Controversial opinions on metal

[TechnicalBarbarity]

... you'd be doing yourself a favor.

 

[The Batlord]

... you'd be doing yourself a favor.

Anybody who can't rock out with cock out to "Youth Gone Wild" is a child molester.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

bring me your children.

 

[The Batlord]

Keep them. You'll clearly enjoy them more than I will.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

they do have a few good songs though, and Youth Gone Wild is indeed one of them.

 

[The Butt]

GnR sucks. Absolutely worthless band imo

Skid Row, glam or not? They are without a doubt a glam band imo. People try to say "but listen to Slave to the Grind, its soo metal" Which i think is a pretty hilarious thing to say ..... I remember there being only one song that can be classified as metal on that album and a bunch of rock ballads.

Skid Row is awesome. Metal or not.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Skid Row is barely ok, first album is better from what I remember, and they went to shit rapidly after the second. Youth Gone Wild is the one with the melodic riff that just sounds copied from some earlier Motley Crue single, right? I forget which Crue song though. Second-rate latecomers.

 

[The Batlord]

Skid Row is barely ok, first album is better from what I remember, and they went to shit rapidly after the second. Youth Gone Wild is the one with the melodic riff that just sounds copied from some earlier Motley Crue single, right? I forget which Crue song though. Second-rate latecomers.

Oh they were a total ripoff of Motley Crue and Dr. Feelgood, but they did a good ripoff.

Controversial? Motley Crue's first two albums were not only amongst the best metal albums of all-time, but were truly creative albums that might have heralded a new sound in rock had not they and countless other bands squandered the opportunity.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I don't personally love the early Motley Crue albums, but I do think they're really solid and definitely classics with new ideas at the time. I wouldn't give them too much credit since there were already four Van Halen albums out by the time Too Fast for Love was even recorded, but they definitely helped to define the scene and style.

EDIT: Also, Ratt seems to get a lot of crap, but I just listened to Out of the Cellar recently as was surprised at how good it was from start to finish.

 

[The Batlord]

Early Van Halen was def important, but I think that early Crue might MIGHT have been a different voice in metal/rock that might have moved forward. And early Ratt sounds more like a step down from what the Crue were doing at the time. This isn't a particularly hard theory of mine, but just sort of a hypothesis.

Like how so many glam metal bands CLAIMED to be taking up what the New York Dolls were doing in the 70s, while they were just bullshitting, Motley Crue might have been doing for a couple albums.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

Yea MC are fun to listen to. Much better than G&R.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

van halen are garbage, so are motley cure. And neither one of them are metal.

 

[The Batlord]

van halen are garbage, so are motley cure. And neither one of them are metal.

I will fuck your children. And I will make them like it.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

 

[The Batlord]

I've just been listening to Led Zeppelin's first four albums to see if they're truly worthwhile, and I've come to the conclusion that Led Zeppelin are a pile of ass who make amazing rock n roll but fail at pretty much everything else they do. Their folk is abysmal, and their blues is basically the stereotype of bad white dude blues.

And unless God comes down and splits the heavens starting with Houses of the Holy then I don't see anything changing. So fuck Led Zeppelin.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

When it comes to Zeppelin, the first thing that comes to mind is that I'd much rather be listening to Deep Purple.

Probably the most overrated band of all time. Still a good band though .... good, not great.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Led Zeppelin make amazing rock n roll

So fuck Led Zeppelin.

 

[The Batlord]

LOL. Pretty much all the things that Led Zeppelin do besides rocking out are boring as all fucking shit, but when they do rock they god damn fucking rock. They just happen to do so much else than rock. Even in songs with rock in them they insist on throwing in boring shit that tests my patience.

When it comes to Zeppelin, the first thing that comes to mind is that I'd much rather be listening to Deep Purple.

Probably the most overrated band of all time. Still a good band though .... good, not great.

I was actually thinking the exact same thing when I wrote that post. Then I went and listened to Asia, but go figure. But I can't think of a single Zeppelin album I'd want to listen to front to back, but god damn do I love at least a few Deep Purple albums all the way through.

 

[CiG]

Led Zeppelin shine the most when they add ballad and rock in my opinion. Sort of proto-epic metal.

I'm pretty sure there are some that aren't ;-)

I said pretty much every so sure, I'm allowing for the possibility that some aren't.

 

[Baroque]

Guitar solo wise:

Van Halen > GnR > Motley Crue