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View Poll Results: Is Devin Townsend a Knob?
Yes he's a knob 1 4.55%
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Old 08-28-2017, 05:29 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Look, I like some of the guy's music, but he comes across more often than not as unutterably smug. He releases so much music at a time that much of the time it's on "special edition" compilations with titles like Stuff That Used To Be Stuff or whatever, which to me just seems to be saying "Look what I can do! Even when I don't try I'm still great!" Maybe I'm wrong here, but it seems to be like we're dealing with a massive, supermassive ego. Sure the guy has talent, buckets of it, but does he have to keep rubbing it in everyone's face every five minutes? Most of the unofficial stuff is usually pretty bad anyway, to me at least.

Am I on the wrong track here? Have I not listened to the right albums - Ghost, Ki, Epicloud, a few others so far, and bits from this or that on playlists - and if the latter, what should I be listening to in order to "get" this man?

Or is he just a massive knob?
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Old 08-28-2017, 05:36 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Old 08-28-2017, 06:19 AM   #3 (permalink)
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He's not a bit cheesy but enormously cheesy. Epicloud is distilled and compressed cheese, first and foremost.

But I don't think he's a pretentious or self-satisfied person. From various interviews and this video where he composed an entire song live on cam, I got the impression that he's just somewhat mentally unstable and a very creative individual. The sort that ****s out new music because he'll go crazy if he stops. I do think he's calmed down a lot over the last decade or so.

I like a bit of his music, but not a lot.
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I don't even want to know what his personality is like. The kind of person who thinks it's fine to do what he does is not somebody I need in my life.
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his solo stuff is definitely cheese but the SYL discography still kicks major ass
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Don't know and don't care about his personality but his music is boring and ridiculously overrated.
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The thing is, I could understand thinking this if I didn't like any of his music. But I loved Epicloud (yeah yeah, I have no taste: go play on a runway). I just found some of the other stuff that came on my ipod randomly to be bloody awful. Much of it seemed like it was just thrown together, yet he still decided to release it anyway. I swear, he probably has a six-CD boxset of him taking a dump ready for release for Christmas! I mean, no matter how good (or bad) you are, is it necessary to release EVERY ****ING SINGLE THING you've ever recorded, as it seems he is doing?
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I have Ocean Machine and dig it.

Can't hate on someone just because they are prolific. He reminds me of Stephen King. Dude wakes up everyday with the need to write something. Does he put out some stuff that's crap? Sure. But plenty of diamonds in the rough.
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I mean, no matter how good (or bad) you are, is it necessary to release EVERY ****ING SINGLE THING you've ever recorded?
He's probably got a solid fan base who would answer with a resounding YES.
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Can't hate on someone just because they are prolific. He reminds me of Stephen King. Dude wakes up everyday with the need to write something. Does he put out some stuff that's crap? Sure. But plenty of diamonds in the rough.
It's not how prolific he is, it's how dull and absolutely unengaging his music is. I suppose having more of it to dislike is not a good thing, but I'd still dislike him if he only released two albums.
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