MySpace was good for music, huh? For that short stretch of time it was THE place to go. Remember hearing Los Camp for the first time on there. An amazing Adam Gnade song that never appeared on any of his records. Early Fuck Buttons tracks that were like 15 minutes each.
I’m sure that everything lost for good will have very little value, I guess it’s just a bit weird to think of it all being gone?
Spent a lot of time just browsing emo boards on there and finding bands with ridiculous names to listen to (Gallows Holier Than The Cross, Tunes for Bears To Dance To, The Birds Are Spies They Report To The Trees)
i thought they’d already gotten rid of it all. they seemed quite haphazard with old content when you looked up an old profile, lots of pictures and blog posts gone. you’d think they’d have prioritised preserving that above shite redesigns
but yeah lots of good memories of checking out bands for the first time there. remember FOTL debuting new songs on there long before release.
also remember feeling quite proud that Boy Kill Boy followed me out of the blue for some reason (never really listened to them though)
I noticed tracks didn’t play on stuff I checked recently but wasn’t sure why. Baffling that band profiles are active but music isn’t.
I remember when Test-Icicles put out their album and it linked to their MySpace and it seemed like the first official industry acknowledgement of its importance.