Everyone has a MOST PLAYED or FAVORITE iTunes playlist that you listen to on a regular basis. Heck, that’s what the music industry is all about — getting you to buy (and play) your favorites over and over again.
It doesn’t matter how you listen — local radio, Pandora, your iPod — as long as you listen. Nobody wants to hear crap music.
Then again, what’s crap to you is music gold for someone else. Not everyone loves opera singing or country music, but there are opera and country fans out there.
Insane Clown Posse: The Most Hated Band in The World
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Going to a rock concert is an experience. Going to a GREAT rock concert is an experience you’ll be sharing with others for years – perhaps decades – to come.
We all have our favorite artists, but not all of them know how to give a great performance. Web Watch appreciates The Steve Miller Band, for instance, but didn’t need to hear them perform a 2-hour rendition of the Steve Miller’s Greatest Hits album.
We also recall one start-up band (whose name we will purposefully leave out) that had to fill a 30-minute set… but only had about 15 minutes worth of material. They opened with their hit, they closed with their hit – then, after being told backstage that they “need to get back out there”, finished their set by playing their hit a third time. Almost a text-book example of what the term ONE HIT WONDER really means.
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You’ll recall that Web Watch has written about mashups before. Some people love them, some people hate them.
Those that fall into the HATE camp have nothing against mashups in general, but just would rather hear the actual songs that make up the mashup rather than the mashup itself.
And that could very well be the reason the site we’re talking about today exists, to appease the mashup haters and bring them together with the mashup lovers.
DJEarWorm – United States of Pop
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Whether you get your music listening fix from your own MP3’s stored on your cellphone/tablet/desktop, from the local AM/FM radio station, or a streaming service like PANDORA, SPOTIFY, or others — you know that nothing is ever free.
Whether it be listening to advertising, viewing popups, or purchasing the audio files from your favorite vendor (Apple, Amazon, Google Play, Best Buy) — that music has to get to you somehow. And it’s that transport that’s going to cost someone, somewhere.
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It’s a tired comedian point of view: nobody can ever understand the fast-food worker at the other end of the drive thru order speaker.
The order comes back mumbled, they never get anything right when you order at the drive thru. You’re always stuck behind the mom with the 14 different orders for each member of the baseball team in her minivan (along with 14 different payments for each one).
Yup, the drive thru can be a real blah.
McDonald’s Electronic Cash Register Set and
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Bands are always trying to figure out what the “next big thing” can be in making their music videos more interesting and engaging with their fans.
You could do the same thing (concert video) that everyone else does, or you could work outside of your comfort zone and do something a bit different — both in film style as well as music style. Why lipsync when you can play live in a unique venue?
One of the hardest things for amateurs to do when coming up with a great video, web game, or smartphone app is to come up with a high quality music bed to accompany the narration or gameplay.
At worst, it becomes an annoying din that the user has to tune out or turn off.
At best, it’s a hooky catch that transcends beyond the game to become an entity unto itself.
Super Mario Theme
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Web Watch has covered one-take music videos before, such as this LIP DUB.
And considering how hard it is to make a video in one take, the coordination involved, etc – doing one well is when we should take notice and remind people what videos are supposed to be about.
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