Oedo 808

Alfred is senile. Bruce Wayne/Batman is dead.

Kara:

2NE1

Rainbow:

If you're all about the videos... Miss A

Brown Eyed Girls

Big Bang

2NE1 + Big Bang

Girl's Generation (SNSD)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5I0c7DmSZg

unhindered distribution of Mein Kampf could make the life of right-wing extremists easier

Oh no!

I'd like to give a few of my new songs a public airing. Any acoustic gig slots anywhere?

Great contribution to the thread.

Thank you.

If you are black or a woman the Police could be a great career move for you, as you will be promoted twice as fast just to prove how racist and sexist they aren't.

This is a male baby chick, in his last moment on earth. Below him is a giant grinder into which he will fall alive because he hatched male, and is therefore useless to the egg industry.

His fate is shared by 200 million baby male chicks every year.

Compassionate people should be allowed to adopt the chicks so they can live.

Your band's name is quite scatological. Is that deliberate?

I hate that picture. What's it supposed to mean?

I see two women. One of them posed and photographed in order to look as glamorous as possible, the other a candid shot of someone (not posing for the camera) enjoying herself at the beach.

Both are incredibly thin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uoo2KioueCQ

I only write new songs

Time Cop... dear god.

it would be nice to start a list of cool things about Aberdeen city

Has no one mentioned cool thinker yet?

Why rush things?

No rush. I am talking about goal-setting with deadlines.

most of the bands I've been in since my very first

There you have it. After gigging your very first band you've known what it takes to be in a band. Therefore, you can more reasonably assess when you're ready. You can even afford to indulge yourself by not gigging. But a band who do not have the benefit of this information, without a deadline of any kind, will not use their time profitably.

Let me ask you a question: Before your first gig, what difference would another 6 months of practise have made to your first band? Not as much as those 6 months of gigging did.

You have some good ideas and it sounds like you can play, but the recording is terribly executed. Sort it out. You don't need any more demos of this or a similar standard. Don't "look" to start gigging "post-summer" - whatever that means. That's fucking forever away. Pull your fingers out. Make getting a bass player your top priority. When you get one scare yourselves into practising like fuck by booking a gig a month or two later.

How many songs have you got?

Beat her with a stick until she's learned a lesson. If she behaves a bit better, give her a bone.

Can I have the 10 bitches in a hot tub instead?

I feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

I would say who you know is almost more important than how good you are

If you have no standards and only ever want to play to your mates.

Electric AND acoustic?

A lot of musicians suffer from this 'sounds like something else' problem. Here's how to sort it.

If you begin to feel that something you're writing sounds a bit too much like some other song, you should record it - using a dictaphone or the mic function on your mobile - and forget about it for the time being.

Later, when you're struggling for an idea, just return to the old recordings you have for inspiration. Unless what you've got really is a complete rip-off, it's highly unlikely that you'll even remember what song it was supposed to sound like in the first place. That leaves you free to re-enter the creative process, unencumbered by the, 'sounds like another song,' paranoia.

If you want to experiment with melodies and chord structure, try taking a well-worn song and changing a few notes. Make your melody go down when the song melody goes up, and your melody go up when the song you're copying goes down. Now change the rhythm and the instrumentation. Choose different voicings of the same chords. Try replacing one chord with another.

Very quickly you will have something which sounds nothing like the original song. It might not be a great song in itself, but it's a good exercise. One or two small changes can make a big difference musically.