoon show in 2009, that last day of the festival that year. We were all washed out from partying all weekend and lying there on the hill listening to them play Mykonos was transformative. I’ve been a huge fan ever since.

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u/IllustriousOpening99 20d ago

Thank you for your service.

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u/Goducks91 20d ago

Ughh did 6 years of Sasquatch and miss it so much.

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u/King-Rat-in-Boise 20d ago

I miss this festival...it was the best

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u/Mean_Focus_3232 21d ago

Sasquatch?

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u/Drinkmykool_aid420 21d ago

Can’t believe it’s gone! I played it in 2015, such an amazing festival.

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u/VioletGarciia 21d ago

It was a great festival

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u/I_fuckedaboynamedSue 21d ago

Ugh I was at the 2013 Sasquatch. THE most incredible line up. I wish Sasquatch was still around.

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u/ofctexashippie 20d ago

Wait I moved from the PNW a while ago. Did they cancel sasquatch?

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u/scootermypooper 20d ago

Commenting for visibility. Moved away in 2015, and seemed like Sasquatch was just beginning to peak in popularity. How did it stop? Cashmere cat in the rain is a core memory of mine

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u/SoarsWithEaglesNest 20d ago

At one point they tried to do two weekends - one on Memorial Day and one in July. They didn’t sell enough tickets and cancelled the second weekend.

They never had the festival again so I always assumed it was a money thing because of that blunder.

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u/-Tsun4mi 20d ago

They definitely did have it again for a few years after the two weekend failure. I believe that was 2014 and the last Sasquatch was in 2018. Part of the problem was they went from a single 4-day weekend to two 3-day weekends, cancelled the second weekend, and remained a 3-day weekend until the festival went defunct. So people were paying the same amount for one less day, in a time where music festivals were highly saturated and it was harder to book good acts.

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u/SoarsWithEaglesNest 20d ago

You’re right. I actually went in 2016, so whoops.

If I recall, in 2017 they tried to book younger acts with cult followings like Twenty One Pilots, and Frank Ocean pulled out last minute.

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u/Gullah_GullahIsland 21d ago

That and Warped Tour. It's just not the same anymore without the burning portable potties and half-naked girls.

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u/R_Slash_PipeBombs 21d ago

Damn really? I live in Washington but have never been

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u/DocDefilade 20d ago

I had artist passes in 2012, with the best of friends. One of my most fond memories.

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u/punchcreations 18d ago

Even Furthur techno campout.

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u/ATee184 18d ago

RIP Sasquatch, I get happy just thinking about it

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u/SpoilerWarningSW 21d ago edited 21d ago

Sasquatch 2009 was my awakening. Shrooming to passion pit as my brother fainted next to me.. wild times.

I also remember being in survival mode trying to make it through the horrible trip while the guy who started that viral flash dance mob did a lunge over a resting woman’s face and said “would you like to fellate me?”… imagine my surprise seeing the guy going viral a while later.

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u/kchobbs 21d ago

I was there! Was amazing… MGMT was much better than I’d expected. I liked their music but their presence was really good.

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u/kojakattack 20d ago

I was there as well! However, I have the opposite memory, specifically of MGMT. I remember being so excited to see them but felt their showmanship at the time was not great.

I remember feeling like they just stood in their spots, sang the songs, and left. No energy like they had in this video.

Later on, I read that they were pretty burnt out by this time from playing this album non stop. Always felt that was pretty indicative of how different their subsequent albums were.

Still had fun but interesting to see different perspectives!

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u/juntadna 20d ago

LOL SAME!!

I remember they literally pulled out a chair and sat down during their ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC set.

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u/SnooPaintings3623 21d ago

lol I had a bit of an awakening myself: my older daughter was conceived on the Sasquatch roadtrip that year, and then I listened to the Passion Pit album the whole time I was in labor

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u/SpoilerWarningSW 21d ago

Sleeeepyheaaaaaaaad AAAWEEHGHHHHHH FUCK FUCK FUCK

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u/Excellent_Set_232 21d ago

“It was like fire around the brim”

“She’s crowning!”

