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holy ghost 
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 Posted: January 14 2011 at 09:20 |
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Punk dominated all listening during my teen years and while I have a soft spot for some of it (especially Bad Brains, DRI, Misfits, Black Flag, Television, Finnish hardcore like Riistetyt, Larm, Heresy, Ripcord, BGK The Germs, Angry Samoans, X-Ray Spex, etc) it's something that I find so stagnant, mired in scene drama and generally dull at this point for me personally..... that being said I owe a lot to it turning me on to other great genres of music and some great times as a teenager, but I'm 99% skeptical when someone suggests I check out some contemporary band...... nothing wrong with "sounding exactly like _______" but don't expect me to purchase your record........
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: January 14 2011 at 11:59 |
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I'm going to have to stick a safety pin in one of my cheeks and get back to you. Maybe each cheek and my butt cheeks while I'm at it On second thought maybe not...
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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CPicard
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Posted: January 14 2011 at 13:26 |
 holy ghost wrote:
Punk dominated all listening during my teen years and while I have a soft spot for some of it (especially Bad Brains, DRI, Misfits, Black Flag, Television, Finnish hardcore like Riistetyt, Larm, Heresy, Ripcord, BGK The Germs, Angry Samoans, X-Ray Spex, etc) it's something that I find so stagnant, mired in scene drama and generally dull at this point for me personally..... that being said I owe a lot to it turning me on to other great genres of music and some great times as a teenager, but I'm 99% skeptical when someone suggests I check out some contemporary band...... nothing wrong with "sounding exactly like _______" but don't expect me to purchase your record........ |
Funnily, that's what I could feel with metal nowadays. I would will never throw away my records of Iron Maiden, Napalm Death or Megadeth, but I'm not exactly stunned when I hear a band which sounds like, let's say, the old Sepultura or the old Helloween. On the other hand, I wonder if the contemporary spectrum of metal isn't more interesting than the contemporary spectrum of punk?
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holy ghost
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Posted: January 14 2011 at 14:12 |
CPicard wrote:
Funnily, that's what I could feel with metal nowadays. I would will never throw away my records of Iron Maiden, Napalm Death or Megadeth, but I'm not exactly stunned when I hear a band which sounds like, let's say, the old Sepultura or the old Helloween.
On the other hand, I wonder if the contemporary spectrum of metal isn't more interesting than the contemporary spectrum of punk?
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I think...... you look at metal-archives.com and they've got what, 50,000 bands on the database, and you're just like, forget it, but then you find something truly special like Reverend Bizarre, Negative Plane, Portal or Vektor (even if they're basically a straight up Voivod worship outfit ha ha) and there's a lot of great stuff out there..... but you have to filter through a lot of crap to find it....... with contemporary punk I haven't found anything in the last decade that makes me feel that same feeling when I first heard Pay To Cum or Horror Business....... but that's just me....... and breaking it down, I've been listening to metal for way longer than punk and I still find (some) elements of it exciting.........
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rogerthat
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Posted: January 14 2011 at 21:03 |
holy ghost wrote:
CPicard wrote:
Funnily, that's what I could feel with metal nowadays. I would will never throw away my records of Iron Maiden, Napalm Death or Megadeth, but I'm not exactly stunned when I hear a band which sounds like, let's say, the old Sepultura or the old Helloween.
On the other hand, I wonder if the contemporary spectrum of metal isn't more interesting than the contemporary spectrum of punk?
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I think...... you look at metal-archives.com and they've got what, 50,000 bands on the database, and you're just like, forget it, but then you find something truly special like Reverend Bizarre, Negative Plane, Portal or Vektor (even if they're basically a straight up Voivod worship outfit ha ha) and there's a lot of great stuff out there..... but you have to filter through a lot of crap to find it....... with contemporary punk I haven't found anything in the last decade that makes me feel that same feeling when I first heard Pay To Cum or Horror Business....... but that's just me....... and breaking it down, I've been listening to metal for way longer than punk and I still find (some) elements of it exciting......... |
That's exactly how I stopped checking up for new metal music. I just don't have the energy to sift through the imitators for the odd one or two good bands. Also, because metalheads tend to like the imitators (because, f*** it's metal), it makes it that much harder to get recommendations for better bands.
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