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HIGH ON FIRE's Matt Pike Calls AEROSMITH A "Heaping Pile of Dogshit"

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Whoa, gotta love drama like this.

As part of AV club's column "Hatesong," they got musician Matt Pike to pick his least favorite song, and Matt Pike basically went off on Aerosmith, namely their awful song "Dude Looks Like A Lady." Here is the best part of his whole rant:

Oh God, I saw a live show. We played at some festival they played on. They were the headliner, of course, and Joe Perry had his little Guitar Hero videogame, and he did a guitar solo with his fucking videogame guy. It’s cartoon him and real him having a guitar-off. That made me want to puke, too. Then all I could think about was “Dude (Looks Like A Lady),” and then all I could think about was their vast career of bad fucking choices. The simpletons of society have just eaten it up and made them as big as they are. They’re just encouraging them to make bad music over and over again.

That band hasn’t done anything since the ’70s. And in the ’70s, which was their most redeeming era, they still fucking sucked. Two good tracks that just won everybody over, and the rest of their career has been a hot, heaping pile of dog shit. I’m just not into Aerosmith, I suppose.

He also mentioned that his name for the "off" button his machinery is "the Aerosmith button:"

I’ve just always had this thing with Aerosmith. The guy sounds like a goat. [Bleating.] “Baaa, baaa, dude looks…” It just gets under my skin. I have this button called the off button or the mute button that I call the Aerosmith button on all my stereos.

He later went onto to call the band a "polished turd," adding "you dress them up in clothes, but they’re still a piece of shit. They walk around smelling really bad, sounding really bad, and making millions of dollars."

Basically, this whole thing is incredibly hilarious and worth reading in full. Personally, I feel indifferent about Aerosmith. I do enjoy some of their older material, and some of the big hits from the 90s, but I'm not about to put it on myself anytime soon. How do you feel about Aerosmith?

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  • chiefmachine24

    haha

  • EvilAL

    Nice… hahah

  • http://twitter.com/DiscordantFlesh Silent Agony

    I agree they fucking suck so hard, not to mention the hideous plastic surgery and getting a gig on American idol money hungry piece of shit, I cant think of anything less metal/hard rock than cosmetic plastic surgery, I dont feel the same about reconstructive surgery of course but I mean spending millions/thousands to conform to POP culture standards? You're no better than any pop star you fucking useless sell outs. Fuck yourself.

  • http://twitter.com/crinn1 Crinn

    I think there are maybe…10 songs or so by them that I LOVE (all but one of them can be found on their official "greatest hits" album). And yeah, otherwise…they're shit hahaha. But I do happen to have a soft-spot for those songs that I do like by them..which are pretty much most of the songs everyone else likes by them (walk this way, dream on, rag doll, sweet emotion, last child, etc etc.). Yeah, they were definitely a good rock band from the 70s and early 80s. but OVERRATED!!!

  • http://twitter.com/crinn1 Crinn

    My parents both said that they always thought that the Aerosmith singer is one of the ugliest men alive. (looks at the picture above) yeah, no kidding lol

  • Patrick Whitaker

    I have much respect for Mr. Matt Pike, I really do but I must take issue with his opinion that Aerosmith was terrible even in the 70's. That's just outright BS. If Matt thinks Aerosmith only did 2 memorable songs in the 70's then Pike's either brain dead or back on dope. Every fucking lp Aerosmith released up until the turn for the worst Permanent Vacation were great lps with remarkable content consistently…and yes, it's all went to shit since the aforementioned Permanent (POS) Vacation.

  • imjustsayin

    I was huge Aerosmith fan in the 70's. Their music from that era was awesome! By the end of the 70's, starting with Draw the Line, they started to suck and have gradually been getting worse and worse. I was a teenager at that time and even i could tell they had already lost it. At this point, I wouldn't cross the street to see them play.

    That being said, I still think Steve Tyler and Joe Perry are cool guys. Cliche and predictable, sure, but they did it right!

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