zoidberg
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The "I don't understand why people like this band" thread
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oh boy...
I'm not agreeing with him by any means, black metal, while great, is not all there is. By far. Sabbath, Metallica, Lamb of God, Pantera, Megadeth, Slayer.... fuck yes!
In short, look at mah sig.
WhiteRaven
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I don't understand why people Bongzilla, or Cathedral, or Ufomammut. Piss on them. Oh, and Spiritual Beggars. They sound too damn mainstream for my own good.
zoidberg
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This is pretty much all you accomplished:
Durr hurr, black sabbath are shit! - no reasoning
Durr hurr, anything popular is shit! - wow that was a very astute assumption
Durr hurr, anyone elses taste in music is shitty except mine! - nice job at discrediting anything you say from here on out
Tossing around a bunch of generalities about people you don't know isn't exactly the best fodder for an intellectual conversation my mentally challenged friend. I'm pretty sure, 100% sure actually, that if you weren't acting like an egotistical asshole about your opinion and backed up it up with why you thought that way, you probably wouldn't have gotten so much shit thrown back at you. But I'm sure that was your intent the whole time. To cause an uproar. To look cool and rebellious. Well, I hate to break it to you buttercup, but that card has been pulled before, and done 597823598235 times better too.
Right...you've never listened to them, but yet they play kickass metal. Am I missing something here?
Refer to what I said before about other peoples tastes. I don't care if you didn't come in here talking about obscure bands, I brought it up because I can.
Didn't mean that you had to make people like you. However, if you don't realize that acting the way you do, causes all of this flamming, then there's no hope.
K, good for you.
edit: forgot this part
There's nothing trendy about understanding the truth. Pretty much what you are doing is saying that Freddy Mercury is shit and can't sing. But yet in reality, Freddy Mercury can sing, and is one of the best vocalists ever. Same thing can be said about Black Sabbath. They are good, but you are listening to them in the mindset that "god more than 10 people listen to this band fuck this shit!"
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Dear wagontrain
Your theory of the musical taste of the "average metalhead" is flawed, in that you yourself are an average metalhead. You may think you are not, but you are. There is no ranking system of metalheads, thus you are equally as retarded as everyone else.
Your oppinion about Black Sabbath is as good as anyone elses. You think they suck, a lot of people on this board seems to feel otherwise. You are both equally right.
But. by the use of simple logic, one can determine which oppinion has the highest chance of being true. Like democracy, the oppinion that has the highest number of supporters must be what one would call the "typical" oppinion, the most common.
Now, seing as we are all "average metalheads", we all have the same chance of being correct. But, when a large number of metalheads have the same oppinion, that oppinions chance of being correct is increased.
Thus, we can logically conclude that, seing as you are vastly outnumbered by your oppisites (the people liking Sabbath including me). Thus, we can logically conclude that your chance of being correct is strikingly lower than our chance of being correct. It is not certain that we are correct, and it will never be known for certain who are correct. But logically, we are almost certainly correct.
Welcome to science.
EDIT: Spelling's a bitch.
Your theory of the musical taste of the "average metalhead" is flawed, in that you yourself are an average metalhead. You may think you are not, but you are. There is no ranking system of metalheads, thus you are equally as retarded as everyone else.
Your oppinion about Black Sabbath is as good as anyone elses. You think they suck, a lot of people on this board seems to feel otherwise. You are both equally right.
But. by the use of simple logic, one can determine which oppinion has the highest chance of being true. Like democracy, the oppinion that has the highest number of supporters must be what one would call the "typical" oppinion, the most common.
Now, seing as we are all "average metalheads", we all have the same chance of being correct. But, when a large number of metalheads have the same oppinion, that oppinions chance of being correct is increased.
Thus, we can logically conclude that, seing as you are vastly outnumbered by your oppisites (the people liking Sabbath including me). Thus, we can logically conclude that your chance of being correct is strikingly lower than our chance of being correct. It is not certain that we are correct, and it will never be known for certain who are correct. But logically, we are almost certainly correct.
Welcome to science.
EDIT: Spelling's a bitch.
^ I'm not debating this because I definitely see your point.
