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#8502 Jul 29 2011 at 11:48 AM Rating: Good
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I don't know why, but I don't like most metal. It just doesn't feel... right. It feels generic, somehow.

Some of the songs are pretty good, but the vast majority just sounds like something stuck in the 80's.

And I don't think it's the lack of harmony either, come to think of it. I think it's because it's boring. I mean, if I like this ****, you'd think I liked the original as well, but the metalstep mix just gets me pumped way more.

Edited, Jul 29th 2011 7:53pm by Mazra
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#8503 Jul 29 2011 at 11:58 AM Rating: Good
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Listen to Opeth. There's nothing else like it on the planet. Also, stuff like Dimmu Borgir and Septic Flesh is fairly unique.

But then, I have the same beef as you do, except with popular music.

Also, after reading your edit. I love music that'll make my skull rattle with the amount of bass in it. So, dubstep is ok, sometimes.

Edited, Jul 29th 2011 2:01pm by Sgriob
#8504 Jul 29 2011 at 12:15 PM Rating: Good
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I like some of Opeth's stuff, but far from all of it.

And yeah, my beef extends to popular music as well. That's why my taste in music spans almost every genre. It's why I hate and love some songs from the same artist.

I've been trying to figure out what the various tracks I like have in common, but so far I've not been able to. It's not easy to find similarities between this, this, this and this.

It's chaos.

Edit: Yeah, some dubstep is awesome. Some is also horribly boring. Same song they remixed, but I find the first one infinitely better.

Edited, Jul 29th 2011 8:23pm by Mazra
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#8505 Jul 29 2011 at 12:39 PM Rating: Good
I don't mind metal, I just wish they'd do less of the RAWR "singing." It's fine if it's in music sometimes, like there's a few AFI songs that have a little bit of it, but it's not the entirety of the song.
#8506 Jul 29 2011 at 12:47 PM Rating: Good
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I don't mind metal, I just wish they'd do less of the RAWR "singing." It's fine if it's in music sometimes, like there's a few AFI songs that have a little bit of it, but it's not the entirety of the song.


I've never understood this argument. Not in the slightest. If you had some brutal music like Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus or Bloodbath, and then someone that sounded like AFI singing over the top, it would sound absolutely terrible. The vocal style fits the musical arrangement. If Metal vocalists actually sang, the community would be probably less than half the size of what it is now. Mostly, I view vocals as another instrument, just with words.

Edit: Obviously I'm going at two extremes of Metal, not that I would call AFI metal. But as a better example, Pantera vocals on top of Cannibal Corpse guitars. It's just plain wrong.

Edited, Jul 29th 2011 2:48pm by Sgriob
#8507 Jul 29 2011 at 12:56 PM Rating: Good
Oh yeah, AFI has never been metal. Their background is punk rock, where as now they lean more towards alternative rock I suppose.

You're probably right that it wouldn't sound good to have normal singing in metal music. I just really don't care for the screamo style.
#8508 Jul 29 2011 at 1:31 PM Rating: Good
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My issue with screamo/growl is that it's annoying in the long run. Vocals are there to add words to the music and not being able to hear the words annoys me.

I love angry vocals, but screaming and distorting your voice doesn't make it sound more angry than, say, this. At least not to me. And the latter sounds better because he uses actual words, not 'woagh' sounds.
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#8509 Jul 29 2011 at 1:35 PM Rating: Good
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I think you just need to have an ear for death growl, and black metal vocals. I can understand most of Corpsegrinder's lyrics from Evisceration Plague, but before that album, he's somewhat inaudible. Whereas Mikael Ã…kerfeldt is an amazing vocalist and you can pretty much always understand what he's saying. As for black metal, usually, it's fairly easy to understand what they're saying.
#8510 Jul 29 2011 at 1:40 PM Rating: Good
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It's funny how my taste in music as evolved, though. I used to be heavy into rap (Eminem fan) and not at all into techno. Now it's a bit of everything. Beauty is in the eye of the behold. Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks, etc.
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#8511 Jul 29 2011 at 1:50 PM Rating: Good
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I'm not much of a fan of any genre of music that words like "angry" can describe. They bore me. I'll stick to my Ska*.

And occasionally ridiculously chipper J-Pop. Or, you know. Pinkie Pie.
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#8512 Jul 29 2011 at 1:52 PM Rating: Good
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Different strokes indeed, but, I hate the people that think it's a great idea to blast their music from their phone in a public place. Especially buses.

