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...what kind of music would you play?

Most recently I just finished with an indie rock (http://www.daymonthyear.net) band. Now I'm working with a band with no particular direction other than "let's sound like a punkier Soul Coughing", and I have a standing offer from a signed emoish-indie band.

SO I wondered, what would you chose...or start something different, what would it be?

I'd start a boy band, and then I'd go solo and do crappy pop and get signed by Jive records, or whatever, and make tonnes of money while all the tabloids wonder if I'm gay or not.

Sort of like Robbie Williams.

I'd probably go for a nice rhythm and blues outfit. Though clearly, being in a rock band would be cool.

right now? I would be in a cover band, a really fun eclectic cover band.

I would do punkish versions of oldies songs. (I say punkish because we all know they wouldn't be punk, just I would add the driving bass line and the kick ass drums.):D

It would be loud and angry and the band would be named "Sister's Pussy".

Its a long story.

Something with lots of horns. Like ska. Or even better, an attempt to revive big band.

heavy metal to punky rock

I would start a metal band, incorporating speed, thrash, nwobhm, power and prog elements, with touches of punk, blues and classic rock, just to avoid strict labelling. And all the albums would be concept albums.

I'd be like ween and put out whatever kind of music I feel like. Sometimes it would sound punk, sometimes country, sometimes like soul music, sometimes like metal, and often just deranged.

I would start a metal band, incorporating speed, thrash, nwobhm, power and prog elements, with touches of punk, blues and classic rock, just to avoid strict labelling. And all the albums would be concept albums.
I'd buy it :D

If I could start a band it would be hair metal; Motley Crue/GNR like, only more refined (with the hair, not the make up.)

We'd pwn rappers at every awards show and eventually destroy it. :)

I would start a Death Metal band, and call it Cuddly Kittens. I would wear nothing but a thong and a dog collar, I'd grow my hair really long and put it in pigtails, and I'd get 50 slutty naked women to dance on stage, while I yelled incoherently into a microphone and drank liquor out of a baby bottle.

Then when the show was over, I'd have sex with the ugliest girl at the concert on stage, and let everyone else watch.


Either that or I'd do something edgy. *shrugs*

right now? I would be in a cover band, a really fun eclectic cover band.

I would do punkish versions of oldies songs. (I say punkish because we all know they wouldn't be punk, just I would add the driving bass line and the kick ass drums.):D

Nah, the trick here if you want to play ersatz punk versions of old tunes is to slide up the neck of the guitar everytime there is a chord change...

Frex, every time there is a change to a G, instead of just playing a bar of G you play F#-G-G-G-G-G-G-G, everytime there is a change to a C, you play B-C-C-C-C-C-C-C. Of course whole tone slides also work. It is an idiotic formula, but it works.

If I could start a band it would be hair metal; Motley Crue/GNR like, only more refined (with the hair, not the make up.)

We'd pwn rappers at every awards show and eventually destroy it. :)

feel like a joint tour?

Both kinds of joint, obviously.

Nah, the trick here if you want to play ersatz punk versions of old tunes is to slide up the neck of the guitar everytime there is a chord change...

Frex, every time there is a change to a G, instead of just playing a bar of G you play F#-G-G-G-G-G-G-G, everytime there is a change to a C, you play B-C-C-C-C-C-C-C. Of course whole tone slides also work. It is an idiotic formula, but it works.
ah.........I am going to try that sounds fun:D

I'd have to go with a hardcore/indie/jazz band.

...what kind of music would you play?

Most recently I just finished with an indie rock (http://www.daymonthyear.net) band. Now I'm working with a band with no particular direction other than "let's sound like a punkier Soul Coughing", and I have a standing offer from a signed emoish-indie band.

SO I wondered, what would you chose...or start something different, what would it be? Already started one… see my sig. Metal with a symphonic/techno tendency.

www.myspace.com/storyofmyfuneral



yes that is my shitty band

we invented our own genre

shitcore

:D

...what kind of music would you play?

Most recently I just finished with an indie rock (http://www.daymonthyear.net) band. Now I'm working with a band with no particular direction other than "let's sound like a punkier Soul Coughing", and I have a standing offer from a signed emoish-indie band.

SO I wondered, what would you chose...or start something different, what would it be?

Been there, done that. Part of a band that tries not to play any "kind" of music, but our own mix of driving hardcore-punk guitar or a syncopated, heavier power/bar chord based sound and jazzy bass lines backed up by heavy, drums at as fast a tempo as our drummer can push them to.

