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« on: 17 Aug 2005, 18:42 »
Not long ago I was flipping through the channels on my buddy's TV. I decided on seeing what was playing on Much More Music to see if anything interesting was playing or which bands I used to listen to, had become commercial slaves. And wouldn't you know it, the very next song that played was Power out by the Arcade Fire. I then proceeded to loudly yell "Fucking hell!" while sitting in the middle of the kitchen eating a Nutella sandwhich. This being very abrupt had absolutely no affect on my friends because they are used to me yelling out random things and being "spontaneous". But anyway, it made me sad to think that the Arcade Fire had stooped so low as to have their song played on Much. But in the back of my mind I congratulated them for making it onto the major music scene. Vopice your opinion.
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« Reply #1 on: 17 Aug 2005, 19:16 »
Sell it now, selling out,
Everyone you know is selling out!
Sell it now, selling out,
Everyone you know is selling out!
Bring me the head of Roman Polanski!
Bring me the legs of Fred Astaire!
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« Reply #2 on: 17 Aug 2005, 19:16 »
Um. They're pretty bound to get their videos played on networks. it's going to happen to all of your favorite bands. and there's nothing wrong with that.



However, I just feel like that because I am absolutely 100% sure that none of my favorite bands will ever become huge. especially since a good 60% are dead or broken up, and the rest are "uncommercial".
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but the music sucks because the keyboards don't have the cold/mechanical sound they had but a wannabe techno sound that it's pathetic for Rammstein standars.

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« Reply #3 on: 17 Aug 2005, 19:20 »
If I ever saw an Immortal video being played on the TV, my trousers would literally come down in France.
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« Reply #4 on: 17 Aug 2005, 19:26 »
Wait. It's a bad thing if your favorite band gets played on MuchMusic? I...don't understand.
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« Reply #5 on: 17 Aug 2005, 19:48 »
Well there are laws here in Canada that say a certain amount of Canadian music must be played, so the more obscure are bound to get exposure here. That said, The Arcade Fire got popular (and twice as uncool) awhile ago.
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« Reply #6 on: 17 Aug 2005, 21:07 »
JUST BECAUSE A BAND GETS FAMOUS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THEY'VE SOLD OUT.

That is all. :-)
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« Reply #7 on: 17 Aug 2005, 22:05 »
NO!  IT'S MY BAND!  NOBODY ELSE IS ALLOWED TO HAVE IT!!!
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« Reply #8 on: 17 Aug 2005, 22:14 »
"I thought you named the dog after me."

"We named the dog Indie."

"You named me after the dog?"
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« Reply #9 on: 17 Aug 2005, 22:29 »
More good bands on tv = better.
If playing Arcade Fire means there is 4 minutes less of Linkin Park or Coldplay, I'm happy.
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« Reply #10 on: 17 Aug 2005, 22:47 »
SELLOUTZ NURRRR

I'd rather see the Arcade Fire than some stupid jerkoffs whining about a girl that dumped them 3 years ago.

Also, luke? What the hell?
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« Reply #11 on: 17 Aug 2005, 22:53 »
I wanted to say something more creative and more obscure than EX-INDIE SELLOUTS HUURRRR, and that's what I came up with.
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« Reply #12 on: 17 Aug 2005, 23:16 »
Oh. Way to make me go "what the hell", I haven't had a good "what the hell" in a long time. I'm gonna have to remember that one...
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« Reply #13 on: 17 Aug 2005, 23:25 »
One time, I liked a band, but then some other people liked the band so I said I didn't like the band but I secretly still liked them but then even more people liked them so I SHIT MY PANTS!
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« Reply #14 on: 17 Aug 2005, 23:31 »
OMG that totally happened to a guy I know!
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« Reply #15 on: 18 Aug 2005, 01:11 »
Yeah, they've been getting airplay for quite a long while now. Even before the summer started, I remember me being in bio class with nothing to do with our teacher just giving us the remote to the classroom TV. Flipped around for a while, and what do you know? It's Rebellion! Then I go home, flip around with the telly, and what do you know? It's Rebellion again! Not to mention, Devon-the-annoying-DJ is quite a fanboy of The Arcade Fire, and totally whores them out all the time. I love the Arcade Fire, but sweet jesus, I don't need to be told that they are the bestest tr00 rock band of all time and HAS COME TO SAVE THE MUSIC INDUSTRY. Because, it sounds really dumb coming from a Much Music DJ.

