tommydski wrote:There's something despicably male-centric and imbecilic about lots of Metal bands and that's pretty much exactly what doesn't interest me in music. Each to their own though! I like music I can dance to with my Lady but some folks like head-banging with 2000 hairy men in a field in Germany.

I know plenty girls that love to do it to Meshuggah or Entombed any old day. Most of these birds would much rather fling their first-born to a wall than to be confronted with anything the Vaselines or K-records ever put out.

I am all for rationalizing personal tastes, but your stereotyping renders your argument weak.

No better or worse than any other genre/scene at the end of the day. Indie kids are just as funny as metallers and the rest. If you can hear some good tunes and have a laugh at some scene types at the same time, it's all good. These new metal/indie crossover hair cuts like the melvins have piss me off. It's fine for the melvins to have them on stage, but when some cunt with a 3 foot afro stands in front of me in the audience it pisses me right off.

I watched Headbangers Ball the other night. First time in about 10 years.

Nothing has changed.

Everyone looks like WWF wrestlers and fake drums with AmpFarm guitars.

Still designed for kids who hate their parents.

If you're basing your knowledge of metal on what is played on the current Headbanger's Ball, you're flying blind.

Justin from Queens wrote:Or, to put it another way - I'd rather be at a concert full of people screaming fuck yeah and throwing horns than a concert where everyone has their arms folded together and looks like an Ira Glass statue.

= Justin

Justin, I'm giving you a hearty fuck yeah and horns right now.

For the metal haters, when was the last time you felt this lack of inhibition and had this much unabashed, unself-conscious fun at a show?



And to further dispel this notion that metal is for the mouthbreathers, here's an interesting article:
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_b ... 377708.ece

Justin from Queens wrote:Or, to put it another way - I'd rather be at a concert full of people screaming fuck yeah and throwing horns than a concert where everyone has their arms folded together and looks like an Ira Glass statue.

I'll bet $50 he listens to The Decemberists.

Of course, those kids in the article listen to Slipknot, so I'm not sure just how "gifted" we should assume they are.

Whoever thinks the Melvins are not metal is either a total dumbass or a total ignoramous. Either way they're totally wrong.

The Melvins aren't metal and YOU are wrong. How do I know? Because you said The Melvins are metal.

This isn't rocket surgery.

sunlore wrote:I am all for rationalizing personal tastes, but your stereotyping renders your argument weak.

Well, those observations are based on my personal experience. Everyone I meet who likes Metal is odd. That's okay, I get on with everyone I ever meet so it's all cool.

The poll is, do I think Metal is stupid and since the point of this forum is gut-reaction, yeah I think it's stupid. That's just me, do what you want.

Ty Webb wrote:The Melvins aren't metal and YOU are wrong. How do I know? Because you said The Melvins are metal.

This isn't rocket surgery.

Dumbass.