Originally posted by Digit
Make em your absolute best choices too.

I won't mention any names cause I don't wanna start a thread war but ......
There was an article in the paper this weekend about the best independant releases in the last year. I spent hours looking around on the net to get one song from each band just so I could learn something from what The Star considers "the best".
I burned 80 minutes of tunes to a CD and every single one of them absolutely stunk. I'm talking totally awful tunes, bad writing, timing problems, Vocals that needed to be redone, production levels that were so bad I couldn't believe some of these guys are mainstreem artists who are selling in the tens of thousands.

To top it off, every one of them had the same characteristics.
Basic chords done on guitar and panned extreme left and right. (no solo's except badly done ones with no imagination)
A drum sound that sounded like it was recorded with a single stereo microphone from 10 feet away instead of being multitracked.
Totally dry vocals and a sound that was so compressed there were no dynamics at all.

Sounds like music that Americans would make. :(

Really makes you wonder of what music is going to be like when my " lost generation" ( as you old folks call us )comes into mainstream.... say goodbye to your talented music.

Hopefully one of you guys on this forum will make it into the music world... maybe change things around....