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I went out to The Zoo in Brisbane friday night to see a band called Melodyssey - great band, awesome music - and they're supports. Listening to them got my thinking on a concept I've mulled around in my head for a while that is predictable music. So what exactly is it? Well listening to the two support bands This Collision and the other I did not pick up, goes to show how enthralled I was by they're performance; I was not impressed by they're music as such it was just plainly predictable. The songs had the same basic structure and the bands tried [sometimes] to make it seem more complex then was perceived. Anytime you can predict how the music is going to sound without fully hearing it yet is bad, really bad. Why is that? Well think of it like a movie where you can already tell who the bad guy is and his motives before being revealed by the actual story, yeah that bad. Why so bad? I think music should be creative as well as expressive, the expressive part is the story but be creative with the flow and rhythm, it's not hard if your talented, but you have to be talented to make it anyways - "you'd think anyways":http://nickelback.com. Each song and sound should be a new experience and if you can tell what that experience is before fully experiencing it then it sucks, majorly, you know.