Two Lights! They're a band! They worry about money!

I think humanity is a lot better off because there have been a select group of artists that have been able to reach larger audiences, get money to continue working on their craft, etc. rather than just a free-for-all of terrible hobbyist bands.

::two lights band guy nods sagely::

http://georgesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/band_aid_1984.jpg

so you think that

1. people can only reach large audiences through marketing budgets and 2. there is some implicit contribution in social welfare going on here, it's not just like picking between different types of peanut butter

lamp u should take this band under yr wing

there is a version of this band that lives next to me and have terrible parties all the time and wear plaid shirts everyday. the really love the black lips/keys. next time they are out smoking on our porch i will tell them to change their name to 'two lights' to 'make buzz' but i dont think god himself could change them

peanut butter has been great for humanity btw

no I agree, peanut butter is great, I just don't think that peanut butter would be less great if jiffy spent less money on marketing

have we ever had a thread abt the psychology of small time artists deludedly identifying w/the concerns of the irl $$ art market, its sort of a fascinating tic, joe the plumbers of indie rock or w/e

there is a version of this band that lives next to me and have terrible parties all the time and wear plaid shirts everyday. the really love the black lips/keys. next time they are out smoking on our porch i will tell them to change their name to 'two lights' to 'make buzz' but i dont think god himself could change them

― the parable is the parable of the (Lamp), Monday, January 30, 2012 12:44 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tell the you know someone famous and would like to help them, rent a limo maybe

http://dribbble.com/system/users/70105/screenshots/404570/two_lights_small.jpg?1327891104

i don't think a marketing "budget" is necessary, but some degree of marketing savvy & effort helps.

i think having talent vision and being sexy r most important

flannel

feel like the guy on the right ruins the picture by not wearing a patterned undershirt to go with the others. i guess there's a pattern on his jacket lining but it's NOT ENOUGH

being good at twitter doesnt help because then u just do twitter all the time, cant f retweets bro

$100,00

maybe the way they are dressed is for marketing tho. "Meet the members of Two Lights: Stripey, Necklace, and Birdshirt!"

kinda silly to say that making good music isn't going to be a big help for the marketing

I've seen a ton of random opening bands and it always seems like the ones that I enjoyed were the ones I'd see discussed on ILX/making 2nd or 3rd albums (Holy Fuck, Man Man, and Future Islands come to mind)

$100.00

kinda silly to say that making good music isn't going to be a big help for the marketing

did anyone say that? thought it was implied as prerequisite #1. that and not being a dick.

Someone tell them they can buy Andre's pink champagne for around $5.

i'm just saying i don't think "cream rises to the top" is really a myth

especially since "word of mouth" is way more of a thing now in the age of endless internet discussion and RYM

i guess i go back and forth on it. half the time i hear something and think "that's amazing, why doesn't everybody know about this?", it ends up getting some shine sooner or later. but most everyone has friends or local artists that do great work and never get heard on a wide level.

i mean, by definition you're only going to know about the cream that does in fact rise to the top, right?

yeah but a. there's no universal definition of cream b. there's too much music made and people only care so much

I've seen a ton of random opening bands and it always seems like the ones that I enjoyed were the ones I'd see discussed on ILX/making 2nd or 3rd albums (Holy Fuck, Man Man, and Future Islands come to mind)

― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Monday, 30 January 2012 18:02 (20 minutes ago) Permalink

Those bands are all on pretty decent-sized labels though!

And unknown bands rarely even get opening spots for name bands without some kind of manager/publicist/booking agent/label

maybe they will when publicists don't have jobs anymore

just wait it out

just concentrate on being sexy and drugs is my advice

2 U 2 LITES

http://images.wikia.com/memoryalpha/en/images/4/4f/Madred,_four_lights.jpg

it feels so right that this band has come to ILX about one year after we first received the gift of pomplemousse

all we need is googlers and its the new dave matthews band thread

oh did the dmb thread get googlers?

thats kind of what made the dmb thread what it is

Any real or musical reasons to hate two lights? They do all sorts of music. Acoustic stuff, good improvisational stuff, are great live, have the respect of fellow musicians like astronautalis and Santana. All the mebers are great musicians. And the actual songs are good.
They wouldn't have been featured by TIME - MONEY or spent $100,000 if they weren't any good. The likes of Pomplamoose would love to work with them.

^^yo buzza get in this thread and type this dude's name out in the add a post box

They wouldn't have been featured by TIME - MONEY or spent $100,000 if they weren't any good.

Show your working.

gonna take a wild stab that the 'working' is that it's c+p'd from a comment box somrwhere

gonna take a wild stab that the commenter was named Lou Tights

Sufjan Grafton only has two other posts besides that, and one of them is making fun of two lights itt, so i'd assume that's c+p'd

c+p'd from DMB:NYRWTASBAH. Was just trying to be your random googler, but I can't afford the associated lost wages. How does one ILX and hold down a full time job?

I'm way behind the curve, but the Two Lights parody is legit awesome.

Beyond them sucking, I find it hard to believe anyone thinks that kind of sugary pop in the Youtube video linked near the top would be the basis for a money-making career. It's like an even more watered down and inoffensive Phantom Planet - and what happened to them after they lost the Coppola connection?

Sufjan Grafton

and what happened to them after they lost the Coppola connection?

They're hoping for a resurgence of The O.C..

aaaaaand the two lights bandcamp has been pulled ;_;

keep working hard, two lights. live your dream. http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif