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Post by Ai on Jan 22, 2005 13:42:45 GMT -5
Just list your Top 5 Bands/Musical Artists, and then your most hated ones. We had a thread like this a while ago at the other bar, I thought it would be fun to bring it back and compare.
Bad Ass:
1. Megadeth - In all of their years, there was one sub-par album. Everything else is gold.
2. GWAR - They're fucking GWAR. What's not to love about them?
3. Rammstein - They've not been around as long as Megadeth, but every album they put out is better than their last.
4. Iron Maiden - The only good thing to come out of Britian.
5. Iced Earth - These guys are like the epitome of metal. They're just plain awesome.
Bad:
1. Nirvana - Over-rated, and over-loved. They just suck.
2. Eminem - Come on, he's a white piece of shit rapper who relies on shock value.
3. Daft Punk - Shitty techno + Shitty anime music videos = Shitty band.
4. Emo. It's all I have to say. Get over your problems, shit heads.
5. Marilyn Manson - Shock value with mostly crappy music. There are a few good songs.
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Post by Raz V5.0 on Jan 22, 2005 17:48:25 GMT -5
- Best -
1. Camp Kill Yourself (CKY), I love these guys and not just because it is Bam Margera's brothers band. In fact, I knew about these guys before I even knew who Bam was. Their fans piss me off, incredibly, but I still love the music.
2. Elton John, enough said.
3. Garth Brooks, the dude is awesome. A great entertainer and a great song writer, if you don't like him, go fuck yourself.
4. Young Buck, awesome rapper. His lyrics are true and give you a feel for the southern ghettos. Being with 50 Cent, Game, and Lloyd Banks doesn't hurt him either.
5. Slayer, they're fucking Slayer.
- Worst -
1. Nirvana, overrated to all hell and it just proves my stating that Kurt Cobain is a pussy.
2. Dead Kennedys, fuck punk rock.
3. Dashboard Confessional, fuck emo.
4. AFI, fuck these guys and all their little bitch faggot fans. They may have one song I like, but the bad far out weighs the good.
5. MXPX, fuck 'em.
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Post by Corey on Jan 22, 2005 23:37:21 GMT -5
Awz0m:
1. Bright Eyes - Conor Oberst can write some of the best most melodic and well composed songs I've ever fucking heard. I don't even particularly love his music more than other favorite bands. It's just you can hear the quality of it. It's so amazing.
2. Arab Strap - Crazy experimental acoustic/electronic Scottish rock that doesn't give a fuck. Emotional (or lack thereof) music that doesn't whine or rage.
3. The Smiths - Flamin' 80s rock. Morrissey was a genius as much as he was gay. And the guitar work is just as brilliant.
4. Glassjaw - Pseudo-emo "hardcore" alt rock, and that's a horrible description. Glassjaw's one of the most intense bands I've ever heard. The bizarre, cryptic lyrics are engulfing and the pure adrenaline and rage in their music leaves your heart pounding in your chest.
5. Postal Service - Simplistic electronic indie-ish rock from the colloboration of Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie and Dntel. Soft yet powerful music that surrounds you and sucks you in. Gibbard's amazing vocals is the true highlight of their work.
teh Sux0rz (in no particular order):
1. AFI - Their music sucks. Their fans suck. They suck.
2. Madonna - She used to be kinda cool and make some nice songs, but she slowly got worse and worse until she became the Kabbalah-istic Target-whore we all know and despise today.
3. Dir En Grey - Sure, they're snappy, japanese, egl, transvestite-y dressers. But there's alot of that in Japan, and the others tended to do it alot better. Like Malice Mizer who could actually make really good music. Dir En Grey puts out albums that I would hardly consider audible. Grinding neurotic guitars and crazy double kick, 2/4, 240bpm beats suck no matter how they're done.
4. Nirvana (I'll regrete this) - I love their music. But they're overrated and overly popular to death.
5. Eh, I dunno Marilyn Manson, Mudvayne, Slipknot, bands like that are all overrated. And Hot Hot Heat. They just annoy me. And now HIM's getting overrated as well.
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Post by dragonclaw15 on Jan 23, 2005 18:34:26 GMT -5
Good (By no means a complete list of my top artists, just the first ones I thought of)
1. Bright Eyes - Same reasons as Corey, basically. Conor Oberst is a pure musical genius, and his lyrics are both profound and heartfelt. Unfortunately, sometimes his ego truly shows in his songs.
2. Modest Mouse - Some really great sounds and really good songwriting. Isaac Brock is a master of fitting his songs to his music.
3. Bloodhound Gang - The songwriter is a genius. A pure genius. His songs fit together so well, and there are no breaks in the melody. His writing flows and rhymes like a poet's. Plus, their songs are hilarious.
4. The Ataris - Pop-Punk, unfortunately, but they hold a special place for me. Some pretty relevant lyrics, though.
5. The Magnetic Fields - Some really good music, some really good lyrics, and one of the best male singing voices I have ever heard (I wonder if his homosexuality has anything to do with it).
Bad:
1. Daft Punk - They have done exactly one and one half of a good song.
2. U2 - Some of their work is good, but I don't like most of it. And does Bono (I think that's him) even HAVE testicles? His voice could shatter glass sometimes.
3. Boy Bands. How could anyone have not mentioned this yet?
4. Evanescence - They have done, to my recollection, exactly one third of a good song. Amy Lee is a cutie, and she has a nice voice, but unfortunately her band is nothing but Gothica Lite, listened to only by whiny teenage girls who cut because they're morons.
5. System of a Down - Holy shit. These guys suck big gay dicks. Not that there's anything wrong with homosexuality, just that these guys suck the dicks hard enough to rip them bleeding from the bodies that they are attached to. Some truly retarded lyrics (Hello! My name is Johnny! for five minutes? Fuck you and your mom.) and music bad enough to make your rip your ears from your skull combine to make a band that should be struck with the wrath of every diety on the earth.
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Post by Cygnus X-1 on Jan 26, 2005 19:49:57 GMT -5
Top five:
Squeeze- Wonderful, snappy songs, wonderful lyricism and instrumentals. The lead had a great voice and they're all excellent musicians. One of the few '80s bands that don't suck ass.
Frank Sinatra- 'Nuff said. (I know he's not a band.)
The Bare Naked Ladies- Same reasons as Squeeze, but, instead, their sound defines the '90s.
Stevie Wonder- Music covers such a broad range of genres, and Stevie wonder really, in my opinion, takes the cake for romantic music. He does it without making them sappy or slow.
MC 900 ft. Jesus- Not just because of BWMA. All of His music is different and strange and astonishing and complex.
Runners up: ACDC, Talking Heads, Miles Davis, Crowded House.
Negative five:
Eminem- Just an untalented loser poser. I've never listened to any of his songs all the way through on my own volition.
Led Zeppelin- The music itself isn't all that bad, but the lead's voice is just painful to listen to. Way, way overrated.
Evanescence- Incomprehensible, emo, new wave garbage. Amy Lee has no talent as a vocalist nor as a song-writer, if she even writes her own music.
AFI- A quote would be most appropriate for this:
Emo.- No explanation needed.
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Post by Craze on Jan 26, 2005 20:35:18 GMT -5
1. Radiohead - Other than the Beatles, this band has made me believe they are next to the Beatles as the greatest band. Not only are they the right mix of guitar, vocals, lyrics, etc. but they are one of the few rock and rollers to have experimented heavily right after they got popular.
2. They Might Be Giants - Like Weird Al but better song creaters with originality, witty and sometimes hilariously dark lyrics, and songs that are so catchy that you have them stuck in the back ends of your mind.
3. Lemon Jelly - This band though small (2 members) and small line up (2 albums) they have on eof the most replayable albums I've ever heard, one I can hear from beginning to end, with mellow moods and styles that are almost surreal.
4. Talking Heads - It's Talking Heads for crying out loud!
5. Pram - I honestly don't know why I have this here. They play the surrealistic jazz to dark, grinding madness to odd oddities, complete with the hauntingly soothing female vocals.
Worst:
1. Emo - Get over it.
2. Rap - Get over it.
3. Nirvana - So overrated it hurts. Their talent pails in comparision to bands of their time ,yet they get the most credit. Sure ,In Utero was a good album, but everything from Nevermind is so mind-achingly monotonous.
4. The pillows - The equivalent of New FOund Glory and Good Charlotte as a Japanese band. Blah.
5. Led Zeppelin - Sure, Houses of the Holy is a good album, but their work also is just monotonous compared to others of their time. Very overrated.
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Post by dragonclaw15 on Jan 26, 2005 21:23:30 GMT -5
So a bunch of people have just said that emo sucks, and I don't believe that they don't really know what emo is.
