Tell us 5 bands you can't stand AT ALL !

[Bumskull]

Sang you couldn't be further fmo the truth. I honestly dislike people who like what they call "everything". You kinow I once meet a guy who hd a rush T Shirt and a tattoo of them on his arm. O told him 2112 was my favorite song, and he had no fuckin idea what I was talkin about! He's never heard any rush album before Snakes and Arros and yet he calls himself a hardcore fan. Ridiculous! When I meet someone who I can tell is very, very passionate about what he likes, the conersation literally goes on for hours. I remember 1 night in Bangalore where me and my friend were discusing modern prog vs todays prog. He is a huge yes and King Crimson fan, much more than me, and we spoke until 3 in the morning.

It's quality, not quantity.

And plus I know a lot more bands than I care to name. Although I'm little ashamed to admit it, I also know discography/biography of Avenged Sevenfold, Metallica, Megadeth, Testament, and SOAD. These are the bands that first got me into metal. So watch what you say about diversity pal.

 

[JBroll]

I can't tell you 5 just a date

Anything post 1999 music wise is shit. No one relies on actual instrumental playing anymore. Its all digitized and alternated so it sounds better then what they actually play. Its fucking disgusting.

I also understand the means of using 7 and 8 strings but whats with all this newer experimental shit.. I didn't buy an album to listen to 65 minutes of someone just dicking around on a extended guitar.

And you think 1999 was when this first became an issue? Go back decades to the drum loops, variable speed playback, the rise of session musicians, and... oh, fuck it, to paraphrase Sneap, anything that was recorded after we invented tape recorders that didn't make a popping noise when the recording head touched down was fucking cheating.

On top of that, sometimes the musicianship isn't the most important thing - sometimes it's the songwriting, sometimes it's letting other instruments sit at the front, sometimes it's blending well with dozens of other instruments, and sometimes it's Leonard Nimoy singing about fucking hobbits. If someone is trying to pass himself off as a virtuoso but records one note at a time, fine - but if the point isn't to be an amazing shredder but to be someone who has a decent guitar track behind him, what the fuck does it matter?

Jeff

 

[heineken_fretwalker]

I can't tell you 5 just a date

Anything post 1999 music wise is shit. No one relies on actual instrumental playing anymore. Its all digitized and alternated so it sounds better then what they actually play. Its fucking disgusting.

I also understand the means of using 7 and 8 strings but whats with all this newer experimental shit.. I didn't buy an album to listen to 65 minutes of someone just dicking around on a extended guitar.

Whatever, dude. I've got a friend just like you. You two cynical fools can continue living in the past. There is PLENTY of quality music post 1999.

 

[JBroll]

AFAIK the 60s/70s/80s all had some good music on the radio. Sure there was plenty of shit too, but they also had the likes of Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Queen, etc.

Nowadays there is nothing even close to that good on rock/metal radio. What happened?

We look back on those bands with the garbage filtered out.

There are plenty of amazing bands around now, but we don't have the filter of time to weed out the really bad stuff. You could make the same argument twenty years ago - Milli Vanilli surely seemed as abysmal as anything we encounter today, but at the same time we had a great deal of development in everything from jazz to death metal - and lose out on a lot of great music. In fact, today's music lovers have incredible advantages ranging from increased availability of recording equipment to widespread distribution through the internet - any of the bands you named would have killed for that! The difference is that we have the garbage of those time periods already thrown out, but we have to do the sifting with today's music just as today's old farts had to do with their time periods. There are still plenty of truly phenomenal bands around today, and we can't let the fact that we have to do our own filtering get in the way of our judgement of today's music.

Jef

 

[8Fingers]

The problem is TODAY 99% of things in the media is crap.
In the 80's and 90's media gave space to crap and good music.
Of course there are really good music today but it's out of the media that's why I don't listen to the radio since 2002.
And in my country ,since 2000 MTV chose dumb 15 teens as a target so everything that was cool don't play anymore.Only crap pop british bands and emobabies.

 

[Sang-Drax]

Sang you couldn't be further fmo the truth. I honestly dislike people who like what they call "everything". You kinow I once meet a guy who hd a rush T Shirt and a tattoo of them on his arm. O told him 2112 was my favorite song, and he had no fuckin idea what I was talkin about! He's never heard any rush album before Snakes and Arros and yet he calls himself a hardcore fan. Ridiculous! When I meet someone who I can tell is very, very passionate about what he likes, the conersation literally goes on for hours. I remember 1 night in Bangalore where me and my friend were discusing modern prog vs todays prog. He is a huge yes and King Crimson fan, much more than me, and we spoke until 3 in the morning.

It's quality, not quantity.

And plus I know a lot more bands than I care to name. Although I'm little ashamed to admit it, I also know discography/biography of Avenged Sevenfold, Metallica, Megadeth, Testament, and SOAD. These are the bands that first got me into metal. So watch what you say about diversity pal.

Whatever, man. I still think you're missing high quality music out there just because it belongs to a different genre.

