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amok:
I wouldn't say it's that rare to find a band with an individual sound*. I guess some people are just, like Kai said, the kind of elitist fucks who hate on them purely as a basis of their success... and then there's people who either hear the wrong bands, or don't get into the genre enough to be able to really tell the difference.
And yeah Kai, I did mean popular within the "cyber goth" culture or whatever you call the people who listen to this stuff... not properly mainstream popular. :D
Also, I agree that their last album was outstanding; the last couple before that, while excellent, were a bit... similar. Matter + Form sounds really fresh and takes a new direction altogether. Love it.
*Khar, if you haven't already, have a look into some of the following bands: synth/futurepop bands with a few original ideas... few suggestions off the top of my head
Resurrection Eve
Syrian
Lavantgarde (album to get: "Inside Out")
Les Anges De La Nuit
Pride And Fall (new CD: Elements of Silence)
Wideband Network ("Universe" album)
Cesium:137 ("Intelligent Design")
Nevarakka (more of a trance-y, mainstream sound but still wicked)
O.V.N.I. (sounds like an Aphex Twin/old Apoptygma crossover)
I agree there's a lot of identikit bands in the genre, went through a period of a few months where I got a bit dissatisfied with it and went back to indie (which led to me registering here actually.. heh) but if you dig hard enough there's plenty fun stuff going on :) although very few bands could be described as truly groundbreaking in the same way as MIAB.
KharBevNor:
Thanks for the suggestions. You don't see a lot of unusual EBM/futurepop suggestions bandied about, or if they are they're lost in seas of other suggestions...I guess it might have something to do with the fact that a lot of people who are into the scene are there because of the club culture, and thus the bulk of most peoples musical taste is made up of the popular dance stuff: VNV, Funker Vogt, Neuroticfish et al.
The futurepop/ebm (not even sure if that's what they are tbh) band I love that I see most rarely talked about is E Nomine. I wouldn't say they were anything amazingly innovative, but they do have a very unique, and very rocking, imo, sound.
amok:
That's the thing really, there's plenty of bands that sound individual, but very few who actually do anything really fresh and exciting like MIAB do. So I guess people who don't absolutely love the general futurepop formula will get bored of it pretty fast. But I'm quite happy with listening to 50+ interesting variations on the same general theme.
edit: check out the Leiahdorus track I put up in the "Forced Listening" thread too. I wasn't sure whether to recommend you the whole album but since I ended up putting that song in there, might as well give it a listen.
Houdinimachine:
I love Tom Cochrane's "Life is a Highway." I feel dirty even admitting it.
citylights:
just this morning, yellowcard came up while my mp3 player was on shuffle. i didn't change it...and sang along, as well.
others: weird al, maroon 5, the vines, the white stripes, MOZART, e.l.o., etc.
i know the lyrics of matchbox twenty, eminem, avril, puddle of mudd, and barenaked ladies.
pshaw, i'm not ashamed.
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