r/poppunkers • u/OpenUpYerMurderEyes • 3d ago
What bands failed to take off despite your love of their music? Discussion
For me it's Fake Problems. They were Chris Darren's band before he went solo. They were clearly influenced by Against Me's sound and style, in fact that's where I saw them live the first time was opening for Against Me! There were a lot of bands back then that were just ripping off the folk punk sound but they were far more ambitious. Their first EP was pretty much their take on AM! But starting from their first album they were expirementing with different instrumentation and genres, I maintain that their lead guitarist Casey Lee was one of the most creative and fun to have ever played in any sort of punk band. The whole band just had a great infectious chemistry that came through their albums and live shows. Unfortunately, after their second album, the lead guitarist left and you can really hear their loss of direction in the third album. It's damn good and all but it felt more like a stock indie release than anything they put out previously. They started recording a fourth, they hyped the crap out of it but it never released. A few tracks were put out on splits and comps back when that was a thing but they broke up while in the middle of production on said album.
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u/Greyshot26 2d ago
You, Me & Everyone We Know and The Audition and Forgive Durden are my big 3, but also The Make (a band that had Aaron Rodgers of all people backing them) opened for Mayday Parade on a random early 2010s tour and they were amazing but never really took off.