Regurgitator's biggest problem lately is that they're far too good at being deliberately crap. "Happiness" was a pisstake on radio songs that just get stuck in your head and won't go away, and was too vomit pop for most people's liking. "Fat Cop" has the same problem... except it's worse as a song. Ben just isn't the rapper that Quam is, and the lyrics are far to lame-trying-to-be-funny. It could kick ass live though with some improvisation and Limp Biscuit dancing. Hope the rest of the album is better... but going by the sub-par quality of ...art I'm worried.

And doesn't Rammstein's "Link 2 3 4" remind me fair chunk of Ministry's "Just One Fix". On relistening to that song it doesn't really sound much at all... but it's the feel of the middle bit. Bah.

Subject URL: Top 30 Australian Rock songs

More compilation fodder. But for once I actually like most of these songs, ignoring the 'have-become-traditional' songs like 'Road To Gundagai' etc., the rest are a pretty good representation of Aussie rock over the last few years. I definitely don't agree with doubling up on bands though... and Powderfinger's "Day You Come"? Please...

Just read the "Indie artists" link below. Nice call : "Don't ever stop making music. One sure way to gain some level of success as a musician is simply to not stop being one".

Biggest problem I'm having at the moment is that I'm not writing any music and it sucks. The little time we've had we've been working on recording and have let the writing side slide. More songs now!

Subject URL: 10 Reasons Why Your Demo was rejected

An article by Christopher Knab, compiled by various interviews and from experience. Although I'm sure this article is interesting for most, it only makes me more sure I never want to be signed. If the big recording companies didn't own all the studios and producers and the distribution centres...

Although I do agree with Reason #3 : "The Music Is good, But The Artist Doesn't Play Live And/Or Has No Self Produced CDs.". The one thing we (Walken, as Heath and I) knew was that we'd never get anywhere without a band to play live with. That of course moved on the fact that the songs would be stale and lame without another couple of brains influencing their direction, but most people (*cough*Alex Lloyd*cough*) have no idea what that means.

Other seemingly interesting articles on the getsigned.com site :
* The Eight Reasons Why You're Not Signed
* Ten Gig Survival Tips Every Artist Should Know
* Ten Steps To Indie Success!
* The Art & Science of Effective Band PR 1,2,3

I'm off read some of these now. I'm trying not to link to un-read articles these days but these look interesting based on the first article and their titles. Feel free to tell me otherwise.