Future Idiots
| Future Idiots | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Klippan , Sweden |
| Genre (s) | Rock , punk , pop-punk |
| founding | 2005 |
| Website | www.futureidiots.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Marius Paxcow | |
Bass , vocals |
Mike Andersson |
| Big Mac | |
guitar |
Jay tea |
| former members | |
| Kennie | |
Future Idiots is a rock band founded in Sweden in 2005 . According to the group, the influences lie with bands like Blink-182 , The Offspring , Green Day , Social Distortion , NOFX , No Use for a Name , Bad Religion , Bowling for Soup , Foo Fighters and Avenged Sevenfold . The band is currently under contract with the Californian independent label Pacific Ridge Records .
history
The band was founded when the members were still in school, shortly afterwards they released the demo tape Point of No Return with eleven songs. With the demo version of Love and Murder released in 2006 , which Pacific Ridge Records mastered in 2010 and swapped tracks 10 and 11 for others, the band wanted to distance themselves from the idea of being a fun or school project band and step into it Dare to join a professional band.
In August of the same year the album was released with the title Grand Theft Audio (as a reference to the computer game series Grand Theft Auto ), the track list of which consisted mainly of rock covers by famous artists.
In the same year, the band released their third studio album Lust in November with 14 songs that had not been released until then.
The fourth album (second cover album) Grand Theft Audio 2 was released in July 2011 and, like Grand Theft Audio, only contains cover versions of existing songs.
In October 2011 it was announced that the new EP Goes Heavy Metal will be released on November 29th. What makes the album stand out is the fact that fans were able to choose an existing song through online voting, which the band would then cover and release. The Californian metal band Avenged Sevenfold was chosen for the song Afterlife .
On January 11, 2012, fans were asked via Facebook whether the band should cover the album Neighborhoods by the American band Blink-182. Within a few minutes, the group received a tremendous amount of positive feedback, so that the band announced on the same day that the album was in progress.
In the fall of 2012, Future Idiots hit the headlines by releasing the cover album Neighborhoods and Morningwoods , a paraphrase of the blink-182 album Neighborhoods , which was released the same year.
According to a quote from the band, Neighborhoods and Morningwoods should sound like the old blink-182 albums, such as Enema of the State or Take Off Your Pants and Jacket . Future Idiots described their cover album as follows: "The album sounds like it should have been in the original blink-182."
This not only led to threats from blink-182 fans, but also to the American radio station KROQ becoming aware of them. Mark Hoppus , lead singer of Blink 182, was asked in an interview about his opinion about the album by Future Idiots and said that he had already listened to it himself and that he thought it was very successful.
The band's sixth album is an album of the same name (Selftitled), the release of which was celebrated on April 28, 2012 at the Best Western Hotel in their hometown of Klippan .
Discography
| year | Album / EP |
|---|---|
| 2010 |
Point of no return
• First studio album / demo • Released: June 1, 2006 |
| 2010 |
Love and Murder
• Second studio album • Released: March 30, 2010 |
| 2010 |
Grand Theft Audio
• First cover album • Released: August 24th |
| 2010 |
Lust
• Third studio album • Released: October 26, 2010 |
| 2011 |
Grand Theft Audio II
• Second cover album • Released: July 28, 2011 |
| 2011 |
A3T / Alkaline Trio Tribute
• First cover EP • Released: September 6, 2011 |
| 2011 |
Goes heavy metal
• Second cover EP • Released: November 29, 2011 |
| 2012 |
Future Idiots
• Fourth studio album • Released: April 29, 2012 |
| 2012 |
Neighborhoods & Morningwoods
• Third cover album by Neighborhoods (Blink-182) • Released on: October 23, 2012 |
| 2012 |
Unwrap my package
• Christmas EP • Released on: December 18, 2012 |
| 2015 |
Murphys Law
• Fifth studio album • Release date: summer 2015 |
Cover versions
The band is characterized, among other things, by publishing covers in rock or pop-punk style (more rarely in the acoustic area). So two albums consist almost entirely of covers of songs that few time before the release of the album in the charts or were classics of popular music represent. Other covers are mostly from the heavy / power metal area or from the pop-punk genre itself (e.g. tribute songs for blink-182, Bowling for Soup or Alkaline Trio ).
