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A lesson for you kids

poweRob

poweRob

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On the radio, music styles come in waves. Right now I feel for you kids. While I do hear some good talent on the radio my God is it so poppy fluffy. I mean there is some good music out there but for ****s sake even just some times I'd like to turn on the radio and here some good electric guitar feeding me angst.

You poor kids probably don't even know that your are guitar starved. I feel it to be my duty to tell you to put on some headphones and just crank the **** out of it and get so amped by these that you wanna push an old lady down an escalator.

Seriously, put on some headphones and smash some ****! Jesus. Let me take you a generation back where guitar simultaneously carried melody and meat.

MAN UP BITCHES!






 
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Even if its just riffing power chords... it's child abuse to not have this in your life at a young age...





Or a beefing up of a classic hippy song... (not to mention its a cool vid especially if you are an X-files fan)





 
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And guitar mixed with lyrics that make absolutely no goddamn sense whatsoever but it still makes you feel...





 
poweRob said:
And guitar mixed with lyrics that make absolutely no goddamn sense whatsoever but it still makes you feel...





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How dare you link monster magnet without mentioning space lord, their only song played on nearly every rock radio station.
 
beerftw said:
How dare you link monster magnet without mentioning space lord, their only song played on nearly every rock radio station.
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Kind of what I was trying to avoid. The radio killed songs of great bands... because the radio stations rarely pick the best songs from an album to force-feed us over the airwaves.
 
poweRob said:
Kind of what I was trying to avoid. The radio killed songs of great bands... because the radio stations rarely pick the best songs from an album to force-feed us over the airwaves.
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I agree with that except space lord! I do get tired of hearing the same few songs spammed, And they are great songs but too often overrated and overplayed to the point of mediocrity.

Example led zepelin had quite a few albums, yet the same three songs are spammed all day on the radio.
 
Why hasn't anyone posted any Wham or Milli Vanilli? Stop talking about good music when you obviously don't know any. There's not even any Bananarama in here. Jeez
 
beerftw said:
I agree with that except space lord! I do get tired of hearing the same few songs spammed, And they are great songs but too often overrated and overplayed to the point of mediocrity.

Example led zepelin had quite a few albums, yet the same three songs are spammed all day on the radio.
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exactly... I do like space lord quite a bit too.

Let me also say that modern metal lost its way as well. IMO the good ones have, like I said above, melody and meat. Modern metal seems to have opted for the meat and thrown own the balance that melody gives it and now guitars in metal are not treated like string instruments but percussion instead.
 
Brewdog said:
Why hasn't anyone posted any Wham or Milli Vanilli? Stop talking about good music when you obviously don't know any. There's not even any Bananarama in here. Jeez
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WHat you are metioning is basically the style of pop that is on the radio now. Not bad per say but... too much fluff. I drive a lot for my job and I get so tired of the poppy fluff. And "classic rock" stations are just slaughtering the same damn songs over and over and over when they have a great selection to choose from that they ignore.
 
poweRob said:
WHat you are metioning is basically the style of pop that is on the radio now. Not bad per say but... too much fluff. I drive a lot for my job and I get so tired of the poppy fluff. And "classic rock" stations are just slaughtering the same damn songs over and over and over when they have a great selection to choose from that they ignore.
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I don't even listen to music on the radio in the car anymore for this reason. I like classic rock, but the radio spams the same stuff. I listen to talk radio or news in the car.

But when I'm at home drinking and wanna hear music, I'll get on the Youtubes and look up a song I like, except a cover version sung by some random band or person. It's pretty stellar the talent some of those people have. And their versions are a bit different, so it makes it nice. I like to hear acoustic guitar or piano versions of songs I like.

EDIT: And I was joking about the bands I mentioned. Except for Wham! They rock and everyone knows it. Jitterbug bitch!
 
Brewdog said:
I don't even listen to music on the radio in the car anymore for this reason. I like classic rock, but the radio spams the same stuff. I listen to talk radio or news in the car.
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I'm listening to talk radio until it annoys me then I listen to a classical music station just because I don't know it that well and it's almost always new or newish to me.
 
