Think of a band that you really don't like. What do you think they could do to sound better or improve their image?


Their problem is way more than this but I think that Linkin Park would be much better off without that rapper guy. Has rap-rock ever worked (excluding anytime Rick Rubin was involved)?

Linkin Park can only be improved by replacing all of the members with talented musicians and getting someone else to write their songs

An easy one is booting the shrieking pretty boy Dani Filth from COF (vocalists are probably the obvious selections in a thread like this). I might actually listen to them if they had someone decent on vocals.

On the same line, I'd like QOTSA a whole lot better if Homme would get John Garcia back on vocals (I don't dislike them though, so maybe they don't fit in this thread).

And Phish would have been a better Dead clone if they actually took drugs and Trey didn't sound like a pussy on vocals. They did their best to emulate over the years, but never did they create anything. That's a lot of wasted musical ability that one good acid trip might have corrected.

I hate uninspiring, twangy, poppy, Bless the Red, White, n' Blue, New Country. The only way to make that better is to get rid of it. It is the direct descendent of Southern Rock, another classless overly-patriotic genre.

yeah, really, you can't 'improve' bands that are bad. Well, only by taking away all of their members, and better songwriters...but then it would be a new band

i can't think of any band i hate. mainly because i generally don't listen to stuff that i don't like and don't waste the minimal effort required to learn their name.

it should have been 'improve a band you like'
bands i really hate cant do much for me to start like them

Agreed.

November's Doom would be great if they used keyboards. And After Forever would be better if they tried some new things.

Zeppelin would probably be my favorite band if Plant didn't ruin so much music. i like Plant when he's on his game, but his random, mis-placed screaching of 'oohhhh baby' and the likes really gets on my nerves. after his voice seemingly died after IV, Zeppelin never had the same power they did. after IV, Plant made even more tangent 'ooooh baby's but his voice wasnt powerful enough to back it up, therefore rendering him useless.

Replace Axl Rose with Sebastian Bach back in the day BEFORE Appetite For destruction.

There we go - I might have actually liked that band beyond one of two songs if Bach was the singer.