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Nada Surf283 weeks ago
 
So yeah this is the biography of the band and stuff like that. :)

Daniel Lorca met Matthew Caws when they were kids and have been friends for most of their lives. When they first decided to start the band, Daniel and Matthew set some rules. Daniel said "When Matthew and I decided we were going to start our own band and that we were going to sing, we set a couple of rules. One of them was that we would not sing in any affected sort of way, that we would sing the way we talked. Another is that we would write about things that were close to us and about our lives."
Daniel and Matthew played in various other bands before forming Nada Surf, including 'Because Because Because' and 'The Cost of Living'. Nada Surf went through the drummers Dan (?) and Aaron Conte before settling with the ex-drummer from the band 'The Fuzztones', Ira Elliot, a band which Daniel and Matthew were both fans of.
Whilst finalising contracts with record label 'Elektra' their first album, 'Karmic' was released in 1995. 'High/Low' was the next album to be released in 1996. At this point in time, Nada Surf is also signed with producer Ric Ocasek. Elektra however drops Nada Surf from the label after they break the contract and their album is not released on the US market. After legal battles for the rights of album 'The Proximty Effect' end, Nada Surf release it on their own label 'MarDev' in 1998, named after Matthew Caws' grandmother. Their album 'Let Go' is released in 2003, produced by their friends Louis Lino and Chris Fudurich. Their last album, 'The Weight is a Gift' was released in 2005 and their upcoming album 'Lucky' is expected to be released in 2008.

Contraversy Strikes!!!!!!!! :O
The video for their song 'Popular' was filmed at Bayonne High School, including footballer and cheerleader characters in the school's uniform. The vice principal of the high school started a contraversy soon after the video clip had aired. He brought up the issue that the last scene in the video, which shows the footballers in the showers staring "suggestively" at one another, was homoerotic and therefore offensive to Bayonne High School because it could suggest that members of the football team might be gay.
Nada Surf claim that the shower scene was not intended to suggest homosexuality, which appeared obvious as most of the songs lyrics and video content were blatantly heterosexual. In an MTV news report about the issue, Nada Surf critisised the vice principals ignorance, calling him "small minded" for "singling out homoeroticism as more offensive than straight eroticism".
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2 Comments:

Sxc Jeff said...12/22/07
 
Ahahaha, I read that about the Popular video before lmao how stupid.
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Oh Bella said...12/24/07
 
I know lol :P
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