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This must be the 5th music topic I've posted on during my SP career

Anyways, I like:
System of a Down - got into them after seeing them live at Leeds .
Lostprophets - they've been described as the Welsh Linkin Park. They'll be huge soon. (oh yeah, seen them live at Leeds too )
A Perfect Circle - Maynard has a great voice.
Tool - ........wow.
Cypress Hill - well, some of it's metal.
RATM - Loved em for aaaaages now.
Deftones - See above.
(hed) pe - Also saw them at Leeds .
Soulfly - Great to piss close relations of with .
Sepultura - See above.
Will Haven - See above.
Fear Factory - Don't like em, but I saw em at Leeds .

Many more too...




[This message has been edited by The Amazing Oopah (edited November 10, 2001).]

 

Actually, Linael, Metal isn't the only thing I listen to, therefore, I'd much rather listen to a good classical piece, or even a nice opera than crappy metal. I have diverse tastes, so I refuse to settle with talentless garbage. There's plenty of good stuff out there. I would hope, that rather than "settle" and listen to music that one hates, one would actively seek out an alternative. That's the beauty of humanity. We can choose.

 

Yup, cool

What's talentless then?
'talent' is a word used by the music industry to describe the ability of a band to 'ship units' ie: commercial popularity with the music buying public. Limp Bizkit has it!
Seriously, though, I was trying to express my preference to metal than any other aural artform... You gotta admit, 60% of classical music is "past-it's-best" slow-ass boring poo, 20% of metal is "talentless" huh? huh? You wanna fight Opera boy?

 

That's Opera GIRL, kid. And no I don't want to fight. It's beneath me.

Talentless is exactly that. No talent. No originality. No new ideas. No skills. Is talent how many teenagers will throw money at you, just because you happen to be on Mtv all the time, or appearing in Pepsi commercials? If that is what talent means, than Christ, I'm leaving the planet. If that is what denotes talent, then all those boy bands and truckstop whore pop singers are talented. If that's where you classify Limp Bizkit, than I agree.

When the people who rush home from school every day to watch TRL tell me what talent means, I tend to get a little offended. There's other music out there than what radio and TV spoon feed you.

 

My (final) point is

"Talent" is not "what I like".
"Talentless" is not "what I don't like".

If we don't respect other peoples opinions then are'nt we all just being bigotted?

Linael, Who does not like being called a kid.

 

whoa guy new rule no duoble negatives or any other 2 or more negatives in a sentence. i donno if its all the music i listen to or im jus plain stupid but your sentences confuse me too much.

being creater of this topic id like to thank everyone on making it my most successful one yet (thats your queue to applause me)

and a word of note, this topic is open yes but to clear the heads of some of the people out here who declare bands as a ceratin genre without even hearing the music (headbanger im looking at you) bizkit korn offspring and linkin park are not metal and are definitely not nu-metal get off the case of teh great nu-metal bands out there by including non-nu-metal bands in their category. make me feel like the day micheal jackson was inducted to the rock and roll hall of fame ugh...

 

Linael : "60% of classical music is "past-it's-best" slow-ass boring poo"
- I can see that you really don't know jack shit about what you are saying. Classical music is a genre of music which is extremely hard to play and some classical works are much MUCH faster and harder than any metal song you could ever think of. Needless to say, classical musicians spend years and years of rigorous training attending musical colleges in order to develop their skills. Classical musicians do not need to memorize the notes of a certain piece, they can read the notes and play immediately. Some of the classical instruments, like the cello, are much harder to play than the guitar or the bass guitar, because they don't have frets and hence require better hearing and technique.
Composing a symphony for a full-scale orchestra is something that requires way more knowledge, skill and work than composing any rock or metal song. Playing Chopin is something that would even shame Vai or Malmsteen. Compared to classical, some of the bands you listed like Korn, Slipknot, Linking Park or OPM are less than bird poo on a viola case. There many reasons why classical music is something above rock or metal, same as rock and metal are above nu-metal. There are also many reasons why classical music deserves something you don't have, and that is respect.

Don't get me wrong, I am a huge fan of rock and metal music and I like those two more than classical. But, when we are talking about musicianship, skills, knowledge, technique and so on, then classical music is on the top. Thrashing classical music is just like saying that shit, like nu-metal, is better than real metal.