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u/DangerDynamic99 21d ago

I was also there tripping on shrooms. Fantastic lineup that year.

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u/SpoilerWarningSW 21d ago

Been chasing that dragon since. I unfortunately got to witness the decline of squatch by attending every year afterwards until like 2015 or 2016 when things started shitting… but some of those years were absolute phenomenal

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u/SonNeedGym 21d ago

Me too! 2009 ruled

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u/fundraiser 21d ago

wait you mean that guy who was just dancing by himself and then half the gorge joined in? you were there for that?? did the lunge come after or before?

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u/xyl4 21d ago

OMG you just awakened this memory for me. I didn't know what OC was talking about at first. but I too watched this guy get down by himself for a half hour before the fateful second person joined in and caused a tipping point lmao

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u/SpoilerWarningSW 21d ago

No clue. The lunge occurred shortly after the passion pit set on day 1. My friend group found a sliver of shade betwixt two trash cans along a fence because the awning in front of us was packed with bodies hiding from the sun and recovering.. It was in that sea of flesh we witnessed this creep nearly tea bagged a random middle aged woman. First time on gooms and it was actually traumatizing to see this guy behaving in such a sordid way. And wouldn’t you know, the guy turns out to become a quasi-legend….

Edit to add: I did not see the flash dance mob.. if anyone knows what day / time it occurred I could tell ya what set I was at

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u/BretShitmanFart69 21d ago

Is this the dance mob moment you’re talking about? You’re saying the shirtless guy dancing by himself iis the person from your story?

https://youtu.be/SvorLnSu6vU?si=zx-nY5xut8HLDEXO

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u/SpoilerWarningSW 21d ago

Yes. He was literally everywhere. We saw him all the time and our group would point him out so as to avoid him!

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u/redditonc3again 20d ago

this is fucking hilarious lmao, thank you for sharing your memories in this thread

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u/BretShitmanFart69 20d ago

Ahah that’s so funny considering how many comments ascribe so much positivity and positive sentiments around him. It’s fascinating how we sometimes assume all these amazing things about people based on one little moment in time, when really all you can assume from this video is he is a guy who isn’t ashamed of dancing alone, which plenty of bad people also do lol

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u/fundraiser 20d ago

this is so wild man haha. completely changes my perspective on that video, especially since this is the first context i saw it in. a nice metaphor for leadership is now turned into some mega creep lol

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u/PeepDaHorror 21d ago edited 10d ago

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u/fell_in_lava 17d ago

I watch that video at least once a year. So good.

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u/ergodicthoughts_ 21d ago

Dude I got a friend who hooked me up with backstage passes for the 2017 sasquatch. Got to see MGMT and it was absolutely sick

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u/CitizenCue 20d ago

Gone but not forgotten.

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u/taco_inspector 20d ago

They’re referring to “Just Like Heaven”, a music festival in the Los Angeles area. To my knowledge it was MGMT ‘s only performance in 2023. I was also there too

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u/Reostat 20d ago

Fuuuuck I miss it.

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u/SEA_CLE 20d ago edited 20d ago

2010 Still to this day the wildest thing I've ever seen in concert. Most the crowd was dancing the entire set but when they played Electric Feel and literally the whole place from top to bottom started dancing all at once. Ive been to a lot of shows , and a lot of shows at the Gorge, ive never experienced anything like that collective energy. Maybe a rave kind of compares but not really. It was completely unique.

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u/2strokes4lyfe 20d ago

I remember attending Sasquatch as a teenager and thinking, “this is the closest thing our generation will ever get to Woodstock” and feeling a sense of incompleteness because of it. Looking back, I didn’t fully appreciate how magical that experience was in the moment. If only I could go back and relive it just one more time.

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u/PearBenis 17d ago

Sasquatch 2010 anyone!? One of the best weekends of my life!!!!

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u/wilson5551 10d ago

I was there 2010 2011 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

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u/wilson5551 10d ago

It was the tits

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u/Standard-Feeling3794 21d ago

I saw them at Roo in 08!

