I enjoy their music and all, but I never find myself going out of my way to listen to them. However, every time I listen to them with friends, I always wonder why I don't listen to them more. So, I'll put on some 311 and almost immediately feel like listening to something else. It's not that I don't like their music, I just never feel compelled to listen to it when I am listening to music alone.

Every style of music has its purpose. 311 is a band that makes feel-good, party music or stoner music, and they do it well. If you're looking to get really into something, find some deep meaning into the music your'e listening to, then 311 is not a great choice. But if you're hanging out and need something good playing in the background --- or on a road trip and want some good rock beats, 311 is a great choice.

why struggle when you just don't really need it

The 311 in concert took a studio-centric turn, so I figured we'd move the discussion over here:


Yeah, I can't get behind that song at all. It's not very different from any other 311, but I think I simply grew out of this band. Aside from an instrumental album, I don't think I'll be picking up any new material from this band any time soon.

I don't blame you. Hell, this was just a throw away track from their greatest hits album from like 2004. I guess it's upbeat nature just hooked me. However, posting this video was the first time I have probably listened to it in 5 years or so.

they are terrible, but god bless em, i like them anyway.

On second listen, the song is easier to listen to when I have it playing in the browser tab underneath this one instead of watching the video. The video makes it very hard to take this song seriously.

Yeah, this kinda sums it up.

Im now listening to "I'll Be Here Awhile"

*with the exception of Beautiful Disaster. That's a pretty awesome song.

As far as 311 albums go, Transistor was pretty good. Probably my favorite 311 album, and the one I'd be most likely to listen to again before I die.

This band is awful but I have nice memories of necking to their cover of "Love Song".

You wrote a blog post about The Offspring recently that parallels a lot of feelings that I have/had towards 311.

I can see that.

Do you think that when it comes to mediocre and sophomoric bands from California suburbs in the mid-90s, answering where your thirteen year old self sat on some sort of taste spectrum that ranged from Sublime to Deftones would be an accurate personality assessment?

I don't think I liked any of those.

Well, the scale would look something like this:

[Passive and Creative] Sublime---311---Sugar Ray---Green Day---The Offspring---Rancid---Deftones [Aggresive and Destructive]

but... but....

311 is from Nebraska

And I think there is a whole set of people that are going to be really pissed you included Rancid in that group.

Oh, right.

This changes everything.