What is this generations Nirvana, Limp Bizkit, Tupac, or Rage against the machine?
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Most people don't pay attention to lyrics at all, and don't have the literacy skills to try to understand them.
That's true and quite unfortunate, but to be fair Anti-Flag was still fairly popular from what I understand, and their lyrics are much more politically charged.
I think Rage Against The Machine just doesn't grab the same way, at least for me personally.
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I'm not really going to respond to all that because I'd just be restating the same thing over and over. I'll focus on one point:
Yes I'm more than aware of how Cleaners of Venus distributed their music.
That's my entire point - they're a very much niche band essentially unknown in their time - and I would have never, in a million years - known about their distribution method, or known of them at all, if it wasn't on Wikipedia and on the internet and their music wasn't easily torrented or streamed.
Even if they were less niche, and sold their records in stores: stores are very very expensive, anything meatspace is very very expensive due to rent costs of the actual precious physical space, they have to make their stock count, and that means catering to the mass market.
If such stores even exist - which they essentially don't and when they did they were few and far between and not exactly record stores - more something like HMV, they catered to the mass market first because they are giant mega corps and dgaf about anything but the bottom line.
The internet - anyone could post anything there. Any music, any news about any new music, and anyone could access it from anywhere.
So If you literally believe that finding music is easier via counting on random zines and special orders in magical vinyl record stores that exist as far as I'm concerned - in fiction only, and when most countries in the world didn't even have such a concept, than via the internet which is available everywhere at all times to everyone globally, you're insane and I can't help you.
That is an insane, obviously incorrect position to hold and if you can't see that, you can't be made to see it with any arguments anyone could present.
I think that must be it because you made another truly psychotic claim here:
There was, let me check notes.... cassettes. Bands used to record music in their living room with a cheap 4 track, and put them on cassette.
Cleaners from Venus have 261k monthly listeners on Spotify. That means they'd need 216,000 cassettes. They'd also need the logistics and distribution to ship them all over the world to simply even come close to the reach they have now, to even be hypothetically obtainable.
Just because you lived in a shitty place, doesn't mean your experience was universal. The city I lived in was so small, we had a single bar that catered to everything outside of mainstream. Gay, goth, punk and metalheads... all in the same place. It was not uncommon to hear a Sepultra song, followed by Bauhaus or the Pet Shop Boys or Skinny Puppy.
Of course it's not universal. But it is more universal, because most of the world are not in one of like, three-ish Western European countries and the 10 or so sane cities in the United States. I'm sorry that causes your narrative of the world and how things used to be and/or are to be incorrect, but it's the simple truth.
What was universal? Top 40 hits played on TV and Radio. That was pretty much everywhere. That is - until the internet and now you could be a Wavves fan in Russia, and I'm sorry the thought is so offensive to you.
Did you completely miss the point that I was talking about pre-internet days? In my first response to you, I literally talked about an album release in the 90s.
Maybe your entire experience in life isn't as old as the pants I'm wearing right now, but the world existed before you did.
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Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch! I was there when MP3s were new. If it wasn't for a HD crash in 2003, I would still have MP3s from the 90s.
Plus, I was agreeing with you. WTF?
I'm not talking about sharing in particular, I'm talking about friction involved in discovery. You have to know someone to share the link, even today. So someone is out there spending 10 hours a day listening to random stuff on YT just to get something to share, not waiting around for the algorithm to give them music.
If it wasn't for a HD crash in 2003, I would still have MP3s from the 90s.
You just made me sad thinking about the huge music library I used to have. I've recently started downloading again, but my tastes were so different back then I don't think I'll ever remember it all.
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Absolutely fair point, and I agree with you to some degree. I imagine that it's somewhere in the middle, where bands have flooded the space so that if no technical means exists for discovery, we've traded off friction points. Instead of the 90's version where people would drive 40 minutes to the cool reord store in the next town over, now discerning listeners looking for gems have to wade through more and more bands they don't like. It's no one's fault, it's just how it is.
the ’90s* version
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Did you completely miss the point that I was talking about pre-internet days? In my first response to you, I literally talked about an album release in the 90s.
Maybe your entire experience in life isn't as old as the pants I'm wearing right now, but the world existed before you did.
Yes you demented moron I think I am aware that the world existed before the internet and before I did, especially since I mention music that was made before I was born? Stop huffing the asbestos for a moment and read and re-read my post until you understand it, you absolute cretin.
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Yes you demented moron I think I am aware that the world existed before the internet and before I did, especially since I mention music that was made before I was born? Stop huffing the asbestos for a moment and read and re-read my post until you understand it, you absolute cretin.
Ad hominems. The last gasp from the confused or clueless who just can't admit when they are wrong.
Did you have anything of substance at all to add? I assume not, since several posts now not doing so.
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The "algorithm" is not some conspiranoic mastermind, it just serves whatever retains the most attention and generates clicks for advertisers. It's users who don't want to listen to <insert your favorite rebel> because they prefer bland pop or whatever kids listen to these days.
Algorithms are definitely biased to push whatever agenda they want.
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Algorithms are definitely biased to push whatever agenda they want.
That's what I said. The agenda they want just happens to be "money", not whatever political conspiracy every political group comes up with.
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Then you might be surprised to learn that there is no band, just me! I played and sang all the parts except for drums, those I made with Hydrogen. I did all of that using mostly open-source tools, all in my living room!
Yeah, I was wondering about the drums part in the credits for each song, because it seemed odd to have different names for each drum set. Is it just a different setup and you give it a name?
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Yeah, I was wondering about the drums part in the credits for each song, because it seemed odd to have different names for each drum set. Is it just a different setup and you give it a name?
It's a different virtual drumkit, and I swapped some pieces here and there when I felt like one or the other sounded better for a specific song. The names were set by the creator of the drumkit, and I didn't really know how to credit them so I might have gone overboard with it lol
