Greetings.
After a really in depth conversation with a friend, I started talking to Orchid and I lost my mind! I became more vocal! We had (still are) a great conversation on music!
And I feel that I must post it here! AND I intend to stop using exclamation marks!!!!
This is mainly copied and pasted from ICQ history, but, it's good enough. At some points it may seem hard to understand, but thats because:
Opeth.
I first heard them via Silhouette, I loved that song. It's beautiful.
When I heard the "actual" songs, I was blown away.
To some people, it may be "Oh big shit, a 20 minute song, whoopdidoo" and thats it.
When you listen to it, you listen to the structure, the story being told (both by the music AND the vocals) it's not just a "20 minute song".
Theres actual depth to metal, rather than punk, rap, r&b, pop etc. etc.
Theres nothing to that!
You, Lasse, Jani, Mika and whatshisname should put on tight fashionable clothes, write a song about how much better you are than the rest of humankind, how this bitch isnt good enough for you, pay some bum to make a shallow music track to it, and you can be MILLIONAIRES! BILLIONAIRES, even, just for corrupting teenagers minds! How profitable!
Yes, that's what seperates you from TRENDY fucking music!
They say that "metal" is bad, "metal" is going to send us to hell!
Okay, lets listen to rap!
We will be much better than METALHEADS! We will take excessive amounts of drugs! We will become complete mysogenists! We will learn to disrespect eachother!
Okay, lets listen to pop and r&b!
We will be mucgh better than GOTHS! We will learn to have casual sex! We will learn how to be much more important than others! We will learn how to be true fucking egotists!
Okay, fuck that!
Let's listen to "INTELLECTUAL METAL" (What I use to describe Opeth, and a few, FEW, others).
We will be EQUAL with everyone else! We will NOT learn how to destroy our lives! We will NOT learn how to be egistical, racist, mysogenist, homophobes! We will learn how to compose epic stories! We will learn to appreciete REAL music, in depth environments of noise and sound, NOT something that just "sounds nice"!
The image I have of metalheads is that they respect everybody's personal tastes, whether it be the taste of beer, music, fashion, women, men, what the fuck ever... they (WE) are TOLERANT.
But, I think this only applies to the "true" (don't be messing that with the "tr00 blackmetal fans"... they are wicked
) metal fans... just like people who can truly actually appreciate the music of Opeth. Intelligent beings.
Yes!
They accept people as EQUALS!
I have yet to meet a TRUE equalarian non-metalhead!
Like, some people I know around here, they accept "everyone" as equal! Then they turn on Bin Laden and tell me that he is the scum of the fucking earth!
That's fucking equal!
(I am NOT supporting the attacks on WTC 911, but there is no REAL proof for USA's attack on Bin Laden and the Taliban)
They don't realise that he is HUMAN too! What if he liked OPETH too?!? And what if he liked CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM too?! Will we forget that he has GOOD qualities, along with his bad ones? You could probably get into a really involved conversation about your love of Mikael's genius, and the variations of chocolate ice cream. Would you say "I'm not talking to him, he's a bad man!"? Would you decline a potentially fruitful friendship?
Go to the 2XL metal shirts thread and read my post on respect, I think I explain it there.
Okay, so this is a long way of saying it, but, our "evil", "conforming" METAL is A HELL OF A LOT BETTER than our wonderful, brainwashing, degrading POP MUSIC, our RAP and R&B!
You see how "sensible" people promote our deaths?? You see how they want us to abandon an intellectual artform, just so we can be sheep like everyone else?
Can you see Mikael walking up onto stage and start a massive riff, and sing "And I took the shiny needle, and implanted it in its beauty in my arm, filling me with my love, my morphine"
Have you ever heard of a metal (real metal, not punk or thier ilk) that promotes the use of drugs?
Apart from being more detailed, more technical, and most importantly, MORE MUSICAL, metal will NOT lead you to damnation, but more likely, SAVE you from it.
And yes, looking back at this, I agree with my signature.