So. Inconclusion, my opinion:
Arcade Fire on Much = old news, and is okay
Devon whoring out Arcade Fire = so not cool.
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« Reply #16 on: 18 Aug 2005, 01:25 »
not as extreme as the Kidz Bop / Modest Mouse mess.
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« Reply #17 on: 18 Aug 2005, 01:29 »
It's the same in the UK, except it's Zane Lowe, who loves The Arcade Fire
and Death From Above 1979
and Modest Mouse
and most other FORMALLYINDIEOMFGZ bands.
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« Reply #18 on: 18 Aug 2005, 04:03 »
guys, they are just trying to be cool, guys.

sometimes DJs want to be cool too, guys.

guys.
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« Reply #19 on: 18 Aug 2005, 04:48 »
HAUGHLAGBUHLGBLUGAGUHBGHULBUNURRRRRRRRR

ALSO: COCKS
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« Reply #20 on: 18 Aug 2005, 07:31 »
I don't pay enough attention to know how much popularity is considered uncool. But Channel 4 have started using Rebellion (lies) to advertise E4 and the new season of Six Feet Under.
I was shocked and awed (and happy).
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« Reply #21 on: 18 Aug 2005, 07:43 »
if a group doesn't change thier sound to make more money, they just happen to get popular, it's being successful, not selling out.
now, if a band were to abandon what they started out doing and adapt  themselves to be more accesable to the mainstream, that would be selling out.
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« Reply #22 on: 18 Aug 2005, 10:22 »
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Devon = so not cool.


Fixed.
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« Reply #23 on: 18 Aug 2005, 11:32 »
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not as extreme as the Kidz Bop / Modest Mouse mess.


I was really drunk when I first saw the ad for that.  I fell over laughing (not fell over because I was drunk.  Really.)
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« Reply #24 on: 18 Aug 2005, 11:33 »
it made me want to cry when i saw it. i love modest mouse. Kidz Bop is now on my List
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« Reply #25 on: 18 Aug 2005, 11:44 »

Ha ha!

Don't get me wrong, I dig ze Modest Mouse.
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« Reply #26 on: 18 Aug 2005, 11:45 »
Seriously, who buys that Kidz Bop crap...........WHY does it exist?!!?!!
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« Reply #27 on: 18 Aug 2005, 12:28 »
Because of Satan.
Y'know the whole eternal torment dealie.
At least they only play the commercials. If i heard that blaring out in public, I would be forced to kill something or someone.
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« Reply #28 on: 18 Aug 2005, 12:52 »
What the fook is Kidz Bop?!
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« Reply #29 on: 18 Aug 2005, 12:59 »
You're better off not knowing............
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« Reply #30 on: 18 Aug 2005, 13:05 »
E4 and film four have used the arcade fire on some of their recent adverts ...

film four usually has good advert music though... like mogwai and sigur ros sometimes
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« Reply #31 on: 18 Aug 2005, 14:22 »
ANYWAYS

If I lived in a world where everybody owned an album by The Arcade Fire, or Death From Above 1979, or Metric, or Modest Mouse, or whatever indie band you want to name, that would be a pretty good world, I think. So I really don't worry about those bands getting airplay (especially on MuchMusic which is a TV channel I love), because I would rather people said "Hey I'll go buy the Arcade Fire album" than saying "HOLY MOLY THAT JESSE MCCARTNEY IS SOOOOO DEEP ZOMGZORDS!"
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« Reply #32 on: 18 Aug 2005, 16:56 »
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If I ever saw an Immortal video being played on the TV, my trousers would literally come down in France.


Um Scuzz? They have played Immortal, I know cause my fiance almost creamed... They also play dark tranqulity although they are def moving more mainstream... that is all.
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« Reply #33 on: 18 Aug 2005, 17:11 »
Was it Monochromatic Stains?

I love that video.

Any idea what Immortal Video it was? I'm guessing Grim And Frostbitten Kingdoms, because that's the least ridiculous.