I had a friend that got ran over by a train, he lost most of his lower right leg, and his left foot. I got on a bus with him, and some neds started playing really crap music from their phones. He walked up to the back of the bus where they were sitting, and told them if they didn't turn it of, he was going to take his leg off and beat them to death with it.
#8513 Jul 29 2011 at 1:53 PM Rating: Good
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God, man, how old ARE you?! Smiley: dubious

Directed at lolgaxe, btw.

Edited, Jul 29th 2011 9:54pm by Mazra
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29 and a soldier. I enjoy being a paradox.

Also enjoy: The look on people's faces when they pull my earplugs to listen to what I was listening to.

What I don't enjoy: Being on every "random drug test" they have to administer around here. Random my *** ...

Edited, Jul 29th 2011 3:55pm by lolgaxe
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#8515 Jul 29 2011 at 2:03 PM Rating: Good
Mazra, it's ok. Embrace your inner brony. We're here for you.
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To note, I disagree with social limiters. I think people should be allowed to enjoy whatever the hell it is that they enjoy as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else or cause unnecessary damage. You shouldn't be told not to enjoy something, like let's say Disney movies, because you're deemed "too old" for it. How the hell can you be "too old" to enjoy something? Doesn't make sense. Video game is too violent. So? It's on tv and fake. Your religion says you shouldn't eat shellfish are a sin? The hell, shrimp is delicious. No sense at all there. Stuff like that. A little caveat to that is I'm against people that cut themselves. Not that I don't think they enjoy it; I'm sure they enjoy the hell out of it. Just that it causes unnecessary damage to self and to people around them.

You shouldn't shellfish. It sounds painful.

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#8517 Jul 29 2011 at 2:09 PM Rating: Good
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I'd drug test anyone listening to MLP songs as well.

And J-Pop is one type of music that makes me cringe. Still haven't found anything good there. Unless this one is considered J-Pop, though I can't exclude that my fascination with that song might stem from a certain machinima video and Namie Amuro being hot as hell.

Edit: I agree with lolgaxe, though. I watch, read and listen to whatever I want. Luckily, I'm smart (ahurr Smiley: drool2) enough to bring people down if they start bashing my interests.

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I consider everything from this to this as J-Pop, and depending on mood will listen to it.

Though, a lean more towards the first than I do the second.
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#8519 Jul 29 2011 at 2:18 PM Rating: Good
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Wow, I need to find a 'twitchy eye' smiley and have Xsarus pass it on to the developers so that I'll have a proper response to that second song.
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#8520 Jul 29 2011 at 2:20 PM Rating: Good
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That does seem to be the common reaction.
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#8521 Jul 29 2011 at 3:16 PM Rating: Good
How does cutting cause damage to people around them if they aren't doing it to try to off themselves? It might worry them, but not anymore than other types of risky behaviors. Personally I'm a big fan of being free to do whatever the **** you want to your body as long as you don't hurt someone else.
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Cutting usually leads to suicide, though.

Not that I care. I say we remove all safety labels and let nature sort things out.
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Mazra wrote:
Wow, I need to find a 'twitchy eye' smiley and have Xsarus pass it on to the developers so that I'll have a proper response to that second song.


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That does seem to be the common reaction.
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These. And that totally needs to be coded in.

I listen to a huge variety of music, really. But very little metal. I used to listen to more punk when in high school, though. Vampire Weekend has been providing most of my music for the past week or so.
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How does cutting cause damage to people around them if they aren't doing it to try to off themselves?

Psichologic damage is still damage. I had a GF that decided to cut herself. Not to try to kill herself, just cutting for the hell of it. I suppose she liked the pain, or something.
When I see my current GF with a nail scisors in her hand I silently cringe and an image of my old GF arms appear in my mind.
Not really cool, imo.
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Wonder Gem PigtailsOfDoom wrote:
How does cutting cause damage to people around them if they aren't doing it to try to off themselves?
Well, from a cold calculating standpoint, people that tend cut themselves require other people to keep an eye on them almost full time. So they've lost productivity there. From a military standpoint, that's at least two less people we have available to get our jobs done. From family and friends, finding out your kid/sibling/other is harming their self is going to cause emotional stress on them. We could go with being at higher risk of becoming sick, making coworkers have to pick up the slack. Might not be physical harm, but damage is damage.

Piercing, tattoos, hell even pearling and ... the one that's similar to pearling but done on any part of the body. All of that I don't really care about, but cutting yourself for the sake of bleeding and feeling pain or for attention? That's my line.
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I listen to a huge variety of music, really. But very little metal. I used to listen to more punk when in high school, though. Vampire Weekend has been providing most of my music for the past week or so.
We should fix that, what metal bands do you enjoy?


Also, grunting is cool. Especially when it's a women singing. Angela Gossow Smiley: inlove












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