Music

Torden van Halen:

I like extremely few bands of the mainstream, the 2000's, whatever you want to call it.

I'm a ridiculously massive fan of AC/DC, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Guns n' Roses, The Sex Pistols...all the bands that shaped rock n' roll.

I really hate it when people go, "OMG Gerard Way is the best singer in the history of forever!"

What about the late and great Freddie Mercury? Robert Plant, the lead singer of Led Zeppelin, had a beautiful voice. Axl Rose, Brian Johnson, James Hetfield...they've all been around for years and are still able to perform like they're 21.

Although almost all of the music today isn't my thing, I always feel left out because everyone knows about "new" bands and don't like my taste because they're "old".

I think most of the bands today sound like each other...it just doesn't appeal to me at all.

dude, you took the words right out of my mouth.
i'm a HUGGGGEE fan of old metal bands. new bands aren't my style that much.
but my chemical romance is good. And it's kinda true of what you said. Gerard Way has an amzing voice, but it's not the best voice in the world. To me, Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses has the most beatiful voice I'VE ever heard.

I'm an old music junkie. Not because I think it's cool to like that music, or because I think it makes me superior.

Old music was the original, you know? Like 50s rock'n'roll was new, exciting, rebellious... Elvis was rude! Music in that way was new.

The Beatles are probably the biggest band in music history. You look at their record sales, the ticket sales, how I think everybody can name a Beatles song... it's amazing. Pop music in the 60s was good. Pop music nowadays lacks substance and all sounds the same. :/

Punk saw a revolution. Don't get me started on that. xD

It's just nowdays music can be seen as more or less a copy of older stuff - which there's nothing wrong with, imitation leads to individual progression - but it just doesn't appeal to me. Older music is also more raw, more real. They lacked the technology to make every note crystal clear, in tune. You could hear the beauty in the rawness.

I dunno, a lot of music nowdays is more or less a copy (hey, some of the bands I like are probably imitations of other bands) and it doesn't always work. And music nowadays has become so mass produced and talentless, partly as a result of the improvement of technology and the rising importance of image and sex appeal. Rap music about women shaking that ass just lacks substance and importance for me.

Music in the old days was something really special, and I'm not saying that all modern music isn't special. I'm generalising both about old and new music. I don't know. It's hard to explain in my own words..

I'm somewhere inbetween loving the older stuff, and the newer stuff. There are tons of modern bands that I love, but next to none of them are played on the radio. I mean Rise Against (who are slowly becoming my favorite) are mainstream, and popular. I love them because there's meaning in their lyrics. To mean that's everything, which is one of the reasons I like music from the 60's and 70's too. They had something to fight for with music, and Rise Against takes that and makes it modern.
I listen to a lot of forigen bands too because American music has been going down hill. It's really becoming commericalized, and all about business rather than talent (omg the T-word ohnoes).
Basically I like modern music but it's not popular music (MCR=Gag, Jonas Brothers=gag) to me it's just so fake. Music is supposed to mean something.

Run to the Hills:

Torden van Halen:

I like extremely few bands of the mainstream, the 2000's, whatever you want to call it.

I'm a ridiculously massive fan of AC/DC, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Guns n' Roses, The Sex Pistols...all the bands that shaped rock n' roll.

I really hate it when people go, "OMG Gerard Way is the best singer in the history of forever!"

What about the late and great Freddie Mercury? Robert Plant, the lead singer of Led Zeppelin, had a beautiful voice. Axl Rose, Brian Johnson, James Hetfield...they've all been around for years and are still able to perform like they're 21.

Although almost all of the music today isn't my thing, I always feel left out because everyone knows about "new" bands and don't like my taste because they're "old".

I think most of the bands today sound like each other...it just doesn't appeal to me at all.

dude, you took the words right out of my mouth.
i'm a HUGGGGEE fan of old metal bands. new bands aren't my style that much.
but my chemical romance is good. And it's kinda true of what you said. Gerard Way has an amzing voice, but it's not the best voice in the world. To me, Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses has the most beatiful voice I'VE ever heard.

