Does my band suck?

[Jason Priestley]

Honest opinions folks. I'd be interested to know. Please use constructive criticism and tell me why you didn't like. Thanks a bunch and I look forward to hearing your thoughts. But, by god, if you hate it, i will come to your house and i will cut you... :angryfire just kidding...

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[kimosabe]

I've heard worse. But still far from good. You sound too generic. 10 past 10 was the best track. Don't really like your lyrics and the drummer in "sadness so well".

[koolman kyle]

it sounds alright

[Jason Priestley]

I've heard worse. But still far from good. You sound too generic. 10 past 10 was the best track. Don't really like your lyrics and the drummer in "sadness so well".

Thanks for the input guys. I write the lyrics and well, what could you suggest as an improvement.

As for the drummer, blame it on chris badami, the guy who plays on Ace's (Early November) "Whispering Actually"

[superman]

Thanks for the input guys. I write the lyrics and well, what could you suggest as an improvement.

As for the drummer, blame it on chris badami, the guy who plays on Ace's (Early November) "Whispering Actually"
I can tell you that I've heard many bands that sound like this... but being in a band is probably one of the greatest thing I can think of doing. Have fun.

ps; Minus The Bear is the greatest band to ever walk the earth.

[mOvielife99]

it'd be better with some horns in it...

[boysdontcry]

your band is alright. i mean, let's face it, it's not like you're the next radiohead. it's genaric but it isn't bad.

[Jason Priestley]

Yeah, its quite odd. My favorite artists are:
Radiohead
Pete Yorn
Death Cab For Cutie
Wilco
Damien Rice
Jimmy Eat World

But we sound nothing like them. I just don't seem to write music that way. Actually, we started out much slower and softer but it really got hard for people to actually listen to us in NJ. The louder and faster we got the more people paid attention. We woulda never got the arcade stage at Skate & Surf this year if we sounded like our former selves.

[kimosabe]

Yeah, its quite odd. My favorite artists are:
Radiohead
Pete Yorn
Death Cab For Cutie
Wilco
Damien Rice
Jimmy Eat World

But we sound nothing like them. I just don't seem to write music that way. Actually, we started out much slower and softer but it really got hard for people to actually listen to us in NJ. The louder and faster we got the more people paid attention. We woulda never got the arcade stage at Skate & Surf this year if we sounded like our former selves.

You shouldn't change yourself to please the audience. Stay youself and you will find an audience that like you for what you do. Be punk -don't give a fuck about the haters!

[AgentX]

You shouldn't change yourself to please the audience. Stay youself and you will find an audience that like you for what you do. Be punk -don't give a fuck about the haters!

as long as your having fun then its all good

i thought you were pretty good i liked 10 past 10, catchy

keep it up

[The Bled 13]

I like The Family Guy.

[Jason Priestley]

I like The Family Guy.

So do I. Its coming back with a new season in 2005 by the way.

Thanks guys compliments and staying true to oneself. Its weird though. When we used a lot of acoustic and were slower, it was just hard to get people to listen to us. It just wasn't an attention grabber type band because you couldn't go crazy on stage with our music and we were soft enough that people could talk over you. We basically became background music. Of course that's the music I love to listen to.

But its not the music I love to play. We just got angrier (well relatively :) ) and louder and faster so people would finally pay attention to us. We just have more fun playing this music.

I think this new sound of ours is what we're going for and the response seems to be pretty good. I think Sadness So Well is poppier than most of our stuff but should be a good introduction to the band to the population. Ten past ten and Knowing what I know are more indicative what the style of music we're going for in the future though.

We actually have some label interest and may be showcasing for some in the near future but I don't want to jinx it.

[theseidel]

i like it man. good solid band.

[the_bmoc]

+40for a singer who can actually sing
+16 because your from New Jersey
+ 7 for the lack of emo lyrics
+10 for "Knowing what I know".

73 out of 100

Slighty lacking in originality, but you dont need that to make it in this world.
Good job.

[Jason Priestley]

+40for a singer who can actually sing
+16 because your from New Jersey
+ 7 for the lack of emo lyrics
+10 for "Knowing what I know".

73 out of 100

Slighty lacking in originality, but you dont need that to make it in this world.
Good job.

Thanks dude.

The singer has actually been trained to sing since the age of 4. I recall back in high school he was only one of thousands of people chosen in the entire state of nj to sing at some choir thing.

Jersey rules although there are so many bands here you sometimes get lost in the mix.

As for the lyrics, well, i think partly a lot of that has to do with the fact that I really didn't listen to much of this music growing up. It wasn't until I was 18 that our drummer showed us clarity and I was like, "holy shit what the F is that?" But prior to that I really only listened and still listen to a lot of folk, indie (like aimee man stuff), and 80's music.
Even now, while I listen to a lot of "emo" music I suppose, I hardly ever listen to the lyrics.

Oh and thanks for knowing what I know compliment. I don't want it to sound cliched but it was really about two things: one was 9/11. I actually was attending NYU during that time period and it shut down our school for 2 weeks and half of our dorms were evacuated and we were basically in lock down and a lot of people knew people that died there (luckily the people i knew in the wtc got out). It was also inspired by my grandfather's death and the fact that I never really got to say goodbye to him prior to his death despite having the chance.