Is One Direction a band?

Bob Luken

youngryan216

youngryan216

Thank you for posting this. I'm going to the studio tomorrow and I'm so pumped to just set that place on fire now. Mediocrity should not be accepted, let alone lauded.

Amos Umwhat

raisindot

youngryan216

Ken Light

We call The Beatles a band. They're nun' but a boy band either.

brianetz1

youngryan216

Drake is a decent songwriter and he can sing though. . .

brianetz1

Ken Light

brianetz1:

if you played something Led Zeppelin to someone who grew up in the 1950s they would have thought you were trying to kill them.

Doubt it, but you might have to explain to them what a 'cover band' is and why they barely recognize the songs...

Amos Umwhat

Ken Light:

brianetz1:

if you played something Led Zeppelin to someone who grew up in the 1950s they would have thought you were trying to kill them.

Doubt it, but you might have to explain to them what a 'cover band' is and why they barely recognize the songs...

point

Ken Light

Amos Umwhat:

Ken Light:

brianetz1:

if you played something Led Zeppelin to someone who grew up in the 1950s they would have thought you were trying to kill them.

Doubt it, but you might have to explain to them what a 'cover band' is and why they barely recognize the songs...

point

Don't get me wrong, I love Led Zep. Best band of all time.

Bob Luken

Wow, now we're debating what's good music and what sucks? That's an awful deep rabbit hole. My only point was to declare that a band should play instruments. The Beatles were definitely a band. Whether anybody liked them or hated them is irrelevant to the definition of band. But, if five singers sing in front of a unnamed and virtually unseen "backing band" then, IMHO you are not supposed to call those five vocalists a band. They may be the big stars of their big stage act but they are not a band.

Ken Light

Bob Luken:

Wow, now we're debating what's good music and what sucks? That's an awful deep rabbit hole. My only point was to declare that a band should play instruments. The Beatles were definitely a band. Whether anybody liked them or hated them is irrelevant to the definition of band. But, if five singers sing in front of a unnamed and virtually unseen "backing band" then, IMHO you are not supposed to call those five vocalists a band. They may be the big stars of their big stage act but they are not a band.

You distinguished boy band from band. So I said The Beatles were a boy band. Implying, but most anyone would call them a band. So can we distinguish boy band and band?

Bob Luken

Ken Light:

Bob Luken:

Wow, now we're debating what's good music and what sucks? That's an awful deep rabbit hole. My only point was to declare that a band should play instruments. The Beatles were definitely a band. Whether anybody liked them or hated them is irrelevant to the definition of band. But, if five singers sing in front of a unnamed and virtually unseen "backing band" then, IMHO you are not supposed to call those five vocalists a band. They may be the big stars of their big stage act but they are not a band.

You distinguished boy band from band. So I said The Beatles were a boy band. Implying, but most anyone would call them a band. So can we distinguish boy band and band?

I believe the general understanding of "boy band" would be star vocalists out front in the spotlight, unnamed musicians in the shadows providing musical accompaniment. There may be some room for the Beatles to be called both in that they drove the teenage girls crazy in the beginning but I'd call them a band.

youngryan216

Ken Light:

Bob Luken:

Wow, now we're debating what's good music and what sucks? That's an awful deep rabbit hole. My only point was to declare that a band should play instruments. The Beatles were definitely a band. Whether anybody liked them or hated them is irrelevant to the definition of band. But, if five singers sing in front of a unnamed and virtually unseen "backing band" then, IMHO you are not supposed to call those five vocalists a band. They may be the big stars of their big stage act but they are not a band.

You distinguished boy band from band. So I said The Beatles were a boy band. Implying, but most anyone would call them a band. So can we distinguish boy band and band?

Stones > Beatles. All day looong!

Bob Luken