We do political/social lyrics of the lefty variety (mostly my own writing). I guess if you had to label it you would call it punk, but that's not really what we want.

We've even half-written something in 5/4...

I would start a metal band, incorporating speed, thrash, nwobhm, power and prog elements, with touches of punk, blues and classic rock, just to avoid strict labelling. And all the albums would be concept albums.


Woah, you're in Symphony X?

....sorry, couldn't pass it up.

Woah, you're in Symphony X?

....sorry, couldn't pass it up.

Shit! My cover is blown!

My last band was a high-speed power metal band that I started in highschool. It lasted a long time, came really close, and then we proved that one in every four metalheads is an alcoholic and two in every four are assholes (myself included). Now that I'm done with my break from music, I'm working on something new. Hard rock with an acoustic feel. Yeah, its hard to envision, but if you've ever heard Sentenced, you'll at least have a rough idea. Nothing special, no shreds, no songs at 220bpm that piss off your producer (I wish I was kinding), just good old fashioned rock n' roll with a hard edge and a dark feel.

...what kind of music would you play?

Most recently I just finished with an indie rock (http://www.daymonthyear.net) band. Now I'm working with a band with no particular direction other than "let's sound like a punkier Soul Coughing", and I have a standing offer from a signed emoish-indie band.

SO I wondered, what would you chose...or start something different, what would it be?

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS INDIE ROCK. INDIE DENOTES A BAND'S INDEPENDENT RECORD LABEL. UGH.

Anyway, when I start my band (seriously, I will), it'll be Progressive.

Definitely grunge with hints of psy-rock and cynical country

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS INDIE ROCK. INDIE DENOTES A BAND'S INDEPENDENT RECORD LABEL. UGH.



You have heard of the evolution of language, yes?

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS INDIE ROCK. INDIE DENOTES A BAND'S INDEPENDENT RECORD LABEL. UGH.

Anyway, when I start my band (seriously, I will), it'll be Progressive.


Heh, wasn't it nice back when that was true? Sadly, the term "indy" now denotes a particular genre in the minds of alot of people. There is a TV show on public access here in Chicago that shows mostly indy rock. Over the past few years the music hasn't changed much but you've been seeing less and less label tags like "Screaming Ostrich Records" and more and more "Columbia." Sign of the times, my man, new american genres are still owned by the Big 4 the second they become comercially viable.

A mix between hard rock, Emo, Ska, Jazz....something so good you would have to be and idiot not to like!

name is morning star

A mix between hard rock, Emo, Ska, Jazz....something so good you would have to be and idiot not to like!

name is morning star


Name is taken by a swedish black metal band.

None, probably. I'm into classical music, so I wouldn't really be in a band.

Heh, wasn't it nice back when that was true? Sadly, the term "indy" now denotes a particular genre in the minds of alot of people.

Stupid people suck.

a sound somewhere in between the following;

Thrice
Biffy Clyro
TBS
theAUDITION

Biffy Clyro
I'm going to ignore the others and just be happy with this.

Funny...until yesterday I only knew myself as the resident NS Biffy fanatic (my sig has two Biffy references in it). Now I know of two other people. Awesome :)

I would go with a blend of Biffy Clyro, Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead and Sigur Rós.

Pretty much what my poor attempts at bands so far have sounded like.

Power metal with many elements of Irish trad music. Influenced by Cruachan and Blind Guardian.

Power metal with many elements of Irish trad music. Influenced by Cruachan and Blind Guardian.
hi there ;)

I'd start a band named "Fun Gus" - we'd play gothic-like bluegrass with a heavy drum and bass influence, and finish every song off with japanese flute and throw drugs out to the fans.

I'd start a band named "Fun Gus" - we'd play gothic-like bluegrass with a heavy drum and bass influence, and finish every song off with japanese flute and throw drugs out to the fans.

My band's going to distribute loaves of french bread and beer. :D

My band's going to distribute loaves of french bread and beer. :D

I'd go see you. yummm

oh also I will have comedians give my fans blowjobs...

or not

We would play indie-rock music with Jewish roots. We would be called The Kosher Woshers.

We would play indie-rock music

*gunshot*

I'd get a drummer and a singer and then I'd record all of the rest of the instruments on my own. The result would be a combination of Bruce Springsteen with more lead guitar and vocal harmonies, Meat Loaf with more vocal harmonies and less suck, The Eagles with more of an edge and Eric Clapton with more texture and it would turn the world of crappy modern rock on its head.

As a side-project I would release concept albums that sound like the early days of The Moody Blues when they were recording their Classic Seven albums.

