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Will there ever be a musician/band that warrants a subforum here in Music?
06-22-03, 11:59 PM
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Will there ever be a musician/band that warrants a subforum here in Music?
The Movie Forum gets a Matrix Reloaded Forum and Other gets a War Forum. Do you think that a musician/band will ever breach the gap between pop fans, metalheads, and the indie-cognoscenti to grace Music with a subforum?
Sorry, I couldn't think of a shorter way to ask.
Sorry, I couldn't think of a shorter way to ask.
06-23-03, 08:53 AM
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Maybe if the Starland Vocal Band puts out a new album
Maybe if the Starland Vocal Band puts out a new album
Yeah, a couple of the bonus tracks will contain previously unreleased recordings of the members apologizing for the scourge that they let loose
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06-23-03, 11:26 AM
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Perhaps Radiohead, Deftones, Eminem, Tool and Metallica could get a subforum which was then permanently locked. Discussion of them elsewhere would then become absolutely off-topic! 
[but seriously....]
Films tend to be of more transient interest as compared to bands i.e. who particularly wants to talk about the Fellowship of the Ring today?
If we had a subforum, say, for a new release by one of the above bands maybe occasional "duplicate" threads would not need to be combined and/or locked but I think it would be as much "fun" as was the War Forum....
[but seriously....]Films tend to be of more transient interest as compared to bands i.e. who particularly wants to talk about the Fellowship of the Ring today?
If we had a subforum, say, for a new release by one of the above bands maybe occasional "duplicate" threads would not need to be combined and/or locked but I think it would be as much "fun" as was the War Forum....
06-23-03, 01:06 PM
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Originally posted by benedict
Perhaps Radiohead, Deftones, Eminem, Tool and Metallica could get a subforum which was then permanently locked. Discussion of them elsewhere would then become absolutely off-topic! [but seriously....]
Perhaps Radiohead, Deftones, Eminem, Tool and Metallica could get a subforum which was then permanently locked. Discussion of them elsewhere would then become absolutely off-topic!
[but seriously....]
06-23-03, 01:26 PM
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Originally posted by benedict
Films tend to be of more transient interest as compared to bands i.e. who particularly wants to talk about the Fellowship of the Ring today?
Films tend to be of more transient interest as compared to bands i.e. who particularly wants to talk about the Fellowship of the Ring today?
That was cool.
Anyhow, you're right about it being transient. When a new work by an artist comes out, most of the discussion is about their past works, and how the new CD fits in, and where it will take them in the future. Plus, many CDs will be talked about forever, be they all time classics or real clunkers.
If a new scene were to explode into the mainstream, the "next big thing", something like the Beatles or even when Nirvana released Nevermind, I could see opening a sub-forum, but not for plain old CD releases.
06-23-03, 02:21 PM
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That is true about movies, benedict.
I thought the once-they-released-a-cd idea was implicit in the question. Now that I read back over it, I see that it isn't.
I thought the once-they-released-a-cd idea was implicit in the question. Now that I read back over it, I see that it isn't.
06-23-03, 03:33 PM
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The Kajagoogoo reunion stadium tour.
Seriously though, not unless John Bonham, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrision & John Lennon rise from the grave.
Oh, and Elvis.
Seriously though, not unless John Bonham, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrision & John Lennon rise from the grave.
Oh, and Elvis.
06-23-03, 11:34 PM
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But why does it have to be past legends making it big? If Lennon or Reed were to come around again, they would hardly have any impact: there are already thousands upon thousands of bands that rip Velvet Underground licks, and even more that are influenced to the nth degree by The Beatles.
It's difficult to think of some new, groundbreaking band coming out of the woodworks. I honestly think it would take a fresh face: not Radiohead, not Tool, not Eminem. I don't know, I just have some hope that it'll happen one day, but there are all kinds of other issues that I think about.
With all the technological advances making the world theoretically smaller (via the internet mainly), it seems that different types of music are all the more available. It's effects, as far as I can tell, do two things: (1) make any sort of groundbreaking music available long before it could really shock a broad audience and, because of the first effect, (2) breed a kind of snobbery among the first exposed, thus making fans close off a band to others.
I guess with all this in mind, my answer is no, as well.
It's difficult to think of some new, groundbreaking band coming out of the woodworks. I honestly think it would take a fresh face: not Radiohead, not Tool, not Eminem. I don't know, I just have some hope that it'll happen one day, but there are all kinds of other issues that I think about.
With all the technological advances making the world theoretically smaller (via the internet mainly), it seems that different types of music are all the more available. It's effects, as far as I can tell, do two things: (1) make any sort of groundbreaking music available long before it could really shock a broad audience and, because of the first effect, (2) breed a kind of snobbery among the first exposed, thus making fans close off a band to others.
I guess with all this in mind, my answer is no, as well.
