Ah, alright. *ahem* Welcome to my blog. If you there’s one thing you should know about me, it is that my life pretty much revolves around music. I play saxophone in marching band, concert band, jazz band, pit orchestra, and in wind ensemble. I also play electric guitar and acoustic guitar in my spare time when I’m not practicing my saxophone. Along with that, I record and mix music using Logic Studios. Finally, whenever I am not doing any of these things, I am listening to music. Obviously, my blog is going to be based on music *gasp*
For the next exciting 18 weeks I’ll be searching for bands that I have never heard of or I am not familiar with at all. I will proceed to criticize them and probably make fun of them of a little bit…or a lot. Here I go (reader’s discretion is advised).
About a year ago, I was playing Rock Band 2 because it was the hottest thing on the market. I remember playing through countless songs that I already knew and could hum in my sleep. However, I recall playing a song called “A Jagged Gorgeous Winter” one day and I had absolutely no idea whom it was by. About a week later, I was in my room with a $50 iTunes gift card and I was bored (not a good combination). I redeemed the gift card and remembered the song that I had played on rock band. I searched for it and found the song. The artist was a band called The Main Drag. I really enjoyed “A Jagged Gorgeous Winter” because it was relaxing and it had a catchy guitar riff in it so I downloaded it…and every other song on the album. If that song was good then the others would be, right?
Wrong -.- The first song I listened to was “A Jagged Gorgeous Winter” and I quickly realized that Harmonix added half of the song on the rock band version. The song was missing that catchy guitar riff, and I realized how bad the singing really was. Trying to stay optimistic, I switched to another song off the album in hopes that it would be better. The song was called “Goodnight Technologist.” To sum it all up, I could’ve gone for a game of Russian roulette after the first five seconds. I couldn’t stand it. This grown man was singing like a castrated rat. I don’t even know if that makes sense, but it would’ve sounded better than this man’s singing.
Sure enough, every song on the album was just as bad if not worse. I didn’t even listen to an entire song. After taking out my headphones, I realized that I had wasted ten dollars on an album that shouldn’t be legal to listen to. I had the strong urge to post something on the band’s Facebook page that would’ve looked something like this: “I appreciate your efforts to make an album and support your family, but really? I didn’t even know it was possible for a male to sing so high and so out of tune. So please, for the sanity of your very few fans, take it down a couple octaves and spare our ears the bleeding.”
Wisely, I did not post this even though I really wanted to. Maybe somewhere out in the world someone really does enjoy The Main Drag’s music. If you are one of these people then I hope that this has not offended you. I think you have a bad taste of music, but you are probably a good person :D That is all from me for this week. – Zach
I responded to this blog because, since I share a love for music as well, the name 'Band of the Week' immediately caught my eye.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't exactly what I was expecting though, because generally when people talk about music especially when critiqueing it, they talk about music they like or bands they'd suggest for other people to listen to. But I like the fact you chose to tell what bands you've come across that you don't like. And I find each post to be pretty humorous, even if a little harsh haha.
I know exactly what it's like to find a song that's completely terrible where the vocalist sounds like they're dieing or just in complete agony. Or to find one good song, decide to get the whole album in hopes of just having found a decent artist, just to find out it was a complete waste of time and money.