[gradgt]

Here's a few things I've learned through my experience with garbageband.com:

1. If you do not sound like the same crap you've been hearing over and over again, you will not be number one.

2. Garageband.com is a joke, but the kind of joke a comedian tells and no one laughs at.

3. Most reviewers only listen for the shortest amount of time possible, write an uninsightful and half-assed review so they can amass the number of reviews they need to upload their own song, and thus perpetuating the cycle of crap.

4. You will get very unhelpful reviews. For instance, on one of my songs, somebody said the keyboards sucked. Another guy said the keyboards were great. And so, I got no where.


In my opinion, I'm honored that my songs don't make it all the way up the charts. The truth is a lot of bands you and I love, that would be regarded as amazing, would only make it about half way up the charts. The tops of the charts is reserved for the mediocre stuff that sounds like things you've already heard. For instance, this week the number one song was a guy who sounded just like Yngwie. That's cool, except everyone's heard Yngwie, who wants to hear someone who sounds just like him? I don't know about you, but if I want to hear Yngwie, I listen to Yngwie. Which reminds me, that I hate Yngwie, and that nonstop shredding is NOT an excuse for songwriting.

It reminds me of when I was living in China. There was a fast food place that was a ripoff of MacDonalds, and people would eat there, because there was no MacDonald's around. However, if there WAS a MacDonalds, who would go to the other place? No one.