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LostYears	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 2:12 PM man i looked at that site yesterday, and i dunno what to say... anyone here that does?
thesoloer	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 4:44 PM naaah I dont think that anyone here would, there isnt a chance in hell that I would go on myspace, I will not go check out myspace on all, it's weird.
TameasDust	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 5:13 PM several of the artists here are on myspace as well ...
kingo	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 5:25 PM This thread makes more sense than any other thread on any other message board anywhere, ever.
thesoloer	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 5:51 PM tameasdust could you name me some of the artists that have their music on myspace?
kingo	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 6:41 PM Halaka furiousBall EmpireDay Dizeazed Spiral Galaxy Collision Wilhemina Murray's Revenge Wumpus Gimp Nipples Diane Jessurun ChillinBuzz Pop Dolls Victors Skull etc.
leedsquietman	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 7:37 PM Not me. I understand why people post their music there in terms of getting extra exposure etc. Plus it's the trendy thing to do, etc. Unfortunately, myspace just sucks a$$ as far as I'm concerned, see this thread for reasons as to why. http://www.dmusic.com/forum/general/23077#47
leedsquietman	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 7:41 PM The other thing I find hilarious, is that if you check out myspace.com/dmusic it list's dmusic's 1 friend as TOM !! Given that we all know Leflaw is sexier, more intelligent, just basically a better human being all round than Tom (who is something of a nemesis to dmusic and pretty much the evil core of the universe next to Bill Gates, RIAA directors and Sony BMG etc), it makes me chuckle
leedsquietman	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 7:46 PM Also - if you want to listen to any othe artists music that is on Myspace, you should listen to their music here at Dmusic, as it will be the original mp3 file uploaded by the artist, not the downsampled, degraded hash that myspace will have turned it into.
kingo	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 7:50 PM Unless the musicians who post things on myspace post different things there than they do here. Not that I know anybody who'd ever do a stupid thing like that. Also I'm glad to finally be doing the thing that's the trendy thing to do. This brings me great joy. I am beyond revision, now. Carved in stone.
kyodylee	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 8:05 PM Well, Kingo beat me to it but here ya go ... sorry to the peeps I missed ... http://www.myspace.com/mariadaines http://www.myspace.com/chillinbuzz http://www.myspace.com/victorsskull http://www.myspace.com/dizeazed http://www.myspace.com/popdolls http://www.myspace.com/swampmansjams http://www.myspace.com/dianejessurun http://www.myspace.com/lamonda http://www.myspace.com/djfacemachine http://www.myspace.com/spiralgalaxycollision http://www.myspace.com/mimicmind http://www.myspace.com/gothnights http://www.myspace.com/missvolatile http://www.myspace.com/furiousball http://www.myspace.com/halaka http://www.myspace.com/alstroph http://www.myspace.com/wilheminamurraysrevenge http://www.myspace.com/empireday http://www.myspace.com/dislocatedboner http://www.myspace.com/genehilbert http://www.myspace.com/solipsism http://www.myspace.com/killingracy http://www.myspace.com/theintergalacticwarhero http://www.myspace.com/ellykellner http://www.myspace.com/josyphcryss http://www.myspace.com/psiphermusic http://www.myspace.com/earlythomasband http://www.myspace.com/tdubbgce http://www.myspace.com/gtoriginal http://www.myspace.com/veracohr http://www.myspace.com/demonicangel1561 http://www.myspace.com/dennymusic http://www.myspace.com/charlymarley http://www.myspace.com/emosideproject http://www.myspace.com/deadravenmusic http://www.myspace.com/rezumars http://www.myspace.com/knightmoods http://www.myspace.com/engineeleven http://www.myspace.com/electricgypsyshmoo http://www.myspace.com/tsand19151 http://www.myspace.com/antisaint http://www.myspace.com/adamsgod
leedsquietman	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 8:47 PM Kingo - one heck of a with it, hipster dude.
jess1561	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 8:50 PM You forgot me!! http://www.myspace.com/demonicangel1561
jess1561	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 8:52 PM Oh wait, I see me, nevermind But you did forget Frozen Mist http://www.myspace.com/frozenmistmusic And our new online collaboration project is here. http://www.myspace.com/beautitudemusic
LostYears	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 9:14 PM i just dont want to see the dmsuic myspace page become like everyother myspace page. i think it shoul be a requirement that u have to be a dmer to get on to the dm myspace page. maybe im out of line but if not having a dm page on myspace is just propelling the 'trendy nature of myspace and not only that but implying that dm condones that.