So many famous musicians these days suck at music. It bugs me.

My band's going to distribute loaves of french bread and beer. :D

french?!?:(

Stupid people suck.

Yes, yes they do.

My band's going to distribute loaves of french bread and beer. :D
I am so there! For the music of course. :D
If I was in a band I'd have to say it would be genre-bending. Influenced by blues-rock and prog-rock, also industrial and various metal genres. Of course I'd try not to be a total control freak. < <

Power metal with many elements of Irish trad music. Influenced by Cruachan and Blind Guardian.


Sweeeeeeeeet. Have you given Korpiklaani a listen? I know, its Lappish traditional music and not Irish that they incorporate, but I think the sound is similar. Also, points for both a full time violinist and a full time accordian player....You just haven't lived until you've heard a metal song with an accordian.

I'd Start A Country And Southern Rock Band. Southern Rock Eg. Lynrys Skynryd, Allman Brothers, Credence Cleerwater Revival. We'd Be Called Bonnie Blue After The Bonnie Blue Flag.

Just some good ole three, power chord punk maybe folk, or alterntative. I'd start off punk and go alterntative, becuase I'm not that fast of a strummer, so I'd maybe go more alterntative most likely.

I would start a Ska band or a punk-ish sounding band with jazzy/ska influences intertwined into it.

We would play indie-rock music with Jewish roots. We would be called The Kosher Woshers.
THAT MAKES ABOUT AS MUCH SENSE AS A PIECE OF MUSLIM SHIT!!!

THAT MAKES ABOUT AS MUCH SENSE AS A PIECE OF MUSLIM SHIT!!!

Was that Muslim part really necessary?

THAT MAKES ABOUT AS MUCH SENSE AS A PIECE OF MUSLIM SHIT!!!

angry much?

Just some good ole three, power chord punk maybe folk, or alterntative. I'd start off punk and go alterntative, becuase I'm not that fast of a strummer, so I'd maybe go more alterntative most likely.
Strumming speed is in no way a measure of guitar skills. However, the emphasis a guitarist places on strumming speed is a fairly good indication of his guitar skills.

THAT MAKES ABOUT AS MUCH SENSE AS A PIECE OF MUSLIM SHIT!!!

What makes you say that?

Probably the protracted daily ingestion of Bovine Growth Hormones.

That's my guess.

I am so there! For the music of course. :D
If I was in a band I'd have to say it would be genre-bending. Influenced by blues-rock and prog-rock, also industrial and various metal genres. Of course I'd try not to be a total control freak. < <

Preebles?

I'd want to be in a prog rock band.

Preebles?

I'd want to be in a prog rock band.

When I get my guitar, we need to start the NS General band. Seriously!

I love Prog Rock.

When I get my guitar, we need to start the NS General band. Seriously!

I love Prog Rock.

I would want every song from our entire career to be part of one huge epic story.

Preebles?

I'd want to be in a prog rock band.

That's me. :D

That's me. :D

Welcome back. Where did you go for so long?

I would want every song from our entire career to be part of one huge epic story.

Now that would kick ass.

Of course, that's not saying we wouldn't have the funky side project now and then. :p

Welcome back. Where did you go for so long?
I kinda got bored. :p
Bored and busy!

I have started a band and we played Rock n' Roll baby :)
If I'd go for it again, I'd be interested in Progressive Rock, though

i'd be in some kind of grindcore/death-metal/punk/drum n bass band... try go go as fast and as heavy (intense) as possible while still keeping things interesting with nice melody and lyrics with meaning... breaking out occasionally into other stuff for fun... yeah that would be good *daydreams*

i'd be in some kind of grindcore/death-metal/punk/drum n bass band... try go go as fast and as heavy (intense) as possible while still keeping things interesting with nice melody and lyrics with meaning... breaking out occasionally into other stuff for fun... yeah that would be good *daydreams*

That's early Husker Du, man!

Now that would kick ass.

Of course, that's not saying we wouldn't have the funky side project now and then. :p

Well of course. With a prog rock band you really need to have side projects, because there's not a lot of room to explore different styles when you're writing a story with your music.

feel like a joint tour?

Both kinds of joint, obviously.

Can I pretend i'm Axl Rose and have my own tour bus?

Well of course. With a prog rock band you really need to have side projects, because there's not a lot of room to explore different styles when you're writing a story with your music.

Exactly.

But, I'm thinking: Each "real" Prog album would be different than the one before it. What's the point in being "Progressive" if you never change? Sure, the story's still there, but the sound is different.

Exactly.

