Monday, March 23, 2009
Creamtastic Demo FAIL: Music, Yer Doin' it Wrong
Posted by Sean Maloney on Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Any RIM student worth their weight in pizza dough can tell you that sending out unsolicited demo tapes will be a fruitless endeavor. Besides the fact that every nutjob and his mom thinks that he's a got a hit song in him, there's a whole lot of potential copyright malarky that a music business takes on when they start opening those hand-scrawled, padded envelopes from places unknown. You have a better chance of pulling an Airheads and landing a record deal.
Needless to say, this doesn't stop people from sending 'em or stop folks from listenin'--there's always that needle/haystack thing. The WowDemoBlog specializes in the hay end of the musical spectrum, but really more like the little pieces of hay that poke out of dried horse poop. The site's awesome "Mind-Melting Demo Disasters" really exemplify all the reasons why the democratization of recording technology might have been a bad Idea. Take this version of "Walkin' After Midnight": It's, fuck, I dunno. It's...it's a well-intentioned train wreck, but a gruesome, horrifying train wreck nonetheless. It's a disaster on so many levels, but I can't stop listening to it. Same goes for this song, which takes a bumper-sticker-fishing joke and stretches it out for four long, cringe-inducing minutes.
Kudos to the brave cats that came up with the site and "stay off that phone while I drive that train."
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Man...I don't know what it is about that T-Pained out version of "Walkin' After Midnight"...but I think I like it. Good find, Bawston.
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So, where did this use of the word 'fail' come from?? what internet fad have i and many others missed out on?? it just sounds stupid to say it this way...how about 'demo failure...?' is this some decree from the village voice or something? take my advice, and leave the stupid hipster internet vernacular to the stupid hipsters...
It's hardly hipster vernacular. In fact, most hipsters would probably avoid using it because it's quite dweebish. But since Sean has already outed himself as a Battlestar Gallatica fan, his dweebishness is already common knowledge.
If I were a LOLcat it would say "Hipster: yer doin' it wrong". FOR REALZ!!!111one
There's just so little to do in the ivory tower since hackey sack went out of style.
I'm just sayin' that song'll make you dumber. And I've been listening to Katy Perry non-stop for the last couple of weeks, so I'm well acquainted with the feeling.
I listened. You're right. I dunno did not know what you had been through.
I'm glad we shared that experience.
Best,
MR
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