people who listen to only one genre of music and 'diss' other styles and the people who listen to it.

People, usually "metalheads", who judge a band's/musician's greatness soley on technical proficiency. They're usually the same people who love to talk sh!t about hip-hop, which also pisses me off. C'mon people, a handful of style is worth a bucketload of skill anyday.

i could have used that in a discussion with fenix a while back....

So true

I remember a while back on another forum mainly full of metalheads being lynched for suggesting that Dream Theater were bloody awful

when musics classified

and you ran all the way to the sanctuary that is musicbanter

MO to the SATCH!

well, i hate people who do stuff thats bad...

I don't likr THat modern R&B contains little rythm and no blues.... Whens the last time you heard a R&B song that started with "I woke up this mornin'"

whereas style is important, music is skill. you can not play instruments be stylish, and go act or something. but you ain't got the skillz to pay the billz than get the **** out.

technical proficiency is good up until the music starts to have no emotion or vibe to it.

Oh so true, bands like Dream Theater fall under this category. All skill but no fun what so ever to listen to.

Rant: Greenday thread after Greenday thread, when will it end??!?!?!

i really really like your thinking there

Fucking goddamn smooth jazz. Who fucking actually listens to smooth jazz?

When people say that they are a fan of a band, and then they only know one song.

When people say "Dude, 'All Along the Watchtower' is like, the best song Jimi Hendrix ever wrote!".

Edit: I just read LS's post about smooth jazz, and my hatred for it boiled up again. Anyway...they both suck.

Well, he pretty much changed the entire song...

And there are still idiots out there that like the Bob's version better. I think Dylan himself switched to Jimi's arrangement. Of course, I dunno if he could ever pull it off that well...

I think any mentions of Pitchfork should be banned from this site.

At least one third of progarchives members.

Its good to know Radiohead albums can never get so much as a 4 star overall rating because there are too many old fogeys who think any new bands that don't follow the 70s prog sound to not be progressive in any way, because "progressive" clearly means ripping off Genesis for your entire career.

And so on the forums these guys rant about how Radiohead is just 'bland commercial radio alt rock", talk about how great Saga is and get all tard happy about that Kansas concert they're going to.

If they are like that, then they are a bunch of narrow minded idiots who don't deserve to be called music fans if they have their heads stuck in the past.

But thankfully theres some really open minded guys there too. Not all prog fans are middle aged man stuck in the 70s.

But unfortunately a lot of them are. The kind that talks about how closed minded kids are for not appreciating the greatness of Mike Oldfield, all the while pretty much dismissing every other genre of music.

Oh yeah, no doubt there are open minded people and good on them. The one thing I absolutely detest in Music is close mindedness. By all means you don't have to be as eclectic as some of us but at least give ANY music a listen before you form an opinion. I don't think I could stay long on those forums and I like my Prog.

As a Jimi Hendrix fan I can honestly say he pretty much ruined the song and completely missed the mood of it. While more appealing from the stance of a guitarist everything else about the song feels soulless and dead. Bob's version is leagues ahead of it.

He ruined the song? :laughing:

I didn't know making a song your own meant you were ruining it.

Dylan's version is better, but ruining it?

Indeed. It meanders into this unemotive wank that just doesn't fit the mood of the song at all. It has no feeling. Plenty of depth and technicality but it just isn't the moving piece it should be.

You're just being a wanker on purpose. Even if you think that Hendrix's version is somehow worse, it certainly did justice to Dylan's in every respect. And I'm pretty sure that it wasn't unemotional at all. His voice reaches into great depth when he's singing. If it came across that way, that's just Hendrix's style coming through. He was very good, but he never made it look like (or sound like) he was trying too hard.

And you still haven't explained why Dylan himself switched to Hendrix's arrangement.

It took you over 900 posts to figure that out?

Dylan's version is not better.

With the exception of Guns N Roses covering Knockin On Heavens Door, if you cover a Bob Dylan song, it's gauranteed to be better than the original.

Whoever
invented rap can trip a fall in a ditch.
That's what pisses me off about music.

loozlzozlz you can't spell crap without rap right?

I No Rite??//?

Why?

Why?

It's just her opinion, man. Of course, not everbody feels that way. She can still rant about it if she wants to though...

The thing is I'm about 98% sure she said that without hearing any hip hop outside of what's played on the radio.

marry me? haha jk

anyways i hate metalheads, or anyone that restricts themselves to one genre, but metalheads usually grind my gears the most because they like to try to physically fight you if you question their reasoning

and also, even though its already been said, people who base music quality on technical proficiency... wait, that's 99% of metalheads

ok metalheads pretty much

jackhammer's a self-proclaimed metalhead and he's pretty reasonable. He could be part of the 1% though. I've met some pretty belligerent metalheads who hate on everybody, including fellow metalheads because they weren't hardcore enough.

What pisses me off more is twonks and psuedo-intellectuals who judge music based upon their perception of a band rather than its music.

i've only met the belligerent ones

"Did you punks just say Kirk Hammett is a better guitarist than Marty Friedman?"

*slashes throats*

\m/

This is one of the biggest problems I have about indie fans.

Indie culture today from my perspective has just become this big race to find and praise the most obscure artists and albums possible, and quality seems to be irrelevant.

I know that by saying that, this big trap of mine is probably gonna get me in trouble again, but it's the only thing IMO that could possibly explain the popularity of Merzbow.