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What makes a band a good band?
Trollstormur:
kvlt lyrics, trve nekrogrim battlebeats, and krieg black hategvitars.
KharBevNor:
Kriegly nekro-grim!
Kid Modernist:
Man, everybody screams "Originality!" Does anybody here like just listening to a tune you know was really easy to write? I mean, there is a place for cerebal cutting edge stuff (I know I like it, at least) but there should also be a place for ".. man, this is simple and groovy and traditional."
What I mean is Bob Dylan relied on some old stuff, and he still kicked ass. Grateful Dead played stuff that I'm sure has been played before, and they still kicked as. Stephen Malkmus still plays Pavement, and he kicks ass.
Sometimes relying on the past kicks ass.
TheLoweringTide:
Hence my original (somewhat sarcastic) assertation that good bands play good songs. You don't need to qualify that by requiring a certain level of technical proficiency or originality. Just good songs. I think we all know what those are; they're songs that you like.
JLM:
From an objective point of view, a lot of the bands that people hate are probably good bands.
For me, Lyrical content isn't really that important. A professor of mine once told me that "really bad writing usually makes really great lyrics," and I've often found this to be true. That's not to say that there aren't excellent lyricists out there making fantstic music today, just that most of the time musicians are not practicing something I would consider "literary."
Structure and a bit of pop sensibility are much more important to me. Also, more than anything else, STAGE PRESENCE. A great stage presence can often tip the scales for me. Sondre Lerche - not the greatest lyricist in the world (doesn't help that he writes in a non-native language) but probably one of the best live performers I've ever seen. I was on the fence about The Helio Sequence until I saw them live. I wouldn't take an album of theirs for free now.
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