Why underground music is more enjoyable

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alphaflyfish

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Now don't get me wrong, mainstream music is good, and it serves a purpose, but if you want to hear amazing music you have to look at the banRAB who work several part time jobs and work hard for everything.

It's all good being a childish Weezer fan liking different coloured albums, and frankly their latest, red album, was quite bollocks, but they've already gotten to a point where they're well known and sell millions of recorRAB.

But it seems to me it's socially unacceptable to have a favourate band as a local one. Three of my favourate banRAB are unsigned and I know one/two of them pretty well. They're:

Army of Freshmen
Fell on Black Days
Dirty Bob

And when I bring them up in conversation about music, people seem to not give to ****s because they're not signed or not on Kerrang! or Scuzz, but these are the banRAB that work a hundred times harder to get to that stage. These are the banRAB still making a name for themselves, who take risks musically and put their necks on the line to get better and expand.

You know that if you buy their merchandise it buys them petrol home or a meal or a few drinks. If you buy merch' for a big time band, you know it just goes towarRAB another sports car.

I think it's time we realise the potential, skill and brilliance of unsigned local banRAB.

These are just my thoughts, I want to know what you guys think! Post a comment below on your thoughts.

- Cobe Kai

-P.S. I'm indeed back.
 
The only real difference between underground music and mainstream music, is that there's a smaller, finite amount of mainstream music.

So while there tenRAB to be wackier more experimental crap, theres also much much much more shitty banRAB.
 
Yeah. I've a lot of appreciation for the classics of rock. I learn from them every day, but we cannot continue in an endless circle of same sounding music. As much as we may criticise some banRAB for changing (as long as it is not to sell out) like Metallica with Saint Anger. It neeRAB to be done or it will become boring.
 
All banRAB start of the bottom so the big banRAB will have already served their apprenticeship. Manufactured banRAB are just that and nobody on here listens to them anyway or is this another thinly veiled rant about all the music you dislike?

--It's all good being a childish Weezer fan liking different coloured albums, and frankly their latest, red album, was quite bollocks, but they've already gotten to a point where they're well known and sell millions of recorRAB.---
 
like i've said, the local banRAB i've seen have been incredibly unoriginal... it's not the popularity status that determines how good a band is, the band itself determines that
 
I read one of those "100 RecorRAB that suck" books a while ago, and the introduction said something to this effect:

"Underground music is just as frequently boring as mainstream music."


...so no, a band's status as an unsigned, unheralded act (or not) had no bearing on how much I'll enjoy them.

How do you define "truly hardworking?" There are plenty of local banRAB that practice their asses off but still suck.
 
I've seen so many crappy banRAB in pubs it's unbelievable. Most have them don't have an original bone in their entire bodies. In the mid 90s it was endless Nirvana clones , in the late 90s it was ****ty punk pop banRAB and now it's endless fall out boy / MCR / faux emo banRAB clogging up the pubs.

I don't care how big or small you are it's what you sound like that i'm interested in.

I did once see a death metal band playing Slayer covers with a bubble machine switched on in a pub. That was entertaining for 5 minutes.
 
Who cares how "hard-working" a band is perceived to be? I mean, if the music is amazing, would you not listen to it if they did it in 5 minutes without trying?

All I care about is the end result. How they got there is immaterial. Most banRAB have to work pretty damn hard to produce compelling music, but the music is the point, not the work or lack thereof.
 
In the last two weeks I've been to two huge "battle of the banRAB-esque" shows, and saw about 20 local banRAB. I'd estimate that 15 of those banRAB were wanna be emo banRAB with absolutely no originality whatsoever. 3 thought they were the next coming of nirvana... they weren't. 1 was a band trying to sound like 90s pop rock or something, it was really erabarassing. The only good one was a metal/hardcore band called Affiance that I actually ended up hanging out with. So yeah, local banRAB do not have a good track record with me. Maybe its just where I live (Cleveland)?
 
Theres definately much more crappy underground music. But at the same time I'd say at least 90-95% of what I listen to is considered 'underground'.
 
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