ITT: Alternate universe musical moments.
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Kurt doesn't kill himself and Nirvana slowly turns into Weezer
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>>25211689 Going off this idea, OP.
Rivers Cuomo releases this album, is overwhelmed by the critical acclaim (perfect scores everywhere.)
Kills himself.
Weezer disbands, forever regarded as greatest alt-rock band of all time.
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>>25211689 Deftones don't start sucking as soon as they get big
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metallica doesn't release the black album and the slowly fade into being trash classics.
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Jesus christ, OP.
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Ian Curtis emerges from his depression as a born-again Christian. Joy Division becomes a Christian New Wave band, still putting albums out to this day.
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That one guy from Nirvana joins The Foo Fighters
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jeff mengum reads a book about hitler, and writes an album for him
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Paul McCartney officially quits the Beatles and goes on to pursue a solo career. Lennon, Harrison and Starr are joined by Harry Nilsson as a new songwriting partner for Lennon, Klaus Voormann on bass and Eric Clapton sharing lead guitar duties with Harrison.
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Robert Smith actually follows up on his word and disbands The Cure after the Disintegration tour, The Cure don't spend their post-Disintegration years releasing mediocre tripe.
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greenday doesnt sell out and they remain a punk rock classic
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>>25211854 but Wish, WMS and Bloodflowers are really good?
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Syd Barrett never goes crazy. Pink Floyd ends up releasing glorious experimental psychedelic pop goodness throughout the 70s, instead of generic dadrock garbage.
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Julian Casablancas dies in a terrible car crash. gore everywhere. The Strokes go on to be the next beatles
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The Smiths don't break up due to Morrissey's ego and Joyce's money hunger when he did nothing, and they continue to make great albums throughout the 90's.
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>>25211923 >implying Johnny Marr made anything remotely worthy of note after 1987 Nah, I think they broke up at just the right time.
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axl rose is really nice guy and trys to make sure gun n roses doesnt break up, but despite his efforts, the band pulls apart and split the money.
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>>25211800 Instead of just Burton, the whole band dies in the bus accident and they are remembered as the most influential and ultimately the greatest metal band of all time.
Alternatively, they disband after Mustaine leaves and leave off Kill Em All as a demo recording and stay an underground act considered in years as the most important and visionary for metal in years to come.
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>>25211954 >Johnny Marr I'm talking about Morrissey. He's still a genius, but only in the vocal and lyrical sense. His band is shit. I think if he and Marr worked it out they could have been so kawaii and then I could have got to see them tour maybe.
It just wasn't like those days ;_;
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Marvin Gaye's name is actually "Marvin Straight" and What's Going On becomes the theme of the the anti-gay marriage movement, because the church wonders what's going on. Because the song is so musically compelling it is impossible to oppose the movement, and gay marriage is never legalized.
The Artist Formerly Known As Prince !Headf1obRo
The Artist Formerly Known As Prince !Headf1obRo Sun 27 May 2012 23:47:41 No. 25212049 Report Quoted By:
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>>25212020 lol
Stevie wonder isn't blind and is a bitter old man that never gets involved in music.
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>>25212005 Johnny Marr was 100% the talent behind The Smiths. Morrissey was just the image they needed to be successful with mopey teenagers.
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LMFAO never release Sorry for Party Rocking, public continues to wonder why they haven't apologized.
The Artist Formerly Known As Prince !Headf1obRo
The Artist Formerly Known As Prince !Headf1obRo Sun 27 May 2012 23:50:53 No. 25212122 Report Quoted By:
Jay-Z stayed retired after The Black Album and remembered as one of the best.
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Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen decide not to start the dubstep/electro project of "Knife Party" and remain making music with Pendulum with similar sound to Hold Your Colour and In Silico
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no surfwax america?
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>>25212137 Not as feelsy as everything else.
Maybe he releases Surfwax America as Weezer's first single, then releases the album.
Then kills himself because of all the feels.
>implying Falling For You, Only in Dreams, and Butterfly wouldn't be the most depressing ending to an album in history Anonymous
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Thom dies after the release of Amnesiac, Radiohead is forgotten forever.
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Moot never decides to make a music section on 4chan, and you wind up doing something productive instead of reading this.
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12 year old kids all over America get into Pavement or Yo La Tengo, and therefore don't get nostalgic about Weezer's shitty albums 5-10 years later.
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Varg doesnt go to prison and Burzum starts opening for Manowar.
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>>25212124 Hold Your Colour and In Silico sound nothing alike...
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>>25212204 >implying that Yo La Tengo ever made a song even comparable to Across the Sea Anonymous
Merzbow has a kid and he becomes the most influential and widely regarded as the best noise musician ever.
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>>25212180 Fuck that noise, I'd just go to /v/.