Inappropriate Synonym, your sentences are confusing too. What the hell does this mean:
"bizkit korn offspring and linkin park are not metal and are definitely not nu-metal get off the case of teh great nu-metal bands out there by including non-nu-metal bands in their category" ?

 

Moonspell, Paradise Lost, Cradle of Filth. What, me? Blame Arwen.... She's great at corrupting people.

 

*sighs*

American Head Charge
Dillinger Escape Plan
Botch
Anaal Nathrakh
Incestuous
Cinerary
Dimmu Borgir
Slipknot
Mudvayne
In Flames
(These are all industrial - so sue me)
Primary Slave
Static-X
NiN
The Union Underground
Godhead
hmm, i guess I don't listen to much industrial, unless some people count
Rammstein - as industrial.
Zyklon
Darkthrone
Napalm Death
Nasum
Pig Destroyer
Metallica
Slayer
One Minute Silence
Machine Head
Nile
Morbid Angel
Korn
Pantera
Mary Manson
System Of A Down
Decide
Sevendust
Godsmack
Rob Zombie
White Zombie
Soulfly
Black Sabbath
Ozzy
Deftones
Dry Kill Logic
Tool
Amen
Sepultura (old stuff, not the new crap without max)
Earthtone 9
Burned By The Sun
Fear Factory
Emperor

so i like metal....

 

I have to agree with Damona SilverCloud on her picks back on page 1. I am utterly stunned that Manowar was mentioned. I thought I was the only one that had any of their stuff. O.k., well, all of it. I would also like to mention the group 'Fight'. Any metal group that comes up with a chorus like 'Kill it.(short pause) Kill it(short pause). Kill it.(No Pause) Kill it.(No Pause) Kill it.' has me loving it loving it loving...Also SOD and MOD. ....Damn it Hetfield is in Rehab.

 

Nu-Metal

don't start me on it. I have arguments about it with a lot of people, lets just say it's predictable.

i know a 12 year old kid, who seems to like "metal", probably because his friends do. He asked me to name the bands he liked, i named all but one, 741.

damn how predictable is that?

i asked him to name the bands i liked, he managed to name 2, Metallica and SOAD.

but he could have named any of the below. I like a huge range of music such as :

Black Sabbath
In Flames
Rammestein
Metallica
Nevermore
Lacuna Coil
TooL
A Perfect Circle
Rhapsody
System of a Down
Dimmu Borgir

and many more.... i just can't be bothered to name. Nu-metal does nothing for me, it just seems like pop metal.

i was listening to the radio last night, to this new supposed "Rock Show". It wasn't rock at all, more like "Punk and Nu-Metal Show". It was awful, i almost wept. The DJ was diabolical and needed to get a personaility for a start. Damn he needed to learn what the definition of "rock" and "metal" is. For crying out loud...

and the worst thing was my mom said to me...

"what was wrong with that? i thought it was good..."

she hates my other music.

Showing that totally and utterly, that nu-metal is nothing more than pop music!

 

Hehe.... Well, everybody his own music-taste, so when you like some more commercial nu-metal, just listen it, it's not my problem It's alwasy better then all thos boy and girl-bands and easy to make Trance.

One name in your list suprises me. Rhapsody. It's totally different then the other bands. Of course it's fast and choatic just like much nu-metal, but it's very instrumental, symphonic. Rhapsody rules and soon the new cd will come out

 

i know Rhapsody is different to the others in my list, but my list is of bands i like, not stuff i consider Nu-Metal.

i like Rhapsody because they are different and highly musical. That's why i enjoy the S&M album by Metallica so much.

Rhapsody do rool all... as do the other bands in my list!

 

Wow, Slackertoast, another Manowar fan, excellect. And Fight, holy cow, I forgot all about that band! I love them. How many albums did they have? I have the one with Immortal Sin, and Crazy.

It's so cool to see all the true metal fans here, I honestly thought when I first saw this topic up that it would be a sounding board for nu-metal kids.

Death to false metal!

 

Damona,

Fight has these recordings to there name:

1993 War Of Words
1994 (EP) Mutations
1994 Small Deadly Space

Hail and Kill

 

O yeah, I ordered a lot of tickets for concerts!

- 15 December: After Forever (dutch gothic-band)

- 13 Januari: Savatage and Symphony X

- 4 Februari: Dream Theater

- 12 April: Blind Guardian