Your Band Sucks!

[mistysakura]

Hehe, I never come to Misc. How did I miss this awesome thread?

Love:
1. Muse
2. Radiohead
3. Evanescence (despite them not being a band)
4. Silverchair (despite them not being a band)
5. Jimi Hendrix (Lol, he's really not a band)
6. The Butterfly Effect
7. Jeff Buckley
8. Nirvana
9. Pink Floyd
10. Porcupine Tree

Hmm, it's interesting seeing what's been left off this list.

Dislikes:
I won't even count stuff like Britney Spears and Fall Out boy. Let's do stuff people actually like!
1. Coldplay
2. Powderfinger (funny, I went to a Powderfinger/Silverchair gig just last year. At that stage, I went for Powderfinger and didn't like Silverchair. Now...)
3. Lol, I'm running out of things already. Rufus Wainwright and his cheesy arrangements.
4. The Cure is too happy for me.
5. Surely there must be more... oh yeah, The Eagles.

Comments on other people's stuff:
Muse: Muse love all around yeah, Muse is a love-em-or-hate-em band. Who are being overplayed at the moment on Australian footy. It is also true that they strangled Dracula Mountain; that song just wasn't the same after they covered it . However, the fusion of classical and rock; the killer riffs; the piano; that voice (yeah the falsetto is another love-it-or-hate-it factor); the live awesomeness...

Radiohead: I get why people don't like Radiohead. Dear mumbly Thom Yorke and Greenwood's experimentation. But I love how their music is so complex and layerred and yet it knows how to rock out. I could go on for a while here.

Lacuna Coil: yay! They wouldn't fit in my top ten, but hopefully I'm going to see them this month. Sadly, my favourite song of theirs is a cover (Enjoy the Silence -- arrangement genius), but I like their arrangements in general. And the vocals are great.

Weird Al: Lol, I love watching Weird Al vids on Youtube.

Gavin (the TPMer, not the muso if there is one): and we thought our tastes were similar. *eyes Muse, Silverchair, The Darkness* Although I do like most of the stuff on your list moderately. Silverchair: I kinda like some stuff off Young Modern. If You Keep Losing Sleep is gold. My favourite era is Neon Ballroom though -- perfect blend of rawness and grunge with epic arrangements. And they're good live.

The Darkness: Funny that, I don't like The Darkness because of the guy's falsetto. *shrinks away from Matt Bellamy and Thom Yorke's glares* I find it more piercing and squealy than the others'.

Gigs: Uh, I've never been in the pit. Largely because I'm little. That'll change soon though (the being-in-the-pit, not the stature, sadly). From the stands, all fans are just too quiet. Stand up and rock out, people! So I've never had a problem with younger fans. They probably have a problem with me.

[Heald]

3. Evanescence (despite them not being a band)
4. Silverchair (despite them not being a band)
5. Jimi Hendrix (Lol, he's really not a band)

We're just using the term band to describe any 'artist' really. Out of curiosity though, why aren't Evanescence or Silverchair bands? Yes, I know Evanescence is so terrible that they shouldn't be even referred to as anything remotely musical, but, at a very base level, they could be somehow described as 'a band'.

[mistysakura]

We're just using the term band to describe any 'artist' really. Out of curiosity though, why aren't Evanescence or Silverchair bands? Yes, I know Evanescence is so terrible that they shouldn't be even referred to as anything remotely musical, but, at a very base level, they could be somehow described as 'a band'.

Given that I've listed them as #3 and #4 respectively, obviously I don't agree with the statement that they make 'terrible' music. My reason for not describing those two as bands is that they're basically solo artists with hired musicians. Their frontpeople completely dominate the songwriting and decisions in the band. There isn't even a decent pretence of equality. Evanescence has a revolving set of musicians who have left over this, and they've actually had Amy's solo work on the 'band' album. Daniel Johns has reportedly actively stopped other band members from taking part on songwriting; I don't know how true this is. However, I do know that Paul Mac, Johns' partner in his side project, was heavily involved in Silverchair's last album, and Silverchair's new songs bear a resemblance to the Dissociatives' (Johns and Mac's side project) as well. I'm pretty sure Silverchair's other band members have had side projects as well, but I don't see them creeping into Silverchair's work. It just shows how much influence Johns has. /rant

Thanks for the education, Luna Artemis