mid20's indierock boy singer/guitarist looking to start serious band

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mid20's indierock boy singer/guitarist looking to start serious band
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Date: 2005-08-17, 11:45AM EDT
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/muc/91627013.html

i'm getting way to old to mess around. I just moved back to ny from boston and i'm looking to start a new, highly motivated, dreamy, and devistatingly depressing rock band as soon as is humanly possible. Make teenage girls cry and possibly take over the world. Influences include my bloody valentine, smiths, bloc party, new order, death cab, clarity(jimmy eat world), pinkerton(weezer) yadda yadda yadda. you can hear my most recent project at myspace.com/cullen (currently on hiatus). Im def looking to do something more mellow, possibly dancy, but im not sure- i'm very open.

email me any thoughts or ideas.
joke emails and pranks are encouraged.

* no -- it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

About Cullen
Hands down, the most important aspect of songwriting is that the songwriter actually has something to say. Whether it’s a strong, governmental protest, or another heart-felt song of love and deception, the lyrics sung in all songs are the stories that stick with us through life’s ups and downs. It’s from this place that Cullen shapes all of their songs. Without lyrics, there is no song, and it seems as though almost all commercial rock bands of late have forgotten this fundamental element of songwriting. Having solid, catchy riffs is no use unless there is something worth listening to lyrically. Many rock bands of today have a few elements that make the rock idiom an exhilarating experience for fans, but few bands incorporate all of these elements into the same package. Some bands have great lyrics; some have tight, funky rhythm sections, while others concentrate on over the top production. Cullen believes that all things great about rock music can be done in the same package, and done by only three guys.

― b'angelo, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

that said, fish in a barrel, no? I mean, the craigslist music listings are pretty consistently horrifying

― b'angelo, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

There were some particularly nice flourishes, I thought.

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Without lyrics, there is no song

And without song, there is no groupie-love.

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

I do like the "devistatingly depressing" and "mellow, possibly dancy" combo

― b'angelo, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

"Many rock bands of today have a few elements that make the rock idiom an exhilarating experience for fans" is pretty special too, actually, perhaps I underestimated the craft here

― b'angelo, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Cullen believes that all things great about rock music can be done in the same package, and done by only three guys.

And these three guys are called Cream.

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Well in all seriousness I hope to the good lord you never get a band together.

― Honesty, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Without lyrics, there is no song, and it seems as though almost all commercial rock bands of late have forgotten this fundamental element of songwriting. Having solid, catchy riffs is no use unless there is something worth listening to lyrically.

so, so true. As exhibited so beautifully in Cullen's "Travel to Mars":

Just another wish and your true
Can’t imagine being with you
And not letting my passion dissolve me
Like the sky is melting in your heart tonight

I’m asking you now
To stop living around
Your emotions they won’t
Leave you in the end

I’m always willing to try
Just don’t ask me why
I’d feel like I’d die
If I can’t own your heart
It’s not a question of time
That I’m always alone
If you’d kiss me now
I think that I would never need anything

Been drowning for years
Have you? because I’m here
I don’t care anymore
Put your lips to mine

Each connection grade
May be meaningless
but the buzzing sound you make
conveys extreme duress
But I cannot support
The weight of all my crimes

― b'angelo, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

"I’m asking you now/
To stop living around"

His girl's been "living around" again -- you really have to feel for dude.

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

I can't bring myself to cut and paste them, but for real check out the other lyrics at the myspace site

― b'angelo, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

the buzzing sound you make
conveys extreme duress

Now that's a great lyric.

― Sym Sym (sym), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

Fly.
In the sky.
So high.

― matt2 (matt2), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Craigslist musician ads have obliterated any remaining urges I have to play music.

― Keith C (lync0), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

Craigslist musician ads have obliterated any remaining urges I have to play music.

Keith,

I don’t care anymore
Put your lips to mine.

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Mission for remainder of thread: communicate exclusively using CULLEN lyrics.

Your emotions they won’t
Leave you in the end.

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

didn't want to do this, but i guess now I have no choice:

With a word you keep telling me
That’s too much
It’s not enough if it don’t make you sick
Then make me

What do you want?
What do you want?
To live your life on an angels back
What do you want?
What do you want?
A living room and light bitch slap

“Oh my life’s such a bore
Would you please just show me the door?
Or could you give us a little bit more?”
It’s in your head
Another pill
And now that you’re dead
You really can’t sit still
And if you leave
Then just don’t come back

When you go will your love set you free?
That makes no sense
We’re all such bitter fools
For Saviors

Who do you want?
Who do you want?
No human can save you now

― b'angelo, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

I made you up so,
How could you hate at all?
And why don’t you go
and be the one to come for once

After all I’m over life and this time
I couldn’t be your anything
But I’d still take what you leave

Drop a bomb and
Make it easy for me to run
That’s so stupid you couldn’t
Really know just what you’ve done

And after all I’m five years old and dying
I wouldn’t be your anything
So I’ll buy it and leave

After all I’m over life and this time
I wouldn’t be your anything
But I’ll still take what you leave
And after all it’s been six fucking years
Since I pretended
To know you are
To know I was about, so…

― b'angelo, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

Those are "On the Backs of Angels" and "Not Talking," respectively btw

― b'angelo, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

So I’ll buy it and leave
And after all it’s been six fucking years
No human can save you now

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

... serious band ...

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

http://www.jementertainments.co.uk/images/jazz.jpg

― mid 20's, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Confounded, are you marissa marchant?

― JD from CDepot, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Confounded, are you marissa marchant?

I am the love of Marissa Marchant, the love she feels and knows.

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

"a light bitch slap"

OMG

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

Sad part is, that's his best line by far.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Make teenage girls cry and possibly take over the world. Influences include my bloody valentine,

Here's your first mistake.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

No no no, that's the second one. Here's the first:

I just moved back to ny from boston

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Give it up already, assholes. The whole thing is an old joke.

― The Popish Plot (dymaxia), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

Give it up already, assholes. The whole thing is an old joke.

I hate those, seriously.

Please make new joke thankey.

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

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