V8 wrote:
Donovan Banks wrote:
Even worse if you play it forward you hear the Parlotones.
"Good music is a VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY small part of the big picture of musical success..."
I strongly disagree with this, the music being GOOD is about 80% of the equation, HOWEVER, that other 20% is also very important and needs to be taken care of 100%.
Playing covers is usually more beneficial over paying originals, because most of the time those covers are more-better-good-music.
All the lights and showmanship. marketing and hype are just just the icing on the cake, if your cake is no good, no amount of fancy icing will help.
I would actually go so far as to say a lot of the parlotones success is in fact based in their music, it's actually quite catchy in it's own strange way.
I do agree on their music, and a lot of others, sounding like "porridge", that word almost perfectly describes it, it's all warm and mushy, somewhat bland and textureless, some people like it, some don't.
Guitar solos are just gratuitous musical-masturbation, almost as pointless as all the sax solo's in the 80's, the main problem with modern music, especially from S.A is: WHERE ARE THE RIFFS, there are almost 0 riffs in music today, every great band had riffs, from the Stones "Satisfaction" to even Poker Face by Lady Kaka, riffs, not all this strummy vague porridge-like stuff.
I even made a joke for it:
Q: How does the musician get to work at McDonalds?
A: No Riffs!
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got a riff and some swing