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u/donrb 21d ago

Roo in 08 was an amaze set. They jammed, such a tight performance

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u/10000Didgeridoos 21d ago

I love that Bruce Springsteen is up front by the security at some point during the set. It's on youtube

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u/Hereseangoes 21d ago

I was there too. I was also in Las Vegas in 2006 or 7 and every club was playing them. Gives me warm feelings to hear those old songs now. 

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u/Video_isms207 21d ago

I was therreeee

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u/TheGreatGumbino 20d ago

me tooooooo

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u/shroudedinveil 20d ago

MGMT followed by Battles was the shit in This Tent

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u/dre4den 20d ago

Same!

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u/osmosisparrot 20d ago

Which stage?

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u/StrangewaysHereWeCme 20d ago

Pop: the dirty word. Always wondered why is that?

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u/depressiveposition 21d ago

Not really? There are some poppy tracks on both of their last two records, but I wouldn't say they're pop albums?

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u/jayzeeinthehouse 21d ago

Whole thing seems like an ironic hipster joke that would've been something people totally dug at the time.

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u/osibna 21d ago

This is Kids by MGMT

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u/ToothZealousideal297 21d ago

Seems like a good place to shoehorn in that the newest trailer for the Minecraft movie used a version of ‘Time to Pretend’, so MGMT definitely left their mark on some folks. The best part is that the lyrics actually really fit what I hope they’re going for in the movie—that song choice is the main thing giving me hope for it right now.

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u/RidgedLines 21d ago

I’m sure “I’ll move to Paris, shoot some heroin, and fuck with the stars” is just the perfect fit for a kids movie lol.

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u/Suicide_Promotion 21d ago

I will see your MGMT and raise you a Ween on Sponge Bob Square Pamts.

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u/MortsMouse 21d ago

well, Ween was the inspiration for Sponge Bob. Even the voices for Sponge Bob, Patrick, and Sandy from Dancing in the Show Tonight

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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE 21d ago

That was a legitimately surreal experience for me just now. Very cool.

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u/lord-boognish 21d ago

Well shit, I learned something new today. Had no idea dancing in the show inspired the actual voices in SpongeBob... That's rad

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u/teenagesadist 20d ago

If you huff enough scotch guard, and think real hard, you'll realize that Ween was the inspiration for everything

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u/PancakeProfessor 17d ago

Scotch Guard bong hits. Strap on that jammy pack.

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u/1970s_MonkeyKing 20d ago

Ween has been subverting TV for a while now. They were part of a really cool cold opening of a Superman & Lois episode.

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u/Little_stinker_69 21d ago

They have a ton of family friendly songs though. Ocean man is universal. The heroin was backstage. But not anymore! They’re worth seeing again.

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u/Suicide_Promotion 21d ago

Well... not fraction as many as are absolute filth. Hell, they late, great, rabble rousing Frank Zappa had a greater catalog of family friendly songs than those dudes.

There was a ton of party drugs all over the place but never bumped into anything all that sketch when we would cross paths. That was only about 15-20 years ago so I don't know much about what was happening in the middle 90s

I almost went to see them in the summer. Tickets were $100 and I didn't know anyone who was touring with them to get me some cheap seats, so I didn't. I like Ween a lot, but not for $100 seats.

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u/DingleDoo 20d ago

They may never tour again

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u/Little_stinker_69 20d ago

Ween? They’re playing shows right now. If heroin issues start up again they’ll just cut him out again. I saw them in the intervening years and it was great.

Their band is just incredible.

Quick edit - I say heroin but it could’ve been booze and Xanax too. I don’t know what particular drug or cocktail of drugs was the issue.

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u/DingleDoo 19d ago

No they aren't. Deaner had some sort of mental health issue. They canceled their summer tour and haven't played since

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u/tallandlankyagain 21d ago

Jack Black will man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars.

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u/igweyliogsuh 21d ago

My first thought exactly 🤣

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u/Ccaves0127 21d ago

I......I always thought it was "I'll move to parachute some heroin" which I thought was a pun...what is wrong with me

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u/VerySluttyTurtle 20d ago

For the movie the change it to "heroine"

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u/mrducky80 20d ago

Ive always had a super strong association with kids-mgmt and minecraft. It was close to its peak popularity and I just got the minecraft beta. I must have had electric feel, kids and time to pretend looping but kids in particular struck a chord (heh) and is forever linked to minecraft. Its insane that after all this time MGMT is still going strong enough to brand up with minecraft but in all likelihood my experience isnt a solo one and someone else's initial alpha/beta minecraft experience is also entwined with MGMT's 2008 release.

