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[Modphase 1,271]

If it makes you feel better, I think that Angus Young is one of the absolute best classic rock guitarists. I also think AC/DC is one of the best classic rock bands.

I love you. I really do 

 

Phew, I thought we were going to have to call an ambulance, that would have been bad. (kidding)

 

And yes, Angus Young is a complete and total badass.

[Le Kvlt Dawn 2,364]

My favorite genre of metal is Post-Meta so that alone should explain why I prefer In Flames and Dark Tranquility over Morbid Angel and Death.

Really? I thought it was grindcore. Well, I prefer Death and Morbid Angel over Dark Tranquility and In Flames. Although, Carcass is my favorite metal band ever, and they're both death metal (3rd album) and melodic death metal(4th and 5th album). 

[Modphase 1,271]

 

I disagree with this one, too. How could people cite that particular riff when they've got Sultans of Swing to reference by the same guitarist?

Because the Sultan's of Swing riff, however good it is, just can't compete with it. It's an opinionated matter, though. And my opinion is that Money for Nothing is one hell of a song.

[Akemi Homura 7,680]

 

 

Rap is not a bad genre, it's just the artists make it look bad. True rap can actually be really good.

 

Nowadays the objective of hip hop (slightly different from rap) is to make the listener feel the beat as it tries to pulsate within you, and that determines whether or not they'll "bounce" to it. The often over-the-top lyrics accompany it pretty nicely. Some folks are in it solely for the lyrical content which is an understandable measure for otherwise missing out on the potential advantage it can offer.

[Moog the Kvlt 1,460]

 

-While I like a little bit of dubstep, the whole genre seems repetitive and does not require much skill to create

 

Okay finally someone else who gets it. Honestly take out the bass drop in a Skrillex song and it becomes nothing more than a generic house track filled with simple sounds, and melodies that most likely come out of an arpeggiator.

 

 

 

Really? I thought it was grindcore. Well, I prefer Death and Morbid Angel over Dark Tranquility and In Flames. Although, Carcass is my favorite metal band ever, and they're both death metal (3rd album) and melodic death metal(4th and 5th album). 

 

It's true that I love a nice good Grindcore track, though Grind isn't as big for me as Post-Metal is. And yeah Carcass are good, though my favorite Metal band still remains as Converge (even though they're Metalcore, not Post-Metal), and my favorite Metal album will always be Jane Doe.

[Modphase 1,271]

Nowadays the objective of hip hop (slightly different from rap) is to make the listener feel the beat as it tries to pulsate within you, and that determines whether or not they'll "bounce" to it. The often over-the-top lyrics accompany it pretty nicely. Some folks are in it solely for the lyrical content which is an understandable measure for otherwise missing out on the potential advantage it can offer.

That perfectly describes what a lot of rap nowadays is like. A great example of a good rap song is "Boyz in the Hood" by N.W.A. It has a subtle beat, DJing, a chorus that isn't monotone and ridiculous, and lyrics that make sense.

[Le Kvlt Dawn 2,364]

And yes, Angus Young is a complete and total badass.

Hmm... I think Chuck Schuldiner is an even bigger badass and nice guy too, he was an animal lover.

 

So anyways, Chuck Schuldiner is better than both John Petrucci and Dimebag Darrell. Dream Theater and Pantera fanboys come at me >

Edited April 18, 2013 by AtDawnTheySquee

[Modphase 1,271]

Hmm... I think Chuck Schuldiner is an even bigger badass and nice guy too, he was an animal lover.

 

So anyways, Chuck Schuldiner is better than both John Petrucci and Dimebag Darrell. Dream Theater and Pantera fanboys come at me >

Let me ask you this. While I don't deny any famous rock artists skill, can Chuck Schuldiner do this?

http://youtu.be/xkPI5i8qTcs?t=4m30s

 

 

 

Or does Chuck Shuldiner do this at a concert?

 

 

 

Does Chuck Shuldiner have an awesome sense of humour? (I have a feeling he does)

 

I'm not trying to bash a rock guitarist, I just want to show Ang's dominance on the concert stage of honor. 

