seeing hadouken! live

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Originally Posted by samsaBEAR

yeh, i agree with hellogoodbye, i dont hate them, they've just gotten very mainstream, and what i liked about them was that they prouduced awesome music,w hile staying out of the mianstream.
also with the pink spiders, amy told me about them on october time, but i just saw an advert in kerrang under 'incoming'. i thought that bit was about new bands, theres nothing new about them, they've just broken into the mainstream.
when a band goes mainstream, you cant help but feel a little bit of love lost for them.

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I fail to see this logic. If a band goes mainstream then they can continue to create awesome music. So what if they go mainstream? By going mainstream they actually get more money and can tour(so YOU can go and watch them more often) and they can release albums quicker as they are financially sorted. And in reply to your comment of "when a band goes mainstream, you can't help but feel a little bit of love lost for them." Well that's rubbish. Oh no I can't be the only one that listens to them!!!!! That's a really stupid comment to make. When a band goes mainstream you get more people who like them so you can talk to more people about them.

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Originally Posted by DJ

I fail to see this logic. If a band goes mainstream then they can continue to create awesome music. So what if they go mainstream? By going mainstream they actually get more money and can tour(so YOU can go and watch them more often) and they can release albums quicker as they are financially sorted. And in reply to your comment of "when a band goes mainstream, you can't help but feel a little bit of love lost for them." Well that's rubbish. Oh no I can't be the only one that listens to them!!!!! That's a really stupid comment to make. When a band goes mainstream you get more people who like them so you can talk to more people about them.

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I understand what you're saying Craig but when a band goes mainstream, yes, they do get money to tour so we can see them live but most popular bands only play big venues which cost more and also get sold out alot faster 'cause of all their mainstream fans.

i wanna see em!!

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Originally Posted by DJ

I fail to see this logic. If a band goes mainstream then they can continue to create awesome music. So what if they go mainstream? By going mainstream they actually get more money and can tour(so YOU can go and watch them more often) and they can release albums quicker as they are financially sorted. And in reply to your comment of "when a band goes mainstream, you can't help but feel a little bit of love lost for them." Well that's rubbish. Oh no I can't be the only one that listens to them!!!!! That's a really stupid comment to make. When a band goes mainstream you get more people who like them so you can talk to more people about them.

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In essence that's true - but in my two favorite genres, those being rap and punk, "going mainstream" can seriously affect a band. When rap is still "underground" we get incredible albums such as (to use Public Enemy as an example) Fear of a Black Planet and It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Down, both of which are two of the greatest albums I have ever heard. Step forward a few years and PE re-emerge with a bigger budget and the lackluster He Got Game album. Here we see them replace the angry, intelligent and just downright awesome socio-political songs of their earlier work with songs about basketball. Wahey! This happens in punk too, once you're in the mainstream you have to play by the mainstream's rules - which more often than nothas a bad effect on the music the band plays.

hadouken is a street fighter move lol

yeah its amazing. but people steal all bands off me, then they get famous, then i get called a mainstream follower.

eg, hellogoodbye, and funnily enough, hadouken.

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Originally Posted by squirrel

yeah its amazing. but people steal all bands off me, then they get famous, then i get called a mainstream follower.

eg, hellogoodbye, and funnily enough, hadouken.

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but to be fair hellogoodbye have been huge for ages, since about 2004/5 ish.
They just never really hit it big in the UK until here in your arms was released and all the noobs were like 'OMGZZ ITS A WELL GUD NEW VIDEO' when its been out for agezz. The same has happened with loadsa bands recently. Enter Shikari for me is the biggest example I can give, and people even make up that they've known about them for ages to pretend they've known them for a while.. THAT DOES MY HEAD RIGHT IN!

I HEARD ABOUT ENTER SHIKARI IN 1998 BEFORE DEY EVEN STARTED DA BAND COS I WENT UPTO ROU AND WAS LIKE HEY U GUNNA START A BAND! YE MAN I AM CALLED ENTER SHIKARISZ! WOW I'LL LISTEN TO DAT I SED SO I HERD DEM B4 U!

omg hadouken! i heard them back in 03 ur well behind i now hate them because all the grebs r listening 2 em lol

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Originally Posted by Kyle.tk

but to be fair hellogoodbye have been huge for ages, since about 2004/5 ish.
They just never really hit it big in the UK until here in your arms was released and all the noobs were like 'OMGZZ ITS A WELL GUD NEW VIDEO' when its been out for agezz. The same has happened with loadsa bands recently. Enter Shikari for me is the biggest example I can give, and people even make up that they've known about them for ages to pretend they've known them for a while.. THAT DOES MY HEAD RIGHT IN!

I HEARD ABOUT ENTER SHIKARI IN 1998 BEFORE DEY EVEN STARTED DA BAND COS I WENT UPTO ROU AND WAS LIKE HEY U GUNNA START A BAND! YE MAN I AM CALLED ENTER SHIKARISZ! WOW I'LL LISTEN TO DAT I SED SO I HERD DEM B4 U!

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That I can relate to, I love the band just not the majority of the fans.