To each its own

The problem is TODAY 99% of things in the media is crap.
In the 80's and 90's media gave space to crap and good music.
Of course there are really good music today but it's out of the media that's why I don't listen to the radio since 2002.
And in my country ,since 2000 MTV chose dumb 15 teens as a target so everything that was cool don't play anymore.Only crap pop british bands and emobabies.

Not to mention that MTV barely plays music anymore.

Btw, what crap pop british bands? I can't remember of anything past Spice Girls

 

[JBroll]

The problem is TODAY 99% of things in the media is crap.
In the 80's and 90's media gave space to crap and good music.
Of course there are really good music today but it's out of the media that's why I don't listen to the radio since 2002.
And in my country ,since 2000 MTV chose dumb 15 teens as a target so everything that was cool don't play anymore.Only crap pop british bands and emobabies.

90% of everything is crap.

Jeff

 

[Scar Symmetry]

Btw, what crap pop british bands? I can't remember of anything past Spice Girls

there's too many to count, but don't you badmouth The Spice Girls

 

[TomParenteau]

I believe that every era has or had good music. Sadly, we didn't get to know about much of it.

To say "Anything post-(insert any year here) is crap" is way too general. That is claiming to have heard EVERY band or musician in the world during that time period.

 

[Sang-Drax]

there's too many to count, but don't you badmouth The Spice Girls

I hated them back then when they were the new trend, but nowadays I don't think they were that bad. It's just that I don't remember a particularly crappy british pop band. But perhaps I can't always tell if a given pop band is British or American.

 

[Scar Symmetry]

I was yankin' yer chain man, I actually hate the Spice Girls.

these days all our mainstream stuff is shit indie made by shit rich kids with shit personalities and shit haircuts.

 

[troyguitar]

We look back on those bands with the garbage filtered out.

There are plenty of amazing bands around now, but we don't have the filter of time to weed out the really bad stuff. You could make the same argument twenty years ago - Milli Vanilli surely seemed as abysmal as anything we encounter today, but at the same time we had a great deal of development in everything from jazz to death metal - and lose out on a lot of great music. In fact, today's music lovers have incredible advantages ranging from increased availability of recording equipment to widespread distribution through the internet - any of the bands you named would have killed for that! The difference is that we have the garbage of those time periods already thrown out, but we have to do the sifting with today's music just as today's old farts had to do with their time periods. There are still plenty of truly phenomenal bands around today, and we can't let the fact that we have to do our own filtering get in the way of our judgement of today's music.

Jef

Those bands were all on the radio (and MTV when it came out). That is no longer the case for great bands today. That was the only point. There was no comment about the quality of music in general, just the stuff on the radio. (i.e. the stuff most people supposedly listen to)

 

[Sang-Drax]

I was yankin' yer chain man, I actually hate the Spice Girls.

these days all our mainstream stuff is shit indie made by shit rich kids with shit personalities and shit haircuts.

At least they were better than Britney Spears and hip-pop crap.

Is 'The Rapture' British? Now these guys are truly horrid. So far, the worst among the "The X's", IMO. I completely forgot about them.

 

[Scar Symmetry]

not sure, probably.

amongst my least favourites are:

Elbow
The View
The Kooks
Glas Vegas
Snow Patrol
Maximo Park
Scouting For Girls

the only thing that makes me madder than hearing these bands is seeing adverts on TV claiming they are "album of the decade!" or "album of the century!".

the ignorance just hurts to think about.

 

[8Fingers]

the only thing that makes me madder than hearing these bands is seeing adverts on TV claiming they are "album of the decade!" or "album of the century!".

the ignorance just hurts to think about.

It's not ignorance,it;'s a golden rule about making money =

Give to people what people wants!

Of course I'm talking about dumb people who swallow everything media throws on them.

 

[liamh]

...don't you badmouth The Spice Girls

Sporty Spice

 

[TomParenteau]

But what about all the Spice Girls' screaming, shredding guitar leads?

 

[JBroll]

Those bands were all on the radio (and MTV when it came out). That is no longer the case for great bands today. That was the only point. There was no comment about the quality of music in general, just the stuff on the radio. (i.e. the stuff most people supposedly listen to)

Commercial radio is also dying a slow, painful death. Led Zeppelin wasn't on cylindrical phonographs like the best bands of the early 20th century, few of the thrash giants made it to 8-track... media like those aren't a good indication of the status of modern music.

Jeff

 

[liamh]

But what about all the Spice Girls' screaming, shredding guitar leads?

I find it a bit self-indulgent after a while, I mean nasty spice has definately got the technical virtuosity on guitar, but I think she should focus more on note choise in her solo's
And Posh Spice is great at blast beats and double bass pedal, but I think she should do some more groove based rhythm.

 

[InCasinoOut]

I find it a bit self-indulgent after a while, I mean nasty spice has definately got the technical virtuosity on guitar, but I think she should focus more on note choise in her solo's
And Posh Spice is great at blast beats and double bass pedal, but I think she should do some more groove based rhythm.

and don't forget Baby Spice's complete wankery on her Warr guitar!