| Title of the song | Original interpreter | album | Year of publication of the original |
Future Idiot album |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| bad Romance | Lady Gaga | The Fame Monster | 2009 | Grand Theft Audio |
| I gotta feeling | the black Eyed Peas | The end | 2009 | Grand Theft Audio |
| Fireflies | Owl City | Ocean eyes | 2009 | Grand Theft Audio |
| Adam's song | Blink-182 | Enema of the State | 1999 | Grand Theft Audio |
| You're beautiful | James Blunt | Back to Bedlam | 2004 | Grand Theft Audio |
| (Who) Says | John Mayer | Continuum | 2007 | Grand Theft Audio |
| Everytime | Britney Spears | In the zone | 2004 | Grand Theft Audio |
| Paparazzi | Lady Gaga | The Fame | 2009 | Grand Theft Audio |
| Wavin 'flag | K'naan | troubadour | 2010 | Grand Theft Audio |
| When You Fucked Grandpa | Blink-182 | Take Off Your Pants and Jacket | 2001 | Grand Theft Audio |
| What Went Wrong | Blink-182 | Take Off Your Pants and Jacket | 2001 | Grand Theft Audio, Youtube |
| Stars are blind | Paris Hilton | Paris | 2009 | Grand Theft Audio |
| This is the life | Amy Macdonald | This is the life | 2007 | Grand Theft Audio |
| Mercy Me | Alkaline trio | Crimson | 2005 | Grand Theft Audio |
| A thousand miles | Vanessa Carlton | Be Not Nobody | 2002 | Grand Theft Audio, Youtube |
| Absolutely (The Story of a Girl) | Nine days | The Madding Crowd | 2000 | Grand Theft Audio, Youtube |
| Firework | Katy Perry | Teenage Dream | 2010 | Grand Theft Audio II |
| Love the Way You Lie (Part II) | Rihanna | Loud | 2010 | Grand Theft Audio II |
| In My Head | Jason Derülo | Jason Derülo | 2009 | Grand Theft Audio II |
| Little Lion Man | Mumford & Sons | Sigh No More | 2009 | Grand Theft Audio II, Youtube |
| Just the Way You Are (Amazing) | Bruno Mars | Doo-wops & hooligans | 2010 | Grand Theft Audio II, Youtube |
| Friday | Rebecca Black | Friday (Rebecca Black song) | 2011 | Grand Theft Audio II, Youtube |
| Closer to the edge | 30 Seconds to Mars | This is war | 2009 | Grand Theft Audio II, Youtube |
| Eenie Meenie | Justin Bieber & Sean Kingston | My World 2.0 | 2010 | Grand Theft Audio II, Youtube |
| Hey soul sister | Train | Save Me San Francisco | 2010 | Grand Theft Audio II, Youtube |
| Idiots Are Taking Over | NOFX | The War on Errorism | 2003 | Youtube |
| The Flight of Apollo | Angels & Airwaves | Love | 2011 | Youtube |
| Walking disaster | Sum 41 | Underclass Hero | 2007 | Youtube |
| The Edge of Glory | Lady Gaga | Born This Way | 2011 | Youtube |
| Ghost on the dance floor | Blink-182 | Neighborhoods | 2011 | Youtube |
| Wishing Well | Blink-182 | Neighborhoods | 2011 | Youtube |
| She's Got a Boyfriend Now | Bowling for soup | Drunk Enough to Dance | 2002 | Youtube |
| This addiction | Alkaline trio | This addiction | 2010 | Youtube |
| 145 (155) | +44 | When Your Heart Stops Beating | 2006 | Youtube |
| Sadie | Alkaline trio | Crimson | 2005 | Youtube |
| Pieces | Sum 41 | Chuck | 2004 | Youtube |
| Up all night | Blink-182 | Neighborhoods | 2009 | Youtube |
| Secret crowds | Angels & Airwaves | I-Empire | 2007 | Youtube |
| Over My Head (Cable Car) | The fray | How to Save a Life | 2005 | Youtube |
| We found love | Rihanna | Talk that talk | 2011 | Youtube |
| Every teardrop is a waterfall | Coldplay | Mylo Xyloto | 2011 | Youtube |
| Fear of the Dark | Iron Maiden | Fear of the Dark | 1992 | Goes Heavy Metal EP, Youtube |
| Afterlife | Avenged Sevenfold | Diamonds in the Rough | 2008 | Goes Heavy Metal EP, Youtube |
| Through the Fire and Flames | DragonForce | Inhuman Rampage | 2006 | Goes Heavy Metal EP, Youtube |
| The Garden's Tale | Volbeat | Rock the Rebel / Metal the Devil | 2007 | Goes Heavy Metal EP |
| I won't be home for Christmas | Blink-182 | A Santa Cause: It's a Punk Rock Christmas | 2003 | Unwrap My Package |
| XM @ $ | Corey Taylor | 2010 | Unwrap My Package |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pacific Ridge Records, Label ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Official website (English)