What's up with music these days???

[geoff_tropheus]

Rhett, you make me laugh. You sound just like my friends and I when Metallica made the "One" video and it played on MTV. We were all like those fawkers sold out, that's FN bs. Until that video Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Testament, and others like them never got air play on radio or MTV. That video changed them, it changed it for me and my friends.

I'll never forget watching MTV unplugged one night in the barracks, and it was Alice in Chains. It was their first concert in like 2 years or more, and the bassist wrote on his bass... "Friends don't let Friends get haircuts" I laughed my *** off, because he did it on purpose and Metallica was in the studio audience. It was right after the Black albumn and Metallica had all cut their hair short, looking like everyone else.

The music for me then was all anti-establishment, it was me. And what I learned over the years, is that "does the man make the music, or does the music make the man?" Music is always changing, music comes from you.

So wether your Chuck Billy, George Fisher, or Tom Araya and singing hardcore/thrash/death Metal in your 40's or your James Hetfield and your music styles changed as your life changed, it does not matter.

Just play... or enjoy what music does for you and how it touches your life...and answers the question for you... "Does the man make the music, or does the music make the man?"

[danielp]

Lady Gaga is awesome!

And i'll admit that I thought as a band of musicians Boy George had a really solid group of musicians. If you closed your eyes and absorbed the music they were really good. Open your eyes and what the heck everything was lost in the side show.

Lady Gaga is alot like that if you listen to the voice, lyrics and musicians she's dang good.

I prefer instrumental type bands. Steely Dan being a favorite and anything with a good alto or tenor saxophone mixed in.

I'm also a Led Zeppelin fan and am proud to say that I saw them live in Greensboro NC on May 31st 1977. Oh what a beautiful evening it was.

[smk]

i listen to just about everything except country(born and raised in texas can't stand country) right now i'm kinda diggin cage the elephant talking of lady gaga someone like that but before her and much younger was lady sovereign back in the early '80's i was liking the tangerine dream,klause shultz thing 70's was dead kennedys black flag in the 70-80's a guitarist that had some good speed was al dimeola not really rock more fusion type music but lightning fast oh yeah a present band that has awsome musicianship is dream theater again not hard or metal but crazy good wild time sigs and s@#t

[Nickintex]

Why am I suddenly craving for lamb chops?

[FrontosaurusRex]

theres sheep on both sides of the fence. Just because some metal kid dresses up all metal that doesn't make him different it makes him the same as all the other metalheads part of a group or a 'flock' if you will.

I agree that there are sheep on both sides, but the difference is, if WE find a sheep, we get rid of them. We dont let em keep on posing and pretending they're part of us. Also, we CHOOSE to be different, to listen to different music and dress different. Most of the world turns on the radio and turns on the TV and listens to whatever is on. You guys have very limited music stations and very limited TV stations so it's no wonder that the masses all look and act alike. At least our flock has a mind of its own.

[amilcar]

vampire weekend is one of those new gropus that are cool!!

[Nickintex]

Lady Gaga is awesome!

[cichlid1409]

that was alot of rhetoric....heard it all before, who cares what others do with their time as long as you get out of life what you want, listen to what you want and do what you want. theres sheep on both sides of the fence. Just because some metal kid dresses up all metal that doesn't make him different it makes him the same as all the other metalheads part of a group or a 'flock' if you will.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 17

[gotticgs]

That is exactly what is wrong with music today. Everyone keeps looking behind instead of out infront. The problem I run into a lot as a musician is that "normal people" (non musicians) aren't schooled in whats technically good. I get frustrated when people walk around throwing up devil horns when someone yells out "Slayer!" or "Metallica!"...those guys were good for THEIR time, its not their time anymore. I'm not saying I dont respect them for what they did, but nothing they wrote or write is relevent in their respective genres. There are so many amazing musicans out there right now that get over shadowed because everyone compares them to the past. The future of metal is in the list I made earlier in this thread. They may not ever get radio time, horny groupies or people chanting their names in bars, but thats not what metal is about. There are very few "radio" bands that I respect as musicans. This is a small list of them:
Lady Gaga (say what you want, she's a genius...people looked at David Bowie the same way)
Paramore
Three Days Grace
Flyleaf (they arent great musicians but they have emotion in their work)
Jay Z

