Aja on 10/1/2009 at 03:55
Quote Posted by PigLick
no, fagging up gen gaming with crap threads is lame.
ah ha ha a cunning attack!
june gloom on 10/1/2009 at 04:16
I hate most nu-metal bands not because the Hot Topic kiddies love them, or because of their lyrical content, but because they put no effort into their music, preferring to just do whatever the record labels what so they can get paid (hence their tending to all sound the same), or they do have talent and let it go to waste because they don't know what to do with it, or they do weird things that just don't work (Linkin Park is a good example of this, it's just a mishmash of styles that the band fails to meld together into anything listenable.) But I don't hate the entire genre.
I don't know, maybe it's because I spent 2 years working in a radio station at my vocational school but I can appreciate mainstream, radio-friendly music just as much as I do obscure drone doom from Japan. It's not about what they throw in, be it rapped vocals or an emphasis on a beat over melody, or hardcore vocals, but how well they put it together and how much effort they put into playing it. If you were to mix black metal with gangsta rap, I'd listen to it if you made it sound good. The point is that just because 95% of a subgenre sucks doesn't mean we should utterly abandon the 5% that doesn't.
pavlovscat on 10/1/2009 at 04:20
I'll agree that nu metal is certainly lackluster when compared to classic rock. Hubby is listening to VH1C tonight. Right now is an Iron Maiden concert from 2002 played in Rio. Before that was the rocking AC/DC No Bull concert playing in Madrid in 1998. The pure energy and amazing guitar work in both these concerts has really got my adrenaline pumping. I am ashamed to admit that I didn't like this music when it was new.
Turtle on 10/1/2009 at 05:58
Quote Posted by dethtoll
If you were to mix black metal with gangsta rap,
I want have this.
Now.
Muzman on 10/1/2009 at 08:31
Didn't they do that on the Spawn soundtrack or the Judgement Night soundtrack or something?
Oh wait, the Spawn one was sort of techno and various sorts of hard rock. Judgement Night was rap and ..rock, but probably the wrong super refined anal category of 'Metal'
Shakey-Lo on 10/1/2009 at 09:03
Quote Posted by Turtle
I want have this.
Now.
Body Count.
Ice-T's heavy metal band.
Awful.
june gloom on 10/1/2009 at 10:47
When I said black metal I meant the subgenre not the skin colour.
snauty on 10/1/2009 at 11:16
Quote Posted by BEAR
Is the fifth element actually overrated? I don't know what most people think of it, but I never thought it was particularly acclaimed. Since scots already sentenced you to death for other transgressions I wont re-mention those, but the fifth element is good 90's action movie fun that, unspectacular as it was at the time, has grown on me since I realized we very well might not get any more of that type for a while (if ever), with no paul walker or colin ferrel as far as the eye can see.
That's what I meant when I wrote I can't really think of anything overrated. So I picked popular stuff that's ok with everyone. Who's overrating Limp Bizkit? Only their bimbo fans. There's just a bazillion of them. Are Led Zeppelin overrated? Surely not by the critics. They loathed them always.
Why bother with nu-metal when there's Helmet anyway.
Jason Moyer on 10/1/2009 at 12:29
I think the most overrated band of the past 15 years is Radiohead, as much as I respect what they do. They're Oasis with more obscure source material.
snauty on 10/1/2009 at 14:01
Quote Posted by dethtoll
I hate most nu-metal bands not because the Hot Topic kiddies love them, or because of their lyrical content, but because they put no effort into their music, preferring to just do whatever the record labels what so they can get paid (hence their tending to all sound the same), or they
do have talent and let it go to waste because they don't know what to do with it, or they do weird things that just don't work (Linkin Park is a good example of this, it's just a mishmash of styles that the band fails to meld together into anything listenable.) But I
don't hate the entire genre.
I don't know, maybe it's because I spent 2 years working in a radio station at my vocational school but I can appreciate mainstream, radio-friendly music just as much as I do obscure drone doom from Japan. It's not about
what they throw in, be it rapped vocals or an emphasis on a beat over melody, or hardcore vocals, but how well they put it together and how much effort they put into playing it. If you were to mix black metal with gangsta rap, I'd listen to it if you made it sound good. The point is that just because 95% of a subgenre sucks doesn't mean we should utterly abandon the 5% that doesn't.
Get Little Lucid Moments and/or Demon Box by Motorpsycho then.
