10 bands that made their best music after they sold out.

[fossiltooth]

10 bands that made their best music after they sold out

http://bit.ly/gANaCu

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[Mark]

The first time I tried to load the page with The Decemberists on I got a Guru Meditation error message.

[bedbug]

I sort of agree about Sonic Youth. I wasn't aware Of Montreal and the Decemberists had sold out.

[fossiltooth]

I sort of agree about Sonic Youth. I wasn't aware Of Montreal and the Decemberists had sold out.

Of Montreal have provided theme music to an Outback Steakhouse commercial, and I'm pretty sure the Decemberists have been on Capitol records for a while now.

I'd say that fits a good working definition for the sake of this article. Did you read it? I thought they laid out some pretty clear, strong examples. A fun read.

[JGriffin]

If your definition of "selling out" is not clearly defined at the beginning of your article, and in fact seems to shift over the course of the article, your list of bands that "made their best music after they sold out" is not going to be particularly compelling.

[Scodiddly]

How about bands/artists that started producing dreck after finally gaining "creative freedom"?

[bedbug]

Did you read it?

Negatory

[fossiltooth]

If your definition of "selling out" is not clearly defined at the beginning of your article, and in fact seems to shift over the course of the article, your list of bands that "made their best music after they sold out" is not going to be particularly compelling.

Hi. It's not my article. I just thought it was amusing. Still do. True, the authors didn't specifically "selling out" in the intro. Instead, they made an individual case for each band they discussed. In each case it's pretty standard fare, like "stalwart indie that signed to a Major label" or "had their music in an Outback Steakhouse commercial".

I don't think the tone of the piece defines "selling out" as negative. If anything, I believe their article was trying to encourage open-mindedness. Guess they didn't do so good!

Did you read it?

Negatory

How about bands/artists that started producing dreck after finally gaining "creative freedom"?

I'd read that too. Got any nominations?

[JGriffin]

If your definition of "selling out" is not clearly defined at the beginning of your article, and in fact seems to shift over the course of the article, your list of bands that "made their best music after they sold out" is not going to be particularly compelling.

Hi. It's not my article. I just thought it was amusing. Still do. True, the authors didn't specifically "selling out" in the intro. Instead, they made an individual case for each band they discussed. In each case it's pretty standard fare, like "stalwart indie that signed to a Major label" or "had their music in an Outback Steakhouse commercial".

I don't think the tone of the piece defines "selling out" as negative. If anything, I believe their article was trying to encourage open-mindedness. Guess they didn't do so good!

I know it wasn't your article. My comment wasn't aimed at you. Apologies for the confusion. Making individual definitions of "selling out" for each item in the list --in my opinion-- weakens the thrust of the article.

Also: I don't know that Blondie doing a disco track is "selling out," especially when they've gone on record as saying the bar of 3/4 in the instrumental section was put there so that people on the dance floor would trip over their feet!

[lapsteel]

Is it really selling out when you need to make money?

Somehow Radiohead sold out with their first album. Which at the time was the sound of Radiohead.

By their logic Bob Dylan should be on the list for writing Like A Rolling Stone since it was the first time he got interested in writing something for the charts.