Back to RockSquawk.com         Squawk  Hop To Forum Categories  General Chatter    To stoop down or not to stoop down
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
-star Rating Rate It!  Login/Join 

Posted
So we're doing this contest thing on MySpace called the "Burnout Band Slam"... and I'm noticing a lot of really crappy marketing by the other bands.

Sure... of COURSE bulletin that you're in the contest and that you need good ratings to win. That's a gimme! But I've noticed a lot of bands saying, "Make sure you go through the other top bands and give them bad ratings so we get up in slots faster!"

This seems like a bad promotion policy to me.

I'm wrestling with the idea of doing the same. But if we DID win off those pretenses I'd feel like we kinda cheated the system. We're ranked 12th or 13th right now.

Oh. Hell. If you guys wanna help us out please do! Oh! And if you're gonna give us a crappy rating just to be a dick, please don't. Enough bands are doing that already. Wink

Rank ColdSnap!


 
Posts: 424 | Location: Albuquerque, NM | Registered: November 09, 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post


Posted Hide Post
Do it. Fuck 'em. Clearly if they are cheating then the whole thing is screwed so you might as well win. I voted for you.
 
Posts: 3135 | Location: location, location | Registered: December 13, 2003Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post

Posted Hide Post
I'm not sure if they're exactly "cheating"... but they're definitely trying to pad their numbers to get ahead. I just think it's a shitty way to win.

I'll think about it. I'd really like to win fair and square over the bands who are being big pussies and pulling that bullshit.


 
Posts: 424 | Location: Albuquerque, NM | Registered: November 09, 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Rock and roll! Dammit!

Posted Hide Post
Sounds like it has nothing to do with whether or not anyone actually likes the various bands` music.
For what little it`s worth, my vote is, leave that playground shit to the teenagers. You guys are better than that. Contests are silly when it comes to music, because everyone`s tastes are different. I wish MySpace would disappear already. But hey, that`s just me. Maybe the whole server will crash and everyone will wind up with `99 Red Balloons` playing on their pages (in Casio notes).


Support your local authors. Especially if they're me!
Amazon link
 
Posts: 374 | Registered: December 13, 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post

Posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by ColdSnap:
So we're doing this contest thing on MySpace called the "Burnout Band Slam"... and I'm noticing a lot of really crappy marketing by the other bands.

Sure... of COURSE bulletin that you're in the contest and that you need good ratings to win. That's a gimme! But I've noticed a lot of bands saying, "Make sure you go through the other top bands and give them bad ratings so we get up in slots faster!"

This seems like a bad promotion policy to me.

I'm wrestling with the idea of doing the same. But if we DID win off those pretenses I'd feel like we kinda cheated the system. We're ranked 12th or 13th right now.

Oh. Hell. If you guys wanna help us out please do! Oh! And if you're gonna give us a crappy rating just to be a dick, please don't. Enough bands are doing that already. Wink

Rank ColdSnap!


That's a very diffuclt situation to be in. Hmmm...very good question indeed. Do you (a) be the better man or (b) fuck 'em all? Hmmm...(hand on chin) I say take option "a" but it won't hurt if someone you sorta of knew suggested option "b" to the fellow masses of Coldsnap fans. I'm just throwing it out there for ya.

--Third Hour
www.myspace.com/3rdhour
 
Posts: 361 | Location: Your Mom's Panties | Registered: April 25, 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post

Posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Whipping Boy Chris:
Sounds like it has nothing to do with whether or not anyone actually likes the various bands` music.
For what little it`s worth, my vote is, leave that playground shit to the teenagers. You guys are better than that. Contests are silly when it comes to music, because everyone`s tastes are different. I wish MySpace would disappear already. But hey, that`s just me. Maybe the whole server will crash and everyone will wind up with `99 Red Balloons` playing on their pages (in Casio notes).


Contests are silly. I agree. But I love the BurnOut series and I think I would get a stiffy the size of Tennessee if I was playing and a ColdSnap song came on. Hehehe...


 
Posts: 424 | Location: Albuquerque, NM | Registered: November 09, 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
I need a fucking vacation.

Posted Hide Post
I had to vote for these guys too...


Geoff (Guitarrista de Winterlock)
http://www.myspace.com/winterlock
winterlock@gmail.com


"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious." Brendan Gill
 
Posts: 1411 | Location: Close to the answer. | Registered: November 03, 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
a loss is only something you never had



Posted Hide Post
it is my opinion that contests are for the most part, lame .


getting permission is pointless
 
Posts: 377 | Location: where it feels like you're taking crazy pills | Registered: February 02, 2006Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
weasel nuts Ho!

