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25 Jan 2013, 2:26 am

Farsight wrote:
LexingtonDeville wrote:
Metallica
Opeth - Heritage especially
Meshuggah

Funny I just got into Heritage. Its pretty fine actually. The only really bad song being Slither. I especially like how it avoids repetition. Opeth usually does this thing were they repeat riffs by themselves for ages. If you repeat the same exact figure more than 3-4 times. I get really frustrated as a listener.
But for the OP question.
Metallica, The Beatles Opeth and Radiohead. I tend to avoid listening to overrated bands though.
Fan myopia runs rampant among fans of bands such as these. For some Opeth fans Opeth is THE most eruditious and original metal band bar none. Even though the idea of mixing jazzy elements in death metal dates back to when the genre first reared its head so to speak.
Metallica. There is tons of people who, when it comes to Metal listens to Metallica and it just ends there "I mean they are clearly the best Metal band ever. They even have soft tender acoustic bits in there and vocals that doesnt scream all the time unlike every other metal band" :roll:

I very much dislike when people make statements like Freddie Mercury is the greatest singer ever lived or Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitarist who has ever lived, Jim Morrison was the deepest poet in music and so on so forth.

Yeah I 100% agree with the facepalm aspect of that slimey metallica fanboy quote.

Reminds me of apple fanboys in one way or another.



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25 Jan 2013, 9:41 am

Uprising wrote:
Farsight wrote:
LexingtonDeville wrote:
Metallica
Opeth - Heritage especially
Meshuggah

Funny I just got into Heritage. Its pretty fine actually. The only really bad song being Slither. I especially like how it avoids repetition. Opeth usually does this thing were they repeat riffs by themselves for ages. If you repeat the same exact figure more than 3-4 times. I get really frustrated as a listener.
But for the OP question.
Metallica, The Beatles Opeth and Radiohead. I tend to avoid listening to overrated bands though.
Fan myopia runs rampant among fans of bands such as these. For some Opeth fans Opeth is THE most eruditious and original metal band bar none. Even though the idea of mixing jazzy elements in death metal dates back to when the genre first reared its head so to speak.
Metallica. There is tons of people who, when it comes to Metal listens to Metallica and it just ends there "I mean they are clearly the best Metal band ever. They even have soft tender acoustic bits in there and vocals that doesnt scream all the time unlike every other metal band" :roll:

I very much dislike when people make statements like Freddie Mercury is the greatest singer ever lived or Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitarist who has ever lived, Jim Morrison was the deepest poet in music and so on so forth.

Yeah I 100% agree with the facepalm aspect of that slimey metallica fanboy quote.

Reminds me of apple fanboys in one way or another.



Opeth peaked with Ghost Reveries, then it's been a slow descent after 2008's decent helping of Watershed.


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27 Jan 2013, 11:09 am

Nirvana and The Beatles are big ones. Oh, and this is an unpopular opinion, but to an extent, Sonic Youth. Some of their fans are too hipster-y.

And I think Radiohead's the most overrated band to ever exist. I really don't get what's so "innovative" and "original" about them. They just put me to sleep to be honest. I mean, I once had a friend who was a Radiohead fan, and once I told her, "I don't really like them that much," and she called me "stupid." Stupid because I didn't like a band she liked...okay...that's a little extreme. I don't get it.


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30 Jan 2013, 3:34 pm

I have always thought Madonna is very overrated but I like some of her stuff.



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30 Jan 2013, 3:51 pm

Ganondox wrote:
Rorberyllium wrote:
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I very much dislike when people make statements like Freddie Mercury is the greatest singer ever lived or Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitarist who has ever lived, Jim Morrison was the deepest poet in music and so on so forth.


I don't even like Queen, but I'm pretty sure from a technical standpoint Freddy Mercury is hard to beat among rock vocalists.


I think Robert Halford is more technically talented than Freddy, but I'm not sure.

There is plenty of vocalists that doesnt just hold a candle to Freddie but the whole chandelier...or something im not good at metaphors but anyway. With Freddie I think alot his status comes from location, time and place and his undeniable charisma. And he was a great singer. Who sang in a band with great songs.
Serj Tankian is unbelievably talented technically.



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30 Jan 2013, 4:07 pm

Kait wrote:
They just put me to sleep to be honest. .
If music puts me to sleep its probably good music. If its bad I tend to be too annoyed to relax.