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Is Derivative Always Bad?

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Tom:
In answer to your question

a pack of wolves:
But on the other hand


Or alternatively

Tom:
Point taken.....wait, who are they? :?

Everything is derived from something when you get right down to it. It ends up being bad when bands either a) just mimic with out trying to improve in any way on the original idea or b) when they can be summed up as playing long lost <insert band name> tracks that were "lost because the sucked bad.

a pack of wolves:
Annihilation Time and Career Suicide. The reason I chose them is because they don't improve on the original ideas of the bands they borrow from (although they certainly are good at what they do and not inferior examples). Look at that second photo; when things are kicking off like that who cares that it's derivative?

Inlander:

--- Quote from: pentaen on 19 Nov 2007, 16:34 ---but with a more modern twist.

--- End quote ---

That's the catch right there. I have no problem with bands basing their sound on something that's gone before it - a massive and essential part of any artistic endeavour is learning from your predecessors and borrowing from them where necessary - but there has to be something new brought to the table. That's partly why I can't stand bands like Wolfmother - because there's absolutely nothing new there. In an age where there is such a massive amount of old music readily available to listen to, why would I want to listen to somebody reheat old ideas verbatim when I can just listen to the original?

An interesting variation on this idea is found in more traditional music (folk, blues, country) - with such music, where re-singing old songs is such an important part of the scene, a new idea can be as little as singing an old song that has new relevance to contemporary society, a song that people thought they knew but which might reveal new parts of itself or of the world around it when sung in a new social context.

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