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| From | matty karas <mkaras@mindspring.com> |
| Subject | Re: Jet |
| Date | Tue, 23 Dec 2003 23:26:52 -0500 |
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> Strangely enough they seem to be the only real rock and roll bands signed to
> big labels that are getting any push.
> Coldplay are already there So who else do we have?
> I mean these bands use real drummers and play actual guitars and write
> original songs with melodies
au contraire, we're living in a golden age of major-label gtr-bass-drum melodic rock music. every single band below has at least a damn good radio song to sell, and every
single one of 'em are getting huge pushes from big labels. there are dozens more. a lot of 'em, when it gets right down to it, suck. but a lot of rock and pop music has
always sucked when it gets right down to it. a lot of them do not suck at all. you probably don't like all of this, and i certainly don't endorse all of it. but turn on
the radio or mtv, and it's pretty damn hard to ignore it:
blink 182
evanescence
foo fighters
sheryl crow
no doubt
a simple plan
good charlotte
offspring
linkin park
the darkness
jet
matchbox twenty
michelle branch
all-american rejects
avril lavigne (actually, i have no idea if avril uses "real" drums or "fake" drums, but who cares? they sound like pop/rock to me)
pink (ditto)
mandy moore
coldplay
queens of the stone age
the thrills
ryan adams
kings of leon
the strokes
the rapture
the white stripes
nickelback
three doors down
kid rock
shania twain
brooks & dunn
something corporate
john mayer
puddle of mudd
i could go on... i could also probably add the flaming lips, whose last album i heard on vh1 more than sheryl crow and creed combined, except that the lips probably use a
smaller percentage of "real" and "actual" musical sounds than every single band above. and i'm leaving out the many bands, like fountains of wayne and taking back sunday,
that record for reasonably big labels that happen to be independent. what you're looking at is 100 percent giant labels.
and *not* to start a new thread or anything, but what's the qualitative difference between an "actual" guitar played through five effects boxes, an amplifier and probably a
compressor and some other stuff, and a "fake" keyboard played through a midi connection? what makes one more or less "actual" than the other?
matty
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