There is more to decent guitar playing than power chords.





 
ttwtt78640 said:
There is more to decent guitar playing than power chords.





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Of course... but you'll hear that on the radio more often than good hard core rock. Besides, blues lyrics suck sooooo bad. They are generally so damn good at guitar that lyrics are less than an after-thought and are usually just sounds they throw in to fill the void when the guitar isn't being played. Case in point... Stevie Ray Vaughn with "Mary had a little lamb..." bit.
 
poweRob said:
On the radio, music styles come in waves. Right now I feel for you kids. While I do hear some good talent on the radio my God is it so poppy fluffy. I mean there is some good music out there but for ****s sake even just some times I'd like to turn on the radio and here some good electric guitar feeding me angst.

You poor kids probably don't even know that your are guitar starved. I feel it to be my duty to tell you to put on some headphones and just crank the **** out of it and get so amped by these that you wanna push an old lady down an escalator.

Seriously, put on some headphones and smash some ****! Jesus. Let me take you a generation back where guitar simultaneously carried melody and meat.

MAN UP BITCHES!






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Son, you have no idea what hard or hardcore is.

But, since you know Helmet, you might be spared.
 
Tanngrisnir said:
Son, you have no idea what hard or hardcore is.

But, since you know Helmet, you might be spared.
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LIke I said, melody with meat. I'm aware of death metal and the like, but I like the meat guitar with hanging/lingering notes tuned in drop D fashion and not just punching the guitar like it's a percussion instrument.

And Helmet was probably my 2nd favorite live show I've ever seen. Totally badass.
 
poweRob said:
LIke I said, melody with meat. I'm aware of death metal and the like, but I like the meat guitar with hanging/lingering notes tuned in drop D fashion and not just punching the guitar like it's a percussion instrument.

And Helmet was probably my 2nd favorite live show I've ever seen. Totally badass.
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Helmet will be remembered. Unsung is like a generational tidal mark.

Try something new. Shred has never sounded more Zappa. And it's gorgeous.

 
Tanngrisnir said:
Helmet will be remembered. Unsung is like a generational tidal mark.

Try something new. Shred has never sounded more Zappa. And it's gorgeous.

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Unsung got a lot of attention but to me, that album's peak was the title song "In the Meantime". That has to be the best hype intro to a song ever. I crank that from the beginning and no matter how much I've heard it, the hairs on the back of my neck perk up. That first 50 seconds... unbeatable.

 
poweRob said:
Unsung got a lot of attention but to me, that album's peak was the title song "In the Meantime". That has to be the best hype intro to a song ever. I crank that from the beginning and no matter how much I've heard it, the hairs on the back of my neck perk up. That first 50 seconds... unbeatable.

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I can see I'm going to have to bring strong magic out.

Are you ready?
 
Tanngrisnir said:
I can see I'm going to have to bring strong magic out.

Are you ready?
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Share... Kids today have been neglected. We need to let them know that there is hope and good, solid rock out there and not just a bunch of emo, pop fluff and pretend metal-heads who make loud noises but don't really now how to play the guitar they are holding.
 
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Good damn rock with some funky lyrics that just are ear candy...

In the middle was a big cauldren
That they were stirin' stirin'

And there were trees around
That they kept burnin' burnin'

I asked toothless man
Who all these people were and

He said the soapmakers
And we are workin' workin'​




I mean, how cool is that?
 
Then of course the ladies, who rock harder than these pansy boy bands today could ever manage to do...



 
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poweRob said:
Share... Kids today have been neglected. We need to let them know that there is hope and good, solid rock out there and not just a bunch of emo, pop fluff and pretend metal-heads who make loud noises but don't really now how to play the guitar they are holding.
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One does not have to go all "dimebag" like Pantera to be a good rock guitar player.





 
ttwtt78640 said:
One does not have to go all "dimebag" like Pantera to be a good rock guitar player.





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There is good guitar players in all sorts of genres. I just think hard rock is so buried under mountains of pop fluff these days.

And i miss Dimebag Darrell. What a loss.
 
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