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Was Matchbox Twenty ever a good band?

Posted on 6/15/16 at 3:06 pm
Posted by TDcline
American Gardens building 11th flor
Member since Aug 2015
9504 posts
Posted on 6/15/16 at 3:06 pm
I thought YOSLY and Mad Season were good albums. After that, just terrible.

What's the board's opinion?
Posted by GCTiger11
Ocean Springs, MS
Member since Jan 2012
46174 posts
Posted on 6/15/16 at 3:48 pm to
Yes.
Posted by lsufan9193969700
Madisonville
Member since Sep 2003
55951 posts
Posted on 6/15/16 at 3:52 pm to
Great band


Is it now cool to hate M20? Geez...
Posted by Brosef Stalin
Member since Dec 2011
42612 posts
Posted on 6/15/16 at 3:53 pm to
They're the dad rock version of Nickleback.
Posted by TDcline
American Gardens building 11th flor
Member since Aug 2015
9504 posts
Posted on 6/15/16 at 3:56 pm to
quote:

Is it now cool to hate M20? Geez.


I'm not trying to hate on them. As I stated in the OP, I thought their first 2 albums were great. Everything after that just sucked IMO.
Posted by NoSaint
Member since Jun 2011
12804 posts
Posted on 6/15/16 at 4:23 pm to
id qualify them as one of those groups that was a decent album, not a good band.
Posted by lsusportsman2
Member since Oct 2007
27232 posts
Posted on 6/15/16 at 4:26 pm to
They're okay. Like you said a couple good albums, the rest so so.
Posted by JumpingTheShark
America
Member since Nov 2012
24864 posts
Posted on 6/15/16 at 4:34 pm to
I liked them a lot in the 90s. They're nostalgic for me.
Posted by RockAndRollDetective
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2014
4506 posts
Posted on 6/15/16 at 4:38 pm to
Blecch! They suck.
Posted by LSU alum wannabe
Katy, TX
Member since Jan 2004
27875 posts
Posted on 6/15/16 at 4:39 pm to
quote:

Mad Season


They had an album named that? Or are you thinking of the self title album from the Seattle band project? Pearl Jam guys and AIC guys?

Their first album was really good IMO. But quickly became fluff. Hell maybe the first album was fluff, but I liked it?
Posted by dallastiger55
Jennings, LA
Member since Jan 2010
35109 posts
Posted on 6/15/16 at 5:36 pm to
first album was on constant rotation for me in high school. they were in the 6 disk rotation in my truck along with weezer, third eye blind, blink 182, and bush.

there was also a greater than zero chance that you would hear them while shopping at American Eagle, Abercrombie, or Gap during the late 90s/early 2000s.
Posted by genuineLSUtiger
Nashville
Member since Sep 2005
77214 posts
Posted on 6/15/16 at 6:55 pm to
They have a handful of songs that are infectious. I think Rob Thomas was and is a talented guy who is probably underrated as a musician. His project with Carlos Santana a while back was good.
Posted by tarzana
TX Hwy 6-- the Brazos River Valley
Member since Sep 2015
32793 posts
Posted on 6/15/16 at 6:58 pm to
They were enjoyable, on a par with S Club 7 and Sixpence None the Richer.
Posted by crankbait
Member since Feb 2008
11650 posts
Posted on 6/15/16 at 7:10 pm to
Yourself or someone like you was the best album of the 90s. Along with cracked read view.

Meet me at murphys to fight right now
Posted by TFTC
Chicago, Il
Member since May 2010
23685 posts
Posted on 6/15/16 at 7:11 pm to
generic crap rock
Posted by Chitter Chatter
In and Out of Consciousness
Member since Sep 2009
4667 posts
Posted on 6/15/16 at 10:10 pm to
They had some good stuff post Mad Season. More Than You Think You Are had 'Disease' (co-written w/Jagger) LINK, 'Feel', 'Cold' LINK, and 'Hand Me Down.

The newest album North had 'English Town' LINK

They've had their moments after the sophomore.
Posted by SirPsychoSexy
Baton Roudjhe
Member since Apr 2011
448 posts
Posted on 6/15/16 at 10:13 pm to
Played several of their tracks in my lsu days. Mad Season was probably my favorite tracks of theirs.
Posted by JombieZombie
Member since Nov 2009
7687 posts
Posted on 6/15/16 at 10:51 pm to
Boring, safe as milk band your parents could get into.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
299716 posts
Posted on 6/15/16 at 11:38 pm to
Back to Good was a song I liked. Wasn't much into anything else.

Good pop/rock band.
Posted by catinthedark
Alabama
Member since Jun 2016
63 posts
Posted on 6/16/16 at 12:09 am to
They definitely were back in the day, but indeed I was only 8 when the album came out.
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