Musical Pet Peeves

[Belligerent]

Intros and Outros annoy me, they usually don't end up on my ipod.
Any band that sounds like/ copycat of Dream Theater.
I agree with Drunkards statement about horrible Thrash vocalists.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

-Hidden tracks 15-35 minutes into the song preceded by silence.

-Live tracks on reissues.

-Blast beats mixed louder than the riffs.

 

[The Butt]

-Live tracks on reissues.

This, I don't understand... just turn the CD off after the last studio song?

 

[meaperson333]

-Blast beats mixed louder than the riffs.

So damn annoying. >:C

 

[damnromulans]

-Hidden tracks 15-35 minutes into the song preceded by silence.

YES. So annoying. In fact I'd say hidden tracks in general are unnecessary and irritating.

 

[Vossyrus]

I generally don't like fade-out endings on songs but I don't mind so much if the song is a lengthier, more emotional, and slower-paced song that gradually reaches an end.

However, I cannot stand them on faster, heavier songs when they're used to end a song prematurely. It's as if the band had gotten lazy and didn't bother to give the song a proper ending. The song will show no signs of slowing down but suddenly the fade-out effect is used and it kills the song.

 

[The Butt]

However, I cannot stand them on faster, heavier songs when they're used to end a song prematurely. It's as if the band had gotten lazy and didn't bother to give the song a proper ending. The song will show no signs of slowing down but suddenly the fade-out effect is used and it kills the song.

Neon Knights. Opinions?

 

[Manic Ferocity]

This, I don't understand... just turn the CD off after the last studio song?

I prefer the CD to be done when the last song on the album ends. I'm lazy.

 

[Einherjar86]

When a band playing a song in a minor key refuses to just bite the cheese bullet and go to the seven chord, and instead keep playing the damned five chord. I hate the five chord in minor songs! The seven chord is epic, the five chord is gay.

EDIT: and when they play the seven chord with a suspended fourth, that's just an added bonus.

 

[cookiecutter]

Unexcessive blast beats
Anything progressive
Songs where Gothenburg riffs make up more than 50% of the riffs
Keyboards as a lead instrument

 

[challenge_everything]

-Live tracks on reissues.

I've been on about this for some time. Classic albums are generally classic because the album flows as a whole. These out-of-place bonus tracks just ruin the purity of that whole. An album should end in silence with you going "wow" not searching for the stop button.

 

[Dak]

I am a fag for hating on Devin Townsend, the best thing to ever come out of my own country

 

[-CC-]

Ehm correction, that would have to be either Martyr or Jim Carrey

 

[Dak]

Didn't know Martyr was Canadian. Oops. Ok, Top 5 best thing to come out of Canada. Jim Carrey is awesome, but I would rather listen to select Townsend albums or Townsend productions than watch a Jim Carrey movie.

 

[SentinelSlain]

I'm starting to really hate clean and growls going back and fourth. Soilwork's the only one I can bare.

yeah that

 

[King Richard]

Gtfo, you wretched cunt. Also Mike Portnoy and Devin Townsend are both fags and so are you fuck you.

Also PS: You're a bad man and I hate you.

Good, now eat a bag of dicks.

-Hidden tracks 15-35 minutes into the song preceded by silence.

-Live tracks on reissues.

-Blast beats mixed louder than the riffs.

Agree with all of this.

Anything progressive

edit: Jim Carrey rules.

 

[SentinelSlain]

The black metal scene is kind of over saturated in my opinion and could do with less random kids and more competent musicians.

I agree with hidden tracks, they piss me off.

Really long intros are gay, especially if it's all sound effects and keyboards on an otherwise guitar driven album. There are exceptions though.

I don't mind fantasy / mythology / historical lyrics but it's better if it's immediately apparent what the band is actually singing about. If it sounds like GRRRRR HURRRR GRRRR HUURRRR BLASTBEAT HURRRR but the lyric booklet says something about greek mythology then it's a bit of a waste. That's possibly just to do with me being really bad at working out what vocalists are saying though.

I wish more metal songs had lyrics like those in The Sentinel by Judas Priest. To me those kind of lyrics are much more interesting than half a medical textbook or religious bollocks. In retrospect that makes me sound dumb, but I do specifically mean within the context of heavy metal lyrics. In a normal situation I'd rather read something more serious.

If there's any anti british sentiment in the lyrics, album cover or whatever then I wont buy the album.

To many metal albums feature faeces on the album cover. If you want to put out shit, go to the bathroom, not the recording studio.

 

[Einherjar86]

If there's any anti british sentiment in the lyrics, album cover or whatever then I wont buy the album.

We are BACK IN CONTROL!
Force them to surrender!
TAKE WHAT IS OURS!
Restore law and order!
BACK IN CONTOL!
Push them further out to sea!
FALKLANDS IN OUR HANDS!
Back under British reign!!!

 

[Dak]

If there's any anti british sentiment in the lyrics, album cover or whatever then I wont buy the album.

Generally speaking, anti-british sentiment is aimed at the royalty, not the plebes.

 

[SentinelSlain]

maybe from american neocons but they aren't the only people with such feelings.