What is this Buddy Music ???

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Actually, it's a genre I (think I) just made up. It's music you play with your buddies, w/ no hopes of ever selling a copy! The following qualities make it real:
- lack of posturing or fear-of-posturing
- down with a low-fi homemade sensibility
- the sound doesn't exactly fit into another genre
- somewhat silly, yet engaging.

Listen here to some fine & proper examples:
- Fire It Up by The Sunbuddies
- Be There by Bobby Peru
- Dreamers by JBH

Previous Cuts of Certain Influence:
- Buddy by BS2000
- What's The Time (Hey Buddy) by Bow Wow Wow
- Everything by Paris King

Anybuddy down with this movement? Post your own thoughts (or tracks!) here.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)

http://images.juno.co.uk/150/CS161543-01A.jpg

― pappawheelie II, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

Anybuddy down with this movement?

I wanna be down! What the eff do I do?

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

i'm glad you finally posted some examples. i'd read about this buddy music in the past and was getting curious. i think the only part that turns me off is the "somewhat silly" part as seems like woulndn't have to be key ingredient. also, mabye just in my circle of friends... i associate the word buddy with the phrase "j.o. buddy" -unfortunately.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Why is that so unfortunate? Adds a lil spice, no?

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

actually yeah, and i like the idea of jo buddies possibly making buddy music at some point during the activities. i'm not joking.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

i make electronic music for a fanbase of about 4 people

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

MySpace Rock

Or is the difference here that Buddy Music purveyors don't even want to attract attention?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

Well, besides starting the odd ILM thread, they aren't trying too hard. Registering for MySpace is pretty self-promotional by comparison. Buddies don't actually have a "band" or a gig or a product to promote. They just have these weird tracks they barely remember producing. I dare say that after all other trends are exhausted... the children of tomorrow will be searching for these hidden gems that were never even released commercially.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

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