But, I'm thinking: Each "real" Prog album would be different than the one before it. What's the point in being "Progressive" if you never change? Sure, the story's still there, but the sound is different.

Well we would change the style of the music as the story progressed. Different parts of the story would require different styles to play. For instance, when the main character in our epic is a child, our music would have to have a more child-like and playful tone. Then, as tragedy of course befell our hero, our music would take a more epic tone. It would be great.

*has the overwhelming urge to listen to Tommy*

That's early Husker Du, man!
heh too singularly punky dude... i want punk in it, but i'm thinking pitchshifter crossed with the prodigy and aphex twin, crossed with napalm death, with a bit of husker du and maybe some sex pistols (largely for the lyrics and style), maybe a little Faithless there as well (for chilloutness and weird electronic feel). but above all it has to be heavy and fast :D

whats this talk of a joint? *sits himself down on the left* ;)

Well I am in a hardcore band...

But if I wasn't in that I'd rap about kung-fu movies and crime.

That's early Husker Du, man!

Drum n bass? uh-huh.

Drum n bass? uh-huh.

Like being a bitch often?

Like being a bitch often?

Temper, temper.

My friends and I recently started a hard rock/thrash metal fusion band.

Temper, temper.

OoooOooOOoh, I'm maaaad noooow.

heh too singularly punky dude... i want punk in it, but i'm thinking pitchshifter crossed with the prodigy and aphex twin, crossed with napalm death, with a bit of husker du and maybe some sex pistols (largely for the lyrics and style), maybe a little Faithless there as well (for chilloutness and weird electronic feel). but above all it has to be heavy and fast :D

KLF vs. ENT?

KLF vs. ENT?
KMFDM??

no i have no clue what you're on about... is that a band or what? :confused:

I'm already starting a band.

This band is ontheRIGHTside, the name comes from a pain a friend of mine experienced and complained about in the right region of her groin.

The political stance of the members of the band is probably ontheLEFTside, but who cares?


Now, anyway, we gots four members, all with extremely mediocre skill, except our lead guitarist who mildly kicks a lot off ass. Our second guitarist doesn't know how to play, and our bassist is just learning. I'm on drums, and I'm decent. We're all doing vocals.

When we can actually play, we will be a punkrock/nerdrock/deathmetal band, and we will pwn. If we had to choose a different name, we would be t3h pwn*s.

Yep yep.

I'd go for a rivival of old rock from the early senventies, like Pink Floyd or The Who. I'd make sure that the songs all had the touch of heavy blues, that of which Led Zeppelin incorporated into most of their songs. Then I would write a completely different drum and bass line for each song to keep it interesting.


I wonder if today's teenagers would go for that. :p

KMFDM??

Kill MotherFucking Depeche Mode.

no i have no clue what you're on about... is that a band or what? :confused:

KLF = Kopyright Liberation Front = Justified Ancients of Mu = The Jamms = The K Foundation = K2 Plant Hire = Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty.

ENT = Extreme Noise Terror.

Famously performed their rendition of 3AM Love Eternal at the Brit Awards in 1992 as Drummond fired blanks from a British army rifle over the heads of the assembled great and good whilst dressed in a kilt and leaning on a pair of crutches?

Pity they never finished the LP they were working on.

A snatch of the 7" version is available here:

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~johol/music/KLF_3AM_Eternal.au

I would start a metal band with screaming guitars, pounding drums, and extended piccolo solos.

Some sort of metal band sounds good to me, whether it be singer, guitar, bass, drums, or keyboard. Doesn't matter to me (although I'd have to learn how to do any of those except singing).

Actually... must have been a couple of years ago... Two friends of mine (who play electric guitar and drums) and I (who play viola) got together a few times in an attempt to write a song as a band. I remember it was called "The Snack Song" - what it's about is apparent from the title. We wrote the lyrics (which were really stupid) and a repetitive, simple intro, and practiced it a few times, but it just sort of fell apart after that for lack of effort, I guess. (Both of these friends are two of the laziest people I know)

Besides that, the only "band" I've been in is a trio I've got going with two other friends who play violin and flute - we play classical music, obviously.

Famously performed their rendition of 3AM Love Eternal at the Brit Awards in 1992 as Drummond fired blanks from a stengun over the heads of the assembled great and good whilst dressed ina kilt and leaning on a pair of crutches?

lol you know i think i heard of that... a minor legend :p

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~johol/music/KLF_3AM_Eternal.au
hmm getting close but i'm going more for this sort of thing (http://a423.v13336d.c13336.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/423/13336/3b858b51/mtvrdstr.download.akamai.com/8512/wmp/2/583/6494_1_9_05.asf) (if it works - link doesn't work for me :confused: ) but perhaps a little more structured...

I would start a metal band with screaming guitars, pounding drums, and extended piccolo solos.

\m/

I would start a Death Metal band, and call it Cuddly Kittens. I would wear nothing but a thong and a dog collar, I'd grow my hair really long and put it in pigtails, and I'd get 50 slutty naked women to dance on stage, while I yelled incoherently into a microphone and drank liquor out of a baby bottle.

Then when the show was over, I'd have sex with the ugliest girl at the concert on stage, and let everyone else watch.


Either that or I'd do something edgy. *shrugs*

Rock and roll.
Id cover all music i wanted to (mainly rock)
And there would be some tenacious d/weird al kind of thing sometimes.

I would play Latin American folkloric music. I would need people to play the charango, quena, zampona, bombo, cuatro, etc. I would also do a side project with my brother, mixing this kind of music, and powwow music with some wicked hip-hop beats:).

The problem has always been finding people who can play that type of music. And who will submit to me:)

So many possibilities....

Some lazy piano tunes and sing (I guess Tom Waits style)
Sing or bass (or both)......grunge, hardcore punk maybe.... hardrock. Not mixed into one though. That can be cool, but usually it sucks

Strumming speed is in no way a measure of guitar skills. However, the emphasis a guitarist places on strumming speed is a fairly good indication of his guitar skills.


Depends on the genre and the situation. A combination of good strumming speed and agile fretboard work can do things that are just amazing.

So many famous musicians these days suck at music. It bugs me. Is that why no one's ever heard of all the NS bands?

only heavy metal is allowed to be considered music!! my band would run around doing all sorts of crazy shit like setting ourselves on fire and having duels on stage... i guess we MIGHT sing too, but whatever keeps the tickets selling.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS INDIE ROCK. INDIE DENOTES A BAND'S INDEPENDENT RECORD LABEL. UGH.

Anyway, when I start my band (seriously, I will), it'll be Progressive.

Incorrect. Indie Rock is what is continually change its genre name. Bands that follow the sound of the bands of early 90's independent music are now called Indie Rock instead of the former names of New Wave, Alternative, Post-Punk, or New Rock. It is a misleading name, but currently it is a genre.

For more information click here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie_Rock).

Punk.

A new genre: opera-jazz-techno-metal-classical.

i'd have a folk band. we'd maybe be called deathmetalsuicide or something, and cover guns songs while sounding like don mclean/joan baez

I am in a band, and we mostly play heavy/death metal. Our name is Toyz in the Cellar, and I do all the vocals. Screaming and growling mostly.

I would start a band (other than the ones I mentioned when starting this thread) of Celtic Rock that plays mostly traditional songs. Kind of like a more traditional Pogues, but with a rockier feel.

Of course finding a penny whistle player is always a problem.

Ah shit.....totally forgot about Folkrock.

Ah shit.....totally forgot about Folkrock.

being...you know...a pirate and all, one would think that Grog/Folk rock would've been your first response. :)

being...you know...a pirate and all, one would think that Grog/Folk rock would've been your first response. :) Grog rock? As in… the choruses have several lines of "Arrrrr"? Hmm… piratey music… :)

EDIT: Penny whistles are easy to play, finding someone shouldn't be hard.

being...you know...a pirate and all, one would think that Grog/Folk rock would've been your first response. :)
I'm a man of many tastes :D


And about the whistle: just find someone willing to learn to play. I learned to play bass all by myself because some friends were starting a band and needed a bassist.

I'd go for some good old-fashioned weirdness with good tunes. I'm thinking Satriani/Biffy Clyro/Behold... the Arctopus/Mastodon/Kyuss/The Wildhearts. Yeah, something like that.

And I'm in an emo band. Go figure.

Incorrect. Indie Rock is what is continually change its genre name. Bands that follow the sound of the bands of early 90's independent music are now called Indie Rock instead of the former names of New Wave, Alternative, Post-Punk, or New Rock. It is a misleading name, but currently it is a genre.

For more information click here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie_Rock).

See kids? This is what happens when stupid people start labelling things.

That wiki article is pretty funny.

I am in a band, and we mostly play heavy/death metal. Our name is Toyz in the Cellar, and I do all the vocals. Screaming and growling mostly.
Why arn't i suprised?

Melodic trash with faint influences from really Old heavy & rock bands.
Hopefully not some fanboyish stuff tho.