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Dave Grohl's voice annoys the crap out of me. He's an excellent lyricist and I guess he's a good song writer but his voice is pretty much toneless and generic. I hate it.
 
2 points for you man that was a funny one and 3 points for your grammar.

For the most part Metal is completely boring. There's an occassional decent band here and there and I have a fondness folk and doom so I'd 60% is either unlistenable wankage, written by people who aren't good enough to wank or, predictable crap that comes straight from theory.
 
Lets not make a contest out of it, every instrument requires a lot of skill. Aphex Twin isn't any less flashy in his skills than say Steve Vai as a guitarist, and there's nothing wrong with that. Being the best at something is nothing to be ashamed of, if you can used those skills to make great music.

It's not inherently bad to be flashy, flaunt it if you have it, as long as that flaunting contributes to the music in a positive way. Some music actually calls for a lot of complexity and expressive musicianshup. Classical, Jazz, Prog.

"Just doing the job and staying out of the way" is fine but not all music has to be that way. Simplicity can be great but so can complexity. There's two sides to the musical coin.
 
Gotcha. I don't think "overproduced" is the term you're looking for though. I think you mean "clean" because truly a lot of production effort does go into making a track sound dirty, raw and heavy like, particularly, the Alabama Thunderpussy song.

Judging by the fact that you like these two songs you might find there's actually a lot of metal you like, it's just more on the stoner/doom end of things.
 
Haha, Prince is not the best example.

I agree, not the best, but one of the elite. Zappa just epitomized everything I love about music, and what kind of musician I want to be. There is most likely someone better, but he fits all the categories you listed. Yet, He is lacking one thing that won't give him the acclaim he deserves: Popularity.
 
I think the thing about the Beatles was that they took what these underground banRAB where doing and then made something a whole lot more accessible from it, they managed to make what was quite avantgarde at the time into something poppy which many people could enjoy, that's why they deserve the credit they have.
 
I've always been of this opinion. :)


Yeah. and Waffle, 47, Theo B, Waffle, J'nuh, Rodeo Jones...all amazing. I rate both albums equally, but as far as nuraber of songs that really strike a chord with me and give me chills, this album wins.
 
Thats a rather outrageous opinion for a prog fan to have, especially The Beatles when considering the massive influence Sgt Peppers had on the genre.

And Radiohead? Why the hate for Radiohead? I know they are generally disliked in prog circles but I never understood why. They're undeniably one of the most creative banRAB currently making music.

I know some prog fans hate that some people think they are prog. But even if they are not prog what they're doing is certainly progressive (not always the same thing). You really telling me theres nothing you like about them?

As for Indie, I hate a lot if myself as anyone here will tell you, mainly modern Indie. But not all of it sucks. I think its kinda crazy to say it does considering how broad a term Indie is anyway. Theres some really good Indie out there. Since you're a prog fan you should at least check out some post-rock and math rock.
 
See, to me the experimentation of all three of those banRAB is one hell of a lot more interesting than any 90s/00s prog I've ever come across.

A lot of proggies scorn and belittle indie music for supposedly not being innovative or compositionally complex enough. I think the truth is entirely the opposite: there is much more creative and inventive experimentation within music within the indie scene of the last 10 years or so than there has been within either the prog or metal scene of the same time span.
 
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