Controversial opinions on metal

[no country for old wainds]

Way to miss my sarcasm.

Your analogy was ridiculous because virtually any style of music can be acceptable if it's done well. Morals are not an "anything goes" matter. I don't see how you could miss something so obvious.

i didn't miss your sarcasm you retard

and yeah both of those two statements are the majority view but no more than that. analogy stands.

 

[cannibal corpse]

being ignorant of other music is one thing but yeah, simply disliking everything other than metal cannot be criticised in an objective way

I never said metal was the only thing I liked, I like classical, blues and classic rock as well but saying that someone is ignorant because he doesn't like something is damn stupid.

EDIT: I see where you are going with this, you are saying that said person is ignorant if he judges a genre before hand, I was not arguing this, I was just saying that if a person has tried out a genre and just doesn't like it he should not be any less advanced because it's his own fucking opinion. I've tried out rap, techno, pop and punk a few times, I just do not like them.

 

[Mort Divine]

Personally, I don't get how someone could listen to nothing but metal. It doesn't make them ignorant to do so though, but I find that most people who do this or anything close to it are completely ignorant of all other forms of music.

 

[Caladan]

I listen to all forms of music, but I really wouldn't pay to attend say an R&B festival, unless perhaps a large group of my friends were going, in whcih case I would go for the company, not for the music.

That said, I listen to a large variety of music, Raggae, Soca, R&B, Classical, etc.

 

[whiskey funeral]

Personally, I don't get how someone could listen to nothing but metal. It doesn't make them ignorant to do so though, but I find that most people who do this or anything close to it are completely ignorant of all other forms of music.

I have to agree with this because a few years ago I was one of those completely ignorant people. Between already listening to nothing but metal and doing a webzine where I got nothing but crap music in the mail, I got burned out on metal and stopped listening to it for about a year.

Metal is still my number one choice in music but I feel more balanced now that other forms of music are a part of my life. I hope that makes sense because I just woke up and feel like I'm babbling.

 

[rms]

theres just too many bands to start listening/trying some indie pop gay shit

 

[Blind Guardian]

What's the story morning glory?

 

[The Ozzman]

What's the story morning glory?

I said maybe....you're gonna be the one that saves me

 

[Blind Guardian]

I said maybe....you're gonna be the one that saves me

Where were you when we were getting high?

 

[Death Aflame]

Personally, I don't get how someone could listen to nothing but metal. It doesn't make them ignorant to do so though, but I find that most people who do this or anything close to it are completely ignorant of all other forms of music.

90% of my music listening time is metal related. However, I have partially explored Classical, post-rock, shoegaze/dream pop, minimalism, and progressive rock.

I don't think I will ever like rap, r&b or the like though.

 

[The Ozzman]

I don't think I will ever like rap, r&b or the like though.

I said the same thing a few years ago. Now I own 6 or 7 rap albums

 

[TheInsane]

I like alot of different music even though my record collection is made up of 90% metal. I like pop, country, scores and jazz. Of course some rock as well. I generally dont like rap or modern rnb but there are some good songs there as well.

Im always trying to find new stuff. And with all the Oasis quotes I recently I decided to try their stuff but they havent really clicked with me yet

 

[cannibal corpse]

Okay, metal fans being ignorant because they like metal, sure, that makes sense.

 

[Zephyrus]

I love how everyone is coming in trying to defend themselves by stating all the non-metal they listen to.

 

[The Ozzman]

I don't think anyone is defending themselves in here.

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

Well, I for one think it's possible for any genre to have music that I will like in one sense or another; but it wouldn't be far fetched for me to say that I dislike Rap, for example. Sure, I like El-P & DMX's first album, but that's about as far as I would go. Of course there's stuff out there that I haven't head in said genre that I would surely like.

Statements like RAP SUCKS MOTHERFUCKER sound very unintelligent to me. To simply say that it isn't your thing without making a big deal out of it is the thing an intelligent person would say. To form your own opinions about certain artists is acceptable in my eyes, but shitting all over a musical idea as a whole in seriousness is flat out retarded.

 

[Zephyrus]

Mort attacked us for not listening to non-metal, and we all took him seriously. We've had a thread about non-metal, which is irrelevant to this thread.

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

Mort attacked us for not listening to non-metal, and we all took him seriously. We've had a thread about non-metal, which is irrelevant to this thread.

I think I missed that. I just read this page...

 

[Zephyrus]

I'm sick of having the same arguments every month, whether it be Mort accusing our lack of musical taste, virus-gravy's polemics against extreme metal, mindless Metallica/Slayer/Opeth shitstorms and even the whole ITNE vs. Anthems debate is getting tiresome.

 

[whiskey funeral]

I don't think anyone is defending themselves in here.

I know I wasn't. Who cares?


I'm listening to Celtic Frost right now and now I feel like yelling "HEEEEEEEEEEEY!" at random people and things.