Edited April 18, 2013 by Angus Young

[Le Kvlt Dawn 2,364]

It's true that I love a nice good Grindcore track, though Grind isn't as big for me as Post-Metal is. And yeah Carcass are good, though my favorite Metal band still remains as Converge (even though they're Metalcore, not Post-Metal), and my favorite Metal album will always be Jane Doe.

My favorite metal album ever would be Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious by Carcass. This was Carcass' sound right before they went melodic death metal. It's straight out death metal, and kinda grindy too. I'll evan post it for you.

[Moog the Kvlt 1,460]

My favorite metal album ever would be Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious by Carcass. This was Carcass' sound right before they went melodic death metal. It's straight out death metal, and kinda grindy too. I'll evan post it for you.

 

Yeah I listened to some of the tracks from that album, it was a pretty good one from what I've heard. Corporal Jigsore Quandary is a good song, and I might as well leave Jane Doe here

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52g3E3oEnzI

[Doc Ginger 86]

I must say that a great classical piece or modern sound alike is better than anything else. Very very little can compare to the beauty or power of a great composition and piece in my opinion. 

[Appetite4Democracy 452]

Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy album was better than G N' R Lies and The Spaghetti Incident combined. It was on par with Appetite For Destruction, Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II.

 

There, I fucking said it.

 

Also, Buckethead and Bumblefoot are just as good as Slash.

Edited April 18, 2013 by Appetite4Democracy

[Le Kvlt Dawn 2,364]

Let me ask you this. While I don't deny any famous rock artists skill, can Chuck Schuldiner do this?

 

 

 

Or does Chuck Shuldiner do this at a concert?

 

 

 

 

Does Chuck Shuldiner have an awesome sense of humour? (I have a feeling he does)

 

I'm not trying to bash a rock guitarist, I just want to show Ang's dominance on the concert stage of honor. 

Chuck Schuldiner wasn't the aggresive kind. Here just watch this interview. That's what I really like about Chuck, he's both badass and a nice person.

 

 

 

 

[Modphase 1,271]

 

Chuck Schuldiner wasn't the aggresive kind. Here just watch this interview. That's what I really like about Chuck, he's both badass and a nice person.

 

 

 

 

 

He sounds like a good, nice guy. However, Ang, just like Chuck, he's aggressive in his music, but not his personality. Just take a look at this video right here.

 

Edited April 18, 2013 by Angus Young

[Champion RD92 8,658]

Why in the world are you guys comparing a rock guitarist to a metal guitarist? That's just silly.  

 

It's kind of funny though lol 

[Mister G 101]

Exactly. I really hate how seemingly every popular rap song is talking about how or where they're going to sleep with women, or how much money they have, or whatever. 8 Mile was a great movie, and I went into the movie with high distaste since I really dislike rap. But when it has a meaning, and a purpose, then it's just like any other music.

 

And holy crap that rap battle at the end was aaaaaaaaaaweeeeesome......

I also hate that most mainstream rap today are all about women, drugs and money. Eminem is probably one of the rappers that I respect, since most of his songs have a message and actually raps about his life and his songs actually connect to the listener, not how many drugs he take, not how many girls he sleep with. With "rappers" like Nicki Minaj, 2 Chainz, Lil Wayne and Drake, where is 2Pac, Coolio, Biggie and Snoop Dogg where you need them?

[. eris . 1,661]

"This guy's a gangsta? His real name's Clarence! And Clarence lives at home with both parents! And Clarence's parents have a real good marriage!"

 

More to the point though, rap has always been about delivery and ability to "hang" with the flow, as it were. I can tell you that sounding charismatic helped their cause quite a bit. Nowadays we're beginning to see more emphasis placed on delivery with charisma, like the two going hand in hand. What you end up with is a product that sounds sweet yet intense at the same time. For example, I'm not a big fan of "Black and Yellow" but I find the instrumental to be fantastic. I suppose the chorus sounds a lot better with it, though the actual "formula" has caught on and I can understand why it appears so trite.