LostYears	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 9:18 PM just added my band http://www.myspace.com/lostyearsband
Nickaz	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 9:25 PM idc how silly it is.. if it gets 3 more peopel to listen to my songs for free... its doen its purpose. The point of being an indie artist i thoguht was for the love of music and to do what u wanna do and to show people ur talent... but apprently not.
Nickaz	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 9:26 PM ^^K3 not nickaz... im over at his house.. K3 can't type
leedsquietman	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 9:32 PM It's a catch 22 thing - myspace is evil but it also has 80+ million users and I don't blame dmusic for having a site there to attract some new users to dmusic. Whether or not you want to add to the fat wallet of Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox tv, various newspapers, Sky TV, etc (a media tycoon meglomaniac who is rumored to be the inspiration for the character Elliot Carver in the Bond movie 'The World Is Not Enough'), a man who can buy myspace for $580 million as pocketchange, is entirely up to you, go ahead and join the legions of myspacers !!
LostYears	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 9:33 PM well thats all ur gonna get to listen to ur music. people add on myspace for the sole purpose of accumulating vast numbers of friends. i understand being all about the music, and i understand wantong to be heard. but im speaking of moral fiber when it comes to this, i will never make it big but if i were to i would want fans who liked my music because it was good. not like my music because they think its the 'in' tune or band.
leedsquietman	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 9:39 PM To me, myspace is not the 'spirit' of an independent musician. Trying to find your music among 80 million users is also not easy. Most listeners of uploaded music are your own friends who probably already know what your music is all about anyway... Heck, even Soundclick is at least designed primarily for music and allows users to post a large collection of work, even if I dislike some of the overcommercialisation and spamming I find happens there, plus it's bitrate limitations. If you want friends stick to AIM or MSN etc, Myspace still has a long way to go to catch up to those, even 80 million is a drop in the ocean compared to this. And it won't take an hour for the page to load either...
Woof	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 9:48 PM MySpace is incredibly popular, but I have little, if any, desire to hang out there. As one of the older DM artists here (meaning my personal age, not how long I've been at DM), I just don't feel comfortable hanging out in chat rooms that are mostly teen talk. That feels creepy.
kingo	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 9:50 PM They have chat rooms?
LostYears	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 9:58 PM hell im a teen and i dont even spend that much time on the site. i make my profile, i keep in touch with friends(not just random people ive added but actual friends), and occaisionally i go and read my horoscope and play a game or two, but the games usually crash my computer and the horoscopes dont often work, or make sense. and there was no point in this particular post of mine... but i have an agenda........ "I won't rest until the DM page on myspace reflects the spirit and feeling of the DMusic community" and having my comment deleted from the page was not in that spirit.... i have a complaint to, i posted a comment asking just how many of the what 2600 friends of the myspace page were actually DMers, and well i viewed the page when i went to add my band page to the thing and i didnt see the comment. maybe thats selfish or self absorbed of me but i have said some stupid stuff on this site and i dont think that i have ever had it deleted, at least not without a reason or a heads-up.
Woof	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 9:59 PM I browsed the forums when the buzz began over here about MySpace. Zero interest in any of the discussions. Never tried the chat because of that. But I assume...
TameasDust	Date: June 3, 2006 @ 11:38 PM Well I for one am not on myspace ... not being an artist ... and sides deviant art is more fun
chancemotta	Date: June 4, 2006 @ 12:51 AM ive been on myspace for a while, tho i rarely ever use it. well, i've been using it a little more to talk to friends http://www.myspace.com/chancemotta i just joined this site today, and it seems to have a pretty cool set up. i generally use macjams.com
desiderata	Date: June 4, 2006 @ 1:03 AM LostYears -- It might be possible that comments have to be approved before they show up and not that some DMusic admin is spending their Saturday night deleting your comments from DMusic's MySpace page. Maybe this isn't the case, and maybe they wouldn't end up approving your comment if it is, just a thought.
chancemotta	Date: June 4, 2006 @ 1:06 AM its also possible the comment was just overwelmed by others and not visible on the page perhaps.
