[atlantaprog] music industry bongo

Hey, this is a great idea for a website.  Have some kind of "engine" that
will randomly create band descriptions from these kinds of stock phrases.
What do you want to bet that someone will take this seriously and actually
use it?


>Ahh, but you can't judge based on that snippet, or can you?  :-) (being
>facetious)
>
>Anyone ever played "Corporate Bingo"?  It's a bingo card with a bunch of
>corporate and marketing BS terms like "Leverage" "synergistic" etc.
>Someone at a meeting says these things and you mark your card.  Get 5 in
>a row and BINGO!  The above kinda looks like Music Industry bingo.  I
>swear someone should create a press-kit bingo card and have those terms
>"dynamic" "fresh" "guitar driven" etc.  I'm sure that there are a few of
>these types of terms that I have used, but damn!...
>
>3 lines and I still have no clue as to what they are about. :-)
>
>No offense to the band Candy From Strangers or anything.  They are doing
>the same things that millions of bands do, and that the music industry
>marketers do as well.  I would like to see something more descriptive
>and original from a band.
>
>I liked Kurt Cobain's description of Nirvana: "it's the Knack and the
>Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath."  Not a
>pretty picture, but a memorable one!
>
>Anyway, I seem to have to comment on EVERYTHING lately, so there you go!
>:-)
>
>Alex F/Brain21
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