Band trends that need to go away

[mathias]

Aen has hte best stage banter of any musician.

[gunslinger_burrito]

bands like this:
http://www.livemusicdenver.com/events/T ... otion=7266

it pisses me off to no end that these assclowns somehow have enough of a following and the money to tour

[amorphous]

bands like this:
http://www.livemusicdenver.com/events/T ... otion=7266

it pisses me off to no end that these assclowns somehow have enough of a following and the money to tour

I laughed out loud at this one - I agree 100%, but you have to remember that one man's Budwiser is another's Rogue...it's just a matter of taste....and some people (such as THEIR FANS) have none!

[amorphous]

micing the drums when the venue is small enough that the drums are fine acoustically.

not every drum hit needs to be miced and compressed to sound like an electronica drum beat.

acoustic drums don't ring out (part of the reason I think they compress them so much) like an electronic drum beat does, and acoustic drums HAVE DYNAMICS.

yah! THIS or how about the asshat soundmen that throw a single SM57 on the kick? c'mon!

[IEatCats]

bands like this:
http://www.livemusicdenver.com/events/T ... otion=7266

it pisses me off to no end that these assclowns somehow have enough of a following and the money to tour

I laughed out loud at this one - I agree 100%, but you have to remember that one man's Budwiser is another's Rogue...it's just a matter of taste....and some people (such as THEIR FANS) have none!

I didn't make it past seeing "martyr" in a song title. They look like idiots, too.

[zRobertez]

Any of the "metal" dudes in my town... They're almost too \m/ for me. But really, there are some who can play and are great people and then there are the "metal is cool, imma like metal now, imma play metal now, imma cool now rawrrrrrr"
Bands with dedicated singer/screamer/yelper/growlers. One band in my area had a guitarist/screamer, a singer/blahblah, and another dedicated yelling guy. And they all had stupid nicknames they gave themselves like "Apeman" and "Shadas."

Sorry for that, I have black friends... I mean metal friends too! Pretty much anyone who is being who they're not, but with music incorporated into it all.

And every band with THAT indie singer. As in 50% of them sound the same. To me at least, and I listen to mostly "indie"-ish stuff.

[gunslinger_burrito]

Any of the "metal" dudes in my town... They're almost too \m/ for me. But really, there are some who can play and are great people and then there are the "metal is cool, imma like metal now, imma play metal now, imma cool now rawrrrrrr"
Bands with dedicated singer/screamer/yelper/growlers. One band in my area had a guitarist/screamer, a singer/blahblah, and another dedicated yelling guy. And they all had stupid nicknames they gave themselves like "Apeman" and "Shadas."

Sorry for that, I have black friends... I mean metal friends too! Pretty much anyone who is being who they're not, but with music incorporated into it all.

And every band with THAT indie singer. As in 50% of them sound the same. To me at least, and I listen to mostly "indie"-ish stuff.

The metal dudes who are into metal that's so metal you can't bear to look at their "nuclear death-vomit" or whatever tee-shirts? Yeah. Those guys (while usually not really bad dudes) are annoying as hell.

I am sick and tired of hearing acoustic-guitar "sensitive guy" music. Maybe I'm being harsh, but a good "folk" song is a different animal from "I want to sound pretty so girls will like me and I can become popular in college coffeeshops." Also folk music is "about the folk" (about the people and their culture) not about how bummed out you are about your incapacity to not be a douche and always lose girls.

[fungalattack]

metal is about not having any patches on your pants and knowing that you are really metal without ever expressing it. wearing all black doesn't hurt. also I'm vaguely kidding, but not really!

[D.o.S.]

I always thought metal was about loud guitars.

[Moustache_Bash]

People who have expensive rigs and make them sound like a shitty starter amp. Don't buy a fucking all tube half stack if you're going to run your shit boss ds-2 through it, scoop the mids, and then lose it in the mix anyway. Buy a fucking $150 combo and make that sound like shit.

People who don't actually know how to convey musical concepts that want to jam. If you can't tell me what key you're in, you can't slow it down enough that I can follow your shitty metalcore riff and figure it out myself, and you can't follow what I'm doing, why the fuck am I here?

ANYONE WHO BITCHES ABOUT FUZZ. I jammed with a guy one time and he kept saying that my rig "sounded broken" while he sat there and ignored me and the other player that was there. I almost threw him out of my house that day >:(

Screamers who never actually learned their trade. Seriously, stop muffling, watch The Zen of Screaming, and learn to do what you're supposed to be doing.
Related: Screamers who can't sing, but try to anyway.

And vocalists who are completely unengaged from the set. There's a band that has a female vocalist in my area, and she just stands there and sings off key. She doesn't look into the music, she doesn't have the personality to pull off being a shitty vocalist, she just is a shitty vocalist.

Well, you got my vote.


Also what I hate, bands that are too fucking loud. Maybe I'm getting old and/or lame, but I hate going to a show and not being able to hear the music. I understand loudness being part of the music/feel, but I'd like to be able to decipher what I'm hearing.

[mathias]

People who have expensive rigs and make them sound like a shitty starter amp.

Also what I hate, bands that are too fucking loud. Maybe I'm getting old and/or lame, but I hate going to a show and not being able to hear the music. I understand loudness being part of the music/feel, but I'd like to be able to decipher what I'm hearing.

+1 +1

[Mudfuzz]

People who have expensive rigs and make them sound like a shitty starter amp.

Also what I hate, bands that are too fucking loud. Maybe I'm getting old and/or lame, but I hate going to a show and not being able to hear the music. I understand loudness being part of the music/feel, but I'd like to be able to decipher what I'm hearing.

+1 +1

[snipelfritz]

Also what I hate, bands that are too fucking loud. Maybe I'm getting old and/or lame, but I hate going to a show and not being able to hear the music. I understand loudness being part of the music/feel, but I'd like to be able to decipher what I'm hearing.

All apologies, but this is like by far the lamest thing I've ever seen on ILF.

[Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.]

I am sick and tired of hearing acoustic-guitar "sensitive guy" music. Maybe I'm being harsh, but a good "folk" song is a different animal from "I want to sound pretty so girls will like me and I can become popular in college coffeeshops." Also folk music is "about the folk" (about the people and their culture) not about how bummed out you are about your incapacity to not be a douche and always lose girls.

lol there is an open mic at the coffee place i live next to....it is filled w/ emo kids whining and complaining while strumming their acoustic guitars much like u describe.

some of them were not that bad at what they do, but emo acoustic guy after emo acoustic guy it all starts to run together and its hard to appreciate the ones w/ some talent.

[snipelfritz]

I am sick and tired of hearing acoustic-guitar "sensitive guy" music. Maybe I'm being harsh, but a good "folk" song is a different animal from "I want to sound pretty so girls will like me and I can become popular in college coffeeshops." Also folk music is "about the folk" (about the people and their culture) not about how bummed out you are about your incapacity to not be a douche and always lose girls.

lol there is an open mic at the coffee place i live next to....it is filled w/ emo kids whining and complaining while strumming their acoustic guitars much like u describe.

some of them were not that bad at what they do, but emo acoustic guy after emo acoustic guy it all starts to run together and its hard to appreciate the ones w/ some talent.

AbSOlutely.

I've grown immensely skeptical of any kind of acoustic singer-songwriter music. It just seems so lacking in creativity.