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What is the value add over hypem or r/music?
or some of the more obscure subreddits, like ( http://www.reddit.com/r/listentothis/ ) where you're supposed to upvote things new to you. I've found some great music there.
I'm not saying this was done on purpose, but I find this name and concept eerily similar to the music analytics startup Next Big Sound.
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If you have no objection to a band, song or album cover that degrades your mother or someone else you love and revere, then hey, maybe it should all be fair game. Do you understand where I'm getting at? That's how Christians feel with names like that. P.S. I don't think for a second that the name of someone you love should be degraded. Nor should someone I love either. That's my point.
what happened to "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it"? Yes, I don't object.
This site looks great, signed up. However: > Next Big Thing is not a place for ... anything else flat out offensive. One of my favourite bands at the moment is "Rotting Christ" that name alone is very offensive to some people. Does that mean I can't post stuff about them? Where is the line? Can I post anything Black metal related? What about Gore Grind? I think music has a much wider view of what is acceptable than t…
If you have no objection to a band, song or album cover that degrades your mother or someone else you love and revere, then hey, maybe it should all be fair game. Do you understand where I'm getting at? That's how Christians feel with names like that. P.S. I don't think for a second that the name of someone you love should be degraded. Nor should someone I love either. That's my point.
In the post I do mention that you can do the same thing with reddit or following a ton of music related twitter accounts, but the voting and input from different people. We're not doing anything new, but I do think the presentation and appeal is there for nbt.
If you are interested, bookmark the link, it should be up again shortly.
What is the value add over hypem or r/music?
or some of the more obscure subreddits, like ( http://www.reddit.com/r/listentothis/ ) where you're supposed to upvote things new to you. I've found some great music there.
and while that would be nice, i feel this (and pretty much every similar site) misses a very real problem around music discovery.. in that, for very active consumers, there’s no efficient way to track and monitor releases of specific interest to them. sites like this, r/music, and hypem are fine for surfacing what the majority finds cool, but they in no-way replace the need to monitor and frequently check-in with numerous source blogs and other sites to cover all that an individual is interested in (a very inefficient and time-consuming task)..
even more focused sites (and subreddits, if active), can never reach the level of personalization required to make them a reliable single-source for music discovery. don't get me wrong i frequent many and do find some great gems i'd otherwise have missed, but they're far from comprehensive..
and i don’t mean to discount anything here. it is a very difficult problem to solve given how disparate people’s tastes in music are, and even more so considering how widely distribution methods vary. i really feel anyone who can solve this problem would do quite well..
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or some of the more obscure subreddits, like ( http://www.reddit.com/r/listentothis/ ) where you're supposed to upvote things new to you. I've found some great music there.
or r/musicnews. Music lovers are also used to reading blogs. Just things to keep in mind.
..which is more narrowly focused around the business of music and industry-related news, for those interested
This site looks great, signed up. However: > Next Big Thing is not a place for ... anything else flat out offensive. One of my favourite bands at the moment is "Rotting Christ" that name alone is very offensive to some people. Does that mean I can't post stuff about them? Where is the line? Can I post anything Black metal related? What about Gore Grind? I think music has a much wider view of what is acceptable than t…
If you have no objection to a band, song or album cover that degrades your mother or someone else you love and revere, then hey, maybe it should all be fair game. Do you understand where I'm getting at? That's how Christians feel with names like that. P.S. I don't think for a second that the name of someone you love should be degraded. Nor should someone I love either. That's my point.
I honestly don't understand how vocalizing one's desire to urinate on his "beoytch" constitutes music. But I'm not going to dictate to people "what is" and "is not" art. I mean, people screamed bloody murder about Elvis and the Beatles back in the day. And it wasn't too long ago rock & rock was a profane evil poisoning young minds.
Twitter, Facebook, etc... can get by just fine with nothing but farmville marketing spam and lolcat videos. However, art and censorship don't mix. That's why the puritans at Apple label "explicit" music rather than ban it outright.
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I am not quite sure that I do understand. Firstly I don't have any problem with art mocking my mother or anyone else. Secondly I think mocking my mother is more personal than mocking my religion so your argument doesn't quite work. Thirdly people of many religions listen to black metal, and are aware that often it is a parody of itself.
I don't believe you. Ditto @Buzaga
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I agree. Labelling music is one thing, but outright censorship will ensure your project never takes off. However, after looking at your site, I don't get it. I thought the music would be embedded in the page itself. Also, you have music and news/editorial links on the same page. What's more there's no tagging/categorization so I have no way of filtering music to my tastes. The site looks slick and you deserve kudos f…
Twitter censors, Facebook censors, Hacker News censors, and they took off. I can support my argument. Can you with yours?