What's the most ignorant thing YOU'VE said to anyone about music?

[JohnIce]

Kirk Hammett writes and arranges?

Hm, yeah maybe not Never was a huge 'tallica fan but he is good at what he does for sure, even if I don't like neither his playing nor his tone.

 

[MFB]

"Rappers don't have skill"

I've grown to enjoy some kwolity rappers in my days of late and regret my youthful ways

 

[damigu]

before i picked up guitar (many years ago) my friend was introducing me to death metal and i turned to him and said, "what's that helicopter noise?"

my friend replied, "that's the bass drum going really fast."



i was even ignorant of what instrument sounds like what!!

 

[Konfyouzd]

does kinda sound like a helicopter now that i think about it

 

[Kevan]

Kirk Hammett writes and arranges?

Only if they make a pen-shaped wah.

 

[Konfyouzd]

^ zing!

 

[liquidcow]

before i picked up guitar (many years ago) my friend was introducing me to death metal and i turned to him and said, "what's that helicopter noise?"

my friend replied, "that's the bass drum going really fast."

My ex did a similar thing, I was playing Nile and she asked what that rattling noise was. Actually I'm always mindful of this now when putting double kick into things.

 

[Harry]

Not really ignornant, but quite dumb on my part:

At Jemfest one year, I said to Gabe, "I'll bet ya $10 Rusty can't play [insert some insane, alien-only technical part]...."



I was $10 poorer.

 

[Harry]

I used to refer to all metalcore, deathcore and mathcore as hardcore, and thought it all sounded the same.
Fast forward to today, I now realize hardcore is in fact referring to hardcore punk, and now, I'm a fan of bands from all those genres, although mathcore especially I'm a fan of now.

 

[fire engine]

In a drunken fit one time, I was going on and on about how no rock band today would have existed without Van Halen.

 

[vontetzianos]

"Rap sucks."

And I still say that on occasion.

 

[Chal]

"Electronic music isnt music at all"

Said that pretty much all my life, until I got into House music a couple weeks ago. Havn't really listened to anything else since then.

 

[oompa]

when i was a kid you were either a gnr fan or a metallica fan. i was with the gnr camp and methodically explained to everyone else how metallica sucked. then a couple of years later i was a big metallica fan and wet my pants when i met james, kirk and jason outside their hotel before a concert once here in sthlm.

meanwhile i spent my spare time dictating how slayer was some noisy shit and that ompa ompa beat they played in every single song sounded like some comedy clownmusic. a year later i headbanged as me and my band jammed some shitty versions of raining blood and angel of death and loved it like nothing else

from there i spent my early teens progressing through melodic deathmetal, oldschool death and into tech death and meanwhile i became wiser and less prejudice and stupid lol

now i listen to very varied music, from electronic chill to videogame music, tech death and 70s progrock, ganja reggae and trip hop.. and stuff i really find nothing remotely intelligent with (like country) i still understand that it might not be for me but its good to others, it doesnt have to be complicated and progressive as i love other genres wich are also relatively stupid and simple, like grunge

 

[polydeathsphere]

i used to think death metal sucked. then i heard Skull Full of Maggots, and for some reason became addicted to Cannibal Corpse. now along with my good ol' death metal i listen to possibly any genre capable of having talented musicians behind it.

 

[Konfyouzd]

^ i love cannibal corpse but i really think their tone could be a smidgen tighter

 

[Stealthdjentstic]

^ I can't get into them at all, which is weird because i love death metal like dying fetus

 

[lucasreis]

I used to say that that Sabbath with Dio sucked just because of pure prejudice against anything that wasn´t Ozzy in Sabbath.

Turns out I´m going to see Heaven & Hell in my birthday this year! I threw the prejudice away and discovered that the Dio records with Sabbath are genius, just like his solo career!

 

[Konfyouzd]

^ I can't get into them at all, which is weird because i love death metal like dying fetus

pat o'brien is clearly really good but his tone is so goddamn muddy to me. i didn't like their older stuff. i didn't like their old singer really. but whoever is singing for them now (i think corpse grinder...?) is fuckin' awesome.

 

[lnname]

I used to be really snobby about nu metal. it turns out i mist out on a lot of good music

 

[MF_Kitten]

I once told an accordeon player who was performing some Bach to shut the fuck up.....

I still dont know if that was so ignorant from me...

Thats the only instrument on which performing some Bach must be illegal!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

my fiance´s dad loves playing the accordion. he plays it in the cheesy-as-hell "let´s all get around and sing songs together while i play a disgusting waltz!" way

everyone else in that family hates it, and calls it "skrekkspill". the point being accordion is "trekkspill" in norwegian (trekk=pull/drag, since you pull it outwards to make a sound), and "skrekk" means "terror/fright"

anyways, i guess that if you look away from the evolution of my musical taste, i´ve always been open about it. i´m all about artistic integrity and all that stuff. i always just say "it´s not my taste/style", as long as i can hear sincerity behind the music. if it´s not "real" music, but moneymaking pop music where the art is lost, and replaced by popularity and self-indulgence, with no care for the soul of the music, makes me sick. that´s where i draw the line and announce that it sucks

and i have to agree on the thing about discovering meshuggah and bulb and all that stuff, as well as devin townsend, because now i see music as this open-ended thing where there are no rules and all possibility. now it´s hard for me to hear most music without thinking about how it´s being limited and hindered from it´s full potential. i wouldn´t say that´s "ignorant" though.