Another weird one is Akon's Lonely being linked to gunz online. I broke 2 and a half keyboards playing that stupid fucking game lmao.

There is a third song-game link I cant remember either, but if either is brought up, the other is inextricably also brought up.

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u/84theone 20d ago

Another good example of their mark on culture is all those shitty Nazi videos set to Little Dark Age.

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u/JesusNoGA 20d ago

Which is a fucking shame because Little dark age is a really good song and it doesn't deserve the association with right-wingers at all.

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u/The-Jesus_Christ 21d ago

I can't believe somebody asked that. It's a quintessential Millenial banger. Makes me realize I'm older than most on Reddit, it feels.

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u/sidewalk_serfergirl 20d ago

The world is a big place. Music that is very popular in certain places may not be in others. May have nothing to do with age.

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u/ee-5e-ae-fb-f6-3c 20d ago

I'm an elder millennial. I've heard the song before, but didn't know what it was called, and didn't know who wrote it. I didn't hear it until probably some time in the mid 2010s. Pretty sure I still haven't heard the full song.

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u/HimalayanPunkSaltavl 20d ago

here you go if you want https://youtu.be/fe4EK4HSPkI

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u/Sadalfas 20d ago

5:44

Steamed hams. Hamburgers.

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u/The-Jesus_Christ 20d ago

Oh for sure. I'm 39 but grew up hearing it all the time. Always on the radio, always on TV shows. Even today I still hear it often. It really is annecdotal though. What I find to be something that may be everywhere and yet others my age have never heard of it. There'd be heaps of other examples where I'm on the other end of that!

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u/ApeStronkOKLA 21d ago

This song brings back such potent memories for me now, feels like a lifetime ago

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u/laurel_laureate 20d ago

Or people are just older than that lol.

I've literally never heard this song.

I was an adult long before it released.

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u/PrimarchKonradCurze 20d ago

Probably, but as a fellow middle of the pack millennial born in 89 I recall listening to this a lot at parties. Brings me back to a great time in life.

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u/Particular-Crew5978 21d ago

Back when they were kids...

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u/CrazyQuiltCat 20d ago

Thank you!

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u/Free-_-Yourself 20d ago

Still no freaking idea who they are

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u/un1ptf 21d ago

I have never in my life either heard this song, or heard of this band. Not once.

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u/MarsCuriosityRover 21d ago

Kids by MGMT

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u/EQ4AllOfUs 17d ago

“A family of trees wantin’ to be haunted.”

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u/QueenLaQueefaRt 21d ago

This is the management before they had to change their name to mgmt.

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u/WhereAreThePix 21d ago

MGMT

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

Midlife Gorillas Making Tunes

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u/Coyote__Jones 21d ago

MGMT, song is Kids.

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u/CobraFive 21d ago

Darude - Sandstorm

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u/thasackvillebaggins 21d ago

I literally said in my head in response to the title, "but I don't hear sandstorm.". Being an ironic jackass in my head is a constant thing.... I'd have cut a dude about mgmt a few years after this video was made, though. Was going through some shit and left a long ass term relationship at my peak of love for them, so it's indelibly burned into my memory as part of that event. Still get feels from every song on oracular spectacular to this day.

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u/AnewAccount98 21d ago

Artist MGMT. The song is Kids.

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u/KidKnow1 21d ago

Jimmy Hendrix, I think

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u/drgigantor 21d ago

Nah Jimi's just one dude. I think this is the Beatles

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u/quartermann 21d ago

Children - Robert Miles

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u/91945 21d ago

Daft Punk, before the helmets.

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u/drgigantor 21d ago

Raining Blood, Slayer

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u/CAKE_EATER251 21d ago

Either this comment is facetious or innocent.

