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ambientlightcontrary to the post title, this is a local-musicpost. :x
Plainsunset - Girl On Queen Street
I like the lyrics booklet! It has artistic photographs, and sketches. Unfortunately the lyrics themselves leave a lot to be desired. So -- not particularly inspired lyric-wise, perhaps, but I find the refrain pretty catchy. Maybe it's because I first heard it at Baybeats, and much of the crowd was singing along.
Plainsunset - Last Night In Wellington
Generic. But pleasant. Kind of like every other band on MTV that has a preteen following.
The Great Spy Experiment - Flower Show Riots
My main complaint is that the lyrics booklet... isn't. I have this crippling inability to make out the lyrics to songs just by listening to them, which is why I still don't know the lyrics to most of my mp3 collection. Then again, I'm not sure that's a great loss. :x
i can't say much about the general standard of local music since i haven't actually listened to much of it. mocking local music seems to be something like mocking local football, though --there's no sport in it it's seen as the appropriate thing to do. local bands are dismissed as mat rockers with big dreams or imitators of overseas sounds. which is kind of sad, particularly since i don't think local bands are all -that- bad. generic, maybe, but not -that- bad. anyway, there's always Lunarin and The Observatory and that sort.
as for support of local bands, well, it's easy to point at the large crowd at baybeats and say that it's a positive sign, but setting aside the possibility that many at baybeats were there for the foreign acts -- being at baybeats is a bit of a poser thing too, isn't it? "i am cool and alternative! i listen to local bands!" a lot of it is only so much lip service if you don't actually support the bands by, you know, buying CDs and all.* :\ admittedly local albums seem ridiculously expensive -- the Plainsunset one i got was a notable exception, with each track costing $1 on average. many local bands were selling EPs with 3 to 5 tracks for somewhere in the region of $7.
my older cousin is a major supporter of local music, buying albums and everything. i'm not sure i'll end up going down that road - i barely buy albums of any sort, let alone pricey local ones - but there's something to be said for it, i think.
*that being said, i'm pretty sure i don't qualify as a "supporter of local bands" either, by that criterion. i don't even hang out in local pubs to listen to them. ._.
Plainsunset - Girl On Queen Street
I like the lyrics booklet! It has artistic photographs, and sketches. Unfortunately the lyrics themselves leave a lot to be desired. So -- not particularly inspired lyric-wise, perhaps, but I find the refrain pretty catchy. Maybe it's because I first heard it at Baybeats, and much of the crowd was singing along.
Plainsunset - Last Night In Wellington
Generic. But pleasant. Kind of like every other band on MTV that has a preteen following.
The Great Spy Experiment - Flower Show Riots
My main complaint is that the lyrics booklet... isn't. I have this crippling inability to make out the lyrics to songs just by listening to them, which is why I still don't know the lyrics to most of my mp3 collection. Then again, I'm not sure that's a great loss. :x
i can't say much about the general standard of local music since i haven't actually listened to much of it. mocking local music seems to be something like mocking local football, though --
as for support of local bands, well, it's easy to point at the large crowd at baybeats and say that it's a positive sign, but setting aside the possibility that many at baybeats were there for the foreign acts -- being at baybeats is a bit of a poser thing too, isn't it? "i am cool and alternative! i listen to local bands!" a lot of it is only so much lip service if you don't actually support the bands by, you know, buying CDs and all.* :\ admittedly local albums seem ridiculously expensive -- the Plainsunset one i got was a notable exception, with each track costing $1 on average. many local bands were selling EPs with 3 to 5 tracks for somewhere in the region of $7.
my older cousin is a major supporter of local music, buying albums and everything. i'm not sure i'll end up going down that road - i barely buy albums of any sort, let alone pricey local ones - but there's something to be said for it, i think.
*that being said, i'm pretty sure i don't qualify as a "supporter of local bands" either, by that criterion. i don't even hang out in local pubs to listen to them. ._.
