Just a question: Is like everyone on here a male? I am female and everyone I see is a guy, What the fuck Nuggas. (Not trying to be racist)

Linkin Park and Good Charlotte are not emo. To me they are terrrrible. But they’re not emo.

Just cause people have been classified as emo doesn’t mean they cut. So Dave D shut the fuck up.

If you listen to a band’s lyrics who could be classified as emo, it isn’t a waste of time.. Just a waste of your time. Space? Dumbass the only space wasted in this world is the stupid buildings people put in it. Energy? Can I ask what you mean by that? razors… I’ve said something already abut cutting.

Just cause you’ve considered / attempted / or even have committed suicide doen’t mean you’re fucked up. And I am saying this with experience… Do you think I’m fucked up?
You probably do cause well I am sort of sticking up for “emos” Which whom ever invented that term is a fucking douche bag.

Being emo isn’t “Wrong” or “Stupid” ……… being a fucking Cunt about it is. Like who the fuck cares? IT DOESN”T FUCKING MATTER…

Just a few last words.

Music is music.
what you like is what you like what you don’t is what you don’t ..
no shit eh?
So shut the fuck up, piss off, and kick rocks…
Sounds fun right?

I don’t care about emo subculture, they can have their Linkin Park and Good Charlotte, and plenty of people here are counter-culture for the sake of being so just like those kids, so I don’t really differentiate.

Or maybe you were commenting on his other comment: That he hopes emo kills itself, in which case: What the hell man! Emo is a waste of time, space, energy, and razors. It’s just another one of the ways kids can be “counter-culture”, and get attention.

Oh shit, I hope this doesn’t start a whole emo debate now.

Ever heard of a fucking soul, fiend? Or are you too busy browsing internet sites bashing suicide cases? Try the former sometime, it’s good shit, I guaran-damn-tee you.

I’ll give her credit for that.

Dingus, well that’s not true for me, three people I know are in their thirties, are metalheads, and think Disturbed rock, my Uncle, an ex-marine, in his forties, thinks they’re great. I’d say all but two people I know online at least appreciate Disturbed, one happens to have similar musical tastes to a lot of you, but he’s pretty open minded to most things metal or rock.

And the next person I read who spells “lose” or “loser” as “loose” or “looser”, I seriously hope contracts pancreatic cancer.

I’m not even replying after that embarassing post of proving my every fucking accusation true, good gracious, to think I even bothered probing.

An editing clarification, Pantera’s last album of original material was released in 2000, I wasn’t making any sort of value call on anything they’ve done.

BLS is the most boring, redundant band working. Zakk Wylde, though immensely talented as a multi faceted musician, produces fairly boring riffs and excuses to solo real fast in BLS.

Guess what, i just genuinly enjoy the variety of tones and styles an opeth album offers me, the uniqueness of what Devin Townsend does, and the impressive lyrical quality and untraditional musicianship of Tool. You can’t really be elitist about bands who sell so many goddamn cd’s as them.

Your quote:
“If listening to bands that put out music THEY like”, what the fuck kind of logic is that? That sounds like a sheep if I ever heard one, why don’t you strip all of that contrived, pretentious shit away and think to yourself “this is what I like” instead of obsessing over bullshit like that?

What I meant, perhaps it was unclear, is that I enjoy music that isn’t designed by a label to sell the most copies. I enjoy music that is made honestly, that, if no one came to see them play, they’d still be playing that kind of music. You know, that whole having artistic integrity and not allowing your music to become a commercialized product, homogenized for the masses to enjoy. It’s not being a sheep, it’s enjoying various forms of art because of the basic bottom line of honest, human expression of emotions or ideals. There are plenty of artists with HUGE integrity making various forms of music, ie, Origin, Amon Amarth, Textures, Joni Mitchell, David Crosby, justice, even current metal sucks favs iwrestledabearonce, Sculptured, that i cannot STAND. I form my opinions on my own, not what rock radio tells me is good.

Alter Bridge? Any day of the week I’ll listen to Alice in Chains and take in who they are ripping off.

Never said they had to be unknown or obscure, just adhering to a specific “counter-culture” look and attitude perpetuated in the music, which, with Opeth and Tool you proved correct, and Devin.

Oh I see, because anything that doesn’t adhere to that horribly pretentious shape and attitude is trite.

I “loose” she says, I’m not sure if that’s meant to be a knock on my promiscuity with a lack of ‘m or if she really meant to say I “lose”. I like Alter Bridge, their guitar work on the second album, which, being the elitist you are, have not heard, is just downright great, they really fill a void that most music can’t for me, harder, more complex “rock” that isn’t about tits and booze ala Nickleback. I have no doubt you’ll refuse to even consider this, so http://youtube.com/watch?v=yz_j7nVCJJ0 that’s the title track, just to show they are not the same fucking band as many people still(erroneously) believe based on the first album, as with Disturbed, among others.

