Bands you liked or respected until...

[DannyJBeckett]

You do realise he did this so he could fund getting his band PiL back together, right?

It's also why he appeared on I'm a Celebrity, Get Me out of Here, so he could fund getting the Sex Pistols back for an anniversary tour.

 

[Hyrulian Hero]

Metallica... It was shortly after they released that god-awful St. Anger album that I was in the mall and saw a sign at Hot Topic that said new Metallica shirts! One of the ones I saw had cartoonicatures of each of the band members on stage. Fine. Except that on stage with them was fucking Spongebob! Spongebob! Because when I think Metallica, oh yeah, I think Spongebob... So after that, I haven't gone to another concert, bought another CD or shirt, or had anything else to do with the band.

 

[DigitalSushi]

Linken park, I stoped respecting them becuase they becme more nd more shit, even when they were hit they still kept going in tht direction, try to go out with some decency.

OH Yeah, what ever happened to Linkin Park?, they were pretty much the voice of a generation, good music with meaning... and suddenly they feel like a corporate band merely making music for whatever corporation is giving them money.

Linkin Park?
Voice of a generation?
BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Now don't get me wrong, I liked them when I was 13 just like every other 13 year old and looking back...yeah, they had some good songs but "voice of a generation" is a serious over-statement. Hell, just look at them now. They're the guys Micheal Bay goes to whenever he wants a movie soundtrack.

Yeah I know, using "voice of a generation" was overdoing it, but you can't deny they did pretty much "own" music and rock for 2 years, and look at them now. Like you say, Michael Bay and EA music monkeys.

 

[Tom Artingstall]

I liked Guns 'n' Roses, until Axl Rose showed up on stage for a concert FOUR HOURS LATE without so much as an apology or a "We'll be out soon, has happened" message during the wait. Just four hours of uncertain mumbling from a large arena crowd.

 

[StBishop]

First time I heard Through the Fire and the Flames from Dragonforce it sounded quite badass; nice speed and some good solo-work. But then I found a vid of them doing that same song live....
I just can't listen to any of their work anymore, knowing that it's all studio editing without any real talent from their side.

I had this with Mindless Self Indulgence.

I was originally going to be a prat and claim that I'm above this but I was truly disappointed by them live and I did stop buying their music.

I outgrew it anyway, and that was inevitable, but while I was still enjoying their music I stopped getting any more of it.

 

[k3v1n]

I used to really like Marilyn Manson (despite what y'all say 'bout him) but he lost my respect when "Eat me, Drink me" was released...I just, I don't know. His lyrics were about society, religion, Politics, etc. Suddenly, he started writing depressing and sad songs.

 

[Worgen]

I used to like system of the down until I heard the song science, well heard the song and actually listened to the lyrics, one of the lines is "science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence, letting the reigns go to the unfolding is faith" to me that sounds like they are saying, "science sucks, yay faith" and faith is one of the more retarded things that people have, so fuck em.

you got it so wrong its actually hilarious. you gave up easily the best band of the last 10 years over a misunderstanding you were at fault for. Its about the beautiful hypocrisy of religion.

I liked Metallica until load.
I liked muse till they found out what money is.
I liked slayer until i listened to a second slayer song. the intros are different but the rest is the same.(didn't like the first song much anyway.)

Oh please, they are far from the best band of the last 10 years, even when I liked them they weren't in my top 5, and I've never been one for the standard band music anyway, so that is saying something. Really all they have is a lead singer with a hell of a voice.

and more songwriting talent between them than any metal band .

and a great guitarist and back up vocalist in malakian. seriously. toxicity was the album of the decade. sure its been a pretty crap decade for music. and besides your "top 5" is your opinion, im not saying they are the best because i like them the most(and i dont) im saying it because they are by FAR the most creative band the worlds had in a while and brilliant and classy with their execution. and they kicked ass live

Being better song writers then most metal bands isn't much of a compliment.
No, the most creative band is Weird Al's band, it takes talent to do what he does, system is an pretty good band who takes a very very stupid stance in one of their songs, and that is enough for me to not like them.

