Kid Bands

[badalsharpton]

Originally Posted by OrganisM

This may not be my forum, but it sure as hell isn't yours either. It's not rude to voice opinions, it's rude for you to be a ridiculously pretentious asshole.

In addition, you insulted me solely based upon age.

It does not matter if they were thirty years old, their music is garbage and requires no talent. The only reason they exist is because of their age. The fact that they are still kids makes their playing in a band a novelty, even if their playing sucks. And it allows for their parents to conveniently pay for everything.

Careful what you say about the offer now; I might be too hot to extend it again someday.


And another thing, this is the Tiny Masters' claim to fame, straight from their website:

"In the intervening years, their sound has matured to the point where several songs actually exceed one minute in length."




Congrats for supporting the cookie-cutter mediocrity of the industry. Churning out albums and singles at a young age instead of getting to be any good? How can you compare the skills of real bands to these pitiful excuses for musicians?

And for whichever band it was that has had two or three albums released already when the kids are 14 years old, ouch. That's pathetic. They're contributing to the loads of **** the industry has been clogged up with. Interesting how society adores mediocrity, as do you.

hey hey hey, what is all of the name calling and crapping on each other about?! Acacia Rain (sounds like a hot name - I hope you're not a 45 year old hairy man) is only saying that these kids obviously have enough talent to book TV shows and big gigs. All that ORGAMIC is saying is that he thinks he is better than other musicians that are younger than him. I am not sure if he feels inadequate or something, but that is a pretty tall statement. So enough immaturity.
Check this link out and then tell me if you guys are better than their guitarist. I found it when I was looking into Squish. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYDaKIDYrKQ
I have been playing guitar for two years and this kid is better than me.
Looks like they are endorsed by Peace Drums and Heelys shoes too.
I say give them props where props are due. If they are charging for concerts and getting it, then that goves them more clout at the age of 12 than 99% of other bands out there playing for beer and cigarettes.

[badalsharpton]

Originally Posted by OrganisM

This may not be my forum, but it sure as hell isn't yours either. It's not rude to voice opinions, it's rude for you to be a ridiculously pretentious asshole.

In addition, you insulted me solely based upon age.

It does not matter if they were thirty years old, their music is garbage and requires no talent. The only reason they exist is because of their age. The fact that they are still kids makes their playing in a band a novelty, even if their playing sucks. And it allows for their parents to conveniently pay for everything.

Careful what you say about the offer now; I might be too hot to extend it again someday.


And another thing, this is the Tiny Masters' claim to fame, straight from their website:

"In the intervening years, their sound has matured to the point where several songs actually exceed one minute in length."




Congrats for supporting the cookie-cutter mediocrity of the industry. Churning out albums and singles at a young age instead of getting to be any good? How can you compare the skills of real bands to these pitiful excuses for musicians?

And for whichever band it was that has had two or three albums released already when the kids are 14 years old, ouch. That's pathetic. They're contributing to the loads of **** the industry has been clogged up with. Interesting how society adores mediocrity, as do you.

hey hey hey, what is all of the name calling and crapping on each other about?! Acacia Rain (sounds like a hot name - I hope you're not a 45 year old hairy man) is only saying that these kids obviously have enough talent to book TV shows and big gigs. All that ORGASMIC is saying is that he thinks he is better than other musicians that are younger than him. I am not sure if he feels inadequate or something, but that is a pretty tall statement. So enough immaturity.
Check this link out and then tell me if you guys are better than their guitarist. I found it when I was looking into Squish. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYDaKIDYrKQ
I have been playing guitar for two years and this kid is better than me.
Looks like they are endorsed by Peace Drums and Heelys shoes too.
I say give them props where props are due. If they are charging for concerts and getting it, then that gives them more clout at the age of 12 than 99% of other bands out there playing for beer and cigarettes.

[sciron37]

w/e if they can rock out, they deserve my respect regardless of age.

