Skronk wrote:And death is truer than doom and black. Alright, this is getting old.

yep, I shoulda left it alone.

I should have asked about dance genres. How many of them are there?

my point is that there seems to be a trend by which people commit to a sub-genre ( " i listen blackened doom " ) and then any number of bands within that.

if the statement "There are too many bands!" is true, there is one product that allowed this to happen, PRO-TOOLS. cut and paste song parts together and there you go. easy as bride's maids.

patk wrote:if the statement "There are too many bands!" is true, there is one product that allowed this to happen, PRO-TOOLS. cut and paste song parts together and there you go. easy as bride's maids.

how about you just blame 'computers'?

lemur68 wrote:

Christopher wrote:Saying there are "too many bands" is like saying there's "too much food"

So maybe we should donate some of these bands to Africa.

Oh look, someone's already on it.

U2 is going to do this at the Live Aid show in 2012.

Peripatetic wrote:If I'm completely wrong, and there in fact are too many bands we can only blame one thing.

I disagree. I think that these kids are playing Guitar Hero and NOT picking up real guitars because Guitar Hero is much more instantly gratifying.

While I admit there is a lot of crappy music/bands I would rather not hear (or play shows with), I think that the more kids who are picking up a instrument and trying to apply themselves to it and trying to create something with it and with their friends, that is just fucking awesome. It beats having a bunch of kids walking around quoting every episode of South Park and Family Guy.

gravitypinsusdwn wrote:

Peripatetic wrote:If I'm completely wrong, and there in fact are too many bands we can only blame one thing.

I disagree. I think that these kids are playing Guitar Hero and NOT picking up real guitars because Guitar Hero is much more instantly gratifying.

While I admit there is a lot of crappy music/bands I would rather not hear (or play shows with), I think that the more kids who are picking up a instrument and trying to apply themselves to it and trying to create something with it and with their friends, that is just fucking awesome. It beats having a bunch of kids walking around quoting every episode of South Park and Family Guy.

They're picking up "Guitar Hero" because they wouldn't dream of picking up an actual guitar.

I view these new bands like I view children... that is why I am pro-abortion.

Too many bands that suck there have always been a much higher number of suck bands than good ones. Let em play and let Tony Danza figure it out. By that I mean the Stooges and Ramones end up being the cuturally important bands vs the large number of crappy bands all of them more successful at the time.

I blame myspace, and the internet. I have no interest anymore in trying to find new bands as I know they're going to be mediocre. Sometimes you'll hear a good riff and then, wham, straight into the regurgitated slop...

Be in a band for the sake of making music, no problem.

Be in a band for the sake of being in a band (and all that entails - gigs, records, fans, reviews, selling tight-fitting t-shirts to attractive young women with unnaturally coloured hair, etc) and you have yourself a problem.

"There are so many bands that nobody is paying attention to my band! Wah, wah, wah!" is more like it.