 

If you're in it for lyrical content though, you should try checking out Immortal Technique and Tech N9ne. Their songs really make you think -- especially Immortal Tech's Dance with the Devil. That one will make you tear up.

 

I'll definitely check them out. I liked the rap in 8 Mile mostly because it fit the mood. It was rough, unpolished, but with so much heart behind it you couldn't help but like the song. Directly afterwards, of course, I looked up the Top 40 rap songs to see if they were anything like it. They weren't. >.<

 

Plus, B. Rabbit was such a great character...

 

I need to go watch that movie again.

[Freewave 1,145]

Ooh boy.

 

* Genres are not restrictive little boxes. They are not patronizing labels. They are easy ways to give a wealth of information about a track in a minimal time to an informed music lover. Biggest problem are artists who are so full of themselves they can't appreciate what's become before them in establishing these terms or people who can't be bothered to even investigate a genre and make rash judgements about the name.

 

* Every genre likely will have some worth. If you can't find anything to like in a particular genre you likely can't see outside of your own pov.

 

* Hip-Hop i think has lost it's way because it's gone from talking about struggles of real life to talking about power, money, and hoes and more importantly abandoning the use of sampling which was integral to its core. Once you're a milionaire you can't rap about the street in a way thats relatable and you rap about status. Some people are bucking these trends but they aren't the majority.

 

* Anglobeat should be an official genre made up of white people who love African music and put it in their music. Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon, and Vampire Weekend should be their spokesmen.  To like music outside of your own region is not a bad thing.

 

* Hypnagogic pop and Chillwave were 2 of the most exciting movements on the 00's.

 

* The Smiths and the Pet Shop Boys were 2 of the best songwriting duos of the 80's.

 

* Indie Rock can't survive if it sees success as the enemy. Alternative Rock understood that Nirvana could be both popular AND underground simultaneously but it seems that most indie fans saw it as a failed experiment. Now we have hundreds of small bands, no leaders, and as soon as anyone starts getting popular they get slagged. That's ridiculous.

 

* Dubstep is about using dub and a half step. All those american kids making brostep (and w/o any of those 2 elements) can call it that but that doesn't mean that it hasn't done a radical change in sound and focus. Feel free to call it that but realize the innate hypocrisy.

 

* Nirvana was not the only band in grunge and shouldn't be portrayed as such. It was just one of several great bands that made great music. Post-grunge is rather awful as its manufactured to be something the original was not intending it to be.  

 

* IDM is neither that intelligent nor that danceable.

 

* Loveless is one of the best albums of the 90's.  Shoegaze was one of the best movements to come from the 90's and continues to live on in spirit.

 

* Coldplay is popular because they took the positivity of U2, the introspection of Radiohead, and a little pop from The Beatles and then they made a good song catalog and toured their asses off. That and they are actually a nice bunch of lads. It might not be that innovative compared to their idols but they didnt get free handouts or have to change their identities to make it. They are that successful because they worked up to that level of success and filled what was missing out from their peers.

 

* Industrial works best as a parent genre and embracing its dance beats and multiple waves raher than sitting alone and clunching it's experimental first wave and thinking that's all it was. IMHO it's those second and third waves that made it much more important than its noisy pioneers.

 

* Country was best when it was old. All it really tells me now is that the majority of the South can't stand to listen to music outside of its regional comfort zone and does not want to join the rest of the country and the world. That does make it easier to ignore it however.

 

* UK's Music > USA's Music

 

* Why Brony Music lost it's way: When lots of musician wanted to do instrumentals w/o focusing on a theme. When every 15 yr old who knew nothing about music wnated to become a musician overnight by throwing some synth patterns together and slapping on a pony image. When people stopped using samples or recycled old and tired ones, when it became about popularity and eq'ing and less about writing a great song about mlp.When people saw it as a pathway with an exit to become a serious musician rather than honoring that it was about amateur musicians having fun being in a scene and listening to each other. ....That said it's still worth being a part of.