I mean Jesus, I may hate Linkin Park and Slipsh…knot, but I still make sure I’m well informed about their new albums, to see if they’ve grown into something I enjoy, I don’t take this elitist counter-culture view with music that you adhere so strictly to. For Everclear, hell, I don’t know, it’s pop rock to me, I do like some things that are easy on the ears, if you absolutely hate things that sound good initially, what the hell did music ever do for you when you first heard it? Though, again, stop lumping these bands together, they do stand out in ways from their contemporaries, they have considerably better lyrics, much of Everclear’s lyrics are rather dark, Alter Bridge don’t sing thing one alike with Nickelback, who lyrically are a PC mainstreamed version of DEP.

“If listening to bands that put out music THEY like”, what the fuck kind of logic is that? That sounds like a sheep if I ever heard one, why don’t you strip all of that contrived, pretentious shit away and think to yourself “this is what I like” instead of obsessing over bullshit like that?

“the scene.” Yeah, because the “scene” is what I should be involved in, not my own tastes or likes, that’s another look into how twisted your thought patterns are in regard to music.

Next off, I have preferences, the problem with the metal “scene” right now is it’s largely either taken over by the likes of Godsmack and Linkin Park, whiny *cut myself* music, or really extreme shit that’s played by such horrifying assholes that there’s nothing redeeming about it. Worse still, there’s nothing to like about it, aside from maybe appreciation for their skill, or the urge to headbang really hardcore, but fuck, why bother? Headbanging really hard could be accomplished by any number of new bands that put out really poor albums, nu metal included.

As for the artists you listed, Sabbath I’ll give you, they were strung along on the likes of Ronnie James Dio and Tony Martin, and couldn’t produce anything that really captured what Black Sabbath was, though they were respectable efforts. Fuck you, Ozzy had some truly enrapturing 90s material, and Black Rain, though not atypical of Ozzy, dealt with many worldly themes that I thought felt very timely, sure, it’s not as catchy or as fun, but I don’t give a shit. BLS, well, I’ll let that go, because I know your taste would prevent you from liking a band backed by a very popular non-counter-culture musician. Lastly, Pantera, well I don’t absolutely love and cream myself over Pantera, so I don’t really care what you think they did last was “good” or whatever.

I don’t like bands for the sake of liking unknown acts, never claimed to, that’s a label you’ve been trying to pin on me for some time now. I’m a HUGE opeth fan, yet their album just debuted at #1 in a handful of countries and in the top 25 in the US. Also a big Tool fan, whose last 3 albums debuted at #1 in America amongst others. I grew up on Metallica (though not into their later stuff), and they were already insanely popular when I heard about them. Devin Townsend I would hardly call underground to anyone who is current with metal. So, you can stop saying i only like obscure bands, cause it’s just not the case.

You couldn’t have me or my tastes pegged further from the truth, i just don’t like shitty, formulaic, trite music the way you do.

I’ll give you a pass on Disturbed, cause that topic’s been done to death twice here.

You like Alter Bridge. And Everclear. That’s it. You loose. Those bands are beyond formulaic, record label assembled, commercial crap. Lowest common denominator, what do we have to do to sell the most records, we have people to address how we look for photo shoots. And yet you call me a sheep, but you are buying up the pre packaged, easily digestible crap labels put out for you to consume.

If listening to bands that put out music THEY like, record sales and money made be damned makes me so sort of hipster, I guess I am.

You, on the other hand, don’t seem to enjoy any metal made in the last 8+ years that has any relevance to the scene. Maybe you just don’t want to find new bands? Maybe the genre has just passed you by and the tastes you grew up on, so now you’re bitter about it and bash music that just doesn’t appeal to you? You seem to be incredibly close minded with metal you listen to. Your listed bands were Black Sabbath (not since the 80′s), Ozzy (not since the 80′s) BLS (never) and Pantera (not since 2000). Maybe you should let the music go and just continue to listen to your artists who haven’t done anything in the last 15-25 years.

dingus: “lol, cuz it would be funny if he turned out to be like a 45 year old man.”

That would be insulting you preteen twit, and inferring by asking that I’m some little kid(like yourself), is also insulting, you remind me of my brother. He often hauls off and says some seriously insulting shit then denies having ever said it moments later even if everyone in the fucking room heard him, and even if we have proof.

Trait? Narcissism.

36: Well, hell, if I wasn’t entertaining I wouldn’t get my own “please commit suicide” article then would I?