[badalsharpton]

Originally Posted by blargherness

Listened to all of them. Oh boy.
Smoosh - Singer sucks. Badly. No excuse, I've heard good kid singers before. And it's not just because he/she (lol) hasn't gone through puberty, it just sounds completely unprofessional. Music is okay...at times. At other times, it's pretty darn bad. Piano needs A LOT of work.
Squish - Not too great, but definitely not the worst. Music is stale. Singing...eh. Not the worst of the bunch. It is slightly sub-par though.
Flaming Monkeys - Quite tolerable. They need to concentrate on singing more than yelling, though. The song I listened to...Till I drop...that was better than I expected. They just REALLY need to refrain from yell-singing, it ruined it completely. It's still possible to put emotion into songs without doing what they did.
Tiny Masters of Today - No. JUST NO. Singing, WORST. OH MY GOD HORRID. No emotion, off-key, and unprofessional. Just HORRIBLE. I cannot stress that enough. Make sure you have emotion if you want to write a song called "Stickin' it to the man". Ok. I was typing this while I had some of their music on so I could better review their music. I just gagged. I'm not even kidding. I'm talking about "Stickin' it to the man". If anybody else here listened to this particular one, I can only hope you made it through okay. Sticking it. to the maaaaaaaan. stickin to the maaaaaaaaaan. stickin it to the maaaaaaaaan. Every daaaaaaaaaaay. AND ALL OF IT IS OFFKEY.
And their chords make me cringe. And they play the same damn chord again through the whole song. Every 4 seconds. That is a LOT of cringing.
They are utterly hopeless. UTTERLY. CAPITALIZATION.

Ratings because I feel like it.
Smoosh - 3.5/10
Squish - 3.5/10
Flaming Monkeys - 5/10 (Just stop yelling please. I don't care if your genre is punk rock.)
Tiny Masters of Today - 1.5/10

Dude, you are crackin me up. I loved the gagging comment. Post on brother.
Smoosh, 3/10
Squish - 7/10
Tiny Masters 1/10
Monkeys 3/10
Most every other rock band I have heard in bars, clubs and dives 2/10

[badalsharpton]

Originally Posted by OrganisM

This may not be my forum, but it sure as hell isn't yours either. It's not rude to voice opinions, it's rude for you to be a ridiculously pretentious asshole.

In addition, you insulted me solely based upon age.

It does not matter if they were thirty years old, their music is garbage and requires no talent. The only reason they exist is because of their age. The fact that they are still kids makes their playing in a band a novelty, even if their playing sucks. And it allows for their parents to conveniently pay for everything.

Careful what you say about the offer now; I might be too hot to extend it again someday.


And another thing, this is the Tiny Masters' claim to fame, straight from their website:

"In the intervening years, their sound has matured to the point where several songs actually exceed one minute in length."




Congrats for supporting the cookie-cutter mediocrity of the industry. Churning out albums and singles at a young age instead of getting to be any good? How can you compare the skills of real bands to these pitiful excuses for musicians?

And for whichever band it was that has had two or three albums released already when the kids are 14 years old, ouch. That's pathetic. They're contributing to the loads of **** the industry has been clogged up with. Interesting how society adores mediocrity, as do you.

One more thing. I actually did a little searching around on the net before I made statements. The Smoosh girls father is a doctor, and they toured with the Eels. With a sound like that they have to go on novelty alone and I am guessing that their father put up the $$ to pay their way on the tour, because there is no way that if I owned a label and put them on tour that they would be able to break even on their own. They just arent that good. But he wth a keyboard and drum set only, set up is fast.
I read nothing about any of the other kids parents having money. Not from the Flaming Monkeys, Tiny Masters, or Squish. So you cant just make a blanket statement about their parents pushing them to popularity through money like Vanilla Ice and Paris Hilton where talent = 0, but money equals millions and billions.
OK, I correct myself a bit. The drummers father of Squish does own a small music store. But after searching that out on the net, the music store is really small and pretty much insignificant. Knowing what i know about small businesses, especially music stores, competing with the online E giants like Musicians Friend, I am betting he makes a blue collar wage in that store if he is turning a real profit at all.
So without that info, you have to assume they got where they did through hard work, persistence and appealing to the crowd. By the way, I just called and bought a Squish CD. MP3s suck in quality I have found. When a discerning ear is listening it is blatant.

[OrganisM]

That kid ain't half bad. I'll exclude him from my rant.

Anybody who can play Eruption that well is good in my book.

[seththelezzy]

g4z33b0, The band that you posted is very good. How old are they?

[g4z33b0]

15 and 16. They actually write their own music and pay for all their own instruments, unlike those other little **** bands.