 

[Jingle Fett]

Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight wasn't terrible on it's own merits but it was the beginning of the end. Thousand Suns sealed it off It's not bad in and of itself but its just not the kind of music I listen to. Sorry LP, until you guys go back to Hybrid Theory/Meteora style, I won't be there. I still listen to HT and Meteora regularly, I don't listen to MtM regularly and I haven't bought Thousand Suns at all.
Now they sound like just about every other band and have no personality.

 

[Hazy992]

I guess I kinda liked the ICP until they made Miracles. Now it's just no...just no.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

I liked Megadeth until... I met Dave Mustaine and found out what a real asshole he is.

You had to meet Dave before you realized that?

You know I should have known that getting kicked out of Metallica (a band notorious for being full of assholes) should have given me a clue, but in person he really was a dickhead. Reminds me of how I liked Disturbed up until I saw them live when they weren't even well known or popular and how the lead singer pulled a full on primadonna act because someone decided to chuck a water bottle at him. He proceeded to stop the song and whine and complain and threaten to leave the stage if another bottle hit him (at which point the crowd boo'd the hell out of him). A comparison point for that was when I saw Marilyn Manson live and Manson got hit with a full bottle, he didn't stop the song but waited til it was over and asked the guy who chucked it to come to the stage, whereupon he chucked the bottle back at him which sparked the entire crowd to chuck bottles at the dude). That to me was classy.

 

[Worgen]

I used to like system of the down until I heard the song science, well heard the song and actually listened to the lyrics, one of the lines is "science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence, letting the reigns go to the unfolding is faith" to me that sounds like they are saying, "science sucks, yay faith" and faith is one of the more retarded things that people have, so fuck em.

you got it so wrong its actually hilarious. you gave up easily the best band of the last 10 years over a misunderstanding you were at fault for. Its about the beautiful hypocrisy of religion.

I liked Metallica until load.
I liked muse till they found out what money is.
I liked slayer until i listened to a second slayer song. the intros are different but the rest is the same.(didn't like the first song much anyway.)

Oh please, they are far from the best band of the last 10 years, even when I liked them they weren't in my top 5, and I've never been one for the standard band music anyway, so that is saying something. Really all they have is a lead singer with a hell of a voice.

and more songwriting talent between them than any metal band .

and a great guitarist and back up vocalist in malakian. seriously. toxicity was the album of the decade. sure its been a pretty crap decade for music. and besides your "top 5" is your opinion, im not saying they are the best because i like them the most(and i dont) im saying it because they are by FAR the most creative band the worlds had in a while and brilliant and classy with their execution. and they kicked ass live

Being better song writers then most metal bands isn't much of a compliment.
No, the most creative band is Weird Al's band, it takes talent to do what he does, system is an pretty good band who takes a very very stupid stance in one of their songs, and that is enough for me to not like them.

NO they dont take a stupid stance, its about the HYPOCRISY of religion. did you not read my first post or do you not no that that word means.

I fail to see how the lines.... I'm not typing all that again, essentially saying science fails since it doesn't have faith, is about the hypocrisy of religion.

 

[BlackWidower]

I liked Metallica until they started suing their most loyal fans.

 

[Rule Britannia]

I liked three days grace a lot before I discovered they were druggy smokers ¬.¬.
I liked Greenday until I listened to something else (I still think Holiday is a good song though )

 

[Mr.Mattress]

I like Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band but... Recently I found out some rather disturbing things about him. The main thing I found out about him was the man was basically Charles Manson had he got the recording contract he wanted. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trout_Mask_Replica#Background] I mean, good god man. And it happened again on a second album, but it was actually worse then during Trout Mask Replica! And I don't like most of Trout Mask Replica to be honest.

Sorry for Ressurecting an old thread. I just thought you guys would like to know.