I agree. To me, Freddie Mercury and Axl Rose have the most amazing voices ever.
Gerard is good, sure, but he's not 'the best'

Freddie Mercury.:

Run to the Hills:

Torden van Halen:

I like extremely few bands of the mainstream, the 2000's, whatever you want to call it.

I'm a ridiculously massive fan of AC/DC, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Guns n' Roses, The Sex Pistols...all the bands that shaped rock n' roll.

I really hate it when people go, "OMG Gerard Way is the best singer in the history of forever!"

What about the late and great Freddie Mercury? Robert Plant, the lead singer of Led Zeppelin, had a beautiful voice. Axl Rose, Brian Johnson, James Hetfield...they've all been around for years and are still able to perform like they're 21.

Although almost all of the music today isn't my thing, I always feel left out because everyone knows about "new" bands and don't like my taste because they're "old".

I think most of the bands today sound like each other...it just doesn't appeal to me at all.

dude, you took the words right out of my mouth.
i'm a HUGGGGEE fan of old metal bands. new bands aren't my style that much.
but my chemical romance is good. And it's kinda true of what you said. Gerard Way has an amzing voice, but it's not the best voice in the world. To me, Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses has the most beatiful voice I'VE ever heard.

I agree. To me, Freddie Mercury and Axl Rose have the most amazing voices ever.
Gerard is good, sure, but he's not 'the best'

Freddie Mercury amazes me. No one could take that voice from him, he owns it.

Gerard Way is good, but never better than Freddie. Old music is really good. My mom keeps telling me that Rock music today was nothing greater than those at her time, and I agree with her.

^Nothing can compare to the classics, because that's what they are: Classics.

sunshines:

^Nothing can compare to the classics, because that's what they are: Classics.

Yeah
:XD I just love Queen.
To be completely honest, I think pop these days is so much more shallow then it was back in the 60's and 70's and it's really sad. When did people stop writing from the heart?

Freddie Mercury.:

Yeah
:XD I just love Queen.
To be completely honest, I think pop these days is so much more shallow then it was back in the 60's and 70's and it's really sad. When did people stop writing from the heart?

Ages ago, when the music industry became just a pretty face.

It's really disappointing that you can't get songs these days, that make you stop and think. That just empower you. Even Jade Puget mentioned it in an interview once.

Jimi Hendrix makes you stop and go: "Whoa."

sunshines:

Ages ago, when the music industry became just a pretty face.

It's really disappointing that you can't get songs these days, that make you stop and think. That just empower you. Even Jade Puget mentioned it in an interview once.

Jimi Hendrix makes you stop and go: "Whoa."

Yeah It saddens me
He does.
And John Lennon :cheese:

Freddie Mercury.:

Yeah It saddens me
He does.
And John Lennon :cheese:

Completely.
And you cannot forget the Beatles and Pink Floyd.
Pink Floyd just move me so much.

sunshines:

Completely.
And you cannot forget the Beatles and Pink Floyd.
Pink Floyd just move me so much.

I don't listen to Pink Floyd that much. I mean to, but I never get around to it. :cheese:
But the Beatles, yes, and both John Lennon and Paul McCartney as solo artists.
Maybe I'm Amazed and Imagine are both such amazing and beautiful and tear jerking and amazing and brilliant songs.

Freddie Mercury.:

I don't listen to Pink Floyd that much. I mean to, but I never get around to it. :cheese:
But the Beatles, yes, and both John Lennon and Paul McCartney as solo artists.
Maybe I'm Amazed and Imagine are both such amazing and beautiful and tear jerking and amazing and brilliant songs.

That's what music is. Not about selling so many copies, but about provoking such an emotional response within someone.
Black Sabbath too. :tehe:

sunshines:

That's what music is. Not about selling so many copies, but about provoking such an emotional response within someone.
Black Sabbath too. :tehe:

Black Sabbath makes me angry :tehe:

Freddie Mercury.:

Black Sabbath makes me angry :tehe:

:tehe: Sex Pistols and Bikini Kill do that for me.

sunshines:

Freddie Mercury.:

Black Sabbath makes me angry :tehe:

:tehe: Sex Pistols and Bikini Kill do that for me.

