It’s Just the Same Old Song

I’ve been playing the iLike Challenge (much like Name That Tune) for the past two days and I’ve realized a few things. I can tell Panic! at the Disco and Fall Out Boy apart with amazing regularity. I am proud of myself for that. I also get every Pink Floyd and most Syd Barrett questions right which is an achievement as I never purchased any of Syd’s albums.

Unfortunately I have run across a problem. I cannot tell the difference between Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, Blink 182, and Sum 41 musically. I recognize the really really popular Blink 182 songs that played back in the days when Carson hosted TRL. I can pick out one of the members, Mark Hoppus, because he’s a looker. I also remember that they parodied the Backstreet Boys’ I Want it That Way video in one of their own. Other than that I am completely lost every time I hear one of the songs from any of these bands. If you could eliminate those four bands from the rotation in the game my accuracy would go up at least 5 percent.

It makes me stop to think about what was going on in the music industry when all of these bands were super popular on MTV and on the radio. I would probably conveniently assume they were all Blink 182 because Mark is cute and it’d be an excuse to buy CDs with his picture on them. Is that any way to buy music? Is this how the world felt when Backstreet Boys and were super popular? I never had any problems distinguishing bands by vocals, but with bands where everyone screams and hops around on stage how do you discriminate the vocals? I don’t get it.

Tags: Backstreet Boys, Blink 182, Good Charlotte, iLike, Music, Simple Plan, Sum 41

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