Monday, 15 September 2014

Different Types Of Music/Bands

Different Types of Music/Bands

There are a lot of varies and diverse music through-out time and culture however they are all grouped under two main categories in this case to make them easier to both compare and get a broader view over. These two categories are organic and synthetic

Organic:

Organic bands are bands that put the music they make first over any sort of business or finance, they would have known each other for a long time and actually enjoy playing together as friends and having a good time, an example of this would be "The Beatles".

The Beatles not only followed all of these guidelines of having not only a shared interest in music but also being very good friends and enjoying what they do to the utmost passionate level but they also toured countries together and became the biggest pop band to ever hit the world. 

In The Beatles early stages they toured hamburg in German in some rather undesirable places to make little to nothing per gig, however this caused and encouraged them to further pursue their dream for music and it caused them to improve by a lot because of how much they were playing together. 

Their first live television performance and broadcast in america was on "The Ed Sullivan Show" this one public event that most of america tuned in for spared a new area of Beatles music in which everyone adored. 

Another example of an organic band that hit it quite big are Radio Head. Radio head became an official band in mid 1984, they all knew each other from the school they went to and their first debut single that to this day is still detestably their most popular record is the song "creep"

Synthetic;

In great contrast to that of the organic sub genre of music that we are categorizing there is also what we call Synthetic music. This refers to bands that have had to previous contact with each other and who only interest is to make money, they would normally be put together by mass record labels looking to make millions and often didn't even know how to play the instruments that they pretended to play. 

A very strong correlation to this category of music is that of the Beatles lookalike band known as "The Monkeys" This was a band of young boys who didn't know how to play instruments and were instead put together based on who would appeal to their target audience of young teenagers the most, in other words good looking people.

The former drummer of the monkeys agrees and provides us with this fact that the members of the band themselves had little to no control over the band and that it was mostly run by record label who of which they had to listen to ever word. 

A new day example of this Synthetic type of band is that of the new age pop boy group "One Direction" They were put together by a mass corporate business man in charge of syco records simon cowell thus agreeing with the Synthetic guidelines thoroughly. 


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