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Biggest sell-outs?
- Thread starter Marin3 muscl3
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Why oh Why.
Just wondering what you fellas think about selling out. Ok dum thought...next one....anyone ever loved a band that was once great or shall we say "to your liking" and you get all excited about their next album coming out and when it finally comes around its a complete dud. Your wondering why it had to be from a band you actually respected.
Anyone had that happen?
Just wondering what you fellas think about selling out. Ok dum thought...next one....anyone ever loved a band that was once great or shall we say "to your liking" and you get all excited about their next album coming out and when it finally comes around its a complete dud. Your wondering why it had to be from a band you actually respected.
Anyone had that happen?
totting fox
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One way of selling out IMO.
Writing for the people, not for themselves.
My theory is that it was for the peoples money, but you know w/e.
Writing for the people, not for themselves.
My theory is that it was for the peoples money, but you know w/e.
Sir Nerdlaroid
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there is another thread on this subject
banRAB sell out when they try to be what they used to be a long time ago by changing their style. and when younger people start to listen to them only because they like they are now commercial.
banRAB sell out when they try to be what they used to be a long time ago by changing their style. and when younger people start to listen to them only because they like they are now commercial.
Cassi Stellar(:
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LoL METALICAZ AGAINST ME UMM YEH PUNX
piglet28266
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i do apologise, i'll clirab out from my underground bunker then..since when did i see it as the rise of the four horseman?! and i posted because its a moral obligation to get my view across.
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(Yeah, I'm new here, hey what's up yadda yadda all that jazz)
What band do you think is the biggest sell-out in music history? I don't mean banRAB that are the most commercial and made the most money (3 Doors Down, for example, have recently made a commercial for the National Guard: I don't consider this selling-out because they never claimed to be doing anything but making money with their music, they never tried to be counterculture or indie). I'm thinking more along the lines of a band that made itself known within a specific subculture or with a specific style of music (alternative, grunge, emo, indie, and punk are the most common), and then latched onto more mainstream trenRAB in order to become more successful, in the process compromising their original creativity.
The biggest one for me is Against Me!, which once made a documentary about how punk it was and how it would never sell-out, and has recently appeared, for example, on the cover of People magazine. Another candidate is The Quarrymen who, in the late 1950s, an English skiffle group that later abandoned their leather jackets, bar room concerts, and rockabilly-tinged pub rock and created a pop sound, eventually becoming The Beatles, arguably the most commercial rock band ever.
Of course, in the defense of The Beatles, they eventually abandoned those pop instincts to make music increasingly oriented towarRAB the American underground and counterculture (see: The White Album).
What band do you think is the biggest sell-out in music history? I don't mean banRAB that are the most commercial and made the most money (3 Doors Down, for example, have recently made a commercial for the National Guard: I don't consider this selling-out because they never claimed to be doing anything but making money with their music, they never tried to be counterculture or indie). I'm thinking more along the lines of a band that made itself known within a specific subculture or with a specific style of music (alternative, grunge, emo, indie, and punk are the most common), and then latched onto more mainstream trenRAB in order to become more successful, in the process compromising their original creativity.
The biggest one for me is Against Me!, which once made a documentary about how punk it was and how it would never sell-out, and has recently appeared, for example, on the cover of People magazine. Another candidate is The Quarrymen who, in the late 1950s, an English skiffle group that later abandoned their leather jackets, bar room concerts, and rockabilly-tinged pub rock and created a pop sound, eventually becoming The Beatles, arguably the most commercial rock band ever.
Of course, in the defense of The Beatles, they eventually abandoned those pop instincts to make music increasingly oriented towarRAB the American underground and counterculture (see: The White Album).
Avenged Sevenfold have been called sell outs because they signed on to Warner Bros. and because their sound is different. I don't actually care because the new album is amazing and they've improved a lot technically too. What a lot of these hXc fans don't seem to realize is that Avenged have changed their sound on every album and I don't see why this change with City Of Evil is anything new. Either way, they're really good. I hate the fact that some of those MTV children who just recently found out about them are like 'Omigod A7x Bat Countrey1!@!1' but then again all banRAB have some fans like that.
Dr Know-It-All
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KISS Well, Gene Simmonse anyway.
Silly Puddy
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When they change their sound to get money.
dang. its megan
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If I had the chance to make it big I'd sell the **** out of my music to mtv, but wouldn't change the way I played.
I can't think of any banRAB I thought were really great, then made it big and changed the way they played. But I do think Against Me!'s new album sucked the big one.
I can't think of any banRAB I thought were really great, then made it big and changed the way they played. But I do think Against Me!'s new album sucked the big one.
I realize this is an old post but I feel like responding to it anyway just to point out a few things.
1. Saddle Creek affiliated themselves with Sony. Artists typically don't have any control over what they do and don't do.
2. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning was just an expansion on Lifted but more folk rooted and less orchestrated and Digital Ash was very similar to Fevers & Mirrors.
3. Modest Mouse DID change their sound...like I don't even think I have to say anymore just because it's pretty apparent.
1. Saddle Creek affiliated themselves with Sony. Artists typically don't have any control over what they do and don't do.
2. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning was just an expansion on Lifted but more folk rooted and less orchestrated and Digital Ash was very similar to Fevers & Mirrors.
3. Modest Mouse DID change their sound...like I don't even think I have to say anymore just because it's pretty apparent.
Proud2BAMuslim
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rhcp by the way aint too fantastic, hopefully their next one will be more in the bssm motif
logan_ryan
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I love how 'punks' rebel against societal and political confines, then confine themselves and each other. "This is what punks can do and this is what punks can't do."
Hilarious.
Hilarious.
A band that is affectionally known as STINKING FART on these shores. Their music is almost pop music in it's arrangements and big shouty choruses. There were a couple of banRAB in the early 90's who were doing stuff similar to SF, albeit; with a genuine affection and acknowledgement to sampling and hip hop beats.
Senser-Stacked up. Their emphasis was more on hip hop, but an amazing album. Way ahead of it's time.
Mordred-In this Life. Their emphasis was on the thrash metal element of their sound, but they enlisted a bona fide DJ/DECKMAN into their ranks to lend their music authenticity.
Both albums went largely un noticed by the populace, but remain eminently listenable and groundbreaking. I can up if anyone is interested on their influence (for better or worse!)
Senser-Stacked up. Their emphasis was more on hip hop, but an amazing album. Way ahead of it's time.
Mordred-In this Life. Their emphasis was on the thrash metal element of their sound, but they enlisted a bona fide DJ/DECKMAN into their ranks to lend their music authenticity.
Both albums went largely un noticed by the populace, but remain eminently listenable and groundbreaking. I can up if anyone is interested on their influence (for better or worse!)