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Do you ever judge bands on their name?
Edguy:
I tend to avoid bands that start with "The" followed by a random plural. If you best idea for a name was "The Subways", "The Vines" or, god forbid, "The Yeah Yeah Yeahs", then you're probably not that creative :psyduck:. This obviously don't apply to older bands, from the '60s or '70s. :laugh:
Jimmy the Squid:
--- Quote from: Metope on 11 Nov 2013, 11:18 ---Watch out for A Great Big Pile of Leaves! Blander than mashed potatoes, here's yet another indie band with no substance and lots of cliched repetitive 'chill' feels, they're guaranteed to set the mood for the year's most annoying borefest. In their own words: ““That sounds cool!” is our guiding phrase when composing. If it sounds intense or heady or combative, we usually drop the part,” , they actively avoid doing anything that seems hard or challenging, because who needs to engage their poor little airheads anyway?
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I seem to be hearing this approach whenever I turn on the radio lately. Seems like a lot of bands are making the safest, most inoffensive music possible. I don't want to do a whole bullshit "rock is dead" kind of thing but my god if you're making music that my mum thinks is cool you're doing it wrong.
Metope:
Yeah I mean, I like a lot of different types of music, some of it is pretty generic indie stuff too, but it has to be interesting. This band, and the others I've posted about in this thread, just sounds boring, safe, lazy and all the same to me, and it's supposed to be my kind of genre. No thank you.
Patrick:
--- Quote from: Metope on 11 Nov 2013, 11:18 ---In their own words: “If it sounds intense or heady or combative, we usually drop the part”, they actively avoid doing anything that seems hard or challenging, because who needs to engage their poor little airheads anyway?
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Jesus Christ, people like this shouldn't make music for public consumption. That is exactly the reason I release hardly anything I've written by myself. This is also exactly the reason why I love being in the band I'm in, where there's a songwriter at the helm who knows what he's doing. Our first album doesn't reflect our risk-takership nearly as well as the next one will, but we do a lot of crafty shit in the songs on this next record, and it pisses me off endlessly that we work so hard, and yet the only way to make any kind of money in music is to do exactly the same lazy, cowardly thing that A Great Big Pile Of Shit admits to doing.
BeoPuppy:
It's like actively making rice crackers in the finest distillery in all of Scotland. Because rice crackers are BETTER!
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