Another blog about bands that you may or may not care about.

Songs with really long and arguably pointless names.

You can google 'songs with long titles' on google and currently you will get around 36,000,000 results. And why? Because there are many songs with long, pointless titles and people recognise this, and like me, they are writing about it.

One song I found on my searching is: A simple song with an overly long title (your MP3 player will not like it at all, and might refuse point blank to play it), which is nothing but a pathetic and blatant attempt to get into the record books with the longest title ever, by the rather obvious (and very silly) means of rambling on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on without rhyme or reason, and, more importantly, without stopping, ceasing or pausing (except for breath and a little punctuation) [The built-in redundancy of the title is noted and welcomed, as it adds to the overall length of the said title, which is, after all, the point of the exercise (the song itself being merely an afterthought (although it does have quite a pretty tune if you like that sort of thing (I do), this song is by a band called Bush Dogs. And why have they named it this? For no apparent reason, just to give their song a title, and a title people will talk about, because lets face it, people will talk about this title.

One band who go in for the whole long title idea is Fall Out Boy. Some examples by them are 'Our lawyers made us change the name of this song so we wouldn't get sued' and 'I slept with someone out of fall out boy and all I got was this stupid song written about me'. So what is the need for these long 15+ words titles? They add a USP to the band, and make them a little more interesting. Because lets face it 'Dance, Dance' is well enough, but your not going to give the name a second glance.

I am a fan of these long titles myself. But in my own personal preference when it comes to music I like things to be longer, longer length, longer titles, longer period of time for which they have been around.
Longer keeps my interest. Although for others it will be boring and tedious to listen to an 8-minute song, when there is a shortened 4minute version available. And the same with titles, why listen to a band with hard to memorise titles, when you can listen to one that limits all there titles to less than 5 words.

But all music is down to personal preference I suppose.

I can never stray too far from this beloved band..

I go through bands quickly. I constantly discover new ones and spend a period obsessing over them, but one I cannot bring myself to leave is the amazing Vampire Weekend. I love their quirky tunes, and obscure, hard to make out lyrics. No matter how many bands I discover, no matter how much I listen to their music I cannot bring myself to stop loving this beautiful band.

It could possibly be because of my more-than-slight crush on the lead singer Ezra Koenig, and my deep love for his voice, but I think its more than that. Vampire Weekend never fail to cheer me up, I can never bring myself to turn them down, and I simply cannot stop listening to any new songs - even ones that appear on the terrible twilight.
I am not, admitedly, the type of teeneager with posters covering my wall, but I have just one, not so much as a poster - but simply a page ripped from a magazine. And this is Ezra Koenig playing his beautiful guitar on stage at Glastenbury last year.
If I were to be granted a wish, it would be to watch a live performance from this band, the atmosphere, I feel, would be absolutely amazing - and one in which I would hate to never experience.
The best £10 I ever spent was buying the two Vampire Weekend albums. The covers, despite their syplicity, had a great look to them, understated.
And this, you should know, is my favourite band.

Should we be confined to one genre?

'What type of music do you listen to?' A question most people are at some point faced with... And a lot of use will either state one, or a few linked types of music. Some people feel restricted to just one category in music, trying to uphold a certain image.

I know this because I myself am like this. My answer to this particular question is 'indie, alternate sort of things,' then perhaps I would give an example, such as The Courteeners. Well here is my confession; I listen to other music, even as far fetched as Lady Gaga and 3oh!3.. These are somewhat mainstream artists, and very far away from who I claim to listen to.

I must admit, I tend to hide the fact I listen to and like these artists. I don't want to ruin my image. Any why? Because I am a music snob. People who know me would even confirm this. I listen to particular artists just to remain an indie kid.

How many more people are like this? Like me? Quite a few I'm sure. People who try to conform to how they feel they should be. It's stupid really. But true.

What can we do though? Nothing. It's the way we work. The way we make friends. The way we define ourselves.

It is not just music either, it is the clothes we wear, the movies we watch, and in some cases the food we eat. We use all these to define ourselves, control our lifestyle, and decide the people we become friends with.

We are just a character. Defined by our tastes. And we uphold this character.

Musical Stereotypes.

There are a number of musical differences amongst people we know, friends, family, work/class mates. But  just how big is this difference? 

When you look at people do you put them into a stereotype? Do you then go on to decide what music they listen to through this stereotype? They have piercings, they listen to screamo. She's wearing pink she must like pop. Look at the chain he is wearing, he likes rap.