TameasDust	Date: June 4, 2006 @ 1:53 AM there is always http://wiki.dmusic.com/index.php/Main_Page and yes I'm not there either
LostYears	Date: June 4, 2006 @ 4:53 AM i got a lil hot under the collar earlier, i wasnt accusing anybody and thank u for pointing that out to me. though i still believe that in order to be on the dm myspace u should at least have the intention of joining dm. thats my personal thing.... but who all hear has a myspace page, i just discovered saints page a couple of days ago literally by accident.
thesoloer	Date: June 4, 2006 @ 10:09 AM Hell... I dislike the entire myspace concept entirely and completely. I dont like having to constantly update every blog and make every blog different and always telling people how you feel when I think nobody gives a fuck. They may think they do but they actually dont... they will say so how do you do this, proof, I dont see any. I write whatever I want to write on my AIM profile and people tell me about it and say it's inspiring. I dont like to write on a myspace account. If I wrote on a myspace account people would say that it doesnt make sense or it doesnt exist for some reason. I dont get it.
jdub3384	Date: June 4, 2006 @ 2:14 PM i'm on myspace www.myspace.com/jdubtheprophet and my group www.myspace.com/blaze1jdubonehizy
Woof	Date: June 4, 2006 @ 8:42 PM DM needs to facilitate an alliance with YouTube. That'd kick MySpace's do-it-yerself html-css-with-a-blog's ass!
Jesuszilla	Date: June 20, 2006 @ 7:00 PM http://myspace.com/davidcmusic spammity spam spam
SimonWaldram	Date: June 20, 2006 @ 7:06 PM From an article in today's Guardian about industry hype: "It worked for Arctic Monkeys; it worked for Sandi Thom. No one should be too surprised that another act have now used the MySpace website - which spreads word of a band (and their downloadable songs) via a growing network of internet "friends" - to launch themselves to stardom. The difference is that Hope Against Hope are a scam, a spoof indie band "with no talent whatsoever" invented by Q magazine in order to prove that the Rupert Murdoch-owned site is now just another cog in the older industry phenomenon of hype. After just four weeks, Hope Against Hope had a devoted fanbase. Alan McGee - once a member of Tony Blair's Creative Industry Taskforce, and the man who discovered Oasis and the Libertines - even offered them a gig at his influential Death Disco club night." The rest of the article: http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1801705,00.html
kingo	Date: June 20, 2006 @ 7:43 PM Thanks for that, Simon. It was in interesting read, though I'm not entirely sure they're making a point, at all, and I'm not sure it was interesting for what I think they point they might've been trying to make was.
Woof	Date: June 20, 2006 @ 9:43 PM I'll have to admit I was a little taken aback, though, when I discovered that Susan Cowsill has a site there: http://myspace.com/susancowsill We ought to invite her to join our little community over here. She's gone indie, after all... and sounds wonderful doing it. Kinda like a more easily accessible Joni Mitchell... she'd fit right in.
LostYears	Date: June 21, 2006 @ 2:52 AM wow this thing is still up? what are we talking about now?
psypig	Date: June 21, 2006 @ 4:47 AM stirring the pot a bit number of real people who have turned up to our gigs as a direct result of finding us on myspace = roughly 40 number of real people who have turned up to our gigs as a direct result of talks on other websites = about 20 number of real people who have turned up to our gigs as a direct result of finding us on dmusic = 0 That is why bands like myspace. Let the arguments commence
SimonWaldram	Date: June 21, 2006 @ 5:51 AM Just taken a look at Susan Cowsill's page. I've never heard of her before but as soon as her saw her pictures and heard the beautiful ache in her voice I knew in my heart that this woman will be my future ex-wife.
leedsquietman	Date: June 21, 2006 @ 7:31 AM number of real people who have turned up to our gigs as a direct result of finding us on dmusic = 0 Were you able to go out into the audience and chat to every single person at every single gig in making this analysis? Myspace and dmusic serve different purposes, myspace is more like MSN with pictures, dmusic is a place to host music, where you can post more than 4 tracks that are then not degraded to hash like myspace's downsampling. Myspace supposedly has over 80 million users, so given that information, you would expect to have networked with more users at gigs, so the statistics are to be expected...
psypig	Date: June 21, 2006 @ 8:04 AM While i admit we don't chat to every single person after gigs we do get to talk to most of them. There's a couple of points i'm making here: 1) myspace is a fantastic promotional tool 2) people who hate it just because it's popular are frankly morons 3) people on these forums are very easy to annoy 4) trolling is fun in a more specific way, all you've done there is post your opinion of myspace (again...) followed by a paragraph that is essentially saying to me 'your opinions and facts mean nothing'. way to go. experiment time... cos i wonder if anyone will read this bit and if it'll have any effect even if they do.... i'm trying to cause areguments here... and annoy people... cos people on here bitching about myspace amuse me.... so don't rise to anything i say...
kingo	Date: June 21, 2006 @ 8:45 AM 14) Your fucking hat is on backwards 187) You actually have too few artichokes to be a troll. 21d) You missed a critical point in your initial analysis of the numbers, and let me get right to it: Number of artificial people who have come to recent ittenable halaka gigs as a direct result of finding halaka's myspace page: .4 Number of artificial people who have come to recent ittenable halaka gigs as a direct result of DMusic: 187 Number of times I wonder why you're so goddamned obsessed with the realness of shit - 98,384,200 575) I you get it in your irrigation canal to say, "see, there, you didn't read what I said, I said don't rise to anything I say, and you rose..." you're going to have to re-evaluate your definition of the word "rise." - Lung King
psypig	Date: June 21, 2006 @ 9:19 AM how about rice? like rice pudding with jam? or a fried fritter of spam? or a green fingered man? ram bam de dam? baked beans in a can? cheddar cheese flan? red battering ram? a trout in a pram? fireman sam? am tam pan lam? my shit is very real thankyou very much. and i'll thank you not toforget it susan. T.I.F.
dpsipher	Date: June 21, 2006 @ 10:21 AM hahaha.. nowt wrong with getting ur music out there in as many ways as possible,makes it easier for people to find. if u could put my music on uranus i would... not that anyone would hear it there though! any objections to my music on uranus?
Svensta	Date: June 21, 2006 @ 10:32 AM Red battering ram? That's a euphemism for something isn't it? Exposure is simply a matter of numbers. Currently MySpace has more members than DMusic. You cannot quantify the value of said new exposure, but then you aren't an internet marketing team (I work with one, and do not envy them the job). So yes, you probably will have more people hearing your music on MySpace than here, but more than likely will garner more sales here than there, if you push that envelope hereabouts. Just thinking out loud.
psypig	Date: June 21, 2006 @ 10:37 AM yeah i almost wrote pink battering ram... but changed it... that's not healthy is it? arg.... dancing kirby!
psypig	Date: June 21, 2006 @ 10:37 AM it's gone!
Rodrica	Date: June 21, 2006 @ 12:48 PM Maybe myspace should be paying DMusic for all the publicity we give them here Here's a suggestion...everytime anyone mentions the word "myspace" then myspace has to pay us 10 dollars. You know what they say...any advertising is good advertising. And my post has just cost them 30 dollars
leedsquietman	Date: June 21, 2006 @ 5:44 PM Psypig, your opinion is fine. You know better than someone sitting at their computer 3500 miles away where your audience comes from and how many contacts you've made, at least to a fair degree. I'm just have a chip on my shoulder about my*****, but it's getting less with each psychotherapy treatment
TLK	Date: June 21, 2006 @ 8:51 PM http://www.myspace.com/tlkthelegendkiller ADD ME!
imemine	Date: June 21, 2006 @ 9:12 PM I think I have a page on myspace. Haven't been there in 100 years!
TLK	Date: June 21, 2006 @ 9:13 PM How old ARE you??
rawknrolloutlaw	Date: June 22, 2006 @ 2:41 AM www.myspace.com/frankflashwoodburn
opiumchild	Date: June 22, 2006 @ 4:39 AM hmmm
TameasDust	Date: June 22, 2006 @ 6:21 AM went to myspace ONCE ... thewy tried to force me to listen to some crappy tune before the page loaded ... F U myspace ... I only listen to what I want to ... not what myspace decides
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IllusionOfArt	Date: August 5, 2006 @ 4:35 PM I have a serious problem with Myspace. Essentially, for the artist it should be a good thing because it allows the music to move by "word of mouth" but it just looks like a bad forum that jackasses use to make it look like they are more popular than they really are. I haven't put my music up there and right now don't plan to. I have a song poking fun at Myspace. I should record it soon.
IllusionOfArt	Date: August 5, 2006 @ 5:16 PM I have a serious problem with Myspace. Essentially, for the artist it should be a good thing because it allows the music to move by "word of mouth" but it just looks like a bad forum that jackasses use to make it look like they are more popular than they really are. I haven't put my music up there and right now don't plan to. I have a song poking fun at Myspace. I should record it soon.
hantu	Date: August 5, 2006 @ 5:56 PM oh wow! look im there too http://www.myspace.com/sham
redrasta	Date: August 5, 2006 @ 7:38 PM was on Myspazz for a coupla weeks...got hit on by fourteen guys all around the 17-21 year old mark. Deleted my account. Nuff said.
tsand19151	Date: August 5, 2006 @ 7:48 PM myspace sucks...i was a member until someone used my name to spam all my friends about some dating site... i was pissed and cancelled my account 10 minutes later....
Intergalacti...	Date: August 5, 2006 @ 7:55 PM icf is on there but she doesnt post music anyone seen her recently btw?
Israfel	Date: August 6, 2006 @ 12:23 PM @ Sham! That's not you!