What's the most ignorant thing anyone has ever said to you about music?

[M3CHK1LLA]

true story:

me & a co-worker decided to bring our guitars to work and jam during lunch hour. i had an ibanez rg, the other guy had a jackson soloist.

another co-worker, who by the is a hill-billy, heard us playing and stopped and watched.

after a few minutes he asked us "how come your guitars dont have a hole in um?"

 

[vhmetalx]

If you listen to the first couple albums, you'll see that calling them isn't particularly unreasonable. That said, those are also their best, by far.

Well sure they arent too off from it but i still wouldnt think of them as symphonic black metal. idk maybe its just me

 

[Pingu]

About 4 months into my English class way back in grade 9.

Teacher: [insert talk about English] and when you want to use a pos-

approx 30 seconds

*stares at my Metallica sweater*

approx 30 seconds

Oh... You're one of them.

Needless to say I dropped from a 90 to a 60 in that class after. Catholic high school for the win.

Also, when my old band played at my high school talent show a teacher needed to be escorted out of the building.

 

[Malacoda]

There's always the tons of dicks who go "how can you listen to death metal, it's just a guy shredding his vocal cords and beating guitars with sticks". .

 

[fretlicker]

people have perceptions,try not to change it but influence it with your songs


the whole concept of society is misanthropy


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[metalmonster]

"Meshuggah ? but the drummer is totally out of rythm ! "

 

[Zamm Bell]

I hate it when people say my note choices are to wierd sounding, and i use odd rhythems. Or even better "your facial expressions are offputting", makes me wonder if these people actualy listen to music, or just fingering their bumholes whilst slating people on youtube...

 

[LOGfanforever90]

i had a coworker tell me, while i was listening to classical music, that it wasn't music and had no meaning or emotion because there were no words.

Well YEAH! How are you supposed to know how to feel during a song if there are no vocals to tell you how to feel. Pfft.

 

[LOGfanforever90]

Too many stories to count.
Plenty of "it's just random noise" or "it's not even music" in reference to my enjoying metal.
One time in college I was listening to Nothing (yup, another Meshuggah story) and this kid on my hall walked into my room during Glints Collide. (He was a big fan of bands like Radiohead, Muse, etc.)

"What's that?"
"Meshuggah"
"You like this?"
"Well, yeah. I wouldn't be listening to it otherwise."
"But he's just screaming! Is that guitar? It's too low! Is that a scale? And you can't even follow the beat!"

Fun stuff.

 

[BrainArt]

I was just thinking about it, and I came up with the PERFECT comeback to the whole "Your music is noise" bullshit we all encounter.


"Your music is noise!" "Well yes, you are correct, as is yours. Because, you see, all music is noise. "

Any or all of you can feel free to use that if you are ever put into that situation, again.

 

[Hellbound]

I love it when someone says "All their doing is screaming I can do the same thing." So I tell them to try it and it sounds god aweful like a pig dying. Then they say "see I sound just like him, he is not doing anything different than me....I should hook up with a band and make millions doing this.",lol.
I used to be a singer...well screamer I guess is the word but believe me it takes talent to be able to scream and sound good doing it. Also, much harder IMO being a lead singer as opposed to playing guitar. The amount of energy it takes to do a whole 45 minute set is crazy. I kinda miss being a singer but am loving guitars so much better.

 

[Isan]

I was just thinking about it, and I came up with the PERFECT comeback to the whole "Your music is noise" bullshit we all encounter.


"Your music is noise!" "Well yes, you are correct, as is yours. Because, you see, all music is noise. "

Any or all of you can feel free to use that if you are ever put into that situation, again.

um the most common definition of noise is an undesirable sound

 

[vhmetalx]

some asain kid called meshuggah "screamo" a couple days ago. i almost socked him.

 

[sevenstringgod]

My friend's brother was having his birthday, and he and his friends are big on getting stoned while listening to the doors and jimmy hendrix and that kind of thing, so I asked one my friends if he was going to my friend's brother party and he replied: "No man, I don't feel like going to an EMO party tonight" and I said, Emo party? What the fuck are you talking about, and he says, "yeah those guys are gonna be smoking weed and listening to led zepellin all night long" I gave myself the most epic facepalm after that.

 

[Dark_Matter]

That the shit I was listening to (Opeth - Blackwater Park) is untalented and that I should listen to blink 182

 

[Stealthdjentstic]

All these have been said about my band

"Drop the Marilyn Manson stage antics and focus on the music"
"People only go to your shows to see your Slipknot ripoff costumes"
"You only have fans because you dress up"

I think they're jealous of maddd stage presence.

 

[liamh]

^How many times did you stab him?

 

[The Somberlain]

I suppose back on this little forum called Guitarworld where this kid called Blackhell said that the Beatles were crap and less influential than Pantera. I'm confused

Oh, and he said "Betovans Orchastra" or something like that and I did a short essay on how the classical era was less interesting than baroque, romantic, and contemporary eras as a whole. He said "wut."

 

[Guamskyy]

I hate it when people refer every type of metal as "screamo." It really urks me to hear that word, its not a genre, it is an ignorant person's way of not knowing how to handle a broad and emerging genre called METAL. Also when people say your music sucks, listen to (insert gay band here) WHAT THE HELL? Your fucking joking right? I don't critique your music, because a specific genre isn't better than another, they are made to satisfy the wide arrange of listeners of music, so don't you judge me.

 

[Antimatter]

Why can't people just get along, man?