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Old 10-02-2007, 08:20 PM   #11 (permalink)
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we are such good philosophers & critics of contemporary thought <3
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Old 10-02-2007, 08:22 PM   #12 (permalink)
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You are so trendy replying, talk about following the crowd. <3
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Old 10-02-2007, 08:23 PM   #13 (permalink)
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<3's are a trend.


kill yourself in protest.









but wait
suicide is a trend
thx emo kids
for ruining our salvation.
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Old 10-02-2007, 08:26 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Last Fm playlists are a trend-we are all guilty as fúck. I need a temptress to cure me of my wicked ways!





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Old 10-02-2007, 08:41 PM   #15 (permalink)
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He's right to an extent, yeah. Shitty article though. The guy gets a good idea rolling, then ruins it with things like, "There are no true outsiders." Sure, I guess all of us do things that may be trendy, but there are many who don't do these things because they are (or were ever) popular, so does that really make them trendy? Guess it depends how you look at it. But not everything is part of some "big dumb movement".
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Old 10-02-2007, 08:49 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Old 10-02-2007, 09:47 PM   #17 (permalink)
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So... what exactly is the trend? His arguments are very vague and seem more like a bitter rant than anything really worth reading.
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Old 10-03-2007, 04:56 AM   #18 (permalink)
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It's trendy not to follow trends.

So, we're all trendy.
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Old 10-03-2007, 05:52 AM   #19 (permalink)
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What I think is that it's trendy to write your opinions about music and the music scene in a music magazine and to complain about lack of originality while still buying the same louduptempoamplifiedguitar/bass/drums/vocalssunginEnglish music or softdowntempooneguysingingwhilestrumminganacoustic music despite the huge variety of music available with all sort of combinations of instruments, languages, speeds, dynamics and all other types of musical expression.

To make an analogy, it's easy to complain about the lack of variety of books which have been written if you only ever look at the same shelf in the same bookshop. Anybody who complains about a lack of original music is stupid, even if you insist on looking for originality within the straightjacket of any one narrow genre of guitar music there is still a lot to be had. And even if it isn't readily available in recorded form or at gigs (for polishing music for recording or performance can lose a lot of originality) then somebody who really cares could always rock up at practise and listen as a band is writing a new song and hear music in it's nascent, messiest form.

Generally, if you want something really original but also want it to come in your own preffered format (at a gig, on a stage, with guitars, drums and vocals, on at 10, off at 11) then there's a good chance you'll be let down.
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Old 10-03-2007, 09:01 AM   #20 (permalink)
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It depends on how you approach it.

If I was to listen to a particularly good UK Grime album , which happens to be a trend at the moment. I'm not listening to it because i'm following the UK Grime scene. I'd be listening to it because it's something new that happens to be available that people are saying good things about. When I say 'people' I don't mean media & record company hype , I mean people who's opinion I respect and who are open minded enough to give any album in genre a chance.

I remember in 2000/2001 when the whole Garage Rock trend happened.
Now I happen to be a fan of garage rock , was before this trend started ,and I still am now that it's long since gone.
Did I follow that trend? Well i'll say no because most of the bands in that movement were total sh*t and I hardly listened to any of them.
So I would say that even though I listened to that music when it was a trend I don't consider myself to have followed it.
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