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Originally posted by Mr.Deflok
DAVID BOWIE
BOARDS OF CANADA
TYPE O NEGATIVE
NINE INCH NAILS
APHEX TWIN
All highly original.
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Amen brother!!! Just saw TON (Type O Negative...) the other day. Fucking Amazing. Also, At The Drive-In, glassjaw (not a big fan, but have to give them credit), and Tool, however cliche that may be. In their own way, the Deftones are also pioneers. But lests discuss why bands are considered sellouts, shall we?
SugarRay were a thrash punk band from SoCal. Their albumn "Floored" was 12 songs of thrash. Then there was "Fly". The one song on the albumn that wasn't thrash. "Fly" became popular, and then lo and behold, the next albumn was 15 fuckin carbon copies of "Fly", just repackaged. They even changed Fly because their was a heavy(ish) interlude that the radio version did not feature. They took that part out of the video as well.
That is what it mean to be "a sellout" or "un-original bastards". It can all be summed up by the old addage, "Actions speak louder than words". In other words, its how you get popular that matters. If you tour for years and keep a level of artistic integrity intact, super. You rock. But if you change everything you are (i.e. sell your soul to the devil) and make a 180 from your artistic integrity, YOU HAVE SOLD OUT!!!!