Musical lightweights duke it out
With the wealth of different, interesting, new material out there, readymade for quick consumption, it's surprising how many people don't want to explore new music. People really are made to live in their own small worlds, and new discoveries usually seem to prove more rigorous than they're worth.
It's a shame to only listen to a limited musical selection in one's lifetime. The world we live in is chock full of people making music, and that's no exaggeration. How many bands do you think are out there? Sure you've got to wade through a bunch of shit to find gems, but it's worth looking. You can't give up. The new thing you didn't know existed, that you will love, is out there.
One way to discover new music easily is to go to MySpace. Usually you can just search for a band you like, and in their top friends will be similar acts. It works like clockwork.
There is a problem with MySpace music, though: it resembles the Rolling Stone head-giving to popular acts like Taylor Swift, Key$ha, Beyonce, Kanye West, and The Strokes, among other popular, currently-selling-big-time (but-not-for-long) artists, mixed with even more immediate, hot for now, flash in the pan artists that I've never heard of, but look silly.
So there's nothing for me, basically. MySpace Music for people who like pop music, autotuned and soulless. It's what sells, isn't it. Shameful.
Another route you can go is http://www.purevolume.com/. This site has some pretty cool organizational tabs on the home page that make finding music that doesn't suck easier than MySpace does.
Okay, let's compare the bands these two sites are featuring right now:
In the MySpace corner, weighing in at 50lbs, Young the Giant
In the Purevolume corner, we have: Panic at the Disco!
Okay, YTG's first song on their player is called, "Apartment." It's boring and I don't care. There's no distortion on those guitars. But--it doesn't completely suck. It's just that it's boring, melancholy, and made by young people who need to grow up to make music that will last through the ages. It sounds like a million other pop/soft rock songs I've heard before. Definitely lame rock radio material.
NEXT!
PATD's first song is a clip of a tune called, "Mona Lisa." Slightly heavy. Next song is a live one: "Nine in the Afternoon." Can we say The Beatles? Pretty cool. A light ditty. I like it better than YTG, but not much. It's less melancholy, and the singer sounds like he's really going for it with some energy.
Panic wins. Young loses. By TKO.
In summary, I'd say that Purevolume is less full of stupid shit than MySpace. But both sites offer adequate search options, and the metal is out there. Too bad most modern metal sucks and is full of stupid screaming by people who think they're special enough to front a band with shitty I'M-ANGRY-NOW vocals.
MySpace also runs slow as shit.
WHERE'S DAVID BOWIE WHEN WE NEED HIM???
With the wealth of different, interesting, new material out there, readymade for quick consumption, it's surprising how many people don't want to explore new music. People really are made to live in their own small worlds, and new discoveries usually seem to prove more rigorous than they're worth.
It's a shame to only listen to a limited musical selection in one's lifetime. The world we live in is chock full of people making music, and that's no exaggeration. How many bands do you think are out there? Sure you've got to wade through a bunch of shit to find gems, but it's worth looking. You can't give up. The new thing you didn't know existed, that you will love, is out there.
One way to discover new music easily is to go to MySpace. Usually you can just search for a band you like, and in their top friends will be similar acts. It works like clockwork.
There is a problem with MySpace music, though: it resembles the Rolling Stone head-giving to popular acts like Taylor Swift, Key$ha, Beyonce, Kanye West, and The Strokes, among other popular, currently-selling-big-time (but-not-for-long) artists, mixed with even more immediate, hot for now, flash in the pan artists that I've never heard of, but look silly.
So there's nothing for me, basically. MySpace Music for people who like pop music, autotuned and soulless. It's what sells, isn't it. Shameful.
Another route you can go is http://www.purevolume.com/. This site has some pretty cool organizational tabs on the home page that make finding music that doesn't suck easier than MySpace does.
Okay, let's compare the bands these two sites are featuring right now:
In the MySpace corner, weighing in at 50lbs, Young the Giant
In the Purevolume corner, we have: Panic at the Disco!
Okay, YTG's first song on their player is called, "Apartment." It's boring and I don't care. There's no distortion on those guitars. But--it doesn't completely suck. It's just that it's boring, melancholy, and made by young people who need to grow up to make music that will last through the ages. It sounds like a million other pop/soft rock songs I've heard before. Definitely lame rock radio material.
NEXT!
PATD's first song is a clip of a tune called, "Mona Lisa." Slightly heavy. Next song is a live one: "Nine in the Afternoon." Can we say The Beatles? Pretty cool. A light ditty. I like it better than YTG, but not much. It's less melancholy, and the singer sounds like he's really going for it with some energy.
Panic wins. Young loses. By TKO.
In summary, I'd say that Purevolume is less full of stupid shit than MySpace. But both sites offer adequate search options, and the metal is out there. Too bad most modern metal sucks and is full of stupid screaming by people who think they're special enough to front a band with shitty I'M-ANGRY-NOW vocals.
MySpace also runs slow as shit.
WHERE'S DAVID BOWIE WHEN WE NEED HIM???
May be the only reader here..But this post is just..words of a wise man. Couldn't have said it better my self. New music sucks, totally.
ReplyDeleteGive older death/thrash/black and heavy metal. I love them all! :D