Drowned in sound are complete wankers, posing as a 'friendly' and 'helpful' alternative to the NME. Many bands are featured on here, some great, many crap and some that are obviously of no consequence whatsoever. However, for some reason Dis have got something against bands promoting themselves on this site which is surely the whole point of the exercise, isn't it? It just seems to me that Dis are just like NME but without the Kudos, salary or status. Total fucking wankers that promote their own shit bands with names a child could have come up with. You are all a bunch of Savage Garden wannabe mutha-fuckers and I hope you burn in hell with Dolf De Datsun and all the other non-entitys currently clogging up the student digs around this fine isle.
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But that's beside the point... are you just some bitter band that we've not had time to review the demo of? Believe it or not, we can't review EVERY demo that comes in. Imagine how much we get that is utter shit and then treble that number. Then realise that 1 in every 50 demoes is remotely good and that listening to the other 49 is mostly like torture, especially when half the bands don't include proper contacts, have gross artwork and end up splitting up by the time we find the descent demoes.
Or do you mean that we don't write news stories about every band that plays the bull'n'gate or does a 3-date tour of the highlands? Just cus a band has a single out, doesn't mean we have to write a "news" story because "news" has to be something that IS "news" to more than a few people to warrant the time and effort.
If I hadn't been drinking coffee you'd not of got a rise from me but i can type effortlessly.
Time for another wank I think.
Sean
hmmmmmm....
chill out
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DiS, however, doesn't. If you want to promote yourself as a band, hit our Announcements Board and do so...
ollie.
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You could leave a message like that or maybe just not bother. Record companies dont use it, nor does anyone that reads the postings care. What good is leaving an announcement on the announcements board when its read coldly by practically no-one?
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We don't have a paid team to sit and write about everything for a start - because believe it or not writing about 400 unsigned bands a week would be a bit of a chore.
AND we can't let bands have free-run to use dis to publicise their own bands because where would there be any genuine opinion and how would people know what bands are remotely worth checking out?
There is only so much we can do. But if you wanna shoot us down, then so be it, but at least suggest what we can do better. We're trying our hardest.
And you know what, for a week, for just a tenner you can take out a banner advert to promote your own band, bypassing us to use our space to promote your own band. We've not pushed the advertising thing but in coming weeks we will be, as well as introducing a proper classifieds section and users will be able to submit gigs to a different database too, hopefully - still looking into that.
Like I said, we can only do so much. It's easy to whine and niggle, but to actually say something productive takes time and can help change what you don't like.
Sean
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by the way hello everyone i know its been a while but i'm back by the way the Manics are still crap as are Miss Black America (they've split yipee!) and the Datsuns. bands that are/ have been (in the past) good include Big Black, Shellac, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, McLusky (i know as people they suck though i've met them), Terrashima, fixit Kid, Soulwax, Super Furry animals, the Rapture, Beck (a one-man band), Jimi Hendrix (another one-man band), At the Drive-in, Liars, Mohobishopi, Pixies, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Les Savy Fav, Helmet, Eels, Death in Vegas, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Hefner, Stone Roses, The Who, (early Syd-Barrett-era) Pink Floyd, Queens of the Stone Age, (early Pinkerton&blue LP) Weezer, the Wannadies, Clinic, Fat Truckers, Radiohead (not last 2 lps), Sex Pistols, The Damned, the Elastik Band, the Moldy Peaches, Marilyn Manson, the lift to Experience, the Immortal Lee County Killers, the Jon Spencer blues Xplosion... (see i can be positive!)
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Your assertion that all of Drowned in Sound's current staff (henceforth to be described as 'we') masturbate has been noted.
In fact, we would like to confirm this. According to several leading physicians, the average male should ejaculate at least once every three days to maintain the correct operation of his prostate gland.
As for why female members of staff masturbate as you assert, I cannot comment.
Kind regards,
You're almost as boring as the blatant street teamers with their press release-esque praise for crud like The Jeevas xxx
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And just in time too.
why ?
The most pointless
bump in history?> maybe
hehe
I really wanna bump a really old thread
I just can't be arsed to :(
actually quite funny though aint it?
they blocked the anonymous comment functiona while back didnt they?
ouch !
thank goodness
he's barred.
Drowned in Sound are most definitely not total wankers
They've just given me two tickets to the Underage festival tomorrow.
3rd time I'm seeing Patrick Wolf in about 5 months.
I sent two cds in
and didn't get a review.
I still love them though
You almost did
!
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if this is true, i'd like DiS to wank me