Meshuggah. Simple like or dislike poll

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I knew the thread was going to stir the pot, but this has turned into a little bitch fest. Some cunts just need to get some nuts about themselves, drink a few beers and listen to some good meshuggah songs like a man..

Neglecting the unnecessary hostility, I totally agree with the last part in bold!!

EDIT: Is it ok if I drink gin instead of beer tonight? WELL FUCK YOU I'LL DO IT ANYWAY

 

[Manic Ferocity]

...or I'll throw on Ample Destruction, drink a lot of beer, and forget this band exists.

 

[damnromulans]

This was fun.

I still don't see the niggerdom in Meshuggah, even if we ignore the band/lyrics/themes/white Swedism. I also don't see why "danceable" is such a horrible trait in music, when music exists for the near-sole purpose of making people feel all primal and shit.

 

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This was fun.

I still don't see the niggerdom in Meshuggah, even if we ignore the band/lyrics/themes/white Swedism. I also don't see why "danceable" is such a horrible trait in music, when music exists for the near-sole purpose of making people feel all primal and shit.

For once I will congratulate a woman's intuition ! (Rare moment, take your cameras out folks)

 

[damnromulans]

You only said that because your username is derived from a Shemuggah song.

 

[Satanstoenail]

Some cunts just need to get some nuts about themselves

What the fuck does that even mean?

 

[MetalRiffa]

What the fuck does that even mean?

Lol.. I thought it was pretty self explanatory and all, but im trying to say get some fucking balls.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

This was fun.

I still don't see the niggerdom in Meshuggah, even if we ignore the band/lyrics/themes/white Swedism. I also don't see why "danceable" is such a horrible trait in music, when music exists for the near-sole purpose of making people feel all primal and shit.

Metal shouldn't be danceable. Anything danceable (these days) has some degree of niggerdom.

 

[Blind Guardian]

Theory In Practice has some great songs, especially "Colonizing the Sun"! I hardly ever see them mentioned when people discuss good technical music.

Is ObscureInfinity from ANUS?

I often mention Theory In Practice as one of my favourite metal bands of all time, and as the number one administers of Atheist's musical heritage. I wish more people would discover them too. The most "rythmically focused" of their three albums would be the first one, Third Eye Function. The Armageddon Theories is the most chaotic album, and Colonizing The Sun is the most melodically accomplished album. Anyone who looks for technical death metal that's not drowned in unimaginative blast beats should buy these albums. They also manage to pull off the polyrythm thing without having it as their one and only trick. It's a shame that they disbanded something like eight years ago, they need to release another fucking album and save metal.

Here's a perfect example of how they mold polyrythms into a song without by any means focusing on rythm alone.

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[Cythraul]

music exists for the near-sole purpose of making people feel all primal and shit.

Not really.

 

[damnromulans]

Metal shouldn't be danceable. Anything danceable (these days) has some degree of niggerdom.

You must be a riot to go dancing with.

@Cythraul what other purposes does music have other than to make people feel all primal and shit?

Reasons I can think of why music exists:
-Religious worship
-Dancing
-Accompaniment to taking drugs
-Headbanging
-Having sex
-Celebrate ancient fantastical mythology
-Evoke depression
-Feeling goooooooooooood
-Political statements (perhaps this is not "primal")

 

[Manic Ferocity]

I wouldn't call most of those primal.

 

[Cythraul]

Explain what you mean by 'feeling all primal and shit.' It looks like you're taking a particular subjective reaction one might have to certain types of music and declaring it to be the purpose. I don't get it.

 

[damnromulans]

Well think about loincloth people with witch doctors, Vikings, Mongol hordes, etc. Just beating drums and yelling and chanting. Surely much of modern music (anything with a danceable beat, a good deal of metal, classical orchestral pieces, choir singing/hymns, percussion ensembles, funk/motown/r&b/hip-hop etc) serves the same purpose? Suppose it depends greatly on the listener and his/her opinions of music, but personally I lump music in with sex and spirituality in that it stimulates really back-to-basics urges - dancing (primal, perhaps sexual), headbanging/aggressive movement (primal, aggression), fantasy/religious/mythological escapism (primal in a sense).

I'm sure it doesn't work that way for everyone, but I'm pretty sure music wouldn't be such a massively important part of people's lives if there wasn't a shred of truth to what I'm saying.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Yeah, I think that's a pretty subjective matter.

 

[damnromulans]

I think it's an awful lot like Freud - sounds like a load of horseshit but applies oh-so-well to a lot of people

 

[Satanstoenail]

Lol.. I thought it was pretty self explanatory and all, but im trying to say get some fucking balls.

You need to get some brains about yourself.

 

[MetalRiffa]

You need to get some brains about yourself.

Says the one who asked what it meant.

 

[Cythraul]

BOOM!!

 

[Satanstoenail]

METALRIFFAAAAAA