*ponders*.. hot hot heat anybody? (dancing, alternative, quote, bands)

ArtistInTheAmbulance · 05-22-2005, 10:13 AM

^^Josephine use the search function at the top of this page, its pretty handy when it comes to this subject. Try typing in "avatar" Im sure you'll find a couple hundred threads on the matter

Josephine · 05-22-2005, 10:23 AM

Yeah, that's the problem with all these mainstream-people...
They hype something, cause it's supposed to be "in" although they dunno why...
That ruins everything, even if u liked a band before. I dunno if I'm the only one who thinks so, but if a band/movie/thing/whatever is hyped in that way, I can't appriciate it anymore...
That's why I secretly hope that nobody will recognize them, everytime I got to know a new band... It's damn egoistic and silly, I know, but I cannot deny these feelings...

ArtistInTheAmbulance · 05-22-2005, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Josephine

That's why I secretly hope that nobody will recognize them, everytime I got to know a new band... It's damn egoistic and silly, I know, but I cannot deny these feelings...

Really? Almost every time I find a new band, Ill tell someone else about them, just cause I like to talk about the music with someone else... I dont like keeping a band a secret, music shouldn't be kept a secret, that defies the whole point of it.

But I kinda understand what you mean... Its not as special when everyone else knows about them, not just you..

adidasss · 05-22-2005, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by hookers with machineguns

It's hard to rate all the trendy new wave bands when they sound exactly the same or are ripping off bands that have done it two decades before. The more you depend on reviews, the more your music taste just follows a fad.

how else am i going to find out about good music...i have to choose some method, there's just too many bands out there...and what does it matter if my music taste follows a fad, if i genuinely enjoy the music? you tend to dismiss everything that's popular, and assume it can't be good?that's a bit snobbish of you..

Josephine · 05-22-2005, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by ArtistInTheAmbulance

Really? Almost every time I find a new band, Ill tell someone else about them, just cause I like to talk about the music with someone else... I dont like keeping a band a secret, music shouldn't be kept a secret, that defies the whole point of it.

But I kinda understand what you mean... Its not as special when everyone else knows about them, not just you..

I do it the same way. If there's a band I like very much (like Mando Diao, I talk bout them all the time...), I tell my friends and everybody I meet bout them. I wanna share my enthusiasm... If there's something you really like, you always try to make the others see (unfortunately my friends are ignorant, they like their mainstream-chart-thing).
But don't ya know, when u liked a band for quite a long time & u always recommended this one, but nobody recognized u and then SUDDENLY it's everywhere on TV/radio/magazines/whatever... Like "That's the new "in"-band!" and u just think "OKAY, but I already know that! That's what I always said, but nobody listened to me..."
Do ya know what I mean? Things like that annoy me...

hookers with machineguns · 05-22-2005, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

that's a bit snobbish of you..

Thanks. I get that alot. That comment goes through me like water nowadays.

I was simply suggesting that your exposure to music will forever be tainted and biased if you depend on good reviews, bad reviews. Most of the people who rate these albums are no different from you and me. I wouldn't depend on them, and I'm sure you're fully aware of that. There are PLENTY of sources to find the style of music you like. Musicbanter happens to be one of them. If you actually care to look for new bands (instead of the popular ones that you always hear about) then look around. Check out some of the other threads in the forums.

And, I happen to listen to TONS of popular music, just nothing you listen to.

ArtistInTheAmbulance · 05-22-2005, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Josephine

I do it the same way. If there's a band I like very much (like Mando Diao, I talk bout them all the time...), I tell my friends and everybody I meet bout them. I wanna share my enthusiasm... If there's something you really like, you always try to make the others see (unfortunately my friends are ignorant, they like their mainstream-chart-thing).
But don't ya know, when u liked a band for quite a long time & u always recommended this one, but nobody recognized u and then SUDDENLY it's everywhere on TV/radio/magazines/whatever... Like "That's the new "in"-band!" and u just think "OKAY, but I already know that! That's what I always said, but nobody listened to me..."
Do ya know what I mean? Things like that annoy me...

Hah I know exactly what you mean... That is actually really annoying, I agree with you completely...

Its worse when you let them listen to a band you've just found, they say they dont like it, and then when they become popular a few months later, they'll be all "Hey check this new band I found out, theyre really good".

Hmm, never mind... Nowt you can do about it I spose.

Josephine · 05-22-2005, 10:51 AM

Yeah, that's exactly what I meant!!!

And they are like "Oh, u have to listen to them, they're "IN" now!", as if they were the ones who found out bout the band...
And this behaviour definitly proves how "mainstream-addicted" they actually are. That's always depressing for me, I just feel like "Oh, these are my friends? What's wrong with the world?"
And that's why I beg secretly that "my band" won't become too big...

Imonlydancing · 05-22-2005, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

well that's exactly what ruined them for me...it's like going to see a movie that's advertised as a comedy and it's acctualy a drama,the movie is ruined because you can't apreciate it as a drama...you're too pissed off...if ya know what i mean...

yeah i spose...like false advertising? but maybe if you'd have heard them, then seen what they were like you'd think about them differently.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 05-22-2005, 12:35 PM

People take this whole Alternative/Mainstream thing far too seriously.

I don`t really care what anyone else is listening to. I`ve heard lots of good & bad 'obscure' music and the same could be said of mainstream music.

05-22-2005, 10:13 AM	#61 (permalink)
ArtistInTheAmbulance enchanted. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: cornwailles, angleterre. Posts: 2,537	^^Josephine use the search function at the top of this page, its pretty handy when it comes to this subject. Try typing in "avatar" Im sure you'll find a couple hundred threads on the matter __________________ shake your wings like theyre laced with sound!

05-22-2005, 10:23 AM	#62 (permalink)
Josephine Your La-La-La Teacher Join Date: May 2005 Location: The place I come from is full of people with cruel taste of music Posts: 538	The Hype-Thing... Yeah, that's the problem with all these mainstream-people... They hype something, cause it's supposed to be "in" although they dunno why... That ruins everything, even if u liked a band before. I dunno if I'm the only one who thinks so, but if a band/movie/thing/whatever is hyped in that way, I can't appriciate it anymore... That's why I secretly hope that nobody will recognize them, everytime I got to know a new band... It's damn egoistic and silly, I know, but I cannot deny these feelings... __________________ Urban for President... eh... EUROMOD! Vote or die!

05-22-2005, 10:51 AM	#68 (permalink)
Josephine Your La-La-La Teacher Join Date: May 2005 Location: The place I come from is full of people with cruel taste of music Posts: 538	Mainstream's dead!!! Yeah, that's exactly what I meant!!! And they are like "Oh, u have to listen to them, they're "IN" now!", as if they were the ones who found out bout the band... And this behaviour definitly proves how "mainstream-addicted" they actually are. That's always depressing for me, I just feel like "Oh, these are my friends? What's wrong with the world?" And that's why I beg secretly that "my band" won't become too big... __________________ Urban for President... eh... EUROMOD! Vote or die!

05-22-2005, 12:35 PM	#70 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	People take this whole Alternative/Mainstream thing far too seriously. I don`t really care what anyone else is listening to. I`ve heard lots of good & bad 'obscure' music and the same could be said of mainstream music. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.