Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Bands describing themselves

If you are in a band, you probably suck if your autobiography includes the phrase, "we're an eclectic mix of..." Why? Because you're not the first band to combine the elements you combine that you claim make your sound original or eclectic. Blues and rock have been combined for decades, but please don't claim to be "an eclectic mix" of the two if you want to tell everyone you're a retrospective, sub-par, Cream/Hendrix styled, try-hard, guitar wank trio. Similar things can be said for folk and rock or funk and rock or funk and rap. It's been done. You're nothing new. Fuck off, or at least admit you have no new ideas so we can judge you more favourably against what you claim to be.

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