Maybe it's just me...
...But I really don't get why people stop supporting/listening to a band because they "got too big". Seriously, what's the point of listening to unknown bands, only to stop liking them when everyone else starts listening to them too? What is the attraction there? Do they get their kicks from it? I know a few bands that I think shouldn't get too big as they'll end up playing in arenas and their music will sound shit in such venues (Porcupine Tree springs to mind, if anyone here knows them, especially after their recent show at the Hammersmith Apollo/Odeon), but that's more a case of live musical quality being degraded as opposed to stopping supporting any band when they make the big time, simply because they've made the big time. By definition, I'm also confused about people hating anything that makes it big, such as games and films and suchlike.

I also really don't get the Twilight books. They are bad, bad literature, written around the premise of one woman's erotic dream. If it wasn't for the fact that I borrowed the first book off a mate, I would have happily burnt it regardless of the fact that my parents brought me up to be respectful to books. They make me rage and die inside a little every time I hear anyone talking about them.

I also don't see the attraction of U2. I want to break Bono's face every time I see it.

Lastly, I'm confused about coffee shops. Why the fuck are there so many, and why are there so many fucking varieties of coffee? If it's big, brown, comes in a mug and requires a minimum of two sugars, that is coffee for me. The only vaguely sensible thing about the fucking various chains of coffee shop (and for that matter, why the fuck do we need so many that all sell the same fucking types of coffee under different brand names?), is the fact that they offer different sizes of coffee. That, I can understand. Some days I fancy a big coffee, other days I fancy a little coffee. But to have so many fucking different kinds of coffee with fifty fucking toppings and different shit that goes on it is taking it too fucking far. You may guess I am a tad annoyed about the existence of such things.
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 22:14, 10 replies)

Dunno about bands but I know about DJs
When you're starting out you need people that come to see you to tell their mates how good you were and that they should go and see you play, once a DJ makes the big time he stops being so good because he knows that he can play a crap set and still sell out the next gig.
(mmm....beer, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 22:58, closed)

I'm more concerned with the people
who complain that because a band has gotten too big, they're not gonna listen to them any more because they're too popular.

Although now you do mention it, I don't get why DJs and bands play shit sets. I can see the need to balance the hits with what the band/DJ wants to play with what the hardcore fans want to hear, but that doesn't excuse a shit set.
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 23:11, closed)

P-Tree would sound awesome in a stadium
Especially if they kicked into one of their Metanoia freakout jams.
( Angry Boss Bee I love horses, death to other animals, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 23:10, closed)

Did you see them at the Hammersmith Apollo/Odeon?
Cos, as much as I love the Tree and have seen them loads of times, they can't handle a fair-sized venue decently. The sound gets too muddy and distorted in a bad way in venues like that, so I honestly don't think they'd be able to cope with a stadium, which is a shame.
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 23:15, closed)

Porcupine Tree are ace
Saw them play in Melbourne on ANZAC Day last year. Brilliant show. That was in a smallish venue, though - only about a thousand people I think.

At one point Steven Wilson's earpiece got stuck in his ear canal and a roadie had to come and dig it out with a pair of tweezers.
(oball needs Satan more than he needs me, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 23:44, closed)

Porcupine Tree
are the sort of band that seperates "us" from "them". Steven Wilson is a curtain-haired messiah, let's see some of the other chart monkey wannabees produce the sheer breadth, quality & amount of music that SW does, year after year.

I'd like PT to make shitloads of money but still play smallish venues (impossible I know), unlike this years tour. Give me Anesthetize live just one more time & I'll die a happy man,
(Mister_E_Meat was caught sniffing bike saddles at, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 14:06, closed)

I'd like them to do that too
Although give me Shesmovedon live and I'll die a happy man.
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 15:06, closed)

Niiiice
I love them doing smaller venues, as the sound tends to be much better.
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 14:56, closed)

getting "too big" ...
... often that's code for "their music has become too mainstream for my liking". Which is probably why they became big, but there ya go. /shrug
(haberman is singing in the changes, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 12:28, closed)

I guess so

(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 14:56, closed)