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Elliott Smith doesn't die, finishes work on From a Basement on the Hill, it's a masterpiece, the end.
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>>25212245 the kid becomes the most influential noise musician, I mean.
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Seriously. Portugal The Man released like 6 albums in 6 years. If they just made two albums they could be both filled with hits.
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The Artist Formerly Known As Prince !Headf1obRo
The Artist Formerly Known As Prince !Headf1obRo Sun 27 May 2012 23:58:11 No. 25212283 Report Jeff Buckley doesn't die, finishes My Sweetheart the Drunk and get pretty good reviews. Then dives into mediocrity.
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Kid A and Amnesiac are released as one double album, it is universally accepted to the best album ever.
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Snorre Ruch bails on Varg Vikerenes at the last moment, and opts to stay home. Varg goes to Euronymous' house to murder him alone, but in the ensuing struggle, Euronymous gains the upper hand, and, knocking the knife from Varg's hand, beats him to death with a hastily grabbed table lamp.
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Blink 182 breaks up after Dude Ranch when Scott leaves, remembered as part of the 90s skate/pop/punk wave
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>>25212283 >dives into mediocrity Anonymous
Copyright laws aren't so oppressive and Portishead, DJ Shadow and other such artists continue releasing sample-heavy albums until this day.
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>>25212364 If only we could get another Endtrodcuing or Psyence Fiction, eh?
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>>25212364 >implying they aren't just lazy Anonymous
Kurt and Courtney never meet.
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Oasis disbands after internal strife, "What's The Story (Morning Glory) Is Never Released", loudness war never adverted.
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Robert Zimmerman never changes his name.
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Pavement disbands after Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, being named greatest indie band of all time.
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>>25212052 While this is probably true, I will never have more feels than with any other band
fuckin morrissey i love you so ;_;
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>>25212065 gentleman and scholar.
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>>25212386 Yeah. Yeah. Although The Private Press was really good.
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>>25211754 Or they pull a Radiohead and do a complete 180 into stuff like Kid A but Weezery
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i like Pinkerton the way it is though
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John Lennon was never killed. He goes on to make extremely cheesy pop albums in the 80s that make Paul's look avant garde in comparison. Each successive one gets even worse critical reviews. Money talk in 1992 where they Beatles are offered an unheard of $500 million to reunite. They record a reunion album but Ringo gets drunk and accidentally destroys the master tapes in a fire. John gets depressed, starts doing drugs again and starts releasing experimental ambient albums. Dies of a heart attack in his New York apartment in late 2011.
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Revelation didn't suck, giving Love two of the greastest albums of the 60's
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>>25212472 But, I mean, you have to admit that songs like Why Bother and Getchoo could've been replaced with superior songs like In the Garage or Holiday.
Also, imagine if Pinkerton had Only in Dreams right before Butterfly.
The guitar solo fades out, the bass slowly plays the ending riff, and melts into the acoustic guitar.
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Thom Yorke never gets all mopey after OK Computer and continues to make Britpop derivative albums for all eternity.
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The Artist Formerly Known As Prince !Headf1obRo Mon 28 May 2012 00:08:04 No. 25212512 Report Quoted By:
>>25212395 Courtney and Billy Corgan stay together. Kills himself after Siamese Dream session. Album is released to universal acclaim. The Smashing Pumpkins take Nirvana's place as the best grunge band.
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>>25212472 What difference does it make? We still have two amazing albums.
Also, is it archive time yet? This thread has serious potential, as long as people stop posting 'x doesn't die, descends into mediocrity' every other post...
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>Katy Perry's new shoegaze is the greatest work of music in all recorded history >Pitchfork, Fantano, Scaruffi all begrudgingly give it 10/10 >Shoegaze becomes the next brostep >all of the sudden, /mu/core is brought into public appeal >/mu/ collectively renounces their music taste, begins listening solely to what was once top 40 music (now forgotten and abandoned by the public) >black people start tweeting #ISHYGGDT #semenstained #thatfeel
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>>25212501 i dont think pinkerton mixes that well with blue
pinkerton is too depressing
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Kevin Barnes never abandonds Elephant 6 Collective
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>>25212572 The only reason Blue Album isn't as depressing is because it has songs like Buddy Holly, My Name is Jonas, etc.
Don't try and tell me that Only In Dreams isn't depressing as hell.
But I mean, these are just opinions.
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>>25212559 >black people start tweeting #ISHYGGDT #semenstained #thatfeel #ISHYOLO
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>>25212559 everyone on /mu/ gets into a 90's gansta rap revival scene
its like gta san andes everyday on /mu/
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>>25212559 That feel is actually gaining popularity on reddit/facebook/tumblr
http://www.reddit.com/r/datfeel http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/that-feel-when http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/that-feel etc etc
It's gonna be mainstream before the summer is out
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>Pierro Scaruffi listens to The Beatles and decides he likes them >people stop saying they dislike them just to be edgey
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>>25212595 >I seriously hope you only live once The ultimate insult
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>Manchester gets nuked by Russia in 1977 during the Cold War >Joy Division and The Smiths never exist >No more feel threads
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>>25212620 stopdreaming.
