Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Enthusiastic Hack's Glossary of Musical Terms (Part 1)
Cult Following – Not very popular
Musical Differences – Clashing contractual obligations
Second Album – Where most careers end
Support Band – A really average band chosen to make the headline act sound good
Indie – A generic term used to describe any band you can’t easily pigeon-hole
Overnight Success – Five years of hard work plus three weeks of hype
Sell Out – Become too popular to be considered cool anymore
Exploring a New Direction – Our new songs are shit compared to our old stuff
We Love Coming to this City – We are in this city
I Really Respect That Artist – I think that singer is a cockhead but he is on the same Record Label as me
Australian Idol – Televised Karaoke
ARIA Awards – A very long Powderfinger interview
6 comments:
HAHA - too true about the ARIAs!!
Yeah, I've come up with a list of about 50+ terms. But it's taken me ages, so I didn't wanna post them all at once. I'm gonna do the big tease and post them in instalments/installments (not sure if it has 1 or 2 L's)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/instalment
Hilarious and so true
Can we add to your list?
If we can, let me suggest:
Playing More Intimate Shows - we're no longer popular enough to fill the Rod Laver arena so we have to play the Corner Hotel now instead
We've Patched Up Our Differences - After 20 years in the wilderness, all our fans are now in their 40s and 50s and have enough disposable income to make us very rich as we tour the world playing our old songs really badly
There is a Real Buzz About the Band - We have added everybody in the world to our friends list on Myspace
We Own All Our Own Merchandising - My brother tie-dyes crappy shirts that we sell at gigs
We're Sold Out of our Demo CD - We give out the demo at gigs to people who throw them in the trash as they leave the pub
Yes. All suggestions are welcome. They are some excellent additions you propose, especially "Intimate Shows." What a classic euphemism that one is.
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