Kind of two different topics there, IMO genres of music that focus 100% on one emotion are silly, so I readily admit that I like a lot of silly music. I tend to like Slayer over Iron Maiden, NWA over Tricky, Ministry over Sisters Of Mercy etc. So I admit I gravitate towards the even more rigid angry stuff.I don't think that's the defining feature at all. It's not the music that's silly, so much as the inevitable subculture around it, over which the artists have little or no control. It's the artists who embrace the subculture as much as the music who I find truly hilarious. My one concession to that, I suppose, is that I'll wear a mohawk on stage sometimes but otherwise we don't really make any concessions to the sub-culture. Even the mohawk is more a nod to Punk for me, not Goth or Rivethead culture (same thing over here).Basically any music focused only on anger tends to be a bit rigid, which is silly.
Fanbases for music can be super annoying. I actually really like Bon Scott era AC/DC but the American audience for AC/DC when I was a kid and they were still relevant is low IQ felons, the types that will randomly slash tires.
I think it pretty much all sucks. Hard. Post Punk has had somewhat of a resurgence in recent years but even a lot of that is pants. Like Punk itself, the American flavour is so much more dire than the European/English stuff. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that my tastes are drawn along geographical lines as much as genres. I have very little music from US artists. There is something in the music that I don't like at all and it permeates pretty much every genre. There are exceptions, like Devo and Wall of Voodoo, but they are really taking the piss out of all that Americanness and that works for me. But the rest of it? No.I of course like all of them, the only music I don't really like is modern country, the beer commercial kind. [I'm super picky with Indie Rock as well, most of it sucks.
Yeah I've always thought your regional based taste thing was moronic as f*ck, I've never once thought of the home town of any band really and any flavor that came out. I concede that all the first wave of Post Punk was from the UK, but the USA went more for Hardcore Punk at that point with only a few UK bands having that sound. Almost all the post punk bands eventually did garbage music though, Gang of Four sure did in 83 etc. Later in the late 80's NY Noise for a lack of a better term was IMO impressive and worth a look, Swans, Big Black, early Sonic Youth, Dust Devils, Painteens. Plus dire isn't an insult.
Oh and if you include bands like Chrome who predate all the post punk bands, or even punk, I think it's near impossible to discount american bands without just losing the plot entirely. Done, you admit you know exactly what Metallica sound like, so the awkward single note staccato runs from the banjo are amusing, but it sure as shit doesn't sound good!Yeah, but that's also on the Die Krupps EP, which covers it. Of course, I've also heard them do The Wait, but that doesn't really count. In fact, when I was looking around for some Killing Joke MIDI files, the only place I could find The Wait was on a Metallica fan site.I'm calling your bluff, you would have to lived in a cave to not have heard Enter Sandman more times that you ever wanted to.
Like I mentioned earlier it seems the crowd will always dictate the language, it's OK to mock someone who defends say NI and Kontakt in the "Sad State of NI" thread, because that's a dogpile, the peer group dictates it, but if you were to do the same in a thread years ago when NI was in favor, people would call you an asshole. I got roundly attacked for pointing out NI's track record of deprecation years ago, but now I'm confused why everyone is upset at NI for all the same behavior they've always exhibited.Yeah and I had a bit of a giggle and moved on. Why you guys have to take it all so personally, like anyone here actually has the first f**king clue who you are, is beyond my comprehension. If it was down the pub on a Friday night, we'd just tell each other to f**k off and be done with it.
Assholes and opinions, you do tend to drop the "only an idiot would xxx" a fair amount and for most people that's as good as calling you an idiot. I just think you hold strong opinions. I agree with you about Thorn, fantastic synth, but I have to say Jac459 made me really take a second look at Pahse Plant, I'll probably pick it up if it ever goes on sale.
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