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Drew B wrote:

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Storm Large was the only one I loved Season 2. INXS was much, MUCH better.

I felt that Season 1 was better too. And I think that was because, before auditioning the singers, the interviewers had a cohesive vision of what the band (ie, INXS) might like and even though they started the show with a nice variety of singers, they seemed to "stack the deck" with a lot of power singers.

The second season, stylistically, the singers were all over the place and I feel that was because the people who made the final decisions on choosing the competitors didn't know what genre of rock music the band, whatever it might be, was going to do. I don't even think the interviewers had a clue who the other band members would be (ie, Tommy, Gil, etc.) Thus, stylistically, the singers were all over the map. I think that also helped audience in deciding whether or not to watch the show during the summer. Right away the audience is thinking ,"Oh, INXS! I used to love them." The audience knew the type of music that band usually did and you were excited by the possibilities that old favorite songs might be re-interpreted with a new twist. Whereas with "SuperNowhere", you had no idea. Were they going for a heavy metal sound? Hard rock? Alternative? Gothic-industrial.. what!? No one knew. I don't think even Tommy and company had any clue what kind of sound they were going for which made season two feel a lot more frustrating right out of the gate. Plus, personally, I would've liked it better if Tommy, Gil, and whatchacallit had each jumped up there and jammed with one of the contestants and the house band a lot sooner in the process than they did. As it was, it wasn't until practically at the end, and by then I had some real negative vibes towards SuperNowhere. "Yeah, yeah, it's easy to sit on yer ass and criticize. Let's see YOU get up there." and finally they did. I should've loved this band. I love classic hard rock and heavy metal. A powerful driving beat that you FEEL, mmmm-hmm! That THUMPs so hard, it could perform CPR on your heart if it ever stopped beating. Yes! But I couldn't get interested in SuperNoGood because it was just so.. thrown together. They really needed to spend a lot more time working together, do more trying stuff out, to gel and find their strength, to find their "sound". So, long story short: If they had done that for a few months prior to the interviewing process, the interviewers would've known what types of singers to look for and we might've had a much better season.

Or maybe that's just my weird-ass opinion.

I'd still like to see them do shows for other positions in a band, not just the lead singer. Dualing lead guitarists, battle of the drummers, etc.. Okay, maybe they can't devote an entire season to finding just the right backup singer or keyboardist or bass guitarist but I'd love to see just a couple shows that would showcase each type of musician which then shows how, because of that person's contribution to the whole, they can help make or break a song.

I'd also like to see them widen the variety of songs in their library of rock songs that are given to the competitors to sing. I mean, please, how many more times are we gonna have to hear "Heart Shaped Box" and so on? I would loved it if one of the challenges was that all of the competitors were "stuck" re-interpreting a non-rock song, ala "Ring of Fire" by Dilana. Okay, so she sucked when it came to throwing together a new song in under two days but she sure rocked that one. And I think that's one thing that you would have to learn as a band: how to take a song, change it and "make it your own", so to speak. But, again, that's just my weird-ass opinion.


Edited to fix typo's (assuming I found them all).