Subculturey people on WP?

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I tend to identify with not only early 80's rock bands but, new age music too.

I'm in a tattoo subculture, which is similar to biker subculture. Some styles and people are respectable and some aren't. Things are done in a certain way and if you don't do it that way you're not in the culture, no matter how "done" you are.

New Age or New Wave, please (you mentioned early 80's & I don't recall new age being big then)?

I don't think the bands you mention are for p*****s just not my kind of music particularly. Hell I don't even really like Metallica or Lamb of God, Slayer I will always like but they're not even all that good. Metal came from Black Sabbath and I hear plenty of so called metal fans trying to say Black Sabbath isn't metal....that bothers me far more than someone into metal listening to a bit of metalcore types stuff. But I can sort of see what you mean there are people into metal who get rather elitist....and even think bands have to stick with how they sounded initially even if the band themselves wants to change it up. I mean basically I am a metalhead but I get its not everyones favorite thing and I am certainly not an authority on what exactly makes metal.[/quote

Took me years to start to learn the differences between all the subgenres (which I only partially get now). I've come to learn that I am more of a -core guy than a -metal guy. -core tends to involve more groove and allows for more outside genres influences.

I remember me and a friend getting within seconds of a pretty big fight about 12-13 year ago at a Candiria show. They, at the time, and even today were totally different from anything that existed. They incorporate jazz, rap, tribal and ambient noise styles. Plus the singer is a black guy. This drew the ire of all "real" metal and even hardcore fans with whom they were force to play for lack of touring options. So I almost got assaulted for wearing their gear to their show because of how they were viewed. I'd have kicked the f**k out of the guy, and my friend was a beast at the time, this dude and his four friend all looked like over the hill little b*****s, but thats not the point.

It's a very, very elitist group. It's a hot button topic of mine because there are some very talented bands out there that are struggling badly to continue to exist because of the overall shittiness of typical metal fans. It's one thing for something to not be your taste, but don't make it appear lesser or make people actually afraid to wear merch in public.

I don't like Sabbath or anything that really existed before the 90's. Though you can't take away the influence they had on metal.

Oddly enough I was glad to see both Chino from the Deftones and Greg from DEP guest vocalled on the new Lamb of God. Not because it was any good, but I imagined all the rageful fans who were so angry such people would work with LoG. F**k em.

I'm a thinker, it doesn't get more sub-culture than that in today's world of "don't think about it, just react to it."

This is hard to remember because now I'm just in the "mom" subculture.

I'm into something called stoner metal, although I am anti-drugs. I also listen to something called experimental metal or new classical, which is somewhat like drone metal.

I'm in a tattoo subculture, which is similar to biker subculture. Some styles and people are respectable and some aren't. Things are done in a certain way and if you don't do it that way you're not in the culture, no matter how "done" you are.

I'm in generation X, which is a subculture. There aren't as many of us as other generations, and our values are a lot like the Veteran generation, in stark contrast to our parents and children.

I don't even know what a Mod is, seriously.
Could someone explain.

Mods were originally in the mid 60's but there was a big revival in the 80's - Mods dress sharp in suits (3 buttons with side vents 5 inches long), stove pipe trousers, button down shirts and thin ties, ride Vespas or Lambrettas with a Parka over the top. They get into pre hippy 60's music - (anything remotely hippy needs to be destroyed!). Bands like The Who, The Kinks, The Animals, The Yardbirds, The Small Faces etc, Soul music & RnB. The Jam was probably the biggest Mod band in the 80's (and late 70's), Secret Affair in England and in Aus there was Stupidity, The Mustard Club, The Go, The Avengers among a host of others.

Mods traditionally fought with Rockers or Rockabillies, but also with Skinheads, Punks and in Sydney mostly with Surfies. Generally got along with the Rude Boys.

Great fun!

Mods were originally in the mid 60's but there was a big revival in the 80's - Mods dress sharp in suits (3 buttons with side vents 5 inches long), stove pipe trousers, button down shirts and thin ties, ride Vespas or Lambrettas with a Parka over the top. They get into pre hippy 60's music - (anything remotely hippy needs to be destroyed!).