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Do you agree with my classes?
Yup, I think you're genius for making something so brilliantly simple.
22%
 22%  [ 2 ]
Yes, but I still don't want your babies (males click this one)
11%
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It's a nice idea, but too many bands don't fit. (Try me :P)
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Nope, but some changes would make it agreeable. (Pray tell)
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Nah, stereotyping sucks.
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 11%  [ 1 ]
I'm from yorkshire, change is BAD. (Wa-hey, thought I'd forget that?)
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Another AVARiCE poll *sigh/joy (please state [...joy])*
0%
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Oh-tee-aych-ee-ar
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(I still have more options, why not use them?) AVARiCE, can you become pollmaster again, the other guy died!
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(More WTF?) AVARiCE why can't you just leave a poll with some blank spaces for once?
11%
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AVARiCE
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:13 pm    Post subject: Mainstream Music Reply with quote

I've always said there are music can be classified in four different ways, above genres and any other crap. My four categories are based around how mainstream the music is and are the following:

- Fake
- Mainstream
- Undergound
- Mainstream to Audience

Time to explain.

Fake:

Fake music is generally mainstream music which pretends to be something else, or is pure plastic shit. For example, pop groups. They're not musicians, they're pretty faces and smiles. While they are also mainstream, they are more "fake" than "mainstream".

Mainstream:

The big money bands that pull audiences into genres. Think of Slipknot for metal, Eminem for rap etc. This is true mainstream, imo.

Underground:

This is pretty simple. It's the kind of music that never gets proper recognition. It can also be music without a mainstream sound, so only a limited audience appreciate it. An example of this is Less Than Jake, their first few albums were brass instrument-heavy and generally weren't very melodic, their "newer" sound is mainstream to audience.

Mainstream to Audience:

This is music that doesn't haul people into genres, but once people learn to enjoy a type of music, the bands that get circulated often. For example, Slipknot are a mainstream band, even hardcore rap fans have heard of them. Now a metal head would also know about Stone Sour (Corey's other band) but the same hardcore rap fans would not know who they are. Other bands like this are; Nonpoint, Ill Nino and Trivium. Mainstream to Audience also describes most forms of newer music. For example, Nonpoint's early material was very similar to what it currently is, yet it was underground. In order to gain some radio playtime and become mainstream, the next album they released was heavily melodic, which made it a mainstream sound to knowledged metal heads, but sounded like "the same shit" to disappreciative ass holes.

So, do you agree with that? Disagree completely? Think it needs an extra category/one less category? Or are just beginning to wish for my poll buttons to break?

Oh yeah, if you need any more clarification on anything ask away. It's kinda hard to describe stuff that I've understood for ages from scratch.

~ AVARiCE
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 5:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've missed your witty polls! Where have they been hiding?

Very novel and interesting idea Av! Brilliant!

I do agree with you. I listen to alot of music but would be classed as "underground" by the mainstreamers (bands like Delight, Epica, After Forever, Leave's Eyes I could go on for a while now etc) but those bands would probably be considered "mainstream" in certain circles e.g. Sonic Cathedral. I guess it depends on your perspective.

But I've also listened to bands like Within Temptation, Lacuna Coil and Nightwish for ages now and they have suddenly broken through into the mainstream from the Underground.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Average wrote:

I've always said there are music can be classified in four different ways


Youre grammer is gooder
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You left out "other", so I went for the Yorkshire option. I don't listen much so I don't have an opinion.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

tafkao wrote:

You left out "other", so I went for the Yorkshire option. I don't listen much so I don't have an opinion.


Say

Oh-tee-aych-ee-ar


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PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 1:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

tafkao wrote:
You left out "other", so I went for the Yorkshire option. I don't listen much so I don't have an opinion.


I didn't leave it out, ask Minty Wink

BTW it should be self-explanatory, so how did you not understand? I should be able to clear it up. Smile

@ Helen,
TY Smile When I become someone with a voice that matters in the world remind me that you thought I was a genius.

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I read it as "Oh teacher!"
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

tafkao wrote:
I read it as "Oh teacher!"


I think i've just woken the household up with laughing so loud, I read that in a 'breathless, half exhausted' woman style voice, mixed with Kenneth Williams...

That is soooo wrong Laughing
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

area51newmexico wrote:
I've missed your witty polls! Where have they been hiding?


Once again I only notice a comment on my fourth time scrolling past it...

Um, no-where. Once I handed over my crown I kinda forgot about making polls. This one wasn't actually going to be funny until I actually started posting the thread!

But there will be more, as we have so many newbies that need some pollmaster brilliance that I must reconquer the forum! Huzzah for AVARiCE Polls!

EDIT:

@Taf,

That's brilliant, I never even noticed that...

@An ANON Voter,

Why would you say no because you don't like stereotypes? Go on, admit it...

~ AVARiCE
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I said other cos I was gonna select 'Yes, but I still dont want your babies' or whatever it was, but then you wrote males click this one.

And I didnt post that til now cos im a lazy bitch Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Your logic is sound enough but aren't you more or less giving an old rose a new name er, set of labels?
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

@ Bubble

That just meant that I was offering males a "yes" option to click. Or those who don't think I'm a genius.

@ aalpha

From what I understood, nope. This is a completely new system, where have you found a similar one?

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 3:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I haven't really - you got me there.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Someone else voted for the correct option! Go on, claim it Very Happy

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