what do you think of rock/metal/hardcore/emo music?

[keyb0ardfweak]

only if someone really listens to these ones...cuz this is a classical forum ryt?

anyway, I like this music styles, esp. when they add piano to it, it sounds good


has anyone heard of Dream Theater, Sonata artica, Chiodos, Still Remains...etcetc

[pianochick93]

I don't mind it, if it has decent lyrics and melody.

I like some MCR, most Amber Pacific (though I havn't heard much), and some A7X.

[Essyne]

Rock - 80s and before (80s!!!) - love.

        - anything after that - not so much.

[dnephi]

I like Blink182 and Radiohead. I think there's a lot of very weak music out there parading around, pretending it's something other than mindless junk.

[keyb0ardfweak]

yes...the concept of music nowadays is gone..

they always use the same pattern for all the songs, but still, people like it. Even if it's simple it's still music.

I think we lost creativity, if you think about it, the older music(90's and so on) are more elaborated than the ones today. Now a song is composed of 4 chords. In the 90's the use of b5, augmented, diminished chords was commonly used, now I can't see any diminished chord in any song.

And this are the bands that most people like, for example, green day. Their album american idiot can be played by almost anyone who know basic guitar(my case)
and yet, they win money for just using power chords..

I have nothing against them, it's just that we lost the creativity..
(personally I like some songs of green day)


Then, the bands that do good music aren't well known..

[Etude]

yes...the concept of music nowadays is gone..

they always use the same pattern for all the songs, but still, people like it. Even if it's simple it's still music.

I think we lost creativity, if you think about it, the older music(90's and so on) are more elaborated than the ones today. Now a song is composed of 4 chords. In the 90's the use of b5, augmented, diminished chords was commonly used, now I can't see any diminished chord in any song.

And this are the bands that most people like, for example, green day. Their album american idiot can be played by almost anyone who know basic guitar(my case)
and yet, they win money for just using power chords..

I have nothing against them, it's just that we lost the creativity..
(personally I like some songs of green day)


Then, the bands that do good music aren't well known..

It's 100% marketing.  Most people don't know what they want, so when this kind of stuff comes along bombarding them with advertisements, they're quite happy to jump on the bandwagon.  It's not that they have bad taste in music, which is really subjective, they don't have any taste at all... they can't choose for themselves what to like, they need the media to decide it for them.   They just don't know any better. 

Anyway yeah, a lot of metal is good... and prog.  I'm particularly fond of Opeth and Pink Floyd at the moment.

[hlbessinger]

It's mindless and it messes with your musical sensitivity. And don't get offended because I used to LOVE that type of music. I mean headbanging mosh pits...the whole nine yards. I wouldn't hear a word against it. Then somone challenged me to go for a month without anything but classical music. After the month I eagerly ran back to my CDs, but what I heard almost made me puke!You see the beat in rock music triggers a "fight or flight" response, that causes endorphins to be released so you can get away from the beat that your body thinks its being attacked by. The result is that if you hear hardcore enough you become addicted to the "rush" you get when the endorphins are released. This is the same thing that happens when somone becomes addicted to cutting themselves. I just read a study where they took groups of rats and played different types of music for them. The group that was played classical music became smarter and could run a maze in have the time it took them before. The rats with soft rock became stupid and took twice as long as to run the maze as the "classical rats." And the one's that lisened to harscore? Well,they had to do the expiriment again with the mice in seperate cages,becase they tried to kill and eat each other. But hey, you don't have to believe me, look it up for yourself. And if you really got guts, go for a month without the stuff. Good luck.

[thalbergmad]