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In reply to the discussion: Post the names of bands you were really wrong about.... [View all]Chan790
(20,176 posts)16. I though Maroon5 wouldn't even manage to remain noteworthy long enough...
for anybody to give a shit if they put out a second album. I was wrong but only because I underestimated the selling power of Adam Levine's smile, personality and hotness. Musically, they're still mediocre. There are worse acts out there, but not that have sold so many CDs.
I thought Sugar Ray were going to be huge...man, I had terrible taste in the mid-90s.
I told a woman in a grocery store while they were playing "Just Dance", a breakout first hit by an artist that had ties to the same neighborhood I was living in NYC (Lady Gaga), that "It's a poppy song, but it's got one hit wonder written all over it." That woman turned out to be her mother. So not only was I wrong, I made an ass out of myself.
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in 95-96 I worked at a cd store (I know, how quaint) and we had free tx to a Zombie show
NightWatcher
Apr 2014
#31
I thought Train would be Hugh and I felt the same way about The Counting Crows..
nirvana555
Apr 2014
#14
I thought Nirvana were the weakest of the groups to emerge from Sub-Pop.
Beware the BeastMan
Apr 2014
#23