Posted Hide Post
Dragon lazer! now thats a name. Musics pretty cool. They need to get a better singer. voted for coldsnap, good luck


the dude abides

My ass could write a better song with one cheek tied behind my nuts!!!
 
Posts: 352 | Location: SE side! | Registered: March 09, 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post

Posted Hide Post
We went to check out the bandslam too. Gave you guys a 10 of course!!! But we are noticing the same thing.... out of a 10 rating the highest rating is like a 3 point something most of the time. Makes you realize just how much everyone is voting everyone down. Then again... may be the whole point of this thing is to "SLAM BANDS" but voting them down.
 
Posts: 13 | Registered: February 06, 2007Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post

Posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by FuturePilot:
We went to check out the bandslam too. Gave you guys a 10 of course!!! But we are noticing the same thing.... out of a 10 rating the highest rating is like a 3 point something most of the time. Makes you realize just how much everyone is voting everyone down. Then again... may be the whole point of this thing is to "SLAM BANDS" but voting them down.


You guys got a ten from us as well. I don't know how many of those bands you have on your friends list but we apparently have quite a few. The bulletins that are being posted stretch through being demeaning (All these other bands are SHIT, etc etc) to just plain grovelling and begging (Please please vote for us and vote the other bands down, we really need this, blah blah fuckin' blah). It's really lame how some bands are approaching this. It's a silly contest. We're just posting saying, "Hey! Vote for us! Hope we win!"

That and I really want to hear a ColdSnap song playing when I'm playing BurnOut... and I don't want it to be on the harddrive of whatever console system I may be using. =)

Again. Stiffy the size of Tennessee I tell you!


 
Posts: 424 | Location: Albuquerque, NM | Registered: November 09, 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Metal/Other


Posted Hide Post
Why not Texas?


http://www.myspace.com/blacktoothgrinnm

"I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet".
-Rodney Dangerfield

 
Posts: 769 | Location: Albucrappy | Registered: September 13, 2006Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Africa's a cool country.

Posted Hide Post
hahah hahahhahahhaah!!!!

band contests Confused

NEVER EVER STOOP FOR ANYTHING OR ANYBODY!


What?
 
Posts: 522 | Registered: February 07, 2006Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post

Posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Scutt:
Why not Texas?


You haven't noticed how phallic Tennessee looks? Would YOU be satisfied with a pecker that looks like Texas?

That'd be some weird... creepy elephantitis shit dude.


 
Posts: 424 | Location: Albuquerque, NM | Registered: November 09, 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Metal/Other


Posted Hide Post
In that case I'll go with California!


http://www.myspace.com/blacktoothgrinnm

"I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet".
-Rodney Dangerfield

 
Posts: 769 | Location: Albucrappy | Registered: September 13, 2006Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post

Posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Scutt:
In that case I'll go with California!


I dunno... looking at a map it's pretty droopy...


 
Posts: 424 | Location: Albuquerque, NM | Registered: November 09, 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Metal/Other


Posted Hide Post
Long harry and hard to carry!!!
Long loose and full of juice!!!


http://www.myspace.com/blacktoothgrinnm

"I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet".
-Rodney Dangerfield

 
Posts: 769 | Location: Albucrappy | Registered: September 13, 2006Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
~Time Keeper~


Posted Hide Post
I think you guys are starting to make Black feel uncomfortable with all this genitalia talk.


"Well, are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle dixie?"
--Josey Wales
 
Posts: 1138 | Location: Alb, NM | Registered: January 12, 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post

Posted Hide Post
competitions are for jocks
 
Posts: 171 | Registered: October 12, 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Metal/Other


Posted Hide Post
quote:
I think you guys are starting to make Black feel uncomfortable with all this genitalia talk.


Your right, I better go back to getting stoned, drinking, and fucking.


http://www.myspace.com/blacktoothgrinnm

"I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet".
-Rodney Dangerfield

 
Posts: 769 | Location: Albucrappy | Registered: September 13, 2006Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
 Previous Topic | Next Topic powered by eve community  
 

Back to RockSquawk.com         Squawk  Hop To Forum Categories  General Chatter    To stoop down or not to stoop down

Copying is wrong.