But, the problem is when it becomes a popularity issue. Obviously there are far more people who enjoy Black Sabbath than those who dislike them. But...if you were to ask the average metalhead which is the best metal band currently out there, chances are you'd probably get Amon Amarth, Opeth, Slayer, and Children of Bodom for examples due to their higher popularity. Would a larger amount of supporters indicate one answer being more accurate? Opinions are opinions.
But, the problem is when it becomes a popularity issue. Obviously there are far more people who enjoy Black Sabbath than those who dislike them. But...if you were to ask the average metalhead which is the best metal band currently out there, chances are you'd probably get Amon Amarth, Opeth, Slayer, and Children of Bodom for examples due to their higher popularity. Would a larger amount of supporters indicate one answer being more accurate? Opinions are opinions.
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Methanium
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^Yes, I can see the problem you are pointing out.
But Black Sabbath must've gotten their popularity from somewhere, there is a reason why it's not a band like Love Sculpture that got that "mainstream". Good bands rise in popularity because they're good, and then the popularity comes into play fans-wise.
Exactly, opinions are opinions. It's like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, that ask the crowd thing. You pick whichever has the largest number of supporters, not because it is most certainly correct, but because the chance of it being correct in the end is higher.
But Black Sabbath must've gotten their popularity from somewhere, there is a reason why it's not a band like Love Sculpture that got that "mainstream". Good bands rise in popularity because they're good, and then the popularity comes into play fans-wise.
Exactly, opinions are opinions. It's like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, that ask the crowd thing. You pick whichever has the largest number of supporters, not because it is most certainly correct, but because the chance of it being correct in the end is higher.
Yes, obviously they are worthy of the respect they have gotten but with 'mainstream' bands, they typically are gatekeepers to the metal genre, so naturally more people will hear of them and listen to their music. So if a band is good plays a role in the beginning but after it's been well established, that's when you get the mass popularity which means very little.
I just don't understand why people have a need to make others aware of which bands they hate. It is an opinion and is something completely subjective. Some might say a person should provide reasons as to why they dislike a band as if it furthers any actual justification, but really it's a simple matter of tastes. For example, those people who dislike Slipknot because their guitar work is simplistic and not metal enough and then they go ahead and listen to something like Darkthrone. People should just get over the fact that their favourite band probably isn't the best band out there because it's certainly not proven fact.
byrne
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To be honest, I have no idea why I like Cock And Ball Torture. The music itself isn't especially extreme, and the vocals are all synthed.
But I still do. Can't explain it.
As to everyone else's tastes, I don't especially care. As long as I don't have to listen to it or hear you going on about some band I don't care about, that is.
And I hate people who act like their musicial tastes are superior to everyone else's. And I especially hate people who think they listen to 'extreme' music, when infact they listen to Cradle of Filth.
But I still do. Can't explain it.
As to everyone else's tastes, I don't especially care. As long as I don't have to listen to it or hear you going on about some band I don't care about, that is.
And I hate people who act like their musicial tastes are superior to everyone else's. And I especially hate people who think they listen to 'extreme' music, when infact they listen to Cradle of Filth.
cookiecutter
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Agreed 100%. I really don't listen to the classics. They just aren't usually what I want from metal. I can't say I dislike them but this whole backlash against wagontrain seems rather absurd to me. I also think most of you misrepresented his point.
As for the topic, most bands I dislike I can see why people like them. It's the bands I find average, like Skinless and Decapitated, that make me wonder what the big deal is about those bands. They are just so average, yet so popular compared to their peers.
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It's not because these bands are the beginning and the pioneer, that we are obliged to like them. In that case, you should like Elvis who used a guitar.
But I like Maiden and Priest...
General Zaroff
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Agreed 100%. I really don't listen to the classics. They just aren't usually what I want from metal. I can't say I dislike them but this whole backlash against wagontrain seems rather absurd to me. I also think most of you misrepresented his point.
As for the topic, most bands I dislike I can see why people like them. It's the bands I find average, like Skinless and Decapitated, that make me wonder what the big deal is about those bands. They are just so average, yet so popular compared to their peers.
Maybe catchiness plays a factor.
cookiecutter
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But they are not any catchier than most other bands that play similar styles. Devourment is catchier than Decapitated imo, yet Decapitated is far more popular.
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