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| From | MogleyB@aol.com |
| Subject | Re: Jet |
| Date | Thu, 25 Dec 2003 01:52:03 EST |
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In a message dated 12/24/03 9:06:16 PM, matty writes
> Mb
> > 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?
>
''m not really talking effects or equipment
though i see your point
that being said
i still stand by my original post,
Outside of The foos and maybe Kings of Leon most of the above list does not
'feel ' like a rock band to me
I'd add the Donnas and the Vines. Fow
its all about preference of course
for me a rock band is not post punk rap rock, Post grunge or pop in the
commercial radio sense of the word and a rock band is not one lead singer with
revolving players who owns the name.
To clarify for me a rock band is a band I'd like to hear on a classic rock
station when their time has come
Mb
np Pete Yorn Day I Forgot
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