Pheonixhawk wrote:What made me want to cry was seeing System of a Down in the "Pop Music" section along with Aerosmith, Smashing Pumpkins, Mettalica, Kansas, and even Tenacious D. I made me want to cry. I mean really it says METTALICA not POPICA....
Lately Metallica just sucks. Older stuff is awesome but I remember in high school my friend Newman was all like "OMG Load is so awesome" so I buy it and I'm like...
What the hell?
Then it just kept getting worse from there.
It seems a lot of bands are doing that lately. Well, System of a Down I just got sick of. I still like and enjoy their self-titled CD and Toxicity but as soon as I heard BYOB I said "OK I'm done" mainly because it was, like, a neutered version of their older stuff.
What really sucks is when a band member leaves and you listen to the band's first album without that person and realize they basically made that band what they were. Kinda like with Ben Moody and Evanescence. Amy Lee can sing but she's about as bad as Britney Spears when it comes to songwriting and composing. Hell, I think she may actually be worse!
On the subject of Evanescence, remember that period of time where it seemed like we were being assaulted by pseudo-Christian rock on the radio? Bands like DC Talk, Creed, and POD? Hell, Creed was a Christian rock band but their label marketed them as just another angry rock band and released their Christian album as such. I did buy their albums mainly because girls liked that kind of stuff and I liked girls.
Don't get me wrong. I do venture out of my Progressive Metal/80's hair metal world and discover some totally kickass stuff. Bjork, Weezer, The White Stripes, Garbage, and one band no one can believe I actually like...The Spice Girls. OK, I'm joking about The Spice Girls. What they produce barely qualifies as music. Much like that overproduced rap/rock sh*t MTV went crazy for in the late 90's/early 00's. Kid Rock, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park. I did really like Eminem, though. "The Slim Shady LP" and "The Marshall Mathers LP" are still good to this day, although if I had to choose I'd go with the former over the latter because "Marshall Mathers" was more about him starting sh*t with ICP/Juggalos and teen pop stars.
Recently I've gone back into my musical shell. Instead of listening to new music I just load my iPod with my old standby's and favorites I haven't listened to in a while and hit "Random." Nothing's cooler than having my iPod start with Bjork then go to Weezer then Queensryche or some other nonsensical random song selection.
So throughout my lifetime I have listened to and loved a lot of bands. My dad got me going with Pink Floyd and Rush while my mom got me into Johnny Cash, John Denver, and Dolly Parton when I was just a babe, my first babysitter Kelly got me into Twisted Sister, Public Enemy, and KISS, moved on to Guns 'n Roses and the hair metal bands, discovered Queensryche which led me to Dream Theater, my first girlfriend, Megan Parker, got me into Cheap Trick, in high school I abandoned all of that for White Zombie, Nine Inch Nails, and Marilyn Manson because the guys I was hanging out with were into that and I wanted to be cool. High School girlfriend Kendra Wilson was really into Joni Mitchell, Elvis Costello, Bjork, and Cat Stevens and got me into a couple of them. After high school I spent many paychecks rebuying what I had sold in high school and adding the crap club girls liked into my collection to appease them then discovered the internet where I realized I'd only scratched the surface of what was out there musically.
So yeah...its hard for me to really compile a list of all the bands I like or what I'm all into because there's so much out there that I've heard and loved and even if I tried to list every band I never could because I'd have to keep adding bands I forgot about that I'm rediscovering or stuff that I'm finding for the first time.
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