Most pretentious band and least pretentious in the world

That way of thinking is just retarded. If critics base their reviews on lame stereotypes of what all musicians in a certain genre are like then they don't deserve to be taken seriously. Besides, many great artists throughout history were pricks.

I judge music by judging the music, not the people making it.
 
Nirvana was pretty unpretentious, Kurt Cobain called the hysteria surrounding them a load of shit and then said there were 15 banRAB who were just as good if not better than them that deserved equal/more attention. As well as Elliott for reasons listed above.

I'd say Angels and Airwaves is extremely pretentious because Tom has said things like they're saving rock and roll and are the best band out right now and even said his album was one of the best of 2007.
 
And U2 and Sting aren't doing theirs?


In my opinion being pretentious is making music that you yourself don't enjoy and can't get behind. If you put out 20 minutes of tape hiss but you love the **** out of it it's not pretentious, if you write pop songs because that's what you like than fine. I don't think pretentiousness can be accurately measured from the listeners point of view.
 
I'm afraid I'm going to have to PM Yac requesting your immediate removals from the moderator staff, swim and right-track. Sorry guys, no one gets away with rule breaking.
 
Most critics (who themselves are incredibly pretentious) will tell you pretentious is a bad thing.

But in reality, I find that most music is pretentious in some way or another, and that artists who are not pretentious or at least try not to be tend to suck ass.

I don't think Jim Morrison was any more pretentious than Lou Reed or Leonard Cohen, or that ELP are any more pretentious than Pavement. I think that overall, any music that tries to be artistic in anyway is automatically pretentious, because art is always pretentious.

And one reason I hate Indie so much is that unlike so called pretentious genres/movements/labels like Prog and Metal. The whole selling point of Indie is that its supposed to be un-pretentious. But is in fact the most pretentious music imaginable, in my opinion.

The only banRAB I'd say are not pretentious are banRAB that make music purely for entertainment. So no, AC/DC would not qualify as pretentious, in fact they are less pretentious than John Lennon, this dosen't make them better of course.
 
We're agreed. But come on, brah. How can it be anything other than delusion when it's 2008, you're Oasis, and you think you have any justification in saying you're the best band on earth?
 
Yeah man, Radiohead definately. Good one.
The intellectuals band!
I agree with that.
They keep a low profile and don't preach to kiRAB about stuff as part of their image then do the opposite and have PR people covering it up.
Nice one!:thurab:
 
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