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[chiwigi]

You're telling me they would not have been successful if they formed anywhere else with such certainty that I find unbelievable and ridiculous and I'm calling you on it cause there is no factual or statistical basis for that.

Because there is no way of knowing. What I actually said was that they wouldn't be as successful in Australia as that was the topic at the time. There are far better bands that play here from overseas who couldn't sell out the oval. It is their Australianess that makes them ridiculously popular here.

I then added that they barely register in the UK, which suggests to me that they wouldn't have been anywhere near as successful if that's where they were from.

You cannot prove it the other way either.

Plenty of shitty and average bands have sold millions of records and plenty of excellent bands haven't. The popularity is no indicator of quality as you seem to suggest. I get it, they give you a hard on. Good luck to you, now move along.

 

[manureid]

So much talk about such shite music..... Needs to be moved to the Poo Eckert thread. Is stinkin' up the place!

 

[El_Scorcho]

Local bands inevitably do better in their home country. If say, the Libertines were from Australia, they'd probably be absolutely massive over here instead of being largely unknown.

I guess there's no way of proving AC/DC would have worked in the UK or USA, but as you say, there's no way to prove anything either way

 

[Zakk Wylde]

Because there is no way of knowing. What I actually said was that they wouldn't be as successful in Australia as that was the topic at the time. There are far better bands that play here from overseas who couldn't sell out the oval. It is their Australianess that makes them ridiculously popular here.

I then added that they barely register in the UK, which suggests to me that they wouldn't have been anywhere near as successful if that's where they were from.

You cannot prove it the other way either.

Plenty of shitty and average bands have sold millions of records and plenty of excellent bands haven't. The popularity is no indicator of quality as you seem to suggest. I get it, they give you a hard on. Good luck to you, now move along.

What makes a band quality ??

Obscure Tech Death Metal bands with superior musicianship that get no kudos ? Prog metal ? Jazz bands ??

Probably the best musicians on the planet, but the majority would call it "shit music".

What quantifies as quality ??

 

[manureid]

 

[El Zorro]

So much talk about such shite music..... Needs to be moved to the Poo Eckert thread. Is stinkin' up the place!

Yes, let's move all the ACDC stuff to the Poo Eckert thread.

 

[Sims01]

From eBay;

 

[PatientMental]

What makes a band quality ??

Obscure Tech Death Metal bands with superior musicianship that get no kudos ? Prog metal ? Jazz bands ??

Probably the best musicians on the planet, but the majority would call it "shit music".

What quantifies as quality ??

"music that doesn't cup my balls in that perfect way."

I hate peoples attitude towards music. Treating a completely subjective opinion of music objectively is the most aggravating thing.

If anyone likes a band, genre, specific kind of music, etc, enjoy it as much as you want and let them enjoy but do not ever tell anyone their music is shit. It's not, because telling someone 'your music is shit' is an opinion not a statement of fact.

Eg. Justin Bieber's new song (if he has one)

Objective response: That is music.
Subjective response 1: I think that music is shit.
Subjective response 2: I think that music is amazing.

You reading this, stop your pontificating and let people have their own opinions about music no matter how good or bad you think their opinions are.

 

[El Zorro]

To me, there are two types of music: the one I like and the one I don't. Same for wine, food, art, books, women, etc.

I don't really care what others think of my taste as it is a subjective, personal choice. Sure, most guys (myself included) will find Emily Ratajkowski more attractive than Amanda Vanstone but it is all about personal choice.

Bottom line, all this discussion about this band or that band is a bit pointless. But, well, it is the off-season after all.

Cue all the people saying "if you think it is pointless, don't look at the thread".

 

[Dylan8]

Collar looks alright. Renault logo is now the best sponsor logo in the league

 

[finbarr]

That's the nicest looking media polo I've seen in quite a while.

 

[Magus]

From eBay;
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[Adz2332]

anyone been into the store lately?
any player issue stuff for sale at the mo? prices?

 

[badbeats]

Collar looks alright. Renault logo is now the best sponsor logo in the league

Agreed. These days logo's have too much shite going on. Renault's is mint.

 

[The Smaller Warrior]

That gradient guernsey is our new training top.

The club are using the training top as a chance to go a bit crazy with pretty out-there designs.

I actually think it looks alright in real lifez, and they are wanting it to kind of be a bit 'ugly'/out there.

 

[Del80659]

i like the triforce jumper [coined]. despite an all teal jumper reminding you of the mid 2000s and the bad designs that went on then, there is something bolder about that one, perhaps it's just the club and the settled branding we have making a teal training jumper feel more acceptable.

 

[edgie]

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Except that they have the second biggest selling album in the USA of all time.

No matter where they origininated, they woulda made it. You're making them out to be cold chisel, some obscure group obscenely popular locally but vitually unknown overseas.

To use football analogies again, like Russel Ebert or Wayne Carey they could have made it starting from anywhere. Opinion on whether you like the music or not is irrelevant.

 

[Steve Dore]

Except that they have the second biggest selling album in the USA of all time. .......

But is it the biggest selling album in the Port Store?

#pooeckert

 

[El Zorro]

That gradient guernsey is our new training top.

The club are using the training top as a chance to go a bit crazy with pretty out-there designs.

I actually think it looks alright in real lifez, and they are wanting it to kind of be a bit 'ugly'/out there.

Well, they got the ugly part right...

 

[CrimsonRaven]

That training top is abysmal. I hope they dont plan on selling many.

 

[Dylan8]

The training top is pretty awesome though

 

[El_Scorcho]

The training top is great.

But most importantly, it signifies that we're now comfortably and confident going forward with our brand. The new guernsey design has been around for half a decade and has bedded itself in as distinctly Port Adelaide.

We don't need to use it for every piece of merchandise. We don't need to have alternate versions of it as our training kit. This is the marketing team, after 5 years of carefully crafting our onfield image, getting a bit of their craziness out after having staunchly kept it bottled up for 5 years while we repaired our branding.

We've arrived.

 

[Lagooner]

From eBay;
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Yeah that's great and all, but it doesn't really solve this AC/DC debate now does it?!

 

[El Zorro]

The training top is great.

But most importantly, it signifies that we're now comfortably and confident going forward with our brand. The new guernsey design has been around for half a decade and has bedded itself in as distinctly Port Adelaide.

We don't need to use it for every piece of merchandise. We don't need to have alternate versions of it as our training kit. This is the marketing team, after 5 years of carefully crafting our onfield image, getting a bit of their craziness out after having staunchly kept it bottled up for 5 years while we repaired our branding.

We've arrived.

LOL. I think you are overthinking this a little.

 

[finbarr]

That gradient guernsey is our new training top.

The club are using the training top as a chance to go a bit crazy with pretty out-there designs.

I actually think it looks alright in real lifez, and they are wanting it to kind of be a bit 'ugly'/out there.

So what you're essentially saying is, someone at the club opened the envelope marked "John James marketing and merchandise ideas - Do not open"?