At the Drive-In - Pattern Against User live on Channel V

At the Drive-In performing "Pattern Against User" for Channel V in Australia. This was one of their last shows before they went on hiatus, and eventually broke up.

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• Pattern
• Against
• User
• Australia
• 2001
• Omar
• Cedric
• Jim
• Tony
• Paul

[raulsauce12]

Being in tune...is for pussies.

[johnnie5ive]

REUNION ANNOUNCED!

[FamiPunk]

@kjuyhfklujhkuyf What makes music great is all opinion. If Coldplay reworks the same song elements 100 times over, and people think it's great, then more power to them. If someone thinks the sound of grinding fingernails against chalkboard is great music, then more power to them. I personally think originality, ambition, sincerity, and innovation make music great - I prefer to hear new things. But like I said, people like all kinds of music and have their opinions, so listen to what you want!

[kjuyhfklujhkuyf]

@peanutismint In Cedric's opinion, and in mine, originality is what makes music great, and there really are tons of bands like Coldplay just selling us the same dumbed down version of OK Computer over and over again. Cedric likes tons of mainstream stuff and so do I, that's not why we're anti-Coldplay.

[peanutismint]

@kjuyhfklujhkuyf Well I fully disagree. Coldplay are not 'alternative', they're about as mainstream as you can get, and as such it has become cool to hate on them, despite them actually being one of the greatest bands in the world right now. Even if Cedric hates Coldplay, they love ATD-I (they flipped out on Twitter recently with news of the band reforming!). So maybe it'll be lonely for me being the only die hard genuine ATD-I *and* Coldplay fan??!

[kjuyhfklujhkuyf]

@peanutismint He was doing that ironically. I read a Cedric Bixler interview where he talks about how he hates Coldplay for being one of the many fake "alternative" bands that attempt to copy the most digestible parts of Radiohead's "OK Computer." I fully agree with him.

[tremontirocks]

@raulsauce12 The whole out-of-tune thing is really deceptive though. At the Drive-In kind of has it both ways because, structurally, they're honestly writing really approachable songs. Very traditional, almost pop, in a sense. But then they drop this storm of wild lead sound over top of it, which obscures that. And when they're bending those lead parts out of key, it's only slight. It doesn't tear the song's fabric. Brilliant band, but not as outlandish as some think they are.

[peanutismint]

Love the shoutout to Coldplay. Very different bands, both equally cool. Imagine if they toured together......

[samster92]

Somewhere in there, Omar swapped guitars. How the fuck did he do that?

[SethGoTribe]

@LmaoLaneyLee Very well said.

[bodaciouspigeon]

@getupkid203 well i sounds like Jim Ward is trying to spite you then according to their reunion.

[TheStormPulse]

Yes Yes Yes!!! At the drive-in reunited :) best news ever