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Biggest major label debacles
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 1:18 pm
by Marsupialized_Archive
Respectable, maybe even good band signs to major and they just fuck it all up every step of the way. Just crash and burn.
We all know The Jesus Lizard story. What are some good other ones?
When the major labels show up waving their cash around to try and entice Beastqueef, I wanna have this thread to look at to help us keep our wits about us.
Biggest major label debacles
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 1:20 pm
by DrAwkward_Archive
The Girls Against Boys record on Geffen was pretty disastrous. Like, not irredeemably so (they rebounded in a big way with the Jade Tree record they released in 2001), but yeah, Feak*on*Ica was pretty bad.
Biggest major label debacles
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 1:27 pm
by caix_Archive
Interpol fucked up pretty bad. Actually, they were pretty one-dimensional to begin with.
Biggest major label debacles
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 1:29 pm
by dabrasha_Archive
Taking some liberties with your thread title, there was the instance of Capitol handing Thelonious Monster's Bob Forrest $500,000 for one record.
Bob spent very little on the record (Beautiful Mess), and spent the rest buying a nice house and a boatload of heroin.
The record is pretty good. Bob has since cleaned up, and still makes good to great records. Capitol got screwed.
Biggest major label debacles
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 1:30 pm
by Marsupialized_Archive
caix wrote:Interpol fucked up pretty bad. Actually, they were pretty one-dimensional to begin with.
Aren't they a big, popular band? You mean the music sucks now worse than it did before? If that's the case it seems to have worked because they sell out the Aragon. You gotta make at least, what....five or six hundred bucks on a show like that, imagine that shit. Getting six hundred fucking bucks just to play a show. Insane. I'd say they are a major label success story.
Biggest major label debacles
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 1:31 pm
by Mark Hansen_Archive
Marsupialized wrote:Respectable, maybe even good band signs to major and they just fuck it all up every step of the way. Just crash and burn.
We all know The Jesus Lizard story. What are some good other ones?
When the major labels show up waving their cash around to try and entice Beastqueef, I wanna have this thread to look at to help us keep our wits about us.
We really want to sign your band, but if we do, we need to make a few changes.....first, we need change the name. Walmart will NEVER stock cd's by a band called "Beastqueef". Too bad Beastie Boys is already taken, that would have been perfect. And, could you write a few radio-friendly songs? And, maybe we'll take your Kuma's song, change the lyrics a bit, and market the song to McDonald's.
You OK with that?
You don't have any integrity, do you? Perhaps we could design a marketing campaign around that. Something like, "Beastqueef (or whatever WE DECIDE to change the name to) bends over for no one. Be a rebel JUST LIKE THEM".
OK, which one of you wants to be "the rebel", and who wants to be "the cute one"?
Get with the program, if you really want to be a major succes story, you need to cover all the angles.
Biggest major label debacles
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 1:36 pm
by Minotaur029_Archive
caix wrote:Interpol fucked up pretty bad. Actually, they were pretty one-dimensional to begin with.
Their second record with Matador was only half good, if that.
Biggest major label debacles
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 1:38 pm
by johnnyemphysema_Archive
Mark Hansen wrote:Marsupialized wrote:Respectable, maybe even good band signs to major and they just fuck it all up every step of the way. Just crash and burn.
We all know The Jesus Lizard story. What are some good other ones?
When the major labels show up waving their cash around to try and entice Beastqueef, I wanna have this thread to look at to help us keep our wits about us.
We really want to sign your band, but if we do, we need to make a few changes.....first, we need change the name. Walmart will NEVER stock cd's by a band called "Beastqueef". Too bad Beastie Boys is already taken, that would have been perfect. And, could you write a few radio-friendly songs? And, maybe we'll take your Kuma's song, change the lyrics a bit, and market the song to McDonald's.
You OK with that?
You don't have any integrity, do you? Perhaps we could design a marketing campaign around that. Something like, "Beastqueef (or whatever WE DECIDE to change the name to) bends over for no one. Be a rebel JUST LIKE THEM". [/i]
[u]OK, which one of you wants to be "the rebel", and who wants to be "the cute one"?
Get with the program, if you really want to be a major succes story, you need to cover all the angles.[/i]
I smell some cross-promotion with Beefeater Gin and Beastqueef or perhaps a remake of the arcade classic Altered Beast.
Biggest major label debacles
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 1:39 pm
by Marsupialized_Archive
Mark Hansen wrote:Marsupialized wrote:Respectable, maybe even good band signs to major and they just fuck it all up every step of the way. Just crash and burn.
We all know The Jesus Lizard story. What are some good other ones?
When the major labels show up waving their cash around to try and entice Beastqueef, I wanna have this thread to look at to help us keep our wits about us.
We really want to sign your band, but if we do, we need to make a few changes.....first, we need change the name. Walmart will NEVER stock cd's by a band called "Beastqueef". Too bad Beastie Boys is already taken, that would have been perfect. And, could you write a few radio-friendly songs? And, maybe we'll take your Kuma's song, change the lyrics a bit, and market the song to McDonald's.
You OK with that?
You don't have any integrity, do you? Perhaps we could design a marketing campaign around that. Something like, "Beastqueef (or whatever WE DECIDE to change the name to) bends over for no one. Be a rebel JUST LIKE THEM".
We'd change it to Be*stqueef if was that big of a deal, we understand that's something everyone could enjoy.
And sir, have you not heard 'Don't wake the sleeping pig?' that's about as radio friendly as songs come.
McDonald's never. Taco Bell or Arby's? If we get free Taco Bell and Arby's I'll write a whole series of albums singing their praises.
Biggest major label debacles
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 1:46 pm
by itchy mcgoo_Archive
Be*stqueef is good.
"Enter the Be*stqueef contest now for your chance to win! Prizes include an Ibanez signed by Steve Vai, pantyliners, a home video recording system and blue lingerie!"