Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Ozzy, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Cream, Hendrix, The Stooges, Ramones, Misfits, Metallica, Megadeth, Led Zeppelin, Dio, Van Halen, KISS, AC/DC, Nazareth, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Elvis, Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Bad Religion, Dead Kennedys, Willie Nelson, Steppenwolf, Blue Oyster Cult, Kansas, Boston, Death, Johnny Cash, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, Pink Floyd, The Doors...
Fast guitar riffs, power riffs, great solos, complex song structures, profound lyrics, intensity, complex drum tracks difficult to repeat live, intense, loyal fans...
to...
Fall Out Boy, Bullet For My Valentine, Panic! At The Disco, Hawthorne Heights, Chiodos, My Chemical Romance, The Used, Coheed and Cambria, Cute is What We Aim For...
Whiny vocals, simple, boring guitar riffs, zero intensity, a constituency of depressed, monotonous fans, no solos, simple, seemingly one handed drumming, same 2 or 3 chords over and over...
From simple, one or two word names to paragraph long song titles and band names, usually depressing in nature...
From sex, drugs and rock-n-roll to "clean, straightedge" images...
From starting out in garages and underground clubs to starting out in sold-out well-known clubs based on style, not skill...
From leather, chains, spikes, denim, long hair and cut off shirts to tight pants, preppy dress shirts, short black hair swept over one eye and eyeliner and makeup...
From intensity and hard work and originality to repeating things that have been done with less effort and poorer quality...
From lyrics about politics, society, war, drugs and alcohol problems to lyrics about bleeding hearts, black hearts, parties, BLEEP and ass amd superficial crap...
From humble beginnings to having everything paid for by the record company that only cares about simple, radio friendly garbage...
From songs that made you think and wonder and punch the next person that looked at you wrong to sitting in your room next to your stereo and crying in someone's arms...
From earning women by putting your heart and soul into a show and nearly passing out from exhaustion in sweaty, dirty nightclubs and bars to dressing like a girl and acting like you're a queer just to get women...
Frm Seek and Destroy, Child in Time, Whiplash, Hellraiser, Time, Money, Breathe and Hangar 18 to This Ain't a Scene...This is an Arms Race, I write Sins, not Tragedies, Ohio is for Lovers, A Box Full of Sharp Objects, Build God, Then We'll Talk...
From in your face, hair raising metal screams and harmonic yells to whiny, pathetic yelping called "screamo"...
From spike bracelets as a fashion statement to wristbands with depressing messages to cover up cut wrists...
From wrist-breaking arpeggios and shredding and fretboard tapping to acoustic finger picking, the same few chords and the occasional broken fingernail...
From five to ten minute songs having to be reduced to play on the radio and swapping records with friends at school to stay into the scene to one to three minute songs that are played over and over and over...
From die hard, loyal fans to fake morons who dress like girrls and call themselves fans until the next fad arrives...
The way I see it, thrash metal had it's ten years, grunge had it's five or so years, pop had it's time, so hopefully, emo will die very very soon.
ALWAYS respect the classics. They laid the groundwork for the crap that people call music today.
Don't pass out in the middle of some railroad tracks, that's not good.
-JOrion
Metallica rules.
From selling out tiny clubs in the early 80's to selling out stadiums today, Metallica has ruled the metal/rock scene.
But not without controversy.
Many of these controversies I find complete crap.
First off, they didn't sell out. They evolved musically and personally. Their evolution is what makes their career so great-- from hard, in your face thrash metal to mainstream rock to bluesy rock to tearjerking ballads to even a country song. Thney would be much less popular and appealing if they stayed thrash, and I attribute their change to their producer (who is a complete BLEEP and that's why he was fired/quit a few years back) and the changing scene in the 90's.
After ...And Justice For All was released, their producer Flemming Rasmussen (who produced Master of Puppets) left the band. Although being a major fan favorite, it was poorly produced and lacked any identifiable bass. The bass drums clicked and the guitars were very thin, which correlates to Bob Rock's departure after a poor effort on St. Anger.
The uproar following The Black Album in '91 was met with HUGE success. Metallica was now a household name, but to the moronic die-hard thrash metal fans it was a betrayal. Good. BLEEP em. Metallica didn't need them anyway. Bunch of smelly, stupid "metalheads."
The second is them *GASP* CUTTING THEIR HAIR! Like that has ANYTHING to do with what they did musically. I don't care enough to write about that.
Then there's the big one, NAPSTER. I, myself found this one a crock of BLEEP on Metallica's part. Here's these rich popular rock stars complaining over people getting their music FREE!
Downloading music is actually a help to a band because it spreads out their name to many people, ESPECIALLY in this growing internet community, but NO! They want their money! So Ulrich went in and had 300K or so accounts dropped and all that. Total goof on the band's part. But it was 7 years ago, I'm over it.
So why am I writing this? Well, I know there's a lot of Metallica haters and many of the reasons they hate them are invalid. Napster was 7 years ago. GET OVER IT. You have limewire you shallow BLEEP.
So, the new album is coming out sometime early next year and for any Metallica fans reading this, I want to know what you think it will be like and how pumped you are for it.
New producer (Rick Rubin,) solos (conspicuously absent on St. Anger,) the snare being turned back on, new attitudes and hopes, they have Trujillo playing on this one, personally I think it could be the best album they put out if there's enough behind it. We've been told the songs will be quite lengthy and there IS some fast stuff on there but that won't change the mind of the fat 40 year old BLEEP whose still pissed off at the Black Album.
The future is bright and I can't wait for the new album!
But don't expect Master of Puppets part 2.
God Bless Cliff Burton.
.orion.