 

* Overrated is an oversued and silly word. Music is as popular as it is because its liked by that many people. There are definitely bands that could be more popular because they are under appreciated.

 

* It's much better to like music than to hate it. Hate is wasted energy. It's not love or tolerating, It's often a total lack of understanding. If you hate something it doesn't mean that band sucks, it means you don't like them, that's ALL it means. Your opinion isn't better then anyone elses.

 

* Music downloading is awesome because music is sound and not physically bound and because it allows people to check out bands that they never would have checked out or paid for. It's progress for music not it's decline.

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Edited April 18, 2013 by Freewave

[Moog the Kvlt 1,460]

* IDM is neither that intelligent nor that danceable

 

 

I should leave what Richard D. James said about the term IDM during an interview here:

 

"I just think it's really funny to have terms like that. It's basically saying 'this is intelligent and everything else is stupid.' It's really nasty to everyone else's music. (laughs) It makes me laugh, things like that. I don't use names. I just say that I like something or I don't"

[Freewave 1,145]

Yeah i like that quote, its a pretty down to earth way at looking at something that was named in a pretty snobby way   props for him

[Treble Bolt 1,122]

Everyone I've talked to about this give me crap about my opinions about music.

 

I really think that most popular music you hear today have the same 3 subjects....Drugs (alcohol included), sex (and bad relationships in general), and money.

 

Country is no longer country, it's just mainstream music with a southern voice and if it weren't for that, it would be indistinguishable from modern pop music.

 

Almost all the 'hit' music I hear today on the radio is about cheating on so-and-so, breaking up with so-and-so, getting drunk over so-and-so, and really NOTHING (please tell me if there are songs that are not Christian or Country in this) about hard earned love or overcoming in a relationship.  This has been a problem for me since Middle School, and now I am a college aged person (out of college).

 

On the positive unpopular opinion side of me....folk music is horribly underrated. Mongolian throat singing (look it up, huun-huur-tu) music of unfamilar languages, and just instrumental folk in general is so much an underground thing that it's pretty much in a hole IN the ground.  Haven't met someone IRL yet who I talk about with this kind of music, I always get stupid stares and comments on me being on drugs.  Fine! go ahead, listen to your socially wayward encouraging music is what I tell them when I tell them all I've just stated.

[Verily British 145]

My favorite heavy metal band would be Bullet for My Valentine

My favorite thrash metal band would be Dragonforce

My favorite metalcore band would be Parkway Drive

And I think that Rammstein are an amazing german band.

 

Oh I also think that Classical music and metal requires the most skill to play.

[DND 2,355]

 

People who say things like "Music nowadays sucks" are annoying as hell.

 

 

I'm sorry, but I have to contradict this...

 

I'm not saying that I don't like music nowadays, but you gotta admit that music was completely from the musical artist. The melody, and singing was genuinely real, it was all done by talent of the artists. Now everything's... auto-tuned, and digital. Although still great to listen to, it lacks the quality it used to have back then.

 

Again, I'm sorry if I seem "annoying as hell"...

[Moog the Kvlt 1,460]

My favorite thrash metal band would be Dragonforce

 

Dragonforce = Power Metal, not Thrash Metal

They are two completely different things

 

 

I'm not saying that I don't like music nowadays, but you gotta admit that music was completely from the musical artist. The melody, and singing was genuinely real, it was all done by talent of the artists. Now everything's... auto-tuned, and digital. Although still great to listen to, it lacks the quality it used to have back then.

 

Not every single artist or band to come by in the modern days uses any of that stuff.

[. eris . 1,661]

Country is no longer country, it's just mainstream music with a southern voice and if it weren't for that, it would be indistinguishable from modern pop music.

 

*coughgarblesplutterdie* Wh-wh-what?!

 

B-but...that's why I listen to country. Because it actually has ballads and messages and it's all about just getting drunk and partying with someone.

 

Oh well. This is the unpopular opinions thread. xDD