Unpopular Music Opinions

Jade_City · 06-07-2014, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Wpnfire

With few exceptions, thrash metal guitar solos are all awful and I don't like any of them. Even with my three favorite thrash songs of Master of Puppets, Holy Wars...The Punishment Due, and South of Heaven, my least favorite part of those three songs are the guitar solo (solos for the last two).

The #1 reason I like those songs is unquestionably because of the guitar riffs, with the first minute of both of Master and Holy Wars... being two of my favorite song intros because they are all riffing, and the main riff for South of Heaven is probly in the top 5 of my favorite guitar riffs for all genres of music.

Slayer guitar solos are the worst of all. I don't know if I've mentioned this on this forum before or not, but one of the 'songs' in DOOM 2 is actually an 8-bit rendition of South of Heaven, and it's definetely one of my top songs ever in a video game because it's basically just the intro and riff for south of heaven and that's it. It just loops after that.

Thrash metal just hurts my ears and mind, I always need something a bit more smooth.

Aichuk · 06-09-2014, 01:09 PM

Taylor Swift's "Fearless" album has its flaws but is generally a great album that deserves to be taken seriously. No idea about the rest of her work though.

FRED HALE SR. · 06-09-2014, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Wpnfire

With few exceptions, thrash metal guitar solos are all awful and I don't like any of them. Even with my three favorite thrash songs of Master of Puppets, Holy Wars...The Punishment Due, and South of Heaven, my least favorite part of those three songs are the guitar solo (solos for the last two).

The #1 reason I like those songs is unquestionably because of the guitar riffs, with the first minute of both of Master and Holy Wars... being two of my favorite song intros because they are all riffing, and the main riff for South of Heaven is probly in the top 5 of my favorite guitar riffs for all genres of music.

Slayer guitar solos are the worst of all. I don't know if I've mentioned this on this forum before or not, but one of the 'songs' in DOOM 2 is actually an 8-bit rendition of South of Heaven, and it's definetely one of my top songs ever in a video game because it's basically just the intro and riff for south of heaven and that's it. It just loops after that.

I always separate Slayer solos. I love Hanneman's solos, hes very creative and has great technique. King is a total noodler however and i find myself thinking how tedious he is and lacking at times.

Plankton · 06-09-2014, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Wpnfire

With few exceptions, thrash metal guitar solos are all awful and I don't like any of them. Even with my three favorite thrash songs of Master of Puppets, Holy Wars...The Punishment Due, and South of Heaven, my least favorite part of those three songs are the guitar solo (solos for the last two).

The #1 reason I like those songs is unquestionably because of the guitar riffs, with the first minute of both of Master and Holy Wars... being two of my favorite song intros because they are all riffing, and the main riff for South of Heaven is probly in the top 5 of my favorite guitar riffs for all genres of music.

Slayer guitar solos are the worst of all. I don't know if I've mentioned this on this forum before or not, but one of the 'songs' in DOOM 2 is actually an 8-bit rendition of South of Heaven, and it's definetely one of my top songs ever in a video game because it's basically just the intro and riff for south of heaven and that's it. It just loops after that.

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Originally Posted by FRED HALE SR.

I always separate Slayer solos. I love Hanneman's solos, hes very creative and has great technique. King is a total noodler however and i find myself thinking how tedious he is and lacking at times.

The thing about Slayers solos, for me anyway, is that they're supposed to have that sinister quality to them, like a drill to the eardrums, as if to flip the bird to all the technical masters out there, and that's what both Hanneman, and King both try to achieve. Hanneman does a better job of it, and has a better sense of melody.

Wpnfire · 06-09-2014, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

I love Slayer's solos. I generally don't care about solos in general, not because I don't like them but they're just not a focus for me, but Slayer's are just so high energy and go all over the place, so it just makes the song that much more intense.

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Originally Posted by FRED HALE SR.

I always separate Slayer solos. I love Hanneman's solos, hes very creative and has great technique. King is a total noodler however and i find myself thinking how tedious he is and lacking at times.

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Originally Posted by Plankton

The thing about Slayers solos, for me anyway, is that they're supposed to have that sinister quality to them, like a drill to the eardrums, as if to flip the bird to all the technical masters out there, and that's what both Hanneman, and King both try to achieve. Hanneman does a better job of it, and has a better sense of melody.

Oh I totally agree Slayer solos do have that sinister edge to them and that's actually pretty cool. I've never really payed attention enough to notice the difference between King and Hanneman, though, Hanneman wrote "South of Heaven" so I'm instantly inclined to believe he's better than King. I still don't like either's solos though.

One of the biggest problems about them (the solos) is that they are so predictable and especially on Reign in Blood all the solos sound the same to me. That's one of the reasons I still prefer Show No Mercy/Haunting the Chapel era Slayer over everything else, because they were still (I've said this before so sorry if I'm repeating myself here) developing their sound and were much more varied in a way.

Anyway, moving away from Slayer, literally every other genre of rock music I don't have a problem with solos, it's just thrash. Even the neighboring genre of groove metal I like the solos of those bands a lot more than any thrash metal solo. In the case of notables like Pantera and Exhorder, their solos just ravage any solo I've heard by metallica or slayer or megadeth.

The Batlord · 06-10-2014, 12:16 AM

*collapses in shock that Wpnfire actually knows who Exhorder is*

Love that band. The Law is one of the greatest thrash albums of all time. And yeah, I call them thrash. Slaughter In the Vatican is stone-cold death thrash, and just because The Law had some groovey riffs doesn't make it post-thrash or groove metal. They get thrown in with groove metal just because all the thrash metal elitists want to put one over on Pantera and claim that they invented groove metal. Nonsense.

Wpnfire · 06-10-2014, 01:27 PM

Exhorder's music is kind of disgusting, and I mean that literally. I'm not a fan of any song that says stuff like "You'll drown in a river of piss" etc., (I know they don't actually say that, just making something up...)

Like that's disgusting, shut the hell up.

The Batlord · 06-10-2014, 01:31 PM

The clear winner is "Anal Lust" off Slaughter In the Vatican. Pure class.

Spoiler for "Anal Lust":

Wpnfire · 06-10-2014, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

The clear winner is "Anal Lust" off Slaughter In the Vatican. Pure class.

Spoiler for "Anal Lust":

Oh yeah, I'm well aware...That song can go **** a ****, no pun intended.

lol the funny part is with that song is that, if you've never really heard a few of Exhorder's songs before, you may think, "Oh it can't be that bad..." but YES It most definitely is that bad/disgusting.

The Batlord · 06-10-2014, 01:44 PM

Then I imagine you wouldn't particularly like Carnivore either.

Spoiler for "Male Supremacy":

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Aichuk Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2013 Posts: 91	Taylor Swift's "Fearless" album has its flaws but is generally a great album that deserves to be taken seriously. No idea about the rest of her work though.