Though saying it like that it seems no, but in actual fact you probably do. And probably won't stop doing this. Though obviously you are (hopefully) more descrete.

But the fact is, can we really judge someone by their appearence? And from that can we judge their character by their musical tastes?

A person can listen to screamo, not have piercings and not do drugs.
A person can listen to pop, and hate the colour pink and girly things.
A lad can listen to Justin Beiber( :S ) and not be gay.
Someone can like dance music, but hate the volume of clubs.

People are people and should not be refined by their music.
A person can listen to every type of music and not have to feel like they are defying different music.




I am not referring to myself here though. I myself listen to alternate music, tend to stick to this one type generally. I dont listen to mainstream, and consider certain artists 'crap'. But that's me.







Musical stereotypes exist. Whether we fit them or not is our own judgement.

Where is all the music?

Music is gone. Where? Who knows?
The art of buying music is gone, and why? Because of things such as bearshare, filesharing, youtube converter? And now what? Soon all we will have left are live shows and festivals.
If we continue to steal music people will just stop making it, sick of it being a moneyless industry.Then we will just be stuck digging into the past for more music. The tern 'new band' just wouldnt be present anymore.

I know for many this wont effect them in the slightest, people who are trapped listening to old bands and artists, believing they are undeniably the best, but what about the rest of the world?
People need to stop cheating, and reach into their pockets for their music.
Sure we will always have concert sales and merchandise, but soon enough that wont be enough to suffice efficient cash flow to musicians, and their team.
The message really is if you want music, buy dont steal. There I'm done.

One night of love. Nothing more, nothing less.

The mystery jets.
Personally I feel they are a very good and renound band. But personally I cannot change their success, but alas I can write about them.
Their songs are intreguing and hold interesting melodies and catchy lyrics, which after a few listens you cannot help but sing along to.
It sounds like I am advertising the band, but I'm not I can assure you, but I am opinionated and like to state my opinions, particularly those of musical genre, and so I shall state my musical opinion here, part of the reason of the creation of this blog.
My favourite song of this particular band is two doors down, but when I have dug deeper into their songs, and listened to the lyrics of other songs I am sure that opinion will change.
My first encounter with the band was a year ago when I used to spend half of my time at a friends house, where she has a signed poster of them, where they surprisingly spelt 'Sophie' wrong, though I can't quite recall how they spelt it. After seeing the poster, she played their music upon regular occation, and so I became slowly adjusted to them, though at the time I did not register the songs with the band.
But now they appeared on the similar artists of other bands I listened to on spotify, so I had a listen, and then registered the songs to the name, and very quickly became a big fan. If you don't already I advise you give them a listen, because if I like them then you never know, you could like them too? :)
I think I'm in love,
With the girl next door
It's driving me crazy
I can't take it anymore
I hear her playing the drums late at night
The neighbours complain but thats the kind of girl I like
©The Mystery Jets, Two Doors Down.

How much is too much?

There is alot of music there is no denying, but when you make yourself a quick playlist of artists you like, and it comes out at 1067 songs long, something is happening.


If we had lived in previous generations we probably wouldn't even know 1067 songs, let alone be able to add them into a single playlist, and play them on shuffle as much as one may like.

See that is the magic of today, a single click can take you to spotify, we7, itunes, and we can just listen to music, as much as we like. Even those who don't know too many songs and artists can simply click onto lastFM and listen as much music as they may like from artists they may have never even heard of. This is what I love about the internet. Music.
Widely available, and easily attainable. A world without music is boring, and personally I believe we all have to be thankful for its availability.


Even before the renound artists, people made their own music. Instruments, singing proving you cannot live without it. Then are musically icons were the likes of Mozart and Beethoven, then finally Elvis and the Beatles brought us into the pop and rock cultures we know today.
And now we have broken away from a couple on musically genre's and into millions: Alternate; rap; pop; metal; rock; indie; r&b; punk; house; soul; classical, the possibilities go on and on! Just look at a band on wikipedia and you will be shown several genres it fits into, even those you never thought existed, like Alternate rap, and pop punk? Mixes of music!


I feel we have a lot to thank music for, and I think if world peace is possible, then we can do so through music. If eminem can bring moshers and chavs together, then surely someone will bring everyone together? Lady Gaga? Michael Jackson? Legends! All cultures love them!
I usually leave on related lyrics, but due to how general this post is I may struggle with that, and so, why not sing your own lyrics? ♥