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Posted: June 06 2010 at 06:03
Country?
I think Johnny Cash was an incredible artist. i was deeply moved by 'Hurt' and 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' gives me the chills. But he was one of a kind.
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Posted: June 06 2010 at 04:56
There's been badass musicians in country. Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed, Brad Paisley (well okay, has some terrible songs, but his picking abilities pretty much destroys faces) etc. It's too bad country music gets associated with that crap like Taylor Swift et al now
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Posted: June 06 2010 at 03:55
Nothing wrong with country?
My dad is obsessed with it and listened to it all day in his den, as a teen i grewup with his country
it made me get into metal i think. Er.... he was so pleased when I asked to borrow his Don williams albums. i actually liked his voice.
i remember thrashing Kiss Alive for the 50th time and then some Floyd and then put on Pamela Brown by Don Williams. Dad came upstairs and said 'geez its great to hear you playing some decent music for a change" - never forget that and I was a difficult teen.
now i actually teach teens in my teaching profession at college - a vicious cycle.
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Posted: June 06 2010 at 03:34
That's funny. I'm 55and have the same problem.I remember my old man telling me how he got teased about liking classical music. He grew up way out in the country where all they knew was country music. (Not that there's anything wrong with that).
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Posted: June 06 2010 at 03:15
JJLehto wrote:
As my musical tastes expanded I saw it's not just metal, very little good music is made nowadays....
Sorry but I couldn't disagree more. Each new decade has continued to deliver plenty of good music. Much of that is low profile of course, so you have to dig deeper.
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Posted: June 06 2010 at 03:11
To the OP, well you're 15 at the moment. In 5 years time, when you
gain more perspective, you'll look back at this thread you made and will
laugh, seriously (and no offense intended by that).
Generally screamo is just a blend of alt rock, post hardcore and emo,
and eh, hate me but like some bands that play that style of music, just
as I also like death metal, jazz fusion, 20th century classical and post
metal for instance.
It's really just time better spent just focusing on the stuff you like,
discovering more music for yourself and just ignoring the stuff you
don't like.
Don't go around trying to "introduce prog" to people either. I find it pretty annoying when someone feels the need to want to introduce a band to me. If I care enough and just hear a friend listening to something one day and I dig it, I'll ask them what it is. But I don't go around saying "guize listen to this stuff, I like it so you'll probably like it" because that's just really annoying and obnoxious quite frankly. Let them discover stuff on their own terms and ease they way into it, not be pushed into it.
Gotta feel bad for my parents, now that I'm older I keep a great relationship with them, but through my HS days, as well as my younger brother we gave them that sh*t to deal with! If I ever do reproduce god help this world anyway. Keep doing your part ACR and make sure your daughter listens to good music!
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Posted: June 06 2010 at 01:36
^ All good what is being said here
i remember as a teen often locking my self away in my room and cranking out Pin Floyd, I had Marillions Misplaced Childhood, and Kraftwerk and had no idea I was listening to prog - I was just enjoying a differnt brand of music as I was bored with the radio stuff all my friends were listening to.
I had singles of ELPs Fanfare for Common Man, I had Nights in White Satin by Moodies, I was not into a lot of radio because I was rebellious as a teen - I liked the metal scene for same reasons. I was weaned on to metal thru the metal show late night Fridays and I soon had more metal than prog. Now of course I am aproghead but metal lasted till I was 25. I still love prog metal now for different reasons.
Teens want to belong to something and if they dont belong they rebel. Thats my story anyway. I am noticing it with my daughter now - she is getting rebellious because she doesnt fit in. I am trying to wean her on prog too - we will start with Genesis... hehe
It goes all the way back to my early days of high school. Even then when I was a straight up metal head, I was complaining about how all metal sucks these days. I have those music channels the direct TV, like 99% of all the new bands sucked! IMHO: Only really good metal bands post-2000 were SOAD and Lamb of God, (and now their too big and fanboys fill youtube/music forums!!!) As my musical tastes expanded I saw it's not just metal, very little good music is made nowadays....
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Posted: June 06 2010 at 01:16
I think the problem stems with wanting to be in the 'In Crowd' and find a sense of belonging. Teens want to belong to be popular and to be accepted and so they overall listen to the popular music their friends listen to to be popular. When I was a teen (the 1980s!) the music that was all the rage was Kiss. Others that were not as popular were Sweet, Quatro, Gary Numan and Abba. A lot of this was from the late 70s and were throwbacks and a lot of it was electronic. I was different listening to Kraftwerks man Machine, Pink Floyd's Wall, Tull's Aqualung, Kiss The Elder back to debut album, and everything the Sweet had done. I had all the vinyl albums of Numan, Kiss, Floyd, Sweet, Quatro....
I eventually got in to metal with Motley Crue SATD, Maiden TNOTB and Metallica, first 3 albums.
Needless to say i can tell you I was not one of the popular kids. None of them were listening to this stuff.
Edited by AtomicCrimsonRush - June 06 2010 at 01:17
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Posted: June 06 2010 at 00:46
NecronCommander wrote:
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The other day, I was driving one friend to a party, and I was playing Close to the Edge. He ejected the disk after a minute, saying he didn't want to listen to "church music."
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Posted: June 06 2010 at 00:36
...baaaaaaaack on topic.
I'm one month 18, and I can name probably only 1 or 2 kids in my class of 250 who like prog.
I'm more of a prog metalhead (moreso prog than metal), and I have had some success getting some metalhead friends to like some of my progressive stuff (and even then, I know very few people who like metal either, it's all pop, rap, hip-hop, techno, and modern alternative), but my metalhead friends still prefer the likes of bands like Cannibal Corpse, Slipknot, and the Devil Wears Prada
Even though the stuff I listen to is not accessible at all, I still think I'm far more open minded than a lot of my peers. I tried to show one of my friends a Pain of Salvation song (he normally listens to rap and electro-pop) and he pulled out his earbuds after hearing the first two notes.
The other day, I was driving one friend to a party, and I was playing Close to the Edge. He ejected the disk after a