really unremarkable and bland
yeah i don't know many people who love foo fighters!
All of those mid-90s rock bands seem so interchangeable. Foo Fighters, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Bush, they're all sort of the same to me.i think stone temple pilots was substantially different from foo fighters man! i don't know much about soundgarden but i would say bush and foo fighters are the only real BLOBROCK bands of those. bunnymilk told me alice in chains was very good so i guess i'm just going by his opinion on them though.
also fire mage i'm not insulted so much as i am AMUSED because no one with any taste would ever say the clash wasn't that great and you are sort of acting like you've figured it all out and all of us just haven't gotten it yet, and the fact that you are INTO DAVE GROHL just makes it funnier. you're like those guys on youtube who say SHUT UP EVERYONE IVE LISTENED TO JOY DIVISION AND THEY SUCK this fob cover is way betteri didn't think you were genuinely insulted or whatever buuutt
All of those mid-90s rock bands seem so interchangeable. Foo Fighters, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Bush, they're all sort of the same to me.
Man, Alice in Chains are a standout band.haha all of the sudden i'm a douchebag (oh let's glance over headphonics' 3 posts) because........SHOCKER i didn't enjoy some of the clash's songs? i asked for someone to point me to some of their good songs (yet no one did!!)
Also Fire Mage you are a douchebag but I can blame that on your being 12 right? I guess as you grow older you might be able to appreciate the clash more and stop listening to shit music.
uh a lot of thats pretty bad manwellllllllllllll. idk w/e??
Avenged Sevenfoldsorry i stopped reading your list after this
you should've at least kept reading until my chemical romance or new found glory or perhaps even staindwell no i knew in advance just about everyone would name them as shit but w/e!
what bothers me is that you list some good bands so I know that you're at least somewhat aware but you still choose to listen to like Maroon 5 so like seriously???i said the super-majority of my list i listen to regularly, i just listed all the stuff in my iTunes but i don't listen to them anymore to be honest :/
how dare you listen to music that is popular with your age-group/location >:^( >:^( >:^(wait what? it's not like i'm really bowing down "ok i will like the clash and throw away all my other bands" idk what you're talking about?
if someone on the internet says you have to like the clash you better fucking listen
its okay to like some of the stuff on there but only ironically (like anime)
WHATS SARCASM??no i mean the first two lines are sarcasm (and i had absolutely no clue of the point of the last line, sarcasm or not)
sorryyou were defending me so don't say sorry...unless this is sarcastic too!!
how dare you listen to music that is popular with your age-group/location >:^( >:^( >:^(i guess gw has been spoiled by having most of its 17 year olds' taste in music not be as bad as wackfiend's. there are certain expectations now!
if someone on the internet says you have to like the clash you better fucking listen
its okay to like some of the stuff on there but only ironically (like anime)
he's mumbling/slurring and half the time fades out of the mic etc.
mani mean i understand that the clash has influenced A LOT but idk what i've seen so far hasn't made me...get into them.
it's punk rock yo! like i guess i could understand a complaint about vocal acuity if it were consistent with the music you listen to, but there are enough poor/obnoxious vocalists in the bands you listed that i don't think your problem with the clash's vocals makes much sense! also honestly strummer has a great fucking voice and i would not consider it MUMBLING so much as YELLING and/or the product of a fairly strong accent. the dirtiness/sloppiness is very much a part of the punk rock attitude and sound (although the clash was an insanely tight band) and this is something i appreciate quite a lot about strummer's vocals. i guess you are used to some POST GRUNGE shit that has watered down its punk rock influences to such an extreme degree that the clash sounds somehow outside your comfort zone, but honestly besides being composed entirely of EXTREMELY GOOD TRACKS London Calling in particular is an extremely accessible album. i always kind of thought it was one of the records basically anyone raised in a Western musical culture could listen to and immediately appreciate if only for its hooks/sound/performance but i guess not and i don't know what to tell you man!
well it depends on the performance but yeah, there is a difference. it's just not nearly as big as it is for most bands, i would say. that whole diy mentality or w/e lent a lot of grittiness to their studio albums, so it doesn't sound OVERPRODUCED or whatever you would use to describe most of these bloated bands who sound nothing at all live like they do in the studio.well yeah that was i was talking about. i have quite a few bands like that but it's whatever! i mean there are a lotta band who are good both on album and live so yeah (i.e. modest mouse etc).
fire mage you listen to weird alhahaha not all the time i only have like that newest album (that had the shit like TRAPPED IN THE DRIVE-THRU) because... it's stupid yet funny sometimes!
modest mouse is goodwell yeah!
it's also okay to not like the clash if everyone had the same taste that would be boring now wouldn't it.....
The funny thing about this topic is that Fire mage isn't trying to discredit just any band, but THE CLASH and LONDON CALLING.
Good laughs.
but that's kind of a strange question to pull out of the blue i think unless it was just that they were on your list and people were kind of saying EVERYTHING ON THAT IS SHIT.well it's partly that. i think they're great and even though people were like "you have some good stuff it's still pretty" i was interested to hear what people thought of them!
