chuckk wrote:

El Protoolio wrote:It would be great if you actually had the balls call me a pussy to my face but since you're obviously just a 12 year old who's balls haven't dropped yet I guess I'll have to wait a few years.

bring your man-pussy up here so i can call you and your fucking pussy a pussy to you and it's pussy-ass face, you fucking pussy.

12 YEAR OLD ALERT!!!

thanks for telling me i'm right.

Shitty job? I think not. Why do most serious bands have approximately 10,000 plays on their MySpace? Hmmm...I dunno, because they're serious independent bands whose credibility comes to pass naturally. Why does the Box Social have a slick ass MySpace with 52,000 plays? How do you suppose 52,000 motherfucking plays came about? Their label (to me) appears to be a little independent label that is trying their damndest to act like a major.

Hmmmm....hmmmmmmmm....hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

More people in Madison know about my music than they do the Box Social's. No joke (Milwaukee is their base I guess). 52,000 plays. Hmmmmmmmm. Nina Nastasia's MySpace for example has 110,000 plays or so...and she's been working for years to build her reputation.

Nick Woods said in my New Media and Politics class "I want to study how the internet can make people famous." I'm barely even paraphrasing here. Nick seems like a nice boy regardless, but I know what he's after. That shit is awful, and it will ruin you. "Do you know Wax on Radio? They're getting huge!" Wax on Radio is a bunch of douchebags on a major label that my friend recorded in his incredible home studio. They will not "get huge." They will fall apart because they are fuckhead egomanical douchebags (Wax on Radio). I have a lot more respect for Nick Junkunc, but he secretly wants the same thing. No vision, their former sack devoid of balls, fame on the horizon? They're just waiting for the right deal.

This is music for 15 year old girls with a clitoral hard-on for Ben Kweller.

DrAwkward wrote:

Minotaur029 wrote:I know the type of music you make Dr....you know this is bad.

You are aware i started a thread extolling the virtues of Queensryche, right?

Unironically?

Hahaha...yes...I reckon...maybe I should have another listen to y'alls MySpace with a more critical ear.

Also, "gloss" and "too chaotic" aren't necessarily the same thing, but they can be...a combination of these terms would probably be "too many bells and whistles [studio trickery]".

Minotaur029 wrote:

DrAwkward wrote:

Minotaur029 wrote:I know the type of music you make Dr....you know this is bad.

You are aware i started a thread extolling the virtues of Queensryche, right?

Unironically?

Hahaha...yes...I reckon...maybe I should have another listen to y'alls MySpace with a more critical ear.

Well, yer not gonna hear anything as slammin' as "Eyes of a Stranger," i can promise you that.

We like a whole ton of music that never factors into what we actually want to play.

DrAwkward wrote:

Minotaur029 wrote:

DrAwkward wrote:

Minotaur029 wrote:I know the type of music you make Dr....you know this is bad.

You are aware i started a thread extolling the virtues of Queensryche, right?

Unironically?

Hahaha...yes...I reckon...maybe I should have another listen to y'alls MySpace with a more critical ear.

Well, yer not gonna hear anything as slammin' as "Eyes of a Stranger," i can promise you that.

We like a whole ton of music that never factors into what we actually want to play.

You are a psycho.

Just to let you know though, I mean you no disrespect...you're in a serious band that has toured all across the country. The best bands now have members that are about 28-32 (sometimes a little less than 28). We're growing up more slowly because the music we make has become more complex. The jump from Big Black to Rapeman (for example) is telling. Hell, just from all the EPs collected on The Hammer Party to Atomizer is telling.

If there is still a "Joe Cool" type smiley face where an 8 should be in this post...well, I don't know what to tell you.

No worries here, man; i haven't felt like this has been a flame war by any stretch of the imagination. I've been enjoying the discussion--more than i thought i would when you started a Chicago vs. Milwaukee thread! I was all, "jeez, this isn't gonna end well..."

I never spent much time in Milwaukee. We stayed with Die Kreuzen one weekend, that was pretty fun. I have some friends who used to live there, they liked it a lot.

Since I was born in Chicago, I have to vote for the home town.

Still, Milwaukee is cool. It used to be the Beer Capitol, it's on a Great Lake, it's in Wisconsin. I too, love me my Wisconsins.

DrAwkward wrote:No worries here, man; i haven't felt like this has been a flame war by any stretch of the imagination. I've been enjoying the discussion--more than i thought i would when you started a Chicago vs. Milwaukee thread! I was all, "jeez, this isn't gonna end well..."

I thought it would be totally interesting from the get-go. I know lots of Chicago people that went to Marquette for example and they come back fucking loving Milwaukee. The article in my office gave me the idea.

For me, Milwaukee only comes alive at night. During the day, it's a scary ghost town. I walk into Potbelly's off the street or something and it's like I'm ordering a post-apocalyptic sandwich...very few words are spoken...tumbleweed goes down street...

Also, look at the votes. Wisconsin is extremely well represented on this board. I was always amazed by how much more in tune with "noise rock" and cool bands the Wisconsin kids were. Where I grew up, all the kids liked teen punk. In Green Bay, they'd drop acid in the basement and listen to Unwound.

But the hipsters in Wisconsin are intolerable. Pitchfork cultivated madness. At least there was an actual scene to learn from in the Chicago 'burbs (bullshit as it may have been). At least the internet didn't tell the children what to enjoy.

Milwaukee has Kopp's.

Chicago has Superdawg.

I can't choose.