Comments on: Fair-weather Fans or whatever you call it… http://www.emomusicprofile.com/2006/09/20/fair-weather-fans-or-whatever-you-call-it/ Emo & Acoustic Rock Talk Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:04:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Nathan http://www.emomusicprofile.com/2006/09/20/fair-weather-fans-or-whatever-you-call-it/#comment-5 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:28:48 +0000 http://www.emomusicprofile.com/2006/09/20/fair-weather-fans-or-whatever-you-call-it/#comment-5 James, I see where you are coming from... good example of what you are talking about with the Gnarls Barkley song. As for Coldplay, I would consider myself a fan of theirs, but much more of their original stuff. James, I see where you are coming from… good example of what you are talking about with the Gnarls Barkley song.

As for Coldplay, I would consider myself a fan of theirs, but much more of their original stuff.

]]> by: James http://www.emomusicprofile.com/2006/09/20/fair-weather-fans-or-whatever-you-call-it/#comment-4 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:23:07 +0000 http://www.emomusicprofile.com/2006/09/20/fair-weather-fans-or-whatever-you-call-it/#comment-4 I appreciate that you posted back. I never said you did like any of those bands, but if you intend to reference other bands sounds to describe what another band sounds like; I don't think listing inferior bands is the way to do that. And In reference to your first post, I again say you are being very short sighted. I will list CRAZY by Gnarls Barkley as an example. Everyone and their freaking brother has heard this song over and over. Yet people still request it as though they have only heard it once. I thought this was going to be your point about Coldplay. But instead you attack those that simply haven't discovered their catalouge, I for one think Coldplay is horribly over-rated, and do not consider myself a fan, but I am familiar with their albums. I mean that James sounded like Radiohead before Radiohead did. Brian Eno has been doing the same thing since the 70's, it's not new to sound like someone else, but if you do PLEASE do something unique. That is my rash post. I appreciate that you posted back. I never said you did like any of those bands, but if you intend to reference other bands sounds to describe what another band sounds like; I don’t think listing inferior bands is the way to do that. And In reference to your first post, I again say you are being very short sighted. I will list CRAZY by Gnarls Barkley as an example. Everyone and their freaking brother has heard this song over and over. Yet people still request it as though they have only heard it once. I thought this was going to be your point about Coldplay. But instead you attack those that simply haven’t discovered their catalouge, I for one think Coldplay is horribly over-rated, and do not consider myself a fan, but I am familiar with their albums. I mean that James sounded like Radiohead before Radiohead did. Brian Eno has been doing the same thing since the 70’s, it’s not new to sound like someone else, but if you do PLEASE do something unique. That is my rash post.

]]> by: Nathan http://www.emomusicprofile.com/2006/09/20/fair-weather-fans-or-whatever-you-call-it/#comment-3 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:41:50 +0000 http://www.emomusicprofile.com/2006/09/20/fair-weather-fans-or-whatever-you-call-it/#comment-3 First of all, let me say that you couldn't be more wrong - at least from one perspective. I wasn't saying that a "fair-weather" fan was someone who listened to one song and then became a fan of that band (listening to more music, etc.). Obviously, that is really the only way that one becomes a fan. If you had read more closely you would have seen that I myself became a fan of Snow Patrol by hearing one song... however, someone who proclaims himself a fan after hearing only one song, with never any interest to delve into the band's music deeper is not truly a fan. As for the second part of your post: I did not state that I am a Hawthorne Heights fan or a Franz Ferdinand fan... I simply pointed out that there were elements to AFI's music that reflected something similar in different ways. Neither did I say that AFI sounded like FF, Blink, or HH... I stated that their music combined varying sounds and techniques of those bands. So, perhaps you should read a little more closely before jumping to rash conclusions with misstated posts. Thanks! First of all, let me say that you couldn’t be more wrong - at least from one perspective. I wasn’t saying that a “fair-weather” fan was someone who listened to one song and then became a fan of that band (listening to more music, etc.). Obviously, that is really the only way that one becomes a fan. If you had read more closely you would have seen that I myself became a fan of Snow Patrol by hearing one song… however, someone who proclaims himself a fan after hearing only one song, with never any interest to delve into the band’s music deeper is not truly a fan.

As for the second part of your post: I did not state that I am a Hawthorne Heights fan or a Franz Ferdinand fan… I simply pointed out that there were elements to AFI’s music that reflected something similar in different ways. Neither did I say that AFI sounded like FF, Blink, or HH… I stated that their music combined varying sounds and techniques of those bands. So, perhaps you should read a little more closely before jumping to rash conclusions with misstated posts. Thanks!

]]> by: James http://www.emomusicprofile.com/2006/09/20/fair-weather-fans-or-whatever-you-call-it/#comment-2 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:52:23 +0000 http://www.emomusicprofile.com/2006/09/20/fair-weather-fans-or-whatever-you-call-it/#comment-2 So I followed a link to your site from digg. I was interested because I thought that we were of the same mind set. I was wrong. I contend that yes there are tons of people that have heard a song and then call themselves fans. But isn't that how you become a music fan, by hearing a song by an unknown (to you) band? Then I noticed the title of your blog, and so before I replied I followed your recommended summer playlist, to get an idea of the writer's taste. This made me laugh out loud. "If you want a CD that combines that sounds of Franz Ferdinand, Blink 182, and Hawthorne Heights then this is the album for you." Wow, what a way to tell me how much I am going to hate the new AFI disc. But wait, I don't hate it, I feel that if anything it exceeds where said bands simply did not. I'm not a fan of them by any means, but I do like some of there songs. But you should never ever say that a band sounds like HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS, unless you are making fun of them. It seems to me that you have a limited perspective of music, and your rant about BAND WAGON FANS only illuminates that. Thanks for your time. So I followed a link to your site from digg. I was interested because I thought that we were of the same mind set. I was wrong. I contend that yes there are tons of people that have heard a song and then call themselves fans. But isn’t that how you become a music fan, by hearing a song by an unknown (to you) band? Then I noticed the title of your blog, and so before I replied I followed your recommended summer playlist, to get an idea of the writer’s taste. This made me laugh out loud. “If you want a CD that combines that sounds of Franz Ferdinand, Blink 182, and Hawthorne Heights then this is the album for you.” Wow, what a way to tell me how much I am going to hate the new AFI disc. But wait, I don’t hate it, I feel that if anything it exceeds where said bands simply did not. I’m not a fan of them by any means, but I do like some of there songs. But you should never ever say that a band sounds like HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS, unless you are making fun of them. It seems to me that you have a limited perspective of music, and your rant about BAND WAGON FANS only illuminates that. Thanks for your time.

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