Thats about it. I just dont hear music on the radio that is inspiring and its your fault. You guys keep tuning in to The Buzz and supporting the trash they put on the radio. You guys keep turning on MTV and staring at it like sheep while the next One Hit Wonder smears dog sh*t on your screen. Turn it off, complain to radio stations, stop buying crap records and downloading crap songs. Go out and BUY a complete album of the band you love and listen to the whole damn thing...not just the bubble gum single they put out last week. I see a few of you guys on here talking about Pantera and Dime and how great they were and how much respect you all have for them, but Dime would be spinning in his grave if he knew the crap you listen to on a daily basis....shame on you. I'm gonna freak out on the next person that calls themselves a metal head or throws up devil horns at the mention of Buzz Fest. I think Lamb of God said it best when they said,

"There's nothing for you to fight against
You're so unreal it's evident
You'll never be one of our kind
This ain't yours, f@#$ you don't try

This bridge was burnt before you could cross
You reap the benefits of what's lost
Go home son, hang your costume up
A goddam insult to the rest of us
A thousand-yard state across the south
A full belly and a lying mouth
Momma's boy plays heretic
The real thing would kill you quick"

Best lyrics EVER!!

DUD YOU ARE SO RIGHT ! she has skilz just dresses retarded my wife thought i was retarded when I told her that

[Nickintex]

It's like Jerry Springer.....

Midget Love Triangle's

Hey! I know I'm short or "vertically challenged".


Back to music.

[FrontosaurusRex]

[QUOTE=I don't care about all the new junk coming out, just stick to the classics and you can't go wrong :)[/QUOTE]

That is exactly what is wrong with music today. Everyone keeps looking behind instead of out infront. The problem I run into a lot as a musician is that "normal people" (non musicians) aren't schooled in whats technically good. I get frustrated when people walk around throwing up devil horns when someone yells out "Slayer!" or "Metallica!"...those guys were good for THEIR time, its not their time anymore. I'm not saying I dont respect them for what they did, but nothing they wrote or write is relevent in their respective genres. There are so many amazing musicans out there right now that get over shadowed because everyone compares them to the past. The future of metal is in the list I made earlier in this thread. They may not ever get radio time, horny groupies or people chanting their names in bars, but thats not what metal is about. There are very few "radio" bands that I respect as musicans. This is a small list of them:
Lady Gaga (say what you want, she's a genius...people looked at David Bowie the same way)
Paramore
Three Days Grace
Flyleaf (they arent great musicians but they have emotion in their work)
Jay Z

Thats about it. I just dont hear music on the radio that is inspiring and its your fault. You guys keep tuning in to The Buzz and supporting the trash they put on the radio. You guys keep turning on MTV and staring at it like sheep while the next One Hit Wonder smears dog sh*t on your screen. Turn it off, complain to radio stations, stop buying crap records and downloading crap songs. Go out and BUY a complete album of the band you love and listen to the whole damn thing...not just the bubble gum single they put out last week. I see a few of you guys on here talking about Pantera and Dime and how great they were and how much respect you all have for them, but Dime would be spinning in his grave if he knew the crap you listen to on a daily basis....shame on you. I'm gonna freak out on the next person that calls themselves a metal head or throws up devil horns at the mention of Buzz Fest. I think Lamb of God said it best when they said,

"There's nothing for you to fight against
You're so unreal it's evident
You'll never be one of our kind
This ain't yours, f@#$ you don't try

This bridge was burnt before you could cross
You reap the benefits of what's lost
Go home son, hang your costume up
A goddam insult to the rest of us
A thousand-yard state across the south
A full belly and a lying mouth
Momma's boy plays heretic
The real thing would kill you quick"

Best lyrics EVER!!

[Nickintex]

Or take more acid.

Is that what you take when you listen to your Brittney Spears mp3s?

[myjohnson]

Or take more acid.

[cichlid1409]

to try and stay close to the threads topic....... I don't care about all the new junk coming out, just stick to the classics and you can't go wrong :)

[myjohnson]

huh...good response!!! We supposed to be hatin on Thai here...join in, its fun!

Oh sorry i meant to say.....

what were you and thai doing in the backseat of nicks car??

Really funny.....JERK FACES!