They may do suggestions. If I like it, it will gain a spot in my playlist, if not, then i'll ignore it. Not sensitive to peer pressure though.
"Dude, you need to listen to more music..."
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I've never get the "dude, you need to listen to more music" thing. Quite the opposite actually, I usually get the "dude, what the hell are you listening to now?" thing - two of my best mates work for a digital jukebox company, so I get exposed to quite a lot of new and different bands.
I just tell them I'm the mother flippin' Hiphopotamus, THEY need to widen THEIR music taste!
[sub]sorry, I'm listening to FOTC right now...[/sub]
[sub]sorry, I'm listening to FOTC right now...[/sub]
Even when I went to church and believed in that stuff, the music was barely tolerable, especially the worship music. Yeah it does stand for something good, but it was so horribly musically put together. They would hold words out when they shouldn't, speed up or slow down when they should be doing the opposite, and all this other junk... :/ahlycks said:
My Bro says my taste in Music, But I think I have a wonderful Taste in it (I prefer Classical Rock, like The Beatles, The Kinks, ELO, Boston, Derek and the Dominoes, Journey, and many more). I think my brothers taste in Music sucks, He likes Rap and Heavy Metal...
No. I have a pretty broad musical taste, so I'm typically the one telling people to listen to more things.
I've only had to reply to that statement twice. First time I explained to them that I listen to a far wider range of music then they do, I just don't listen to the main stream hip-hop crap they listen to. Second time, after I refused to continue listening to an artist I was recommended, but disliked, I replied to them music that is about enjoyment. If I do not enjoy the music, then I'm not obliged to force myself to listen to it.
Quite frankly, I think many people have lost the plot regarding music, wearing their large and variant musical libraries as a badge of honour, rather then listening to music for recreational purposes.
Quite frankly, I think many people have lost the plot regarding music, wearing their large and variant musical libraries as a badge of honour, rather then listening to music for recreational purposes.
My father is, mercifully enough, almost the precise opposite - the vast majority of what he listens to is orchestral composition and thus devoid of lyrics.Eldritch Warlord said:
Not going to take you to task for that, as there large tracts of the vast landscape that is Metal where 'competent vocals' are naught but an afterthought. I am however going to ask if you can provide any examples, as I quite suspect you have formed an (accurate) impression based on a subset, and are inaccurately applying that impression against the much larger remainder.Eldritch Warlord said:
Eh, what the heck, I'll just post a counter example blind - as a relative latecomer to Metal myself, it pains me to see anyone dismiss the genre based on an incomplete understanding of it, so here is the Swedish Power Metal band Falconer demonstrating that good singing and Metal are not mutually exclusive:
On topic: Nobody ever tells me this, as I'm the guy going around suggesting that you don't listen to enough music. People often ask me where I find the bands I recommend them and they turn out to love (which is why I recommended them to them, given a baseline I'm rarely ever wrong about what someone will enjoy - I'm not the type to just blithely tell people what they should listen to because I enjoy it), but nobody ever tells me that I should be listening to more music.
I know, right? And speaking of "the old guys", they are pretty much all I'm listening to right now. From not so old (late 80s) to old as hell (Black Sabbath), I'm trying to plow through the entire history of metal.Sronpop said:
And I'm LOOOOVING IIIIIIT.
What makes you think I was talking about Black/Death metal there? Certainly from the perspective of an outside observer, poorly executed harsh vocals and well executed harsh vocals are both not particularly pleasant to listen to and therefore "inferior" to "clean vocals" (known in any other genre simply as "the vocalist sings"), but I never presented the argument that only "incompetent" vocalists resort to growling/shrieking instead of singing; if someone is doing either of those badly, a general audience can't actually tell after all, since they think it sounds horrible when done correctly.Wardnath said:
Ergo if I see somebody who is admittedly not into metal complaining about the quality of the singing in metal, I'm not going to assume they're complaining about Black/Death metal acts, as the general public doesn't consider that singing and thus would complain that metal bands refuse to sing in lieu of making unpleasant screaming/growling noises rhythmically, not that they sing poorly. So my crack about competent vocalists was aimed squarely at those segments of metal that do "sing", just not very well when compared to vocalists in other non-metal musical genres. Power Metal is full of guys like that for instance.
