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LuminousAether
My name is Distance
AFI's latest has what... 12 tracks? It's also only like 40 minutes. Mardraum from Enslaved has either 11 or 12 (I forget) and a runtime of around 60 minutes. By your retarded criteria, wouldn't that make them a better band?
Who cares how many songs there are and how long they are if they are all well written and the album is over 30 minutes? Any shorter and it's kind of a shame, I prefer around 50 minutes for an album... but regardless, number of riffs and songs doesn't imply greatness in great amounts.
Who cares how many songs there are and how long they are if they are all well written and the album is over 30 minutes? Any shorter and it's kind of a shame, I prefer around 50 minutes for an album... but regardless, number of riffs and songs doesn't imply greatness in great amounts.
LuminousAether said:
reign in blood is 28 minutes. I'm just saying it's easier to write a longer song like a ten minute song than it would be to write two 5 minute songs, that's all. So, the shorter your songs are(2-3 mins long), and you have tons of them, the harder it is to write them.
LuminousAether
My name is Distance
LuminousAether said:
But my point is it's easier to write a longer song that is ten minutes long than it is to write two 5 minute ones. or writing a 5 minute song as opposed to 2 two and a half minute songs. the 5 minute song is an idea expanded upon for 5 minutes whereas the 2 shorter songs are 2 ideas expanded upon for 2:30 each. I bet bands make longer songs because they don't wanna think of a bunch of short ones cause that would require too much lyrical thinking, but punk bands seem to do this no problem at all but metal bands don't.
C-Taylor
Conscious Insanity
Quality over quantity. Sing the sorrow is quality, to me anyway, so I couldnt care if it was 10 minutes long, I love the album 
Very proud of ya is still their best though. Most songs are like 1:30 minutes long, 20 tracks
Very proud of ya is still their best though. Most songs are like 1:30 minutes long, 20 tracks
LuminousAether
My name is Distance
Most punk bands recycle the same idea song after song album after album. Bad Religion are a prime example of this. Once you've heard one of their songs, you've heard most of them. Some punk bands like Fugazi and Refused play very different styles and have a lot of intertrack variety, but that's not the norm. Metal suffers from much of the same problem. And who says one song only has one idea?
Rottuated
Live Free Or Die
duckattack
The Duck of Death.
But generally, punk bands don't have any pretenses about being artistic visionaries who are going to reinvent the wheel every time they go into the studio.LuminousAether said:
duckattack
The Duck of Death.
MightyDrynwhyl
Funeral doom is my life
i think theyre pretty damn good, i generally cant stand punk but afi is a lot more talented than most of these bands, i like them mostly when they have melody though
BodomPrincess
bunnies rock my socks
I really like AFI tho am more fond of the newer stuff than the older stuff. Also met the guys at the signing back in June
