GOOGLE IS SURPRISINGLY WELL-EDUCATED ABOUT METAL
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 at 2:30pm by Axl RosenbergThe always-brilliant Rob Pasbani of Metal Injection was going through his usual daily routine – wake up late, wander over to computer, get high, play on computer, remain in boxers, fail to bathe… y’know, the life of your average blogger – when he made an amazing discovery: Google’s suggestions for popular searches related to metal are actually pretty dead-on. To wit, this non-altered, completely, 100% real screenshot:
AMAZING, right? Now if only iTunes and Netflix could actually make some decent recommendations based on my previous purchases and rentals.
Head over to Metal Injection for more incredible screenshots of metal-related Google search suggestions.
-AR
Google can read minds?!
Haha I fucking hate the Itunes “Genius” recommendations. Today’s example…”You like…Darkest Hour, Deliver Us”…Yes I do, great band and album. “We Recommend…Attack! Attack!, Someday Came Suddenly” ummm right…itunes go fuck yourself
Yeah, iTunes recommendations are the most random shit ever. I bought Wino’s Punctuated Equilibrium and from that iTunes recommends Motley Crue’s Saint’s Of Los Angeles. And after getting a couple Dio albums iTunes started recommending hair bands like Bang Tango and The Bulletboys. My iTunes must think I’m a Jersey mall chick or something.
Your account of my daily routine is frighteningly accurate
I just tried to go to MetalInjection and our new web filter at work blocked it for “Adult/ Mature Content”… I didn’t realize you were going the porn route. I’m thinking the name should be changed to Metal “Hot Beef” Injection…
And on a related note, now I’m totally getting fired. Thanks a lot MetalInjection.
i totally checked it out to see if it was true..it is lol
I tried out ‘Howard Jones is’ and I got black.
Kinda weird, Google also says James Hetfield is either:
- Christian
- Hot
- Dead
- God
I wouldn’t think any of it is true, but apparently he was raised Christian.
Google knows it’s shit that’s for sure. Try and google “Kanye West” if you still don’t believe it. The results are very similar to Lars Ulrich. Actually I find the two similar since they both have enormous heads.
I heard they both like fishsticks too
Lars Ulrich is indeed a crazy n-word.
I can see a lawsuit coming… for telling the truth…
I love the Megadeth is Better Than Metallica one, especially because that’s the only thing that came up. Like it’s an absolute fact and there is no other correct answer. Right on.
I just tried and there’s another suggestion:
metallica’s lars ulrich is proud of napster’s destruction
I wish you would drop the metallica thing already. It really takes away from an otherwise amusing site. Yes they put out some trash albums. Who hasn’t. Ok, they are too big for their britches and lars can be an asshole. Yep. Every band out there would suffer under this scrutiny. That’s obvious. Death magnetic was a metal album and it was good. People really sound stupid saying otherwise. Can we move on? Please?
No. Metallica makes an excellent laughing stock. There’s just so much to make fun of, mock, crack jokes about etc. Lars Ulrich having a massive ego but being a terrible drummer, for one. Death Magnetic has some good riffs, sure, but these guys were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame for fuck’s sake. The Black Album (which sucks just as much as anything they did after it, IMO) has sold more copies than the fucking bible. Don’t get me wrong, I like some songs from their first 4 albums, but they’ve shit all over their legacy. I understand why people who grew up in the 80s when Metallica were awesome and drunk have a hard time letting go, but the damage they’ve done to their legacy ensures that metalheads will heartily crack Metallica jokes for years to come.
that’s pretty fucking funny
I like Metallica, but their move with that Napster thing still sucks.
Funny nonetheless.
I’ve always read that Lars is an awful drummer. What makes him so bad? I never thought he was a Lombardi or Peart, but he never sounded that horrible. In my misspent musical youth I’ve auditioned drummers that can’t keep time, have no chops, slow down and speed up during a song that’s supposed to stay at a constant bpm amongst other musical maladies….
Granted he has an over-inflated ego, that’s a gimme, I also hate him for the Napster debacle but why a bad drummer? Just musical curiousity.