How come most of the best modern-day bands went to good universities?

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Reply 20

El_Matador

Original post by lukas1051

Musicians come from a wide range of backgrounds, I'm pretty sure there's absolutely no correlation.

This. I think it is just more common for people to go to university nowadays so more artists have university degrees.

Dr dre

Original post by MagicNMedicine

Well its so competitive to get into the music industry these days that the record labels probably expect you to have at least a 2:1 from a top 20/30 university plus 320+ UCAS points before they will listen to your demos.

mmm. A lot of bands used to start at art schools... Which are now rolled up into the local uni.

Reply 23

Pride

The thing is, many of them are just normal people who went to university, got a band going and were lucky enough to get signed, so didn't take the degree further after graduation/pulled out altogether. I mean, the first example that comes to mind is Kele from Bloc Party, King's like to brag about him being in their alumni.

Reply 24

TheHansa

better contacts for better contracts

Reply 25

Dan1607

Maybe there is a link why music today is full of crap and insincere. Modern folk musicans have nothing worth singing about so they just sing in retarded voices instead. Modern rap artists have no idea where the soul of rap music comes from but are more than willing to don the chartectistics. Rock and roll is dead because its working class music. The only sincere music today is pop, due to the deinfition of what pop music is. Music has simply lost its meaning.

Reply 26

Manitude

Chris Bowes from Alestorm has a degree in maths from Bristol.
Chris Naughton from Winterfylleth studied Biotechnology at Birmingham.

To name two people I can think of off the top of my head.

Also, a number of the original Pink Floyd line-up were studying architecture?

Reply 27

member592149

Original post by Manitude

I wonder what inspirational house designs they'd have come up with on acid.

Reply 28

milkytea

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that many of the best lyricists are English Literature graduates. The reason for that is fairly obvious.

It takes intelligence to write good music, and although there are plenty of intelligent people who don't go to university, many do. University also offers a pretty good environment to meet a lot of people with similar interests to you and so you're quite likely to meet potentially good band members there. Some of my favourite bands all met at the same uni, like Los Campesinos (Cardiff) and alt-J (Leeds).

edit: Didn't notice this thread was old, my bad.

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Reply 29

yabbayabba

only on TSR would anybody bother linking bands to top universities..

Reply 30

Mertyns

I wonder if it's those who have miserably failed that then turn to X Factor... Which only makes them fail even more. Some serious lack of intelligence going on there :biggrin:

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Reply 31

moorbre

I think matt bellamy from muse went to Exeter university, maybe the others did...not sure

Reply 32

Politricks

What band is the "best" band is subjective, do you mean "best" as in good music? Or do you mean "best" as in the most successful band?

Reply 33

hothedgehog

Original post by Dominic101

I'm related to peter Gabriel :smile:

never met the man though

I've met him. Unfortunately when I was about 5 and he was just another person at the wedding which had pissed me off because I had to wear a dress!

Reply 34

Dr. Bassman

This isn't even remotely true. There are some musicians who have graduated from good universities but most of them never went, you just never really hear about the fact that they didn't really.