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Post by The Giant-Size Man Thing on Jan 26, 2005 21:29:28 GMT -5
These are my top favorite bands. They may not be yours, but I like them. I know what I like and I know what I don't. Know what I'm saying?
1. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Look, I don't know why, but I just love Jimi's music. "Purple Haze," "Fire," or "All Along the Watchtower" can just get me going somedays, and "Hey, Joe" and "Castles Made of Sand" are just great for mellowing out.
2. Cream - Eric Clapton's best work. Period.
3. Rolling Stones - This was the band that defined "Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll." Say what you will about them, that they suck, that they're old, that they're overrated, I don't care. I like them. If you have a problem with that you can suck my Stones.
4. Led Zeppelin - Already on two Worst lists, but I couldn't give less than a shit. I like them. I don't know why, I just do. Yes, they are hit and miss sometimes, but what band isn't?
5. Open. I like a lot of bands, and hell, I don't even know the names of most of the ones I like. I listen to the radio and say, "Hey, I like this song. I don't know the band who plays it or even the name of the song, but hell, I like it."
Worst:
1. Metallica - I don't know why, I just can't stand them. My biggest complaint is probably what Cyg doesn't like about Led Zeppelin. Their music is great, but something about the vocals that just rubs me the wrong way. I don't know.
2-5. Well, it's basically Top 5 Number 5, just replace the word "like" with "hate"
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Post by Mega Raptor on Jan 26, 2005 21:44:01 GMT -5
Hmmm... hard to say... I can't really order the bands I like after a certain point, and I don't really dislike specific bands so much as I dislike styles.
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Post by Fireball on Jan 31, 2005 20:59:58 GMT -5
Oh you people suck.
The Best:
Led Zeppelin: Gods.
John Lennon: He is the God of music.
Jimmy Hendrix: Have you heard his guitar solos?
AFI: Changed my life. Any band that does that deserves to be on my best list.
My Chemical Romance: The only band to date in which I like every song on their CD.
The Shit:
Country Music: If there was an eleventh commandment, it would be to not invent this.
Most rap today: I liked the pioneers in rap, such as Tupac, but all stuff follows the same formula today. From the street, talk about money and booty. Sucks ass.
Britney Spears: Do I need to explain?
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Post by DarkAries on Jan 31, 2005 22:18:09 GMT -5
Aries can't remember listening to any music he honestly would sit down and hate. Oh, well. And keep in mind, Aries prefers listening to songs instead of bands.
Awesome:
1) Green Day. Been around. Still good. So fuck you.
2) Dave Matthews Band. Been around even longer. Still good. So fuck you again.
3) Enya. Aries is a Scot, and has an overactive imagination. He's allowed to like this chick's music.
4) Hoobastank. Aries doesn't know what it is. These guys must have sold their souls or something to get as many good songs as they have. And Aries to like 'em, for that matter.
5) Weird Al Yankovic. Dude's sharp, he's funny, he's ubiquitous. What more you want?!
Despised:
1) Emo. Die.
2) Country. Explode in peace.
3) Nirvana. If Aries could understand what the hell they were singing in some cases, they'd probably be even higher on the hate scale.
4) Metallica. Why are y'all even still around?!
5) Brittney Spears and all her incarnations. First Bush, Rove, Cheney, and Rice...then you, hon. *chambers round on his sniper rifle.*
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Post by Wag - Now And Forever on Jan 31, 2005 22:31:21 GMT -5
That hurts. As does:
And this
You people make me cry.
Worst (In no order)
- Maralyn Manson: Makes me laugh at how desperately his music is a cry for attention instead of an "artistic statement". Please go be satan's other buttplug, along with Ryune.
- Eminem: Normally I would put a hit out on him, or maybe even do it myself. Sadly, his death would likely just result in people releasing 2000000000 remixes of his songs, exactly like Tupac. Without any other way left to silence him, the best bet is for people to do what he fears most - ignore him totally, neither hate nor love him.
- Country: Usually I tolerate country because it is part of the US's heritage, but recently with country tracks featuring vocals like "What? what?" and so on, I've been forced to slap the honky-tonk on the hate list. Please go back to the real country music roots instead of this wannabe pop-rap bullshit.
- Virtually every Emo / Punk band: Of the likes of Good Charolette, Blink 182, Green Day, Yellowcard and a slew of others I'm glad to not know the names of. Please stop trying to tell me that I should buy only Hollister, American Eagle, Pac Sun and Abercrombie clothes, and also have bleached hair while contemplating something angsty about a girlfriend. I'm sorry, please go live in a third world country, or instead, have someone shit on you every day of your life, then talk about being angsty.
