Why do people call bands Sell Outs

**Darkest Angel** · June 27th, 2004, 09:26 PM

Originally posted by RipperBendix:
sometimes I feel like ramming a knife into my skull to escape the ignorance!

...you keep saying that...but then...you don't actually do it. Pfft! Yer such a sell-out!

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**Street Worm** · June 27th, 2004, 11:07 PM

probably because out of all the cool stuff out there-music is best,
and people take it very personal.

now that I'm an old fart I can understand why some of the fusion bands I really dug in the mid to late 70s put out a *shudder* disco album or two.....(food, rent, gas etc.)

I can understand it-but I still kind of resent the holes in my record collection........

imo-the biggest example of a band that "sold out" could be Chicago........
What a cool band they could have been, but since I'm not in the band I guess it really doesn't matter (lol)

[ June 27, 2004 08:12 PM: Message edited by: Street Worm ]

**Peter Peeker** · June 28th, 2004, 12:37 AM

if MUNG started playing Britney Spears-type stuff, just for the $$, that would be selling out.

when MUNG get's huge for our own material, that's not.

if, God forbid, we gradually drifted into Britney-pop, that also would not be selling out, but man, would it suck ass. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

**profbobo** · June 28th, 2004, 12:50 AM

It typically has nothing to do with a band getting popular, and more to do with them changing their sound completely to get popular. There's a difference.

***PORTHOS*** · June 28th, 2004, 02:22 AM

Originally posted by -Dark Angel-:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by RipperBendix:
sometimes I feel like ramming a knife into my skull to escape the ignorance!

...you keep saying that...but then...you don't actually do it. Pfft! Yer such a sell-out!

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I won't talk about sell outs here cause I think we pretty much settled the issue but some bands just works on recipe. I really like Bon Jovi but it,s pretty much a recipe. Some songs are even starting to sound like previuously released on (you can almost entirely sing NEVER SAY GOODBYE on ALL ABOUT LOVING YOU on the Bounce album) I like when bands take chances from time to time. When Aerosmtih worked on the NINE LIVES album they supposedly entirely recorded the album with Glen Ballard because they liked his work on Alanis Morrissette's JAGGED LITTLE PILL but at the end they threw everything away and started back with Bruce Fairbairn to go back to the Pump/Permanent Vacation/ sound.

I like bands that take chances from time to time.

**Genetic Disposition** · June 28th, 2004, 02:31 AM

people like to claim ownership of thier favorite band. they like to know of them before anyone else. Most bands get bigger over time (except for Spinal Tap)... thus, evey band sells out to a certain extent. Tool's Hooker With a Penis is my favorite song about selling out - "I sold out long before you even heard of me" Heh. damn straight.