Wow, this is considered to be talent????

I'm not a time signature whore, I'm not searching for crazy guitar licks... I just know when a musician can throw down and when they are posing. The problem here is, Anton truly believes in his heart that he is NOT posing. This is my biggest concern... a true revolutionary would not have to state their goal to change the face of music. Just play your instrument and hope to hell people like it. There are far too many talented musicians out there who deserve to have their stories told, stop preaching and "do."

And I actually liked the film. I liked the characters and thought it made for an interesting look into immaturity at it's best. I simply cannot believe someone like Anton is heralded for being able to take a few more drugs than the average person. That is all that is going on here... I can pick out a hundred delusional Antons running around NYC performing at open mics believing, truly believing they will change the world because the heroin told them they would. He hasn't changed music if you can even begin to compare his style to anyone from the past... are you kidding? That means the music sounds like SOMETHING FROM THE PAST. Does that sound like change? Could you pick another instrument besides the sitar to pretend to be the Beatles? I've heard it all before my friend.

And Bob Dylan? I can't even begin to tell you how offensive that is. Bob Dylan, though many would say he can't sing, had this voice... an urgency in it that Anton couldn't fake on his worst crack binge.

I mentioned Radio Head, not for the time signatures, but for the gut wrenching, overall tone. Melodies that rip my heart out. BJM melodies just linger and linger... but they don't "go" there... music needs to "go" there or what is the damn point? And again, I'm not talking volume, riffs, time signatures, none of that. I'm talking, GO THERE....

But my absolute favorite musician of all time? Martin Sexton... (yep, another random link for ya but this guy is truly an angel on this earth but unlike Anton, you'd never hear a word about it from him.) His shows are breathtaking and he couldn't be more simple. Goes out on stage to a sold out show at Irving Plaza with just a guitar... and proceeds to blow everyone's mind. When I see one man nearly killing himself onstage to give the audience his heart and soul, then I have a very hard time even looking at this Anton character, because I pick him out as a clueless fake... the product of nothing to do at home with no direction in life... glad I don't go around professing to be the MOST FUN GUY IN NYC. I just say that I have a double dose of fun... doesn't the latter statement feel better when you hear it? Any questions Anton?

Actually, no more... this subject has become tiresome.

This guy is right, there are two groups and they BOTH think the movie is good. One group is laughing at what idiots both of these bands are...and the other see it as "good vs. evil" and they feel sympathy for the underdog, although they have no real kinship with such underground music.

let me break it down for you:

Somebody wants to have a crush on some poor little misunderstood "underground" band but doesn't have the time (or *beep* brain) to find this band themselves.
Enter DIG!
Now everybody who wants to be "cool" can buy a BJM shirt and walk around just hoping somebody will ask them, "What band is that?"
"Oh, you prolly never heard of them."
Oh wow, you are COOL!

Yeah, I heard of them way back; they wished they were Ride, then the Stones- big whup. I've met the guy, he's a little hippie with a Napoleon complex who is NOT the big baddass you think he is in the film. Dude wheighs like a buck forty at most and as tall as my 8th grade brother. And since when did copying a band become revolutionary?

In the immortal words of Lester Bangs: “The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.” Contempt is all Anton has for any of you masochistic peons, so get real and find an original obscure band that only you know about and help spread the word.

By the way, BJM is not "underground" anymore, so the gig's up. If you really care about music, find some real underground music on your own without being hand fed by some 2 hour long Sundance festival music video.

I always hate comments like this. Maybe people do get it, but see it in different ways.

Both bands are great in totally different ways/styles. Trying to compare them is *beep* and you all are ridiculous spending all this time trying to convince each other who is better.

That being said they both ripped off the Beatles. Who hasn't?

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Yeah, there are other samples on his site. He's a live monster... every time he plays, the songs come out different each time.

That last one took maybe 37 seconds I think... not sure.

When we are all dead and gone, no one will care if you spent your life inside, outside, over, under, or through the damn woods to grandmother's house we go.

"Wow, Martin Sexton is so highly regarded for his voice you'd be shocked by all the praise... if you only knew... and you don't like his voice... HA HA HA HA! Exactly why I posted what I originally posted. If you can actually say you don't like this dude's smooth as butter voice, please, continue to listen to the heroin..."

this is, most obviously, a shrewd and lavish drollery... for if it wasn't, it is, quite possibly, the most egocentric and equivocal statement, the greater proportion of society, has ever encountered...

the mere fact that you insinuate another's substance abuse, due to the reality that he/she fails to find the same voice (which you take, longingly, to bed every night) enchanting, implies that you are, no less than, a feckless tool.

in fact, i have happened upon several coal miners/minnie mouse impersonators in my day, whose lyrics far, far surpass the abecedarian, music 101 euphonies (of one, marty sexton)... and whose voices replicate the sweet nectar that only gods and criminals are capable of duplicating...

to summerize, it is quite apparent that you (nycfunfunguy... fantastic name by the by...) have no relative knowledge of complex orchestrations and compositions, and choose to focus solely on your primitive and underdeveloped notions of superiority, in regard to the independent music scene of your localized, geographic area.

i assure you, i am, in no way, claiming anton newcombe to be the second coming of anything, merely that you are, indeed, an imposter in sheep's wool... and deserve to be taken out to pasture.

congratulations, however, on evolving to become an extraordinary jack-ass-hole...

p.s. if "shakerleg"/incessantly repetitive percussion is the "new, new, NEW", the entity of music has, officially, ceased to exist...

p.p.s. no offense to martin sexton and/or shakerleg, as i appreciate a variety of music... i, simply, am unable to tolerate nycfunfunguy's jaundiced and hidebound view of the music industry in general.