Alien Ant Farm
Biography
The SoCal alt-metal foursome Alien Ant Farm formed in 1996 with the raging singer/songwriter Dryden Mitchell, guitarist Terry Corso, bassist Tye Zamora, and drummer Mike Cosgrove. All were bored with their day jobs and sought something else to break them from corporate norms. Music allowed them to freely express themselves, and a friendship was born. They independently released their quirky debut, Greatest Hits, toward the end of the '90s and soon enough noise surrounded the band. It won the award for Best Independent Album at the 1999 L.A. Music Awards and Alien Ant Farm found themselves striking a deal with Papa Roach's New Noize, which is partners with DreamWorks.
Two years later they made their major-label introduction with ANThology, issued in March 2001. Debut single "Smooth Criminal" was a funky metal mix of Michael Jackson's original song, and pop kids of the TRL generation loved it. The song hit number one on the modern rock charts, and the album eventually went platinum. A year later, between tours of Europe, the band was back in the studio recording new music. Their new song "Bug Bites" was featured in the Tobey Maguire flick Spiderman in May 2002. But while traveling in Spain to a gig in Portugal that same month, the band's bus collided with a truck, killing their driver, Christopher Holland.
Selected Discography
Gotta say - years later listening for the first time in a while, they definitely had some original vocal melodies or maybe just his vocals in general
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So underrated. Which is sad because I put on one of their CDs every one likes the music but has no idea who it is.
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Mike Jack is still the ORIGINAL Smooth Criminal!!!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
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THEY ROCK!!!!!!!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! but the looks scare me... hehehe and i love their version of Smooth Criminal rather than michael jacksons version
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miss this band, i loved all of their albums. i almost stole my friends ANThology cd when i first borrowed it. had to cop my own tho, they were one in million. fresh sound, good shows, and great lyrics.
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I believe AAF hsa a lot of range for rock groups these days, and it makes for great albums. It is sad that their bitterness towards the music industry caused them to break up. Seeing them in concert the year before Up In the Attic you could tell that despite great musicianship and songs just how angry especially Dryden has become. Such great energy and such great sounds.
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These guys came to my town to play a radio festival. Dryden refused to cooperate with the radio interview when the resident DJ started the conversation with 'whats up stripey?'(cu z of his hair). After that, Dryden answered everything kinda cocky and added the word 'stripey' to every answer. At the concert, the dj and I were waiting behind the stage to talk to them, they had their roadie pull the hauler for the instuments right to the stage, the guys got in the hauler and took off. pissy much?
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I love how these guys have an original sound, so many bands now sound the same
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these guys are awesome anyone who doesnt think so obviously doesnt have great taste in music and musicianship . . . j u s t listen to "flesh and bone" off the ANThology album..by far one of my favorite songs ever..
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is it just me or do they give you a feeling of micheal jackson? lol okay to me
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These guys have a lot of good songs, not a lot are popular. These guys are awesome in my opinion, which is the only opinion that matters to me!
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I really loved the original AAF line up, their live shows were always great and they were so accessible to the fans. They had great music and they were good guys, no egos just a realness and comedic youth yet so down to earth but weird. Its too bad they had to split up like so many great bands before them only to slip into obscurity.
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This is definitely one of my favorite bands. I saw them play at the apple store in Santa Monica and it was amazing. All the musicians in the band have so much talent. Nat if that's the way you feel i'm willing to bet you didn't buy any of albums past anthology. Smooth criminal is probly your favorite song by them :/
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ya right they f**king own hard core i love aliean ant farm gowd!!!!!!! =Φ
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