High, but realistic ambitions for bands

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"To have a halfdozen of our cds in every bargin bin across the country"

Now you go...

― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 1 April 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"To play North London's glamourous and distinguished Barfly venue".

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 April 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"To be interviewed by a number of webzines".

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Thursday, 1 April 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

To have Steve Albini comment on how we suck

― Cacaman Flores, Thursday, 1 April 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

To get an email from me reading: "Hey, I was just listening to your album, Doodly and the Dunlops, and I realized I was also wearing your T-shirt. If you're ever in R-Town, we should hook up. Keep it real and holla back!"

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 1 April 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

"To have a garish website where the last update is advertising a gig in Swindon in 2001"

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 1 April 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

To get a 6.9 review on Pitchfork.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Thursday, 1 April 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

To play in tune.

― earlnash, Thursday, 1 April 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a NYC band called La Laque who used to say on their website that their goal was to have a hit song in France.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 1 April 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

To have a snippet of music heard on WB or Fox teen drama.

― bren, Thursday, 1 April 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

To release an album that does well and have a follow-up that flops (commercially speaking).

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 1 April 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Great Plains used to say that their goal was to be (paraphrasing here) "as big as the Embarrassment - but no bigger, because then you get people who aren't really listening."

Steve Albini once said that he wanted Big Black (paraphrasing again) "to reach as many people as want to hear us - be that 5 or 5 million."

― mike a, Thursday, 1 April 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

To actually be paid more money for a gig than it cost you.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 1 April 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"to put 3 consecutive notes together that don't suck" - Linkin Park

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 1 April 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

to release ten albums and ten singles in ten years

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 1 April 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

""to put 3 consecutive notes together that don't suck" - Linkin Park"

That doesn't sound very realistic for Linkin Park.

Mine is to steal ALL of the headlining bands' rider.

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 1 April 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

To have at least one drummer die of mysterious causes

― Jaromil (Jaromil), Friday, 2 April 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

eight years pass...

9 years later...

― peepee, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 15:38 (twelve years ago)

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