• MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Im Gen X and only knew them in their corporate rock phase. Did they ever have a kind of underground stage where they were massively influential like U2 had been?

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      3 days ago

      I don’t know if it was “underground”, because their second album was very commercially successful, but they definitely did have a fair bit of influence. They were quite well regarded in the early 00s, and then in the late 00s to early 10s a whole bunch of pop-rock acts influenced by them cropped up