Artist/Band of the Week, Week 1: Guns N Roses

joenorwood77 · 04-19-2015, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

No one's going to be like, "hey this guy told me to listen to a single band's discography the whole way through twice, i'm totally going to use 100% of the free time i have this week to do that."

basically your idea is horrible. there's already plenty of people listening to "different" music and sharing their thoughts all over the damn forum

If you think my idea is so terrible, then don't participate. I was going through one band a week regardless if anyone joins me. Basically one hour per day to listen to a band of the week and many bands will be less than that. And as I stated before, why not do something else while listening to the music if a person is so short on time throughout the week? Whatever.

Hopefully I get more people who post their top 5 GNR songs or at least discuss their thoughts on top 5s they see posted, rather than posts on how stupid my idea is.

Trollheart · 04-19-2015, 12:35 PM

I've no interest in your idea, but just to show you I'm not just throwing destructive criticism and derision at you, here's what I think might work better. Maybe. Because I seriously doubt you will find enough people interested in ANY band, never mind Guns n Roses, to do what you propose.

Have anyone interested take an album (once one is gone it can't be selected again) and choose their favourite track from that. That way, you have a much more manageable task: listen to one album, how hard can that be? Also, you get away from the possibility of people all choosing the same five tracks. Then compile a best-of list from that.

Just a suggestion: what you intend is highly unlikely to appeal to people here, most of whom work, study or mod, and many of whom have journals. I doubt anyone is going to have the time or interest to do what you ask. If I'm wrong and it takes off, so be it, fair play t'ya, but I wouldn't be laying any serious money down.

Psy-Fi · 04-19-2015, 01:09 PM

Good luck with your idea but all of the various album clubs we've had here don't last long even when people are asked to listen to just 1 album every week or every other week and comment on it. Unfortunately, outside of personal journals, there just doesn't seem to be enough interest here in the sort of thing you're proposing.

joenorwood77 · 04-19-2015, 03:43 PM

Perhaps I will just use this website to contribute to other discussions going around. Regarding my artist/band of the week, I may just have a link to a music blog in my signature, if that is within the rules of this website. That way people here can join if they want, but on my blog it will hopefully just be people who want to contribute rather than those who do not want to participate. I do not care if I get only 3-5 people who play along.

joenorwood77 · 04-20-2015, 02:03 AM

It is so annoying when I am compiling playlists for future bands of the week and Grooveshark has all but one or two songs. I know Youtube is an option but the commercials throughout an album are annoying. Spotify is another option, but I think some bands/artists do not allow their songs on Spotify. Any other main options I should consider for free streaming of entire albums of most bands?

joenorwood77 · 04-20-2015, 03:03 AM

One more issue with Grooveshark is playlists I created some time ago are now missing songs. I most definitely do not want to compile entire catalogs for many bands, just to have missing songs down the road.

Trollheart · 04-20-2015, 09:11 AM

I've noticed this problem with Grooveshark too. Very annoying. Spotify is probably the best but I usually go with a mixture of YT, Spotify and Groove that normally gets me what I need. Occasionally it doesn't of course. There's Daily Motion but that's pretty much the same as YouTube. I also use a website where you can buy albums for less than a dollar, if you're so interested. I guess there's Pandora, though we can't get that here in Ireland so I don't know how good or bad it is. People talk about Soulseek too.

**Janszoon** · 04-20-2015, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by joenorwood77

Perhaps I will just use this website to contribute to other discussions going around. Regarding my artist/band of the week, I may just have a link to a music blog in my signature, if that is within the rules of this website. That way people here can join if they want, but on my blog it will hopefully just be people who want to contribute rather than those who do not want to participate. I do not care if I get only 3-5 people who play along.

Sorry man, that's against our rules for signatures:

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For your first 3 months here only the following links will be approved.

Last FM charts
Any other social media sites as long as they are PERSONAL ones and not an outlet for music

Links that will not be approved that you may include after you have been here for 3 months

Band Websites,
Band Facebook pages
Any music streaming sites
Personal Blogs
Youtube channels

From here.

joenorwood77 · 04-20-2015, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Sorry man, that's against our rules for signatures:

From here.

No worries. The rules make sense. So, after being here three months, I can add that stuff back (blog and RYM)?

**Janszoon** · 04-20-2015, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by joenorwood77

No worries. The rules make sense. So, after being here three months, I can add that stuff back (blog and RYM)?

Yep.

04-19-2015, 12:35 PM	#12 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,970	I've no interest in your idea, but just to show you I'm not just throwing destructive criticism and derision at you, here's what I think might work better. Maybe. Because I seriously doubt you will find enough people interested in ANY band, never mind Guns n Roses, to do what you propose. Have anyone interested take an album (once one is gone it can't be selected again) and choose their favourite track from that. That way, you have a much more manageable task: listen to one album, how hard can that be? Also, you get away from the possibility of people all choosing the same five tracks. Then compile a best-of list from that. Just a suggestion: what you intend is highly unlikely to appeal to people here, most of whom work, study or mod, and many of whom have journals. I doubt anyone is going to have the time or interest to do what you ask. If I'm wrong and it takes off, so be it, fair play t'ya, but I wouldn't be laying any serious money down. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

04-20-2015, 09:11 AM	#17 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,970	I've noticed this problem with Grooveshark too. Very annoying. Spotify is probably the best but I usually go with a mixture of YT, Spotify and Groove that normally gets me what I need. Occasionally it doesn't of course. There's Daily Motion but that's pretty much the same as YouTube. I also use a website where you can buy albums for less than a dollar, if you're so interested. I guess there's Pandora, though we can't get that here in Ireland so I don't know how good or bad it is. People talk about Soulseek too. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

04-19-2015, 03:43 PM	#14 (permalink)
joenorwood77 Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Maui Posts: 106	Perhaps I will just use this website to contribute to other discussions going around. Regarding my artist/band of the week, I may just have a link to a music blog in my signature, if that is within the rules of this website. That way people here can join if they want, but on my blog it will hopefully just be people who want to contribute rather than those who do not want to participate. I do not care if I get only 3-5 people who play along.

04-20-2015, 02:03 AM	#15 (permalink)
joenorwood77 Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Maui Posts: 106	It is so annoying when I am compiling playlists for future bands of the week and Grooveshark has all but one or two songs. I know Youtube is an option but the commercials throughout an album are annoying. Spotify is another option, but I think some bands/artists do not allow their songs on Spotify. Any other main options I should consider for free streaming of entire albums of most bands?

04-20-2015, 03:03 AM	#16 (permalink)
joenorwood77 Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Maui Posts: 106	One more issue with Grooveshark is playlists I created some time ago are now missing songs. I most definitely do not want to compile entire catalogs for many bands, just to have missing songs down the road.