The funny thing about this topic is that Fire mage isn't trying to discredit just any band, but THE CLASH and LONDON CALLING.i never discredited the album London Calling. i pretty much discredited the clash (or as far as what i've seen of them except for a select few songs so that point is valid!) but i definitely said i'll maybe check out London Calling.
nothing against mm so much (I don't relaly like them much but the'yre just not my thing) but it seems kind of random how this topic turned into ALL ABOUT MODEST MOUSEyeah idk i was just interested in what headphonics thought of them then the whole topic swarmed around it soooooo.
it's also okay to not like the clash if everyone had the same taste that would be boring now wouldn't it.....
The funny thing about this topic is that Fire mage isn't trying to discredit just any band, but THE CLASH and LONDON CALLING.I'm not nearly as active as I should be so I probably miss out on a lot of stuff, but aren't you the same guy who said LISTEN TO MUSIC BECAUSE IT SOUNDS GOOD TO YOU or something?
Good laughs.
Foo Fighters is empty of content, ESPECIALLY when comparing to a band so historic as The Clash, a band that initiated punk together with the Sex pistols and then with London Calling they became the pioneers of what we nowadays call punk (y'know, not just simple three chord processions and more eclectic and innovative songs).
The Clash are History and Great Music.
I'm not nearly as active as I should be so I probably miss out on a lot of stuff, but aren't you the same guy who said LISTEN TO MUSIC BECAUSE IT SOUNDS GOOD TO YOU or something?EDIT: wait, I read it wrong. No, I didn't say that.
and couldn't make fun of power metal..through the fire and the flames we carry OOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNN!!!!!!
EDIT: wait, I read it wrong. No, I didn't say that.
I might have said I LISTEN TO MUSIC THAT SOUNDS GOOD TO ME, which is different.i'm jumping in because i get your argument of the clash's influence (and i know they influenced a lot!!) but....
I really don't remember saying that, so basically it doesn't matter, because I don't remember, hence, not in my mindframe.
I'm not contradicting myself whether I said it or not, and sustain the statement that it is stupid to discredit a band of such historic importance.
i'm jumping in because i get your argument of the clash's influence (and i know they influenced a lot!!) but....I fucking hate metal. But I sure admit that Black Sabbath, Metallica, Iron Maiden are historic bands, and don't deny their importance.
say something happened and fall out boy ended up as the basis/big influence for basically every band from now on...would their "importance" make them good....no!
now that's a really dumb situation but i'm just saying, influence does not equal "everyone should like/respect/listen to them" type of stuff. i'm not completely discrediting them anymore (still haven't listened to London Calling) but just relax!
not everyone in the world actually likes the clash. so idk man. i mean tons of people hate modest mouse or pink floyd or led zeppelin or dinosaur jr or anything.
I fucking hate metal. But I sure admit that Black Sabbath, Metallica, Iron Maiden are historic bands, and don't deny their importance.man i like metal and i think they all suck heh
man i like metal and i think they all suck hehYeah thanks! That's pretty much it.
i'm not going to say they are bad but they are just so incredibly boring to me, just like 99% of 80s heavy metal is. although black sabbath is more than that.
Even if some band is influential, that doesn't mean you have to like it. I don't think Fire Mage is saying The Clash are bad, just not his cup of tea. Them being influential doesn't really change anything about that.
edit: whoops topics over sorry !!! DISREGARD MODERATOR PLEASE DELETE THISR POST !!!hahaha you know what i meant
Oh yeah, even if Fire Mage doesn't like The Clash now, that doesn't mean he can't ever like them. I think almost anyone can like them. There are so many genres and bands I originally did not enjoy but I grew to like them through repeated listens or other bands which were closer to my own taste but were also similar to the kind of music I wasn't accustomed to. But even though you can grow to like something you initially didn't, that doesn't mean it's going to be case with everything. Some music just doesn't click with some people. And for example, I think my musical taste is really broad and I listen to almost anything but even so, I still have my favorite bands and maybe even favorite genres, although I kinda have no idea what my favorite genre is right now. But for instance, I definitely listen to modern rock, electronica or metal more than I listen to, say, hip-hop, jazz or punk. I would be lying if I said I liked jazz or punk as much as rock. But I do listen to all that, some in smaller doses but I think there are artists I really like in almost all genres.
I started to a bit off-topic there but basically my point was that even though you have some genres or artists you might prefer over others, you can definitely like any kind of music because there's good music in all genres. So basically what idiotkid said. And besides, I think it's actually really interesting to keep listening different kind of artists even if it's completely different from what you usually listen to and just keep doing and discovering new muzaks then a year later you can think back how much your taste has changed and what kind of stuff you have started to get into.
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How are bands like Maroon 5 shit? Granted I don't like them but does that make them shit? What is shit about them (I am serious I want to know)?actually of all the more recent pop-rock bands out there I find maroon 5 to be one of the most tolerable. granted this is if you ignore their music videos (which isn't hard to do really...) but yeah they're fun and upbeat and when they're not hey at least their singer has an interesting voice and there is some vocal harmony stuff that you dont see as often.
yeah after listening to things like NIANDRA LADES and aphex twin shit like foo fighters and maroon 5 and nickelback and stuff are just so formulaic and boring. when i was like 10 on the other hand this shit was da bomb to me because all i really looked for in music was catchy chorusesi don't listen to nickelback!!