 

[Aidinthel]

I don't really pay attention to bands; I just collect songs that I like. For some reason whenever I do seek out an artist's other work I find that I don't like it very much.

 

[Lilani]

Also if anyone starts that whole Tarja vs Anette thing again I will come round your house with Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes and beat the snot out of you, ala J&SBSB. Fact.

Thank you! Man do I hate Anette VS Tarja arguments. If you hate Anette so much, then go listen to Tarja's stuff and leave us alone. What's done is done, and no amount of "zomg is so generic now ugh" hipster whining is going to change that.

Anyway, regardless of what Tuomus likes, Imaginarium looks awesome. And I'm quite fond of their new single.

As far as other bands...I can't say this has really happened to me yet. Any bands or artists I lost respect for I never actively listened to that much in the first place (Mariah Carey and Miley Cyrus I'm looking at you).

 

[papakapp]

I used to like system of the down until I heard the song science, well heard the song and actually listened to the lyrics, one of the lines is "science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence, letting the reigns go to the unfolding is faith" to me that sounds like they are saying, "science sucks, yay faith" and faith is one of the more retarded things that people have, so fuck em.

How would you explain their line "Why cry when angels deserve to die?" in "Chop Suey"? Taking lines out of context aside, perhaps "Science" is just a commentary on the short-comings of science? How its ostensible promise of leading us into a new and better world is slightly undercut when you consider the horrors humanity has had to endure ever since the advent of the modern age? Its undervaluing of the more spiritual, intangible qualities inherent in human existence?

Just throwing that out there, feel free to agree or disagree. Honestly, System aren't even that good in my opinion, so you not listening to them certainly isn't much of a loss as far as I'm concerned. That being said, if there's one thing I'm not a fan of, it's rash decisions!

If they also didn't repeat "science has failed our world" over and over again then I might be more inclined to agree, plus it doesn't help that the song is damn catchy and I cant even think about these stupid lyrics without the damn thing getting stuck in my head. I liked it allot better before I knew what the words said.

I suddenly like system of a down a lot more now.

RE: the theme of the thread, I don't like republicans, George Bush, or country music, but when the Dixie Chicks went off on Bush, I would have quit listening to them if I ever had listened to them in the first place. I also lost respect for Green Day after "american idiot" and I lost respect for Eminem after "mosh". Pretty much whenever a singer gets political in their music I loose respect for them.

But for a band to sing about how cold rationalism is the death of real living, that is exactly what music is imho. Music is real living and the exact opposite of cold rationalism. Science is cold rationalism and not real living.

 

[Worgen]

I used to like system of the down until I heard the song science, well heard the song and actually listened to the lyrics, one of the lines is "science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence, letting the reigns go to the unfolding is faith" to me that sounds like they are saying, "science sucks, yay faith" and faith is one of the more retarded things that people have, so fuck em.

How would you explain their line "Why cry when angels deserve to die?" in "Chop Suey"? Taking lines out of context aside, perhaps "Science" is just a commentary on the short-comings of science? How its ostensible promise of leading us into a new and better world is slightly undercut when you consider the horrors humanity has had to endure ever since the advent of the modern age? Its undervaluing of the more spiritual, intangible qualities inherent in human existence?

Just throwing that out there, feel free to agree or disagree. Honestly, System aren't even that good in my opinion, so you not listening to them certainly isn't much of a loss as far as I'm concerned. That being said, if there's one thing I'm not a fan of, it's rash decisions!

If they also didn't repeat "science has failed our world" over and over again then I might be more inclined to agree, plus it doesn't help that the song is damn catchy and I cant even think about these stupid lyrics without the damn thing getting stuck in my head. I liked it allot better before I knew what the words said.

I suddenly like system of a down a lot more now.

RE: the theme of the thread, I don't like republicans, George Bush, or country music, but when the Dixie Chicks went off on Bush, I would have quit listening to them if I ever had listened to them in the first place. I also lost respect for Green Day after "american idiot" and I lost respect for Eminem after "mosh". Pretty much whenever a singer gets political in their music I loose respect for them.