It should definitely have been Call of the Wintermoon though:



This still only captures the barest fraction of the awesome of Call of the Wintermoon.
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« Reply #34 on: 18 Aug 2005, 17:20 »
No idea Khar, but he'll probs know when he gets in from work at 2:30, I'll ask and post if he remembers. :)
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« Reply #35 on: 18 Aug 2005, 17:26 »
In the name of my mate Sam , who I consulted with over MSN, (Chambercraft's very own) I say (as he told me) "BLACKEST MIGHTY RAVENDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARK!!!"

Does that make sense??
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« Reply #36 on: 18 Aug 2005, 17:55 »
"Kidz Bop" + "Now that's what I call music" = 2(yuck)
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« Reply #37 on: 18 Aug 2005, 18:14 »
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Does that make sense??


"A GRIMLY SOUND OF NAKED WIIIIINDS....
IS ALL THAT SHALL EVER BE HEARD FROM HEEEEERE!

OOOOOOOH!!!"

(or, yes)
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« Reply #38 on: 18 Aug 2005, 18:35 »
I prefer System of a Down and Deerhoof to all those other whacked-out crazy death-metal bands you guys listen to.

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« Reply #39 on: 18 Aug 2005, 18:36 »
Good, I'm glad. Cause it made precious little to me, I just head upstairs and listen to my pop punk bollocks while he looks evil and stuff downstairs :)

Anyhoo Gareth (the Fiance) tinks the DT one is New Build. mih :)
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« Reply #40 on: 18 Aug 2005, 18:44 »
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it made me want to cry when i saw it. i love modest mouse. Kidz Bop is now on my List


Same here. They don't even know what Modest Mouse even IS and they're bastardizing their music. It makes me cry.
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« Reply #41 on: 18 Aug 2005, 18:54 »
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Anyhoo Gareth (the Fiance) tinks the DT one is New Build. mih :)


Pssh, Character was a let down in my book. Damage Done though, hell yeah! Monochromatic Stains is such a great song, and that whacked out expressionist video...perfection!

LIKE FINGERPRINTS ON YOUR HEART...
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« Reply #42 on: 18 Aug 2005, 21:16 »
The Arcade Fire being on some kind of media outlet is not news to me. Every single person I know that is even remotely into rock has a copy of Funeral. These are the same kinds of people who made The Postal Service famous.
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« Reply #43 on: 18 Aug 2005, 21:18 »
I am a rocker. I rock out. I have not this Funeral of which you speak. Yet I think you know me not. So thou art not refuted.

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« Reply #44 on: 18 Aug 2005, 21:19 »
Arcade Fire...rock?
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« Reply #45 on: 18 Aug 2005, 21:26 »
weevil, you mean Arcade Fire am teh rock, right?
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« Reply #46 on: 19 Aug 2005, 20:24 »
I still don't really get this? How is trying to have more people listen to your music a bad thing/selling out? I mean, if I started a band I'd want the whole world to listen, no? At the end of the day, what is the point of art if there is noone to appreciate said art?

I agree if whoever said that if you start altering your music for commercial appeal then you would be 'selling out', but if you're just putting out what you already have...?

Hell, some of the stuff I listen to is obscure as hell. Some of it. on the other hand. is pretty much as popular as music gets. Does that make the latter any worse than the former? Who cares if your music taste is shared by the world as long as it's still music that you, personally, for whatever reasons, find... pff, for lack of a better word: good.

Hell, everyone in the world simultaneously decides to listen to everything on my playlist/in my cd collection I'd be happy, though a little perplexed hehe.

So yeah...
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« Reply #47 on: 19 Aug 2005, 22:43 »
for those of you worried about the arcade fire becoming "popular" and thus uncool, i would be more bothered by the fact they have been in newsweek twice in the past year than the fact that a much music is playing their videos.



also, the modest mouse toyota commerical was when i knew the cat was completely out of the bag there.
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« Reply #48 on: 20 Aug 2005, 12:25 »
Nine inch Nails NEVER gets any airplay on Much or MuchMoreMusic.
The only Tool song that ever gets play is Schism. These bands have huge cult followings, and yet, they get no airplay. Apparently The Arcade Fire is considered disposable enough to be put on Much.

Honestly, they probably are disposable...being indie does not excuse disposableness.

*disposes of The Arcade Fire, and listens to Nine inch Nails 10 years into the future*

Much sucks. Give me Fuse!
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« Reply #49 on: 20 Aug 2005, 13:47 »
I was under the impression that Much had changed into Fuse. At least that's what happened on DirecTV...
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