[FRANKKK]

Originally Posted by AriesMalvis

ok, so i hate the naked brothers band, and i think they should get off nickelodeon

Yes, they are horrible.

[KamonKi]

sounds whack

[g4z33b0]

I'm sure everyone appreciates your baseless opinions, please post more.

[OrganisM]

By the way, that guitarist from Squish, he sucks at playing Purple Haze. Good on Eruption but absolutely garbage on Hendrix. Guitar takes more than speed, kids.

And Squish still blows. Their song Crazy makes me want to fist myself.

[T3hDDRKid]

Originally Posted by g4z33b0

http://www.myspace.com/thescarletdivide - My friend Nick, Kevin, and Ben's band. In my opinion they are much better then any of the bands in the first post.

..... Holy crap. I'm Kevin, and two of my three best friends are Nick and Ben.

Do I have a band that I forgot about? And is your name Sarah?

[g4z33b0]

Sorry, name's Colin.

[Wlfwnd91]

I've listened to 1 or 2 children bands and they honestly should just stop. It's great to see children involved with music, but these kids need to work on learning the instrument and practicing. They're trying to be rock stars before they know how to rock.

The sad thing is though, that there are plenty of adult bands that play 3 or 4 chords over and over with a drum beat and sell thousands. People need to just get better overall lol.

[Wlfwnd91]

Originally Posted by OrganisM

By the way, that guitarist from Squish, he sucks at playing Purple Haze. Good on Eruption but absolutely garbage on Hendrix. Guitar takes more than speed, kids.

And Squish still blows. Their song Crazy makes me want to fist myself.

I absolutely agree. People think that if you play fast you're good. Listen to Little Wing. Slow song with worlds of heart and is one of Hendrix's master pieces. Speed means nothing if it's just a note, you need to put heart and soul into it.

EDIT! Sorry for the double post

[curious guy]

Originally Posted by badalsharpton

One more thing. I actually did a little searching around on the net before I made statements. The Smoosh girls father is a doctor, and they toured with the Eels. With a sound like that they have to go on novelty alone and I am guessing that their father put up the $$ to pay their way on the tour, because there is no way that if I owned a label and put them on tour that they would be able to break even on their own. They just arent that good. But he wth a keyboard and drum set only, set up is fast.
I read nothing about any of the other kids parents having money. Not from the Flaming Monkeys, Tiny Masters, or Squish. So you cant just make a blanket statement about their parents pushing them to popularity through money like Vanilla Ice and Paris Hilton where talent = 0, but money equals millions and billions.
OK, I correct myself a bit. The drummers father of Squish does own a small music store. But after searching that out on the net, the music store is really small and pretty much insignificant. Knowing what i know about small businesses, especially music stores, competing with the online E giants like Musicians Friend, I am betting he makes a blue collar wage in that store if he is turning a real profit at all.
So without that info, you have to assume they got where they did through hard work, persistence and appealing to the crowd. By the way, I just called and bought a Squish CD. MP3s suck in quality I have found. When a discerning ear is listening it is blatant.

It seems a little weird that somebody creates a profile and only posts 5 posts which seem to go to great lengths to push some band called Squish while subtly trashing all these other bands, some of whom have much higher profiles.

I am glad you bought the cd, although I would suspect you didnt need to because you obviously have an affiliation with the band. First clue: all sorts of information about who sponsors them, etc. Nobody should be impressed by that. Second clue: a passionate defense of their "not rich kid" status. Who cares? Music is music. Rich kids make music, poor kids make music. If money were all it took Paris Hilton wouldve had a hit record.

Shame on you, dissing Smoosh and all these other bands, some of whom may have more original ideas if not as developed musicianship. Double shame on you for such lame attempts at on-line marketing.

People are free to like or not like any of these bands but let people discuss the merits of bands without the cheap, deceptive shilling.

[JTOTHEACKIE2]

well scence nowadays is all about teenage angst so why not get teenage angst from from kids who are experiencing it right now....personally they probably couldn't right a meaningful song cause they need more experience to be able to do that

[Engler]

If you mean 4th graders, then yeah, kid bands blow. I would laugh at their attempt to rock out in their soprano voices. But if you mean teenage, then I say go for it. I've heard some good teenage bands myself.

Don't bump old threads. Especially not bad ones.