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Old 20-05-2006, 15:55
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For me, it has to be meaningful and/or have a plot.

Is it just me or do you lot all agree?
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Old 20-05-2006, 18:40
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I agree with you!

It has to not be on MySpace - Yeah, you could do that, but it makes it SO annoying! Teen girls will basically add anyone they see on their friends list. Then you just become some sort of MySpace Icon. Not that I'm saying all MySpace artists are bad, but it's just the easy way out of advertising yourself to the public, as in going to a radio station's morning show and asking to play on there. Once you're on MySpace, it takes all that work away from you.

It should be recorded with real music - I hate tracks, I honestly do. If you're going to use a track, just make sure to add some type of instrument. And don't think that people will not believe it's a track. It's very easy to tell nowadays. I think tracks should be used in remixing purposes only.
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Old 20-05-2006, 18:42
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Good words and guitars!
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Old 20-05-2006, 18:47
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Originally Posted by VickiGri
Good words and guitars!
Guitars - Hmm, I hate to say it but, I think they're over used too much now. Everyone these days plays it. It kind of gets old. Having gone to an Arts Festival last month, and having a friend that plays guitar as well, I could clearly see that he wasn't exactly alone. All the student bands I saw had at least one main guy playing it.
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Old 21-05-2006, 10:50
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Sorry Jessica, but that's what music is all about, instruments.
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Old 21-05-2006, 11:46
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Keane don't use any guitars, which just goes to prove you don't need them to make good rock music.
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Old 21-05-2006, 14:31
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Dragonforce - thats what makes really good music.
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Old 21-05-2006, 14:36
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Synthesizers- Love 'em! Rik Wakeman!!
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Old 21-05-2006, 14:37
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Originally Posted by Siannah
Synthesizers- Love 'em!
Especially the old analogue ones. They had a much richer sound to them.
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Old 21-05-2006, 17:22
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Call me old fashioned but i stiil think you need good guitar bass and good strong vocals eg lynyrd skynyrd.led zeppelin,cream,the pixies,pearl jam etc.
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Old 21-05-2006, 21:38
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Originally Posted by Have A Nice Day
Keane don't use any guitars, which just goes to prove you don't need them to make good rock music.
Keane are the perfect example to WHY they should use guitars!
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Old 21-05-2006, 22:17
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Originally Posted by BeatleGod
Keane are the perfect example to WHY they should use guitars!
Well obviously over 2.5 million people in the UK disagree with you. I like the Beatles too and they were good at soft guitar driven rock music as are a lot of bands, but its nice to see a band like Keane go against the grain and prove you really don't need them.
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Old 22-05-2006, 08:53
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obviously being a fan of mainly rock music i think that guitars can make really good music, i love the Bass guitar but obviously guitars dont fit in every song. Sometimes i have listened to a song and thought that it would sound much better with a guitar in it, like something's missing, but sometimes i've heard songs where they will have like a 10 sec guitar part and think that if they were going to be that uninventive why bother???
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Old 22-05-2006, 11:20
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Originally Posted by Have A Nice Day
Keane don't use any guitars, which just goes to prove you don't need them to make good rock music.
Their new single sounds awfully like it's got a bass guitar on it. Anyway, the keyboard sounds they use are almost indistinguishable from the sounds many guitarists use nowadays. If they were like Ben Folds f'rinstance, and just used a natural piano sound, then they could say you don't need an electric guitar sound to make rock music.
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Old 22-05-2006, 12:02
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Anything i like is good music. If you like it, then it is good to you and that is only thing that counts IMO, there are far too many different types of music, cross types of music and artists to be able to say that "X is always good".
It has to come down to personal taste, if you like it, it makes you want to listen to it again and again, then it is good music
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Old 22-05-2006, 12:26
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Originally Posted by BeatleGod
Keane are the perfect example to WHY they should use guitars!
What about Ben Folds - just piano, drums, bass. Not Keane, but good.

Anyway: what's good music? For me, it has to have what I like to call The Funk™. If it has no soul, I'm unlikely to like it. This is a fairly abstract concept, and isn't as easy to define as black vs white boy music, or even acoustic vs electronic instruments; I like a wide variety of styles/genres of music!
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Old 22-05-2006, 12:42
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Originally Posted by Inkblot
Their new single sounds awfully like it's got a bass guitar on it. Anyway, the keyboard sounds they use are almost indistinguishable from the sounds many guitarists use nowadays. If they were like Ben Folds f'rinstance, and just used a natural piano sound, then they could say you don't need an electric guitar sound to make rock music.
I'm sorry but Ben Folds can't hold a candle to Keane.
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Old 22-05-2006, 12:55
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Originally Posted by Have A Nice Day
I'm sorry but Ben Folds can't hold a candle to Keane.
That's the funniest thing I've heard all day! So Ben Folds might not sell as many records as Keane. So what? The Independent doesn't sell as many papers as The Sun.

Popularity != greatness.
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Old 22-05-2006, 12:57
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Originally Posted by Have A Nice Day
I'm sorry but Ben Folds can't hold a candle to Keane.
I would suggest, respectfully, that while Ben Folds's candle-holding expertise may not be up there with Keane's, as a songwriter and musician he is in a class of his own.
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Old 22-05-2006, 13:03
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Originally Posted by Inkblot
I would suggest, respectfully, that while Ben Folds's candle-holding expertise may not be up there with Keane's, as a songwriter and musician he is in a class of his own.
Indeed. When Keane have released, ooh, ten quality albums then they might be in the same galaxy as BF.
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Old 22-05-2006, 13:46
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I don't think the idea of using guitars is getting old, its how musicians play them. The guitar styles across indie music now is quite synonymous.

What we need is another Tom Morello!!
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Old 22-05-2006, 13:49
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Originally Posted by relphy
I don't think the idea of using guitars is getting old, its how musicians play them. The guitar styles across indie music now is quite synonymous.

What we need is another Tom Morello!!
I agree that Tom's guitar style is great, but once something like that became more widespread you'd probably start to wish for Hank Marvin-style strumming...

Mind you, it's been 14 years since RATM's first album - has anyone else done what Morello does?
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Old 05-06-2006, 00:19
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Originally Posted by Paste
Dragonforce - thats what makes really good music.
ur damn right they do!
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Old 05-06-2006, 00:39
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Lots of guitar and bass and lots of enthusiasm
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Old 05-06-2006, 12:58
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Originally Posted by FrankieB
Sorry Jessica, but that's what music is all about, instruments.
She was talking specifically about guitars. Guitars are not the only instrument.
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