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jimi hendrix survives that fatefull night goes on to make alot more experimental rock with the band of gypsys.
then goes solo and releases an R&B inspired record it sucks then choke on own vomit
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in the early 2000s, radiohead release an actually fairly dark and experimental album w/ the amnesiac b sides and other things in that style
it divides the fanbase but is remembered as their boldest statement and a bunch of people love it on /mu/
>>25211905 >70s pink floyd >generic >implying Anonymous
Billy Corgan isn't a faggot and doesn't get Pavement kicked off of Lollapalooza '94.
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>>25212572 pinkertons so depressing. this guys had TO MUCH sex.
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>Yello never releases Oh Yeah >80s film directors are baffled as to what song to play during scenes where characters are in awkward situations
(f♯a♯)ggyhipsterboy !L3YvS3VxCc
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>>25212614 /mu/ learns that you can't fuck w/ the bone
this becomes super popular on /mu/
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>>25212701 Youre right lol
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>>25212698 corgan's the biggest dick ever. im thinking about deleting smashing pumpkins from my library.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/nov/16/billy-corgan-pavement Anonymous
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>>25212776 >Corgan said at the time, and, later: "People don't fall in love to Pavement ... they put on Smashing Pumpkins or Hole or Nirvana, because these bands actually mean something to them." (f♯a♯)ggyhipsterboy !L3YvS3VxCc
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>>25212776 deleting music bc the creator's a dick is really stupid
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>>25212776 >accuses Pavement of being sell outs >"the people who accuse other people of selling out are usually the biggest sell outs" >niggawutareyoudoing Anonymous
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>P4k straight up forgets to review that Girls album that came out last year >A few of the band's friends buy the album > "I guess vomit was okay..." >they disappear off the face of the earth >nobody notices nor cares
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>>25211923 >implying Joyce wasn't entitled to a 1/4th of the bands profits when he was a 1/4th of the band Morrisesy's a diva who couldn't be bothered to share credit with anyone.
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>>25212264 Portugal The Man doesn't release the Satanic Satanist after ICBAW, and instead goes off to do experimental psychadelic music instead of indie/psych-pop.
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>All 4 members of the Beatles were born in year 1990 >Form their band in year 2007 >Achieve local success, but mostly dismissed as simple pop by critics >Become insignificant within a few years >Lennon becomes a carpenter, McCartney works for insurance firm, Harrison play for karaoke band, Ringo becomes local school's janitor
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>Kinks only release one generic rock album before putting out Face to Face >Continue putting out great albums >Ray Davies dies in a car crash while working on Preservation >Remembered as greatest concept album writer in history >Preservation Sessions released as one big double album decades later to critical acclaim
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>>25212235 That's not what I was implying..
I was just saying they are the 2 best Pendulum albums and it would be cool if they made an album similar to either one, or maybe a mixture of both
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>>25212620 >saying they dislike them just to be edgey Oh, to be young and naive.
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>>25213087 This would never happen. Sorry to burst your bubble.
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I've always believed that if Weezer ended after Pinkerton they would be considered the greatest band of the 90s, and one of the best of all time
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>>25213302 Especially if they ended because Rivers committed suicide.
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Spacemen 3 never breaks up.
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Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill them All never hires that white guy to be their manager. Consequently, they stop catering shows and merchandise for rich, pale angsty teens. Their current music is at same quality as before they were signed. They become the greatest hip hop group of this decade.
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>>25213325 >In Rainbows is the last Radiohead album. Im waiting for the next album to decide whether I agree on this or not.
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>>25213375 >implying TKOL isn't one of their best albums Anonymous
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>>25213325 But then there would be no King of Limbs and that would be a bad world to live in
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>>25213302 And /mu/ would hate them
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Sometimes my dad beats me.
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Sgt. Meatliver and his Spiritual Group !3I4SJbCh8M Mon 28 May 2012 00:50:52 No. 25213624 Report >>25211689 I made a playlist out of this and am currently listening to it
*le obama face
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Stuart Murdoch's dog dies in 2002.
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>>25213624 Pretty feelsy so far...
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>>25213624 Same here.
But I got distracted listening to Oh Yeah by Yello.
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>>25213087 If I remember right, Kurt Cobain dropped out of high school and the only job he could get was as a janitor, at his old school. Also say what you will about the band, Kurt's taste in music was awesome.
