Like the Album or Not?

[cephus]

Like the album? Not necessarily. Covers are for sucks? Definitely not.

I think alot - too many - performing acts that are trying to do originals think they are much better than they really are. They, of course, have every right to share their feelings and vision with audiences, but it's going too far to say that any original song that someone is performing is better than any skilled musician playing an arrangement of a song written by a skilled songwriter.

I pick good songs played any way over crap songs written by the guy who works at sam ash or the video store.

Give up. You suck. Play a chuck berry song and make people happy. Those chords don't go together, the groove sounds like everything else on the radio, your lyrics are trite and I don't really care about the feelings you want to share. On the other hand, "Drrrrrrrrop the coin right into the slot!"

 

[ggunn]

Like the album? Not necessarily. Covers are for sucks? Definitely not.

I think alot - too many - performing acts that are trying to do originals think they are much better than they really are. They, of course, have every right to share their feelings and vision with audiences, but it's going too far to say that any original song that someone is performing is better than any skilled musician playing an arrangement of a song written by a skilled songwriter.

I pick good songs played any way over crap songs written by the guy who works at sam ash or the video store.

Give up. You suck. Play a chuck berry song and make people happy. Those chords don't go together, the groove sounds like everything else on the radio, your lyrics are trite and I don't really care about the feelings you want to share. On the other hand, "Drrrrrrrrop the coin right into the slot!"

As an audience member, it's your prerogative to listen to anything you want, but I would never advise anyone to give it up and go play covers, no matter how bad I think their stuff is; everyone has to be bad before they can be good. I'll bet even Paul Simon wrote some stinkers in his early days before anyone ever heard of him.

 

[gbdweller]

Quoting myself for reference purposes only:


Because of this relatively mundane post, and relatively different opinion from other posters here (judging by the poll), and instead of calling me to the carpet, some anonymous dickwad posted that I was 'bashing musicians and acting superior' in my rep.

By throwing that out there in the way it was done, I would say that one act alone shows the person was doing exactly what they accused me of. I just don't get this damn rep point thing- don't know how it's figured, but...sounds like someone didn't like me from another thread. Wah wah wah

Don't throw anonymous snowballs from behind your little pseudo-original Partridge Family cover tune tour bus- cOmE oUt aNd pLaY!!!!!!

Hey Doc. I read this little tip in another thread. If you want to catch your snowball thrower, add your suspect to your ignore list and the negative rep left for you should disappear. I just tried it. It works for positive anonymous rep so I'm assuming it works for negative rep as well.

 

[ggunn]

dumbass reply to self deleted

 

[ggunn]

Hey Doc. I read this little tip in another thread. If you want to catch your snowball thrower, add your suspect to your ignore list and the negative rep left for you should disappear. I just tried it. It works for positive anonymous rep so I'm assuming it works for negative rep as well.

What's the connection between the dark green thingies, the light green thingies, and the rep number, anyway? I've seen low numbers with lots of thingies, and high numbers with just a few of them. Is there a FAQ that explains it all?

 

[gbdweller]

I was wondering the same thing. I found the other tip in a thread posted in either Visitors Feedback or the Dragon Cave. Can't remember which.

 

[nkjanssen]

I read this little tip in another thread. If you want to catch your snowball thrower, add your suspect to your ignore list and the negative rep left for you should disappear. I just tried it. It works for positive anonymous rep so I'm assuming it works for negative rep as well.

That's how I found out that tc4b dropped anonymous negative rep on me.