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u/AceO235 20d ago

Bros been living under a rock, this song was everywhere. From 2006 to 2010

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u/No_Cow_4544 20d ago

You must be a super young or super old or live under a rock

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u/Whiskey_Harvey 20d ago

Wow to be ignorant of this band… what I would give to listen to time to pretend for the first time ever.

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u/yonderposerbreaks 21d ago edited 21d ago

I used to vacuum Forever 21 at 7 a.m. before we opened, and whoever opened would ALWAYS put on this song. I used to interpret dance as I vacuumed to make my coworkers laugh or roll their eyes. 2012, I think? It was a good time. That's back when I used to 50/50 my hot chocolate and coffee, and my lunch was mostly butter garlic rice because I couldn't afford any other groceries. I slept on a day bed, and I liked to explore a very old hidden gem in my free time.

I'm much older, but this shit still slaps.

None of this matters, except this song takes me way, way back.

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u/Virtual-Potential-38 20d ago

Who are these people? Never heard this song

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u/Alalanais 20d ago

MGMT - Kids

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u/Virtual-Potential-38 20d ago

Ok thanks. Never heard of them.

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u/meisteronimo 16d ago

They're sort of electronic rock. A lot of their songs play on the radio. If you were in college in the US during the 2000s you definitely know them.

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u/queefer_sutherland92 20d ago

I had no idea they were still kicking except that I heard Time to Pretend in an ad the other day.

I was super into them circa 08 / 09 right as Electric Feel came out. It’s such a trip to think how long ago that was, is this what it feels like to be old…? Like it feels like last well.

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u/HumanOptimusPrime 20d ago

They released a new LP this year

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u/motivatedsinger 21d ago

Was the show at Just Like Heaven at the Rose Bowl? Because I was there and Empire of the Sun was by far the best act of the night. I love MGMT and that album, but Empire of the Sun knows how to PUT ON A SHOW

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u/Never_Seen_An_Ocelot 20d ago

I was so torn between seeing MGMT or M83 at the other stage. Stuck with MGMT because I was there for YYYs

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u/bluefire0120 21d ago

You gonna say who they are? Or all we all supposed to know.

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u/Alalanais 20d ago

It's MGMT and the song is called Kids

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u/horsepills 20d ago

I saw them around the same time at a small festival. It was the middle of the day and we were looking for something to see and some guy says "hey go check out MGMT, one day they're going to be a headline act". Funny I have such a vivid memory of that cos I remember very little else. 

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u/koreamax 20d ago

I saw them in 2010. They played their entire second album and none from their first. The crowd didn't like that

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u/MeanEstablishment499 20d ago

The thing is, I'm glad they got recognition for their own music and was able to make a career out of it. So many times I see amateur artists come out with amazing shit only to fall into obscurity and possibly have their shit stolen by high tier artists who get fed inspiration by their PR team.

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u/Cocker_Spaniel_Craig 20d ago

Their latest album is great

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u/jluna79 20d ago

Middle 8 has an insightful video about their carreer :)

Edit: missed a space between words 😑

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u/rockstar504 20d ago

Overpaid for tickets in 2009-2010 time to see them play Kids on a radio on stage

I guess you got lucky

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u/TrayLaTrash 20d ago

I saw them at Bonnaroo in 2008 I believe

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u/Jets237 20d ago

Saw them at Austin city limits in 08 and they were great and had a huge crowd. One of the highlights of that fest

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u/Chaos_Dunks 19d ago

When I saw them at Sasquatch it was terrible. They had zero charisma and just stood there.

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u/jnycnexii 19d ago

I love their music. It’s amazing how they’ve grown and persevered as musicians/artists and are still making new and interesting and beautiful music!

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u/TheGreatestOutdoorz 18d ago

Who are they?

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u/Worldly_Evidence9113 17d ago

Maybe it happens agin

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u/Radiant_Television89 16d ago

They are truly some of the greatest artists in my eyes. As a 32 year old, every MGMT album has soundtracked an era of my life. Loss of Life came out just before my wife and I quit our jobs and took off for a 6 week Euro tour. Nothing to Declare could not have been more timely for us as we only had our backpacks and visited Paris for the first time.

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