But for a band to sing about how cold rationalism is the death of real living, that is exactly what music is imho. Music is real living and the exact opposite of cold rationalism. Science is cold rationalism and not real living.

Ugh, its the thread that wont fucken die. The only people that think science is cold and rational are people that don't know science, I know science, science is a personal friend and has much more love then any faith.

 

[BathorysGraveland]

Well, I myself, have no problem if a bands members or even the lyrics are racist. Hell, I like Arghoslent for Christ's sake xD. It's just something that makes a band stand out I suppose, either for shock value or because they firmly stand my their beliefs (the Polish black metal scene is notorious for this). At the end of the day, if the music is good, I'll listen to it, whether the band are religious or National Socialists.

 

[papakapp]

I used to like system of the down until I heard the song science, well heard the song and actually listened to the lyrics, one of the lines is "science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence, letting the reigns go to the unfolding is faith" to me that sounds like they are saying, "science sucks, yay faith" and faith is one of the more retarded things that people have, so fuck em.

How would you explain their line "Why cry when angels deserve to die?" in "Chop Suey"? Taking lines out of context aside, perhaps "Science" is just a commentary on the short-comings of science? How its ostensible promise of leading us into a new and better world is slightly undercut when you consider the horrors humanity has had to endure ever since the advent of the modern age? Its undervaluing of the more spiritual, intangible qualities inherent in human existence?

Just throwing that out there, feel free to agree or disagree. Honestly, System aren't even that good in my opinion, so you not listening to them certainly isn't much of a loss as far as I'm concerned. That being said, if there's one thing I'm not a fan of, it's rash decisions!

If they also didn't repeat "science has failed our world" over and over again then I might be more inclined to agree, plus it doesn't help that the song is damn catchy and I cant even think about these stupid lyrics without the damn thing getting stuck in my head. I liked it allot better before I knew what the words said.

I suddenly like system of a down a lot more now.

RE: the theme of the thread, I don't like republicans, George Bush, or country music, but when the Dixie Chicks went off on Bush, I would have quit listening to them if I ever had listened to them in the first place. I also lost respect for Green Day after "american idiot" and I lost respect for Eminem after "mosh". Pretty much whenever a singer gets political in their music I loose respect for them.

But for a band to sing about how cold rationalism is the death of real living, that is exactly what music is imho. Music is real living and the exact opposite of cold rationalism. Science is cold rationalism and not real living.

Ugh, its the thread that wont fucken die. The only people that think science is cold and rational are people that don't know science, I know science, science is a personal friend and has much more love then any faith.

Then you would make a horrible scientist. Science is unbiased and clinical. Based on your most recent post in this thread I can Objectively say that you are neither objective nor clinical on this issue as evidenced by your use of the subjective words :"love" and "friend".
This shows two things:

First, despite what you say you believe, you clearly are not "scientific" all the time. (science is Latin for knowledge, and you are not operating on knowledge at this time, you are operating on emotion).
Second, despite what you say about subjective things like "faith", you have a great deal of faith in the usefulness of the scientific method. There are two ways to deduce that the scientific method is a useful method of inquiry. Either you admit that you have faith that the scientific method is useful (as I do), or else you use the scientific method to prove that the scientific method is useful. That would be circular reasoning. So the first one is naked faith, and the second one is covert faith.

I'm all for clinical objectivity when it is warranted. I do it all the time. But I don't have faith in it. That is just another faith based system with its own zealots who, if they are true zealots, they will remain in self denial until they see the error of their ways.

(don't argue with me on the point about proto-religious self denial or you will just be proving my point. I would recommend that you objectively attempt to dismantle the argument from the regress problem [the argument that says that science can't be used to prove itself as a valid method of inquiry] if you want to have a sophisticated argument.) ...of course, nobody has been able to dismantle that for hundreds of years...


Plus, I like music and other arts. They have more meaning when there is more to life than rationalism.