I could name so many more, but one that sticks out:
- Tool / A Perfect Circle: Thanks, we're so glad you could be born, Maynard, in order to curse your very own existance into hell. On the way, drag down as many people as possible while making it seem cool by slapping the words "new age" on it. I hope you live to be an old man, Maynard, so you can fucking loose your mind to alzheimer's and live in a nursing home, trapped in your own body and unable to escape your own indignity of not being able to control your own fucking bowels.
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The Good:
1. X Japan - The most influential asian musical artists ever. I think that says enough.
2. Dillinger Escape Plan - Pioneers of Hardcore music. Their live performances do not disappoint. Insanely technical guitar combined with one of the most ruthless Rollins-esque frontmen ever.
3. Metallica - You can't deny something that has been around so long with so many rabid fans. This music epitomizes the working man's metal and all things rock. Despite all the controversy they've been through, they're still playing shows, still making music.
4. Dir En Grey - The Premier VK Band with vocals almost as fucked up as their wardrobe and makeup. Kyo's voice is like none other on earth, and their music is one of the only things that can make me rock out one moment and make my skin crawl the next. An experience all in itself.
5. The Who - Inspired rock and metal as we know it today. It might sound tame by modern standards, but Teenage Wasteland was and still is one of the greatest songs of all time.
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Post by Mega Raptor on Feb 1, 2005 0:43:09 GMT -5
Okay, took a bit of time, but I've narrowed down a few bands I like, but still nothing for hate besides obvious things, really.
In no particular order...
-System of a Down
Not really much to say, something about the combination of their song structure, out there lyrics, etc. appeals to me on a level other bands don't hit.
-Rammstein
Gotta love crazy-ass German music.
-Linkin Park
This one, I'm honestly not sure why I like. They can be classified as emo, a sub-genre I don't like at all, but at the same time don't piss me off like most of the other emo bands do. I'm guessing it's probably the style they use more than anything else, but like I said I'm not sure. Now, the vast majority of the fans of Linkin Park that I've met can do us all a favor by finding a nice, high cliff to jump off of, but the music itself isn't that bad in my opinion.
-Megadeth
Just like the music, what else is there to say?
-Disturbed
The band that really got me listening to music again in recent years after I heard the "Believe" album at Tymo's place. Good instrumentals, Draiman can actually sing unlike most other leads nowadays and their songs are just good to listen to for the most part.
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Post by dragonclaw15 on Feb 1, 2005 17:18:31 GMT -5
- Virtually every Emo / Punk band: Of the likes of Good Charolette, Blink 182, Green Day, Yellowcard and a slew of others I'm glad to not know the names of. Please stop trying to tell me that I should buy only Hollister, American Eagle, Pac Sun and Abercrombie clothes, and also have bleached hair while contemplating something angsty about a girlfriend. I'm sorry, please go live in a third world country, or instead, have someone shit on you every day of your life, then talk about being angsty. I would just like to say that none of the bands you named are really emo OR punk. Those guys are just derivative "pop-punk", emphasis on the "pop." True "punk" is dead, and emo, as a subdivision of "punk", is less dead and more misunderstood. And with nobody knowing what emo really IS, it's not really helping emo's image. I have to point out that emo has nothing to do with black glasses and whining. That's just the emo stereotype, like saying that black people steal and southerners are hicks. Just because certain members of a group do these things doesn't mean that every member does, nor does it mean that the other members like these certain members for doing what they do. In my opinion, emo is one of the most misunderstood concepts ever. Emo is nothing more than emotion. Instead of singing about, say, killing people (unless you really, really like killing people) you sing about love, or this girl you knew once, et cetera, or maybe a friend you knew who died. Nowhere in the equation does it also add that you whine about your life. Emo music, real emo music, is very rarely "whiny". Unfortunately, emo is so misunderstood that it may as well be dead. It seems that there aren't really any emo artists anymore, and emo is less of a musical style as it is a lyrical style. Songs aren't emo anymore, only lyrics. But I digress. In the paraphrased words of Justice Potter Stewart, "I can't explain it, but I know it when I see it." It's one of those things you have to be to understand. |
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Post by Ai on Feb 1, 2005 17:24:08 GMT -5
Venting by writing songs = good
Dwelling by LISTENING to said music = bad
Vent, get over it, move on. That's what I think about emo.
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