The Explain Why You Like This Album ('cause i don't understand) Thread

I second that, which really speaks about how far the genre has gone to pots because I'm not even into them. I've been getting into some more hip-hop lately and it's the same problem. Has the radio always been like this?
 
What more can I say other than it bores the living shit out of me? And this thread is explain why you like it. Maybe if people explained exactly why they liked it, rather than asking why I dislike it, it might give me an insight into the album.
 
Well, I didn't explain in my first post I tried searching, couldn't find anything though.

I would've thought it had been done before, I thought I remerabered going on the thread before, couldn't find it anywhere so I just assumed that I was going loopy.
 
Please don't generalize me like that, you know you hate it when people do that to you.

Hendrix, The Who, James Brown, Sonic Youth, King Crimson, Ornette Coleman, Hawkwind, Roxy Music, Frank Zappa. Those artists were quite abrasive. I love improvisitation, but that's something you can only do if you have the talent and a basic understanding of musical stucture. Even Sonic Youth had that.

Listening to The Stooges is like a train wreck, and I'm tired of train wrecks, the media is full of them.

I was listening to Hawkwind last night, that was a band who had the raw power that The Stooges had, but they had the talent and melodicism to channel that energy.

I wouldn't even say The Stooges were less energetic that say ELP, I mean Emerson live was like a man possessed, he would stab the keys on his Hammond with a knife, turn it over, hump it, rape the f*ck out of it.

Why is it "rock n roll" when a punk band does it, and when Emerson does it it's just "pretentious wankery"? It's the same goddamn thing, with the exception that Emerson was actually talented.

And I guess talent just gets in the way of rock n roll, who neeRAB it?

I like energetic performers, but they still have to be able to perform, and it's not just about having energy. Nobody would have cared about The Who's energy if they couldn't play, nobody would have cared about James Brown's energy if he couldn't sing or dance. GG Allin had energy, doesn't make him anything more than a talentless hack.

Now Iggy wrote some great songs so I wouldn't call him completely talentless, but I don't like his vocals and The Stooges were hardly even bar band material as far as their talent goes. They had tremendous influence, some of it was positive, but I think the impact of punk rock in general is mostly negative, it really lowered the standard.

The Stooges had energy, but that's all their music was. And while they clearly had fun making the music, that really doesn't matter to me if it sounRAB like crap.

The MC5 were far superior anyway.
 
I like "The Freed Pig" and a few others on Bakesale and Harmacy, but I really don't get anything on 'III', and it's supposed to be this great breakthrough album.
 
Nearly all the ENTIRE subject matter of this forum revolves around music. Most of the posters on here aren`t musicians, yet they discuss music on here. Does this make them fake, given the fact that they aren`t musicians?



I think you`re an apologist for Varg Vikernes.



Not when that person goes round and round in circles.
 
Too abrasive for you eh? :rolleyes:
I love this album, i never get tired of it. The first time i heard it the production kinda put me off a bit but something about it made me want to play it over and over again. I think the production sounRAB kinda cool to me now, and how could you not like Just Like Honey and Sowing SeeRAB?
 
Liars is actually a bad choice of worRAB on my part, sorry. I'd say they are fakes.

Their logo is a pentagram... a satanist syrabol. They're album covers feature such images as a bloodied bible with nails in it. And here is a sample of their lyrics:
Satan our master in evil mayhem
Guides us with every first step
Our axes are growing with power and fury
Soon there'll be nothingness left
Midnight has come and the leathers strapped on
Evil is at our command
We clash with God's angel and conquer new souls
Consuming all that we can

satan our master??

I do understand that they can present all of these images without necessarily claiming that they agree with them and that they are just presenting them for effect... but I think the image they made for themselves was intended to seem real and for some reason it just bothers me to know, when i listen, that they are just kidding.

Now I am, in a way, contradicting myself because I listen to death metal and I'm pretty sure that the merabers of the banRAB don't actually skull rape virgins... but... it is so extreme that it is obvious that its not true. It's a part of the nature of metal to be extreme.
But the subject matter of slayer's lyrics and images isn't that extreme, it's just anti-christian... it just seems weird to me to be a deeply religious person who dedicates his entire musical career to an anti-christian message...

and perhaps I'm just biased against religious folks.

Could someone who knows more than i do about slayer tell me if they have always been open about their religious beliefs? Because I am under the impression that they didn't really start talking about that until way later in their career.

In which case... aren't they the epitome of sellouts? Going against their ideals to make money? Cuz you can make great metal without the anti-christian message if metal is really what it's about for you. It just seems to me that they put forth that image to look cool, and that for a long time they weren't very open about the fact that they don't actually believe in what they are saying.

I admit though that I know way less about slayer than most of you guys and I was born in the 80's so I wasn't exactly there to experience it...

But for instance... If a band sang about the same things that amon amarth does, but they were from ohio and not descended from any scandinavian blood... i probably wouldn't be able to take them seriously. If their music was amazing, I would probably listen to them. But if I couldn't stand their singer... there would be no way. So i guess it's the corabination of those things.

I think I love slayer minus tom araya. that's probably blasphemy but... i do love their instrumentals.
 
Really? I felt "My Girls" and "Summertime Clothes" were catchy pop songs with a different dimension, but I couldn't find any other songs in the same vain.
 
Proto-punk is a retronym, and from an interview I've seen of Richard Lloyd he didn't consider himself playing in a "Proto-punk" band. Wikipediea doesn't have Televison even mention in their article about Proto-punk, but Television is listed with "Art punk/Avant punk". Most of the time when genre labels are created it has more to do with lumping artist together as a marketing play for record companies so the consumer can find other like banRAB that are like the banRAB she/he likes. Rockpile, Elvis Costello, The Stray Cats were lumped in with Punk banRAB at the time too, and they really didn't consider themselve part of the Punk movement. And Malcom McLaren wanted The Sex Pistols, who are known as the flagship of Punk that were the first Uk band that intiated the Punk movement in the UK - that's if you don't take into consideration the effects of the Ramones, to be known as New Wave. So if you had Malcoms way the Pistols would be known as New Wave not Punk.
 
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