Dayvan Cowboy

yeah, this site is actually pretty cool because not many people here are close minded music-wise.

that's why i spend most of my time here. :P

TheCunningStunt

There is this one girl that's close minded music-wise, she said she hated metal fans.

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Dr.Seussicide

Only because you can't give 5

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boo boo

Who doesn't?

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Dayvan Cowboy

i said not all metal fans

TheCunningStunt

True. Some of them can be the most annoying fans out there, just behind Progressive Rock fans.

I missed every post after the list of bands and your statement about Metal fans, so I'll take your word for it.

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CanwllCorfe

With a name like boo boo I can only help but feel mildly offended.

Thanks be to Janszoon and Dr. Seussicide!

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boo boo

I'm just not that good at explaining why I like what I like then. If I seem cold and impenetrable about my music tastes that is because I don't like being too vulnerable and I'm very defensive about it.

I listen to bands that are quite despised. I listen to ELP all the time and that's a band that even the prog community has mixed opinions about these days.

I'd rather listen to Tarkus (never a critically acclaimed album even by ELP standards) than ever try to endure Blonde on Blonde again so I don't think I care THAT much about being hip and with the times.

Oh and I listen to Tales From Topographic Oceans at least once a week. Also not one of the most well liked albums in the world.

Well of course the music I love has a profound effect on me, but I'm not good at describing why that is. Primarly because it's not so much about the lyrics.

Music can fill me with joy, and if I really hate it it can make me angry. I mean there is music that I hate with a burning passion. A lot of modern hardcore music for example, because I hate the concept of just a bunch of whiny suburban kids doing what sounds like every other band and if it was a brilliant formula I wouldn't mind the unoriginality so much, it's all these bands that simply whack away on drums and distorted guitars and scream like they're ODing on testosterone and I'm supposed to forgive the lack of melody and structure because it's all about the "emotion". I find that insulting to actual musicians.

And yes I highly favor actual musicians over kids who just pound away on instruments whining about their problems and how much it sucks to be a white middle class kid in the OC.

But I can and do like music that is neither commercial or technical. Residents being a favorite group of mine.

I'm not saying that, I just hate how some people express it, trying to be all poetic and sh*t. These tend to be the most obnoxious people on forums that I have to deal with.

I did at first but I am getting into more obscure stuff thanks to a friend.

But I value the music. Lyrics are great but I can't enjoy music solely because of the lyrics, if the lyrics is the only good thing about a song I'd rather read them than hear them.

Of course I realise that theres a lot of folk music that is musically interesting, some that I've discovered and a lot that I surely haven't.

I don't know why you are going on about folk this has never been a genre that I completely written off. I don't write off any genre...........

Except emo, screamo and post hardcore. Mainly because it's not music so much as whining.

That's a very condescending an untrue remark. As I've said before I've been getting into psychedelic/avant folk (Simon Kinn, Bill Fay, Tom Rapp) thanks to a friend. I'm also quite into progressive folk like Comus. And also Neil Young and Joni Mitchell.

I quite like appalachian folk/bluegrass and being raised by an old southern woman I've heard my share.

And probably the most obscure records in my collection are albums of Nubian Oud based folk music and Indonesian gamelan music.

Oh please elighten me, how do you know that an artist is putting a lot of emotion or if he's really good at faking it?

And how relevant is the amount of passion musicians had during the recording process when regarding the actual product? If I found out that my favorite album was written in a few minutes as an afterthrought while sitting on the john would I think less of it? I don't think I would.

I don't measure emotion by how much someone screams or how "cracked" their voice is or how sloppy they play. I think when an artist invests a lot of care and thought into a product that is an emotional investment of sorts so unlike you I think well produced/well crafted music has had more emotion invested in it than some kids screaming verse/chorus/verse pop songs for 2 minutes.

There are many moments in many prog rock songs that have such gorgeous moments and thrilling climaxes that it bewilders me that people can call it emotionless just because it's not 3 chord punk songs about cumguzzling or whatever.

I'm quite spiteful about how prog rock is treated, I'm not a robot.

Yay, we agree on something. It only took us 5 years.

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Dayvan Cowboy

wow, i'm guessing that boo boo is controversial.

welcome to the controversy club

Alfred

boardsofcanada: A year younger than me and likes more obscure/respected bands than I did at his/her age. Good to see a fellow teenage Canadian on these boards. I like a few of his/her favorite bands (GIAA, EITS, AC is aight) but have either not listened to the others or have a neutral opinion towards them. Also, I enjoy metal so boardsofcanada's taste gets a very large "meh" from me.

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