>Nirvana never gets past just playing a few small gigs locally >Kurt has to stay as janitor at the school >Alternative rock never gets popular and just stays like it was in the 80's >You're going to school in Seattle in the early 00's >There's this older janitor there, a lot of the kids either make fun of him or ignore him >You fell kinda bad for him >You start talking to him, making friends with him >Tells you that you can call him Kurt >Reminisces about the days when he was in a small sludge-pop band with his friends >Shows you all these bands from the 80's and 90's were obscure in this reality, like Belle and Sebastian, Weezer, Dinosaur Jr., Elephant 6 stuff >He shows you his beat up guitar from his youth days when he played in a band called "Nirvana" >You become the closet thing he has to friend >You talk about music, he shows all these really cool records he loves from from his massive collection >Mid way through senior year he kills himself >You're the only one at his funeral aside from an ex-wife and a strange bald homeless man called who keeps going on about how brilliant he his >Kurt's will leaves everything to you, which is mainly a ton of milk crates of records and his old guitar >You start up a band a couple of years later with some friends you meet >You play lead on Kurt's old guitar and tour with these other recent small college rock bands, meeting them, like this strange guy who makes you call him Avey, even though his name's David, and this soft spoken kind of depressed guy Elliot The Duke of Prunes !/Ih/icXptA
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>>25214288 I have to give you credit for putting that much effort into creating the scenario.
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David Baker isn't a huge douchebag, the rest of Mercury Rev love him, and he never leaves the band after Boces. The band keeps putting out great crazy experimental-psichedelic-noise-pop albums forever.
The Artist Formerly Known As Prince !Headf1obRo
The Artist Formerly Known As Prince !Headf1obRo Mon 28 May 2012 01:36:31 No. 25214722 Report So can you guys go to chanArchive and vote for this thread?
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The Artist Formerly Known As Prince !Headf1obRo Mon 28 May 2012 01:42:18 No. 25214836 Report Anonymous
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>MC Ride isn't angry >Death Grips never gets formed
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Weezer make a record that's actually good.
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>>25214288 I got feels out of this.
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Noel and Liam Gallagher keep their fucking mouths shut and disband after (What's The Story) Morning Glory?, Andy Bell reforms Ride, Blur settle their differences straight after recording Think Tank and make another album, then disband following the painful and graphic death of Alex James after having a block of cheese forcefully shoved into his ass by Joe Strummer, who is then diagnosed with a heart defect, which is subsequently treated.
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In an parallel universe, there'll be a thread exactly like this one but with one of the posts reading "Kurt Cobain kills himself after releasing In Utero, Nirvana go on to become one of the biggest alt. rock bands of all time."
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The Artist Formerly Known As Prince !Headf1obRo Mon 28 May 2012 02:27:53 No. 25215884 Report Quoted By:
>>25214836 Let's archive this thread! Two more votes. Please?
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>>25212429 But then we wouldn't have Wowee Zowee, one of the best albums of the '90s.
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>>25212245 No noise musician will ever be 'widely' anything.
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Dave Mustain doesn't get kicked out of Metallica, Cliff lives, and Lars is replaced with Kirk Hammet on drums.
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The Beatles never record a Day in the Life due to production complications.
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The Artist Formerly Known As Prince !Headf1obRo Mon 28 May 2012 03:01:30 No. 25216664 Report >>25214836 One more vote to archive this thread! Please vote.
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The Artist Formerly Known As Prince !Headf1obRo Mon 28 May 2012 03:13:38 No. 25216943 Report Quoted By:
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>>25216119 resulting in all drums played through a wah wah pedal
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>Pamela Courson overdoses before Jim can even shoot up. >She is pronounced dead in the ER. >The Doors continue their hiatus for 4 more years. Jim stops using all non-alcoholic drug use. >Jim returns to California in 1975 to record An American Prayer with composer Lalo Schrifin. The album is critically applauded and later becomes /mu/core. >The Doors reunite to record a new album, "Lizard Palace", a collection of experimental songs and cabaret ballads dealing with themes of the fragile nature of life. Though highly publicized and anticipated, the album fails to reach a mainstream audience after it's 1978 release due to low radio play. >Jim decides to leave The Doors to realize his dream of recording spoken-word poetry. The remaining members decide to disband. >Jim Morrison's mainstream popularity fades with his looks. By 1982, he has abandoned performing altogether and focuses on writing. In 2001, he scheduled to make the talk show rounds to promote his autobiography. On United Airlines Flight 175 he dies during the events of September 11th. >Ray Manzerek becomes a composer and gets steady work, but is always "the cheaper alternative to Danny Elfman" >Robby Krieger and John Densmore retire to their families. >The publicly perceived "patriotism" of Jim Morrison's presence on one of the planes boosts sales of his novels and poetry and propels him to become one of the most successful authors of the 20th century.
