Blarghagh

I just put on The Flaming Lips' Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots album. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Let's hope that's not herpes.

Well, that's all well and good, but why does corporate **** need to be sucked all the time by making terrible music?

Well, naturally. According to every man and woman who worships 'tr00 m3t4l \m/:thumbsup:\m/' I have ever spoken with, Metalcore is the natural successor of N

I hate it when the voice of reason trumps a good discussion.

Fine. If I edit that post and turn 'every [insert group here]' into 'half the [insert group here]', will you be happy? Either way, it doesn't matter. Straying away from the actual discussion because of semantics is one tactic to save face that won't work here. Besides, what you say I'm guilty of is what you did to start this discussion, so you're basically pointing out the delicious irony and futility of your previous posts.

Pearl Jam - Nothingman Coincidence? Probably.

I don't know if you just ignored it so you could have an excuse to write another self-masturbatory reply or am just too oblivious to see it, but I did take it as a whole. As for your supposed... arguements... against what I said, I would like to present the fact that not all goths like poetry (my brother is a goth and he hates poetry), not all goths like vulgar sex crap (especially girls), not all goths know about Nietzsche (I've explained it to several) and I even know a goth who recognizes the fact that he's just as much a conformist tool as Trendy McPopcollar, but just likes the attention. The way you just pointed out that stereotypes do not apply conveniently ignores that the same thing works for goths. Of course, nobody needed me to point that out. Everybody can see that you do nothing but undermine your own arguements simply by reading your posts. I guess that means you need to take another look at "Posting... And You!"

I quite like the song. I hate the rock show clich

Modest Mouse - I Came As A Rat

I don't really care to decide what is what so I'll just pick the bands I like that makes less loud music - Pearl Jam Modest Mouse The EElS Beck Broken Social Scene Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Blur Red Hot Chili Peppers Led Zeppelin Deerhoof Pre-"Forget What You Know" Midtown (I don't recommend this, I just have an emotional attachment to those albums) Radiohead's Pablo Honey, The Bends and OK Computer The Flaming Lips Pavement Meat Loaf Neutral Milk Hotel Sonic Youth Weezer's Blue Album, Pinkerton and Maladroit Also, I'm pretty sure some of Incubus' stuff counts. Not sure about The Fiery Furnaces, though. "The Sex Pistols are massively overrated, a bunch of lazy dweebs who could barely play their instruments and mutter insipid political ideals do not equal good music. " Sid Vicious and Lemmy Kilminster's rumoured conversation is hilarious. "I can't play bass" "I know"

Aha. So, in America, everyone who is not a jock is a goth. Okay, got it. Nice of you to stereotype 99.9% of America's high school going youth, and probably yourself, too. In fact, that's probably all my lit teachers too. I mean, seriously, you just described every hipster, indie snob, emo kid and geek in existence. And as far as I know, these are American stereo- and archetypes. All in all, stop being so obliviously emo.

In a sense, yes, but probably because the other music in the band is so overshadowed by what he does. If the music was "tighter", it would be fine. He is definitely one of the key figures to ensure that melody never leaves the genre though. And that is worth something. No, I'm pretty sure it's because nothing he does has any substance. Random scale excercises and arpeggios really fast does not a composition make. Don't get me wrong, I respect him a lot as a guitar player, but as a songwriter? Not so much.

Probably not, but I think Yngwie, for all his shredding, makes helluva boring music.

I saw The Wild. It's what everyone hoped Madagascar would be but wasn't. It had a couple of real belly laughs and quite a few chuckles.

Whose Rachel Dratch?

Both, really. I don't really judge by what genre it sounds like more than I judge how good the guitar work is. Blackwater Park is the best guitar album I've ever heard. I don't know why, but there's something just utterly liberating about screaming along with Manowar lyrics.

Black Sabbath Iron Maiden Guns 'N Roses' Appetite For Destruction Pre-Black Album Metallica Pantera Opeth Isis Pelican Rammstein Blind Guardian I also enjoy Manowar a lot, but only ironically, and Slipknot's 'Volume 3: Subliminal Verses' is a MAJOR guilty pleasure of mine. Off-topic, Mr. Bulock's Avathar is one of the coolest things I have seen on this forum. Orneryboy for teh win.

I like what they wrote themselves, but their Metallica covers... meh. I guess I liked the idea of Metallica with only Cellos more than the actual execution of it.

Who is their new one? I heard Rick Rubin was going to produce the new one, but there's rumours about Rick Rubin producing everything these days. I wouldn't be surprised if he'd produce a new Beethoven. I'm curious about Rob Trucan'tspellhislastnameio's bassing.

I can't decide, but it's either EElS, Modest Mouse or Pearl Jam.

Where did this Trivium craze all of a sudden come from? Left and right I'm hearing people claiming Trivium as the saviors of heavy metal and whatnot. Listening to the leaked version of Godsmack's new record. The good news is, they don't sound *exactly* like a bad Alice in Chains ripoff, now they sometimes sound like a bad rip off Tool(Livin' In Sin) and Metallica(Mama) too! Man, I keep hoping Godsmack might actually write music.

Fade To Black is exceptional but I think Disposable Heroes is their best song. I point you towards the past tense in my sentences, 'wasn't' and 'was'. It is irrelevant to bring Rob into this because he hasn't done anything yet, the producer played bass on St. Anger.

Out of the choices given, either Zep or Sabbath. I think you'd like Deadsy. Also, for the person who asked what Orgy is like, that depends on what album, mostly. Candyass is a little too industrial for me, and Punk Static Paranoia too nu-metal, but I really enjoy their album Vapour Transmission. It's a bit like a cross between industrial and just plain fun rock, with lots of electronics. I can feel a bit of David Bowie inspiration in that one.

Great album. no matter Truenuetral says. What are you talking about? I love At War With The Mystics. Modest Mouse - Cowboy Dan Just switched to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Gimme Some Salt

I disagree. I think songs like One, Fade To Black, Eye Of The Beholder, Disposable Heroes(personally, my favourite Metallica song) and For Whom The Bell Tolls display a lot more maturity than songs like Fuel, Better Than You, Ain't My Bitch and The Struggle Within (which I have dubbed 'It Cuts Itself'). During their trash metal period, with the exception of Kill 'Em All which was mostly about... well, killing 'em all, they wrote some of the deepest, most personal songs. From the Black Album and forward, a lot of them became incredibly trivial. Songs like The Unforgiven II that have no value are way too common now, Sad But True and Slither (which might as well be called Enter Sandman Too) make it seem like they can't think of new things to write songs about. That doesn't mean to most Metallica isn't still better than what other bands have to offer, but compared to their earlier work? There's just no contest. Also, Cliff, goddammit. Cliff brought so much special stuff to early Metallica while Newsted is just another bassist. Newsted wasn't terrible like some would have you believe, he was a good bassist, but Cliff was exceptionally great. Besides that, the guitar in post Black Album is too much rhythm. Kirk is horribly underused. Especially on St. Anger, where there are no solos whatsoever. It's too bad that Cliff had to die and they never worked up the guts to tell Ulrich that HE.CAN'T.DRUM. Otherwise, they'd probably be just as epic as they used to be. Off the Metallica subject - If I hear some **** scream Freebird at another show, I'm going to throw a hissy fit and then shoot people at my school and blame this message board. The media will eat it up.