:XD :XD
But it really is sad that kids these days think that someone they hear on the radio who can only play basic cords on the guitar [I can't even do that :lmfao] is like, the shit or something.

Freddie Mercury.:

:XD :XD
But it really is sad that kids these days think that someone they hear on the radio who can only play basic cords on the guitar [I can't even do that :lmfao] is like, the shit or something.

My dad comments about that all the time. Him being a guitarist himself said that they missing out on the "real good stuff." Calls them:
"Deprived kids."
Nirvana's stuff was simple though, but he came up with some fantastic music too. :XD
Duff-Duff music annoys me for some reason.
My music teacher called rap music "shit." :lmfao

Freddie Mercury.:

But it really is sad that kids these days think that someone they hear on the radio who can only play basic cords on the guitar is like, the shit or something.

I think most songs today sound really alike and have no real meaning. Like, 97% of Metallica's songs have a meaning. "One" is about anti-war and that is a fantastic song. "Until It Sleeps" is about cancer, "Mama Said", "The God That Failed" are all about James Hetfield's mother. I could go on and on, but I won't.

And AC/DC always has one meaning = get on out, and rock!

Which is what very few bands do today, I believe.

I listen to everything. I don't exactly have a preference, either.
Yesterday I was on a British Invasion (The Beatles, The Kinks, The Hollies, The Who and so on..) kick, today I listened to a bit of Miley Cyrus and a bit of Billie Holiday. Two extremely different artists from extremely different time periods.

I think that a lot of new music is good, fantastic even, and I think a lot of older music is good, and fantastic.

With my dad, I mean; he was a big KISS fan, Queen, Led Zepplin...
My mom likes newer stuff - actually she kind of just likes everything, really. But mostly stuff she hears on the radio and stuff.
They've both kind of influenced me, taste wise.

I think older music and newer music has a lot to offer, if you look hard enough.
I mean, there are some of those people (as mentioned, Freddie Mercury, his vocals were like, holy shit, can you get much better? Dimebag Darrel (RIP) (maybe not as much an oldie, but not a very big name amongst teenagers these days), a fucking god with the guitar, Leonard Cohen - his words are just...it's kind of sad that not a lot of people know who really wrote Hallelujah, Billie Holiday, who remains to be my favorite female vocalist of all time) that their talent isn't as recognized anymore, and it's a shame, it is, but there are a lot of gems in the present age, too.

you're my waterloo:

I think older music and newer music has a lot to offer, if you look hard enough.
I mean, there are some of those people (as mentioned, Freddie Mercury, his vocals were like, holy shit, can you get much better? Dimebag Darrel (RIP) (maybe not as much an oldie, but not a very big name amongst teenagers these days), a fucking god with the guitar, Leonard Cohen - his words are just...it's kind of sad that not a lot of people know who really wrote Hallelujah, Billie Holiday, who remains to be my favorite female vocalist of all time) that their talent isn't as recognized anymore, and it's a shame, it is, but there are a lot of gems in the present age, too.

Dimebag
He may have been a druggo and stuff, but he could really play guitar
He's who I think of when I think of the greatest guitarists, as well as Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen

Torden:

I think most songs today sound really alike and have no real meaning. Like, 97% of Metallica's songs have a meaning. "One" is about anti-war and that is a fantastic song. "Until It Sleeps" is about cancer, "Mama Said", "The God That Failed" are all about James Hetfield's mother. I could go on and on, but I won't.

And AC/DC always has one meaning = get on out, and rock!

Which is what very few bands do today, I believe.

Yeah
And a lot of people think that the thrash and metal genres are just mindless words and a lot of awesome riffs, and they don't understand that a lot of those songs actually have meaning.