Music these days...
I love music. It's always blasting out of my computer, or out of a nearby radio.
My favorite radio station has probably got to be 92.5, the local oldies rock station. Yay oldies!
I grew up on the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Alanis Morissette [lawl] Bob Dylan, Rage Against the Machine, Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams and all these other old groups. Whenever people around me talk about music, I don't talk about it with them. I sit back and wait for the subject to change. Nowadays, people talk about is these bands that I have never heard of, yeah I've heard of them now, cause no one ever stops talking about them, but they're all the bands that have formed within the last four or five years that are just starting to get big.
People claim to have listened to said bands ever since their starting days.
Then they flip out as soon as a song is over played on TV or the radio.
I've helped my share of bands out over Myspace. They add me looking for people that seem suitable to advertise good music.
I was one of the first friends on one bands' friend list, they thanked me for adding them and helping to keep them known. Three months later, they've turned into a group of inconsiderate 'you have to go to our shows cause you're missing out!' conceited bunch of guys that obviously went from being in a band all for the love of music to being in the band cause you make good money.
I'm not sure if I wrote a blog about it or not, but this other band I was helping out with added me on Myspace one day. I read through their profile and they had Green Day written under their music influences section. They wrote "We've been with these guys for years" when only three days before they added me, they came to me holding 1039/smooth asking if it was any good.
Music back before I was even thought of has got to be my favorite right now. From what I've known/listened to, those bands put everything into their music and their lyrics. They could care less about the money, they don't call for attention, they just make music. Okay, some used to make music. They don't have time to sit on Myspace all day posting "Come to our shows! You know you want to in order to be cool!"
They have better things to do.
I'm not saying this is with all groups, cause obviously I should brush up on my generations' music tastes, I'll listen to the newer bands and I like some of the newer ones. But when a band goes as far as lying just for attention, that just takes away the main reason they may have decided to form a band.
*hopes that made some sense*
My favorite radio station has probably got to be 92.5, the local oldies rock station. Yay oldies!
I grew up on the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Alanis Morissette [lawl] Bob Dylan, Rage Against the Machine, Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams and all these other old groups. Whenever people around me talk about music, I don't talk about it with them. I sit back and wait for the subject to change. Nowadays, people talk about is these bands that I have never heard of, yeah I've heard of them now, cause no one ever stops talking about them, but they're all the bands that have formed within the last four or five years that are just starting to get big.
People claim to have listened to said bands ever since their starting days.
Then they flip out as soon as a song is over played on TV or the radio.
I've helped my share of bands out over Myspace. They add me looking for people that seem suitable to advertise good music.
I was one of the first friends on one bands' friend list, they thanked me for adding them and helping to keep them known. Three months later, they've turned into a group of inconsiderate 'you have to go to our shows cause you're missing out!' conceited bunch of guys that obviously went from being in a band all for the love of music to being in the band cause you make good money.
I'm not sure if I wrote a blog about it or not, but this other band I was helping out with added me on Myspace one day. I read through their profile and they had Green Day written under their music influences section. They wrote "We've been with these guys for years" when only three days before they added me, they came to me holding 1039/smooth asking if it was any good.
Music back before I was even thought of has got to be my favorite right now. From what I've known/listened to, those bands put everything into their music and their lyrics. They could care less about the money, they don't call for attention, they just make music. Okay, some used to make music. They don't have time to sit on Myspace all day posting "Come to our shows! You know you want to in order to be cool!"
They have better things to do.
I'm not saying this is with all groups, cause obviously I should brush up on my generations' music tastes, I'll listen to the newer bands and I like some of the newer ones. But when a band goes as far as lying just for attention, that just takes away the main reason they may have decided to form a band.
*hopes that made some sense*
i totally agree. im also growing up on earl 70s punk and 90s alternative and grunge. all i hear when my friends talk about music new age pop and crap. i rant to them that they need to listen to stuff like patti smith and rage against the machine because it has a true and important meaning. new age is crap.
Psychotic, July 23rd, 2008 at 06:39:53pm
hm, yeah, well in one sense making music is a job and therefore they want to make money; but yes, the first and foremost reason for being in that business should be because you love doing what you're doing.
Miley Cyrus, July 9th, 2008 at 09:39:52pm
"I'm not sure if I wrote a blog about it or not, but this other band I was helping out with added me on Myspace one day. I read through their profile and they had Green Day written under their music influences section. They wrote "We've been with these guys for years" when only three days before they added me, they came to me holding 1039/smooth asking if it was any good."
lol fail
yeah bands these days can be attention hor3s
Danny Callahan., July 8th, 2008 at 03:54:30am
OMFG AH LURVE AFI. :D
Benjamin Barker, July 8th, 2008 at 02:50:33am
I totally agree. I add bands too, especially if theyre local/friends of friends/British etc, but the whole "come to our shows!" thing is very annoying now. In fact I don't accept bands' friend requests if none of their infulences are the bands I'm into, otherwise its a bit pointless
I also agree on the actual band thing too- I hate it when people turn into, like, just doing it for the money and stuff & not for the music
Trusty Chords., July 8th, 2008 at 01:06:04am
i agree!! except i really, really love afi, but they've been a
band since the '90's so i don't think that they're classified as
new, are they? o.o
today's music kinda sucks....a lot. -_-
they're are a few bands that i really love though.
get famous, July 7th, 2008 at 10:41:07pm