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What makes a band a good band?

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Patrick:
Hah, fair enough.

More on topic, another thing that makes a band good would be having a decent natural sense of music theory. I heard this one band on their myspace (they tried to befriend mine), and I swear to god I thought they were drunk, stoned, and in the middle of having intercourse with a hedgehog the way the guitarist was playing.

IronOxide:
There are two things:

First, the band must be able to play a range of song types. The Ramones are not a vey good band.

Secondly, they must be fun to listen to. You can be however good and original as you want, but if you're boring nobody will like you.

ObsoleteDonkey:
Most people say originality. I don't think this is the case, basically every area of music has been covered in some way, from droneworks to death metal, the music is there. So, instead of doing something 'new' I think it's important to create hybrids. A band that listens to a lot of different artists, from classical to electronic to anything, is going to fuse that into their music somehow. That's where the good stuff comes from, and the real originality.

I also HATE the band sensibility, if you will. I don't like it when bands say, "Oh, Jim is the guitar player, and there's only one Jim, so all he can play is guitar and he can only play one guitar line". I like layers, I like attention to detail. You can't get that with "bands", you can get it with a group of four guys making good music though.

That was a little all over the place, but basically it comes down to listening to a lot of music and being influenced by it, and not being afraid to make the music very dense.

Kai:
I do believe (At least, this is how I meant it) that when they say originality, they mean that the artist has to have some sort of trait that they themselves have and they do pretty well, rather than being just completely different from everybody else. Take the Talking Heads; they're similar to your little new wave band, but they have little quirks and whatnot that differ them from others of that particular genre, namely with their later albums they get more... Latin-y? whatever.

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