Why does this amuse me so?

Now, let me start off by saying, I may be behind on the news. But I found out something amazingly hilarious today that I just thought I'd share with you all. You may or may not care, but I just... couldn't believe it. First, let's start a bit of build up. There's this fairly (notice how I use that term loosely) new band called Under the Influence of Giants. The song they're probably most famous for is "Mama's Room", which was on Laguna Beach or one of those dumb ass shows. When I first saw the video for that song, I thought these guys had to be British. Because the first thing that came to my mind when I heard the synth-like melodies was: modern day glam rock? Turns out they're just from California, but honestly, the lead singer's (Aaron Bruno) voice just strikes a nerve with me for some reason. The music is really... danceable? And most definitely something to sing along to on car rides.

After I watched their new(ish) video for the song "In The Clouds", I realized, "Hey, this lead singer guy is kind of hot." So I looked him up, trying to find some information about him. Stuff like how old he is, et cetera. After I found out that he was in some movie I've never heard of in 2001, I came across this page.

Basically, Aaron (the lead singer) and his friend he's known practically all his life (Drew Stewart, the guitarist) were in a band in 2002(ish) called Home Town Hero. Well, what's funny about this is... my friend and I really liked their one song (one hit wonder, maybe?) "Eighteen" and coincidentally... it sounds absolutely NOTHING like UTIOG. It's strange. It kind of freaked me out. So then I proceeded to google Home Town Hero and came up with relatively nothing. I guess they (Aaron and Drew) wanted to just have a clean sweep and start all over with something that kids might actually enjoy these days. Honestly, the Home Town Hero CD... wasn't that good except for that one song. I believe the only websites left talking about that band are the ones from VH1 and the one I linked above. No trace at all. Except, I did find another one of their songs on the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 website. I'll leave you with some serious listening to.

Home Town Hero certainly didn't strike me as British. Anyone actually remember that band? Probably not and I'm shocked that I do. In my opinion, though, UTIOG is umpteen times better.

(mp3) Home Town Hero - Eighteen
(mp3) Home Town Hero - Questions
(mp3) Under the Influence of Giants - Mama's Room
(mp3) Under the Influence of Giants - In The Clouds