Cheers,
~Dean
After a really in depth conversation with a friend, I started talking to Orchid and I lost my mind! I became more vocal! We had (still are) a great conversation on music!
And I feel that I must post it here! AND I intend to stop using exclamation marks!!!!
This is mainly copied and pasted from ICQ history, but, it's good enough. At some points it may seem hard to understand, but thats because:
- I wrote half or more of it.
- It's between two people, thus "Yes! I agree" appears in it.
Opeth.
I first heard them via Silhouette, I loved that song. It's beautiful.
When I heard the "actual" songs, I was blown away.
To some people, it may be "Oh big shit, a 20 minute song, whoopdidoo" and thats it.
When you listen to it, you listen to the structure, the story being told (both by the music AND the vocals) it's not just a "20 minute song".
Theres actual depth to metal, rather than punk, rap, r&b, pop etc. etc.
Theres nothing to that!
You, Lasse, Jani, Mika and whatshisname should put on tight fashionable clothes, write a song about how much better you are than the rest of humankind, how this bitch isnt good enough for you, pay some bum to make a shallow music track to it, and you can be MILLIONAIRES! BILLIONAIRES, even, just for corrupting teenagers minds! How profitable!
Yes, that's what seperates you from TRENDY fucking music!
They say that "metal" is bad, "metal" is going to send us to hell!
Okay, lets listen to rap!
We will be much better than METALHEADS! We will take excessive amounts of drugs! We will become complete mysogenists! We will learn to disrespect eachother!
Okay, lets listen to pop and r&b!
We will be mucgh better than GOTHS! We will learn to have casual sex! We will learn how to be much more important than others! We will learn how to be true fucking egotists!
Okay, fuck that!
Let's listen to "INTELLECTUAL METAL" (What I use to describe Opeth, and a few, FEW, others).
We will be EQUAL with everyone else! We will NOT learn how to destroy our lives! We will NOT learn how to be egistical, racist, mysogenist, homophobes! We will learn how to compose epic stories! We will learn to appreciete REAL music, in depth environments of noise and sound, NOT something that just "sounds nice"!
The image I have of metalheads is that they respect everybody's personal tastes, whether it be the taste of beer, music, fashion, women, men, what the fuck ever... they (WE) are TOLERANT.
But, I think this only applies to the "true" (don't be messing that with the "tr00 blackmetal fans"... they are wicked
) metal fans... just like people who can truly actually appreciate the music of Opeth. Intelligent beings.Yes!
They accept people as EQUALS!
I have yet to meet a TRUE equalarian non-metalhead!
Like, some people I know around here, they accept "everyone" as equal! Then they turn on Bin Laden and tell me that he is the scum of the fucking earth!
That's fucking equal!
(I am NOT supporting the attacks on WTC 911, but there is no REAL proof for USA's attack on Bin Laden and the Taliban)
They don't realise that he is HUMAN too! What if he liked OPETH too?!? And what if he liked CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM too?! Will we forget that he has GOOD qualities, along with his bad ones? You could probably get into a really involved conversation about your love of Mikael's genius, and the variations of chocolate ice cream. Would you say "I'm not talking to him, he's a bad man!"? Would you decline a potentially fruitful friendship?
Go to the 2XL metal shirts thread and read my post on respect, I think I explain it there.
Okay, so this is a long way of saying it, but, our "evil", "conforming" METAL is A HELL OF A LOT BETTER than our wonderful, brainwashing, degrading POP MUSIC, our RAP and R&B!
You see how "sensible" people promote our deaths?? You see how they want us to abandon an intellectual artform, just so we can be sheep like everyone else?
Can you see Mikael walking up onto stage and start a massive riff, and sing "And I took the shiny needle, and implanted it in its beauty in my arm, filling me with my love, my morphine"
Have you ever heard of a metal (real metal, not punk or thier ilk) that promotes the use of drugs?
Apart from being more detailed, more technical, and most importantly, MORE MUSICAL, metal will NOT lead you to damnation, but more likely, SAVE you from it.
And yes, looking back at this, I agree with my signature.
Cheers,
~Dean
