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spooky_miss) wrote2007-01-28 03:18 pm
spooky_miss) wrote2007-01-28 03:18 pm
A Little "Musical Exploration"
This afternoon I have subjected myself to some truely awful music, to try and understand whats so popular about all these bands that everyone seems to like nowadays. I have heard bits and pieces of their songs, and from those combined with reading interviews with them, I have gathered that they're not the best bands in the world, but I thought I'd have a go and try to listen to at least one song by some of the most popular "alternative" bands nowadays, just to see what all the fuss is about. I almost gave up half way though - I couldnt cope with so much mediocrity and same-y-ness, but I got through the list I had given myself (through reading kerrang, music messageboards, etc). My findings are quite interesting really. Most of the bands I listened to are horrible and derivative, and I have come to the conclusion that:
My Chemical Romance, The audition, panic at the disco, taking back sunday, cute is what we aim for, fall out boy, madina lake, paramore, funeral for a friend, atreyu, aiden, 30 seconds to mars, kill hannah, senses fail, mewithoutyou, the academy is, coheed and cambria, hellogoodbye, bayside, biffy clyro, and i am ghost
all sound basically the same. And Alkaline Trio and AFI should be doing some serious sueing here - not only do all those bands basically sound like each other, they all sound like a mixture of alkaline trio and afi. I dont know how people can like things like this - they are all so much the same, there is no originality of music or style, half of the songs could have been by any one of the bands!!
there were also some other bands, which fitted into the 'shouty vocals, trying to be metal' catagory:
the bronx, mastadon, poison the well, blood brothers, thursday, alexisonfire.
and then you have trivium, who are just a total derivative of everything that metallica and slayer have ever done, they dont have any kind of original ideas.
get cape wear cape fly is just whiny and acoustic.
but the prize for the worst band ever must go to from first to last. I can't even begin to describe how terrible they are! their music is all over the place, they cant decide whether they want to shout or whine, or shout in a whiny way, its too fast ,theres not really a tune...just terrible! how do people listen to this rubbish!
there were however a couple of bands which I thought weren't too bad. Tv on the radio was the first, their vocals were excellent, and they were something different from the majority of the bands that i listened it. also 65daysof static sounded really interesting and electronic, but i couldnt find any songs with vocals, so i dont know, they could be bad anyway!
so yeah. quite an illuminating afternoon (i cant say interesting!). At least when I'm critisising them I now have a more fuller understanding of why they are so bad.
Does anyone else have any bands which they think i should listen to? any kind of new, alternative bands. I'm not into modern new music at all, but if anyone has any bands that they think I should listen to, please tell me! :) (whether you think i'd like them or not!)
My Chemical Romance, The audition, panic at the disco, taking back sunday, cute is what we aim for, fall out boy, madina lake, paramore, funeral for a friend, atreyu, aiden, 30 seconds to mars, kill hannah, senses fail, mewithoutyou, the academy is, coheed and cambria, hellogoodbye, bayside, biffy clyro, and i am ghost
all sound basically the same. And Alkaline Trio and AFI should be doing some serious sueing here - not only do all those bands basically sound like each other, they all sound like a mixture of alkaline trio and afi. I dont know how people can like things like this - they are all so much the same, there is no originality of music or style, half of the songs could have been by any one of the bands!!
there were also some other bands, which fitted into the 'shouty vocals, trying to be metal' catagory:
the bronx, mastadon, poison the well, blood brothers, thursday, alexisonfire.
and then you have trivium, who are just a total derivative of everything that metallica and slayer have ever done, they dont have any kind of original ideas.
get cape wear cape fly is just whiny and acoustic.
but the prize for the worst band ever must go to from first to last. I can't even begin to describe how terrible they are! their music is all over the place, they cant decide whether they want to shout or whine, or shout in a whiny way, its too fast ,theres not really a tune...just terrible! how do people listen to this rubbish!
there were however a couple of bands which I thought weren't too bad. Tv on the radio was the first, their vocals were excellent, and they were something different from the majority of the bands that i listened it. also 65daysof static sounded really interesting and electronic, but i couldnt find any songs with vocals, so i dont know, they could be bad anyway!
so yeah. quite an illuminating afternoon (i cant say interesting!). At least when I'm critisising them I now have a more fuller understanding of why they are so bad.
Does anyone else have any bands which they think i should listen to? any kind of new, alternative bands. I'm not into modern new music at all, but if anyone has any bands that they think I should listen to, please tell me! :) (whether you think i'd like them or not!)
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Unfortunatly I havn't heard anything new worth listerning to. Check out the band Lorraine (check out thier Wikipedia entry for an overview. They played support with Faster Inferno for some famous band that played at ARU Academy a while ago. Their newer songs sound too mainstream and "pop"y, but their 'own' pre-contract stuff was rather quite good. Hope to catch up with you soon!