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Topic: Question about the latest Alternative Press.
Monica
I've got an owie on my head :(
posted 01-05-2004 10:13:17 PM
(Which includes a fabulous page about Scarling., by the way.)

Anyway.

How did good Charlotte get voted as #2 as far as "Artist With Most Integrity" and #1 as "Biggest Sellout in Music"?

Sadly, I think I was asking myself this question last year, as well.

I know someone is going to insert some rational answer I don't want to hear, like, "Well it obviously shows the diversity of what AP readers listen to." Meanies.

King Parcelan
Chicken of the Sea
posted 01-05-2004 10:15:49 PM
Wait...what?
Monica
I've got an owie on my head :(
posted 01-05-2004 10:18:48 PM
quote:
King Parcelan wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
Wait...what?

shoo!

Vorbis
Vend-A-Goat
posted 01-05-2004 10:19:21 PM
AP sucks... I think.

I dunno.

Monica
I've got an owie on my head :(
posted 01-05-2004 10:20:44 PM
quote:
Nobody really understood why Vorbis wrote:
AP sucks... I think.

I dunno.


AP has a tendancy of putting some of the shittiest bands on their covers, but putting lots of stuff about good bands on the inside.

I'm always kind of embarrassed when I buy it. Last time, Good Charlotte was on the cover. This time, it was Simple Plan.

Mightion Defensor
posted 01-05-2004 10:24:49 PM
Moderm music confuses and frightens me, unless it's by BNL or R.E.M.
Ares
posted 01-05-2004 10:31:19 PM
Alternative Press? Is that for alternative music?

Since when was Good Charlotte "alternative"...I hate that bad. My frigging sister listens to them. ¬¬ Thankfully it's a step above the "boy band" shit. Silly though...

WHY?

Monica
I've got an owie on my head :(
posted 01-05-2004 10:31:29 PM
quote:
Mightion Defensor stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
Moderm music confuses and frightens me, unless it's by BNL or R.E.M.

No worries, Brian; it confuses me, too.

Monica
I've got an owie on my head :(
posted 01-05-2004 10:32:46 PM
quote:
Check out the big brain on Ares!
Alternative Press? Is that for alternative music?

Since when was Good Charlotte "alternative"...I hate that bad. My frigging sister listens to them. ¬¬ Thankfully it's a step above the "boy band" shit. Silly though...

WHY?


Big bands tend to make the cover, in order to (I assume) help it sell. The inside contains all kinds of different stuff, though.

TaLourin
Pancake
posted 01-05-2004 10:55:14 PM
Does it matter if a band sells out?
Does it matter if a band has integrity?

The only things I bother with anymore are:

A. Do I like the music?
B. Is the lead singer a chick I'd like to boink?

Other than that, I really could give a shit less about things like how evil a band is, just because they decided to go out, and make a living off what they do. Some people think that bands should only do things "For the music" or "For thier art" and not sell out. But if these people could not make a living doing thier music, they would be working at McDonalds, or Convenience stores... or wherever else Snoota has worked before. If they couldn't make a living off it, by "selling out" they WOULDNT PLAY.

Hell, I wouldnt devote my life to something, if that something didnt support my life in return.

Monica
I've got an owie on my head :(
posted 01-05-2004 11:38:15 PM
It just doesn't make sense why the "voting results" are so conflicting. Did they people who voted pro-GC also vote anti-GC? They also made it to the "Music Videos of the Year" list, AND the "Music Videos That Shouldn't Have Been Made" list, for the same song.

I'M SO CONFUSED!!!!!!!

Leopold
Porn maniac
posted 01-05-2004 11:42:05 PM
Maybe there's an equal amount of voters who believe one side as there is who believe the other?
"Leopold said it best. This is one of the few times someone besides me is right." -Mr. Parcelan
Mog
not really a mmembe rof tis boered
posted 01-05-2004 11:44:21 PM
Its because their one of the veiw bands that allmsot every reader has on their ballot, wehter they love or hate good charlot, everyone knows them, and msot popel haev a strong feeling one way or another, so with all the stupid poeple who read ap voting for goodcharlot for all the good catagories, while all the crusties vote for goodcharlot for all the abd things, the end result is good charlot sweeping catagories

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Random Insanity Generator
Condom Ninja El Supremo
posted 01-06-2004 05:35:52 AM
quote:
Mightion Defensor was naked while typing this:
R.E.M.

Random Enema Machine....

I have no idea why, but I can't see that band's name without thinking about my roommate refering to them by that....

* NullDevice kicks the server. "Floggings will continue until processing power improves!"
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Monica
I've got an owie on my head :(
posted 01-06-2004 07:33:33 AM
quote:
Leopold, the Voice of Reason had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
Maybe there's an equal amount of voters who believe one side as there is who believe the other?

Seems like there should have been another band that all the GC-lovers thrust to the top of the "Biggest Sellouts" list then. Unless they didn't coordinate their efforts, those silly geese!

Oh well. Not going to bother speculating anymore. Muah!

[ 01-06-2004: Message edited by: Monica ]

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