OT: IRONY: Now THAT"S entertainment!

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• Showmanship
  ... Your first glimpse of the band shows you what appears to be five Michael Moores on stage: Fat, middle-aged men with beards, baseball caps, wearing t-shirts or flannel shirts and baggy jeans. ... The vocals are buried beneath the guitars and keys, but the singer is valiantly screaming out of his range to be heard, anyway. ... This creates a horrible mish-mash of sound in the midrange, which echoes around the room mercilessly, causing everyone in the room to have to shout and scream to carry on conversation, and the end result is a sound like the constant roar of a crowd at an indoor stadium, which can be heard six blocks away. ... The guitarists entertain during these breaks by tuning, and making extremely loud, intermittent bursts of sound as they stomp through their pedal board trying to find just the right horrible sound for the next song. ...
  (alt.guitar.bass)
• Re: Showmanship
  ... Your first glimpse of the band shows you what appears to be five Michael ... Not only is the sound way, way too goddamn loud, but it's terrible ... the singer is valiantly screaming out of his range to be heard, ...  After each song, the singer ...
  (alt.guitar.bass)
• Re: 50 worst songs ever
  ... I think these are fine or better...I wonder what the explanation for "Sound of Silence" was? ... It must be a Doors song! ... Jim Morrison intones lyrics that would make the kid wearing the pentagram T-shirt in the back row of homeroom blush with shame. ... While a rock band twangs aimlessly in the middle distance, Simon & Garfunkel thunder away in voices that suggest they’re scowling and wagging their fingers as they sing. ...
  (rec.music.beatles)
• How to make a demo
  ... This will automatically narrow your focus regarding song selection. ... A booking agent will throw on your CD or click your ... Mix for the sake of clarity only; don't make it sound like the ... chorus, but not in the second, pick it up from the second verse. ...
  (alt.guitar.bass)
• Re: How to make a demo
  ... This will automatically narrow your focus regarding song selection. ... A booking agent will throw on your CD or click your ... Mix for the sake of clarity only; don't make it sound like the ... chorus, but not in the second, pick it up from the second verse. ...
  (alt.guitar.bass)