Soot and Stars
I AM SOOT!
I thinks it's pretty obvious how fickle music fans can be. A new band comes along with a new sound, gets somewhat of a cult fan base of "diehards", gets noticed and then loses, sometimes bitterly, that fan base. Whether the band has truly "sold out" or not is another question. For me, one example, is the group "...And You Will Know Us By Our Trail of Dead". I remember talking music with some guy in an independent music shop in college and he was telling me about that group and after college I actually heard a decent song by them, "Counting Down the Days", while working at a Best Buy. I never purchased any of their stuff until I saw an advertisement for their "Worlds Apart" album and I loved it. It was epic and flowed together perfectly from one song to the next. I also loved the follow up album "So Divided". I looked into them more and read constant bitter rants by fans on how they suck now and their one good album was "Source Tags and Codes". I bought that album and just didn't feel it. I feel bands need time to develop their sound but music listeners seem to ditch them after the newness is over. Anyone here have any examples of a band that this happened to with them?