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The Best Show on WFMU => Dear Tom => Topic started by: Biscuit Gravy on January 21, 2015, 08:50:25 PM

Title: Worn
Post by: Biscuit Gravy on January 21, 2015, 08:50:25 PM
Dear Tom,

I'm sorry, I have limited internet, here on the dark side of the planet, and couldn't bear more than 30 seconds of listening, but surely, this is what you are looking for (or at least, something by this band...I don't have time or inclination to click through everything on Youtoobs).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2FoptnbByQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2FoptnbByQ#)

ps: is this some kind of new Rick Astley 'Rickroll'?

have I been trolled???

Your Pal,


Some Guy on the Internet
Title: Re: Worn
Post by: Biscuit Gravy on January 21, 2015, 09:42:09 PM
Faceless Man?  surely, not.  unless 'Worn' is an overworn monikor for pseudo-Metallica bro-metal bands.  maybe. could be.

I really think that I've been trolled.
Title: Re: Worn
Post by: paul on January 22, 2015, 12:49:16 PM
it's Faceless Man

Brian Turner played this a while back:
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/28324 (http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/28324)

there's a link to a myspace page which indicates that they've broken up
Title: Re: Worn
Post by: Mike Desert on January 22, 2015, 12:59:39 PM
Google tells me that it's also a Creed song, which makes sense...
Title: Re: Worn
Post by: Biscuit Gravy on January 22, 2015, 03:34:01 PM
it's Faceless Man

Brian Turner played this a while back:
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/28324 (http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/28324)

there's a link to a myspace page which indicates that they've broken up
this saddens me.  I was really hoping that this would be the big break that the strumming drummer of WORNTHEBAND was dreaming of.

it's almost cliche to ask, but who in their right mind would cover a Creed song?  sounds like career suicide to me.
Title: Re: Worn
Post by: paul on January 22, 2015, 04:43:52 PM
actually "Worn" was the song and Faceless Man was the band name, which I'm assuming was named after the Creed song
Title: Re: Worn
Post by: Biscuit Gravy on January 22, 2015, 05:00:20 PM
I understand that now.  my Googling relied upon the fact that every nobody band in the world tends to tag their mp3s with their bands name, and not the song, because that's all that matters.

When Google then led me to a Youtube video with music eerily similar to the off-kilter stylings of Faceless Man (the band), I naturally assumed that I'd hit on it.

the problem, beyond all of these guys finding the raw gutteral sounds of Creed so appealing is the use of the word "Worn".  I'm sure, for them, it evokes images of the rusty gates of ruined churches, but for me, a more practical man, I cannot disassociate it from "dirty laundry" (as in, smelly clothes, not Don Henley).
Title: Re: Worn
Post by: Biscuit Gravy on January 22, 2015, 05:03:47 PM
that strumming drummer though.... he puts Mr. Puffyvest to shame, with his lackluster keyboard mashing. 
Title: Re: Worn
Post by: Carver on January 22, 2015, 05:17:17 PM
When Tom played it on the show I was seriously thinking "maybe it's Jandek?"
Title: Re: Worn
Post by: buffcoat on January 23, 2015, 10:19:36 AM
The true mystery is where Tom acquired this track.

Whatever the explanation, it was pure gold radio talking... whatever. I make and drink a fruit smoothie for breakfast while listening to the Best Show. I always hope the less funny parts are playing while I drink the thing - no luck on that this morning.
Title: Re: Worn
Post by: buffcoat on January 23, 2015, 10:21:48 AM
Google tells me that it's also a Creed song, which makes sense...

That is to say "Faceless Man" is also a Creed song, right?

This is the Creed that I prefer:

(http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Creed-s-New-Look-creed-bratton-303610_384_302.jpg)
Title: Re: Worn
Post by: BadGuyZero on January 23, 2015, 02:04:50 PM
Faceless Man is sadly no more. The drummer now works at Wal Mart. The guitarist/singer has moved on to another musical project. I have no idea what happened to the third guy that was in their band photo but not listed as a member.
Title: Re: Worn
Post by: pnuts on January 24, 2015, 12:19:27 PM
The true mystery is where Tom acquired this track.

It was in the zeitgeist a few years back. Not sure who found it originally but their myspace was spread around by Professor Hesske, Cosloy, & others and made appearances on terminal-boredom (http://terminal-boredom.com/forums/index.php?topic=12067.0 (http://terminal-boredom.com/forums/index.php?topic=12067.0)) and Brian Turner's radio show. Another shining example of the brilliance of the internet.
Title: Re: Worn
Post by: buffcoat on January 24, 2015, 02:12:39 PM
The true mystery is where Tom acquired this track.

It was in the zeitgeist a few years back. Not sure who found it originally but their myspace was spread around by Professor Hesske, Cosloy, & others and made appearances on terminal-boredom (http://terminal-boredom.com/forums/index.php?topic=12067.0 (http://terminal-boredom.com/forums/index.php?topic=12067.0)) and Brian Turner's radio show. Another shining example of the brilliance of the internet.

Nice work. I guess I don't get out to, ah, those parts of the Internet.

Tom's ability to turn something like this, years later, into comedy gold is one of the primary reasons I'm still with the show 11 years later.