A colleague pointed us to a post about us (aw, we’re flattered…) on MetaFilter. We don’t want to get into the whole discussion about anything but mp3s that suck eggs, but a couple of points.
1. Trust us, it’s not just one band recording all these songs in different styles. That’s almost preposterous, and considering how much work it takes to even go through all the demos we get and find horrible tracks, I can’t even imagine how much work it would take to actually be that band and write tracks in different styles.
Each of these gems comes from an individual or individual band’s hard labors. That’s almost more depressing - that there’s so much shit being produced, but hey - it keeps us, recording studios, instrument manufacturers, record stores, blogs, magazines, venues, etc., in business, so keep it comin’!
2. Not to be apologetic, but yeah, it’s a lot of work, so not that anyone’s grousing about this, but we worry - don’t hate us if maybe we only post 3 tracks a week instead of 5. We’ll aim for 5, but honestly, there’s no forcing terrible. Somedays we’ll plow through a ton of demos, but there’s just nothing in there that’s terrible. It’s all just middling and bad. We have standards, k?
3. One of the comments we always get goes something along the lines of, “hey - I like this song…” Sure. Taste is relative. I’m sure we like stuff that you think is horrible. Lady GaGa wouldn’t have a career w/o that sort of polarization. In general, we try to post things that we think are terrible for a reason - ridiculous lyrics, overproduction, horrible topics, out of touch-ness, etc., but sometimes it’s just a “oh I don’t like this” feeling.
Not to get all “academic” on y’all, but Canadian journalist Carl Wilson wrote a whole book on taste - why good things are good, why bad things are bad, and why that whole idea is kind of bullshit. Highly recommended. It’s also about Celine Dion, but that’s another point all together.
That being said, let’s get to today’s demo.
He’s trying too hard.
See y’all tomorrow on the web.
