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    Unpopular Musical Opinions: What are Yours?

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    1 hour ago, Newfoundfreedom said:

    Another one. I could go all day on these but I'm trying to ration myself.

     

    Eric Clapton is the most overrated guitarist of all time. Absolutely dull as dishwater. 

    Yet Cream were founded well over 50 years ago! A few years before there was basically no such thing as a teenager and Max Bigraves  would have been fairly risqué.

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    Does a band need a website

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    17 hours ago, BigRedX said:

    It can be useful to have a (easily found) domain name with a single page that highlights any important information and then includes links to all your social media and on-line sales sites (Facebook/Instagram/Tiktok/YouTube/Bandcamp/etc.) You used to get more than enough web space free with your domain name registration to be able to do this, but that appears to be a thing of the past.

    This. Possibly try AWS free tier. An S3 bucket can host static pages. 

    If this is all just unintelligible jargon wix.com is easy to use and can cost less than £5 a month.

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    It appears wood has little to no effect on tone.

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    31 minutes ago, xgsjx said:

    That's a good point.  My thinking is that although it seems wood has little to no effect on tone, it does have an effect on the playability of an instrument.  I still plan on having a nice £2k+ bass, not because it may or may not sound different from a decent £6-700 bass with the same pickups, but because hopefully more attention to detail will have went into it, giving a pro quality playability and feel as well as being comfortable.

     

    I know that it's not a given with all higher priced instruments, which is why I'd likely be looking at the smaller companies.  If I had the funds, it'd be a Ritter.  🤑

    Good luck. Ritters are visually very interesting and unique. Speaking of which I guess semiotics also play a part. The contestants on The Appreciate may be tools a lot of the time but with the clothes and right surroundings appear convincing. The same can be said for a musician. Malcom Maclaren may have been detrimental to The Sex Pistols in that he didn’t appreciate the strength of the songs and they had a core of competent musicians. But he did understand semiotics and marketing.

     

    Edit: What’s this got to do with tone and wood? How good an instrument sounds may depend on far more than just what its made of. Im sure there are studies out there where people judge the sound of an instrument as being better if they know it’s a famous make. Violins being a good example. There are also cases where world famous classical musicians busk underground railway stations and people walk on by.  This maybe because people are busy and absorbed in the humdrum it may also be that without all the signals of success, power and theatre the music and musician is diminished.

     

    Without a grasp of semiotics Hitler would have been just another bitter, twisted nut job ranting at passers by. 

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    Unpopular Musical Opinions: What are Yours?

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    31 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said:

    There are also a lot of anti-jazz comments here. Thing is, jazz is widely unappreciated/unloved so aren't any negative opinions about it, by default, popular?

    Jazz is such a broad church. Some I love, some I hate. Kind of Blue for example is the perfect 1am soundtrack whereas beaches Brew is a difficult album to digest at any hour of the day.

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    Unpopular Musical Opinions: What are Yours?

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    2 hours ago, Grassie said:

    Bands/singers who make me reach for the “off” switch:

     

    George Ezra

    Ed Sheeran

    Adele

    Any singer/songwriter called “Tom”.

    Bastille

    Lewis “bloody” Capaldi 

     

    The above acts can be filed under the genre of Borecore. There are many other examples, but because they are so unutterably dull, I’ve forgotten their names.

    Sorry but that would include Tom Waits one of the best songwriters and lyricists ever…

    Unpopular Musical Opinions: What are Yours?

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    15 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

     

    I've been accused of this. My defence is that for an artist to become popular enough for enough other people to like then, they have a generally change their musical style to one I am not as enthusiastic about. 

     

    Cases is point: Firstly I really liked the first U2 album. After that it's been steadily downhill with each subsequent release. Secondly no-one can convince me that Underworld are superior to Freur...

    There is also over-saturation and record company pressure to repeat the same format to get the same sales figures. I like Pizza occasionally but don’t want to eat it 3 times a day, sit on a bus with all the passengers wearing Pizza T-Shirts, read endless articles praising Pizza, listen to radio hacks proclaiming the magnificence of Pizza then find the next Pizza is basically the same as the one before and on it goes!

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    Unpopular Musical Opinions: What are Yours?

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    iSometimes it’s over exposure that kills any enjoyment of a band. I finally started to appreciate Nirvana a few years ago. At the time I liked them in the same way I liked Mudhoney or The Pixies and then came Nevermind. If Debaser was playing whilst I bought my groceries, Radio DJs warbled on to Carol from Romford over the closing bars, Every one on the Tube was wearing the T Shirt, The tabloids were using lyrics as headline puns etc then I doubt if I could have listened to The Pixies for a decade either.

     

    Edit: I now like Nirvana, I wonder if “more than words” did for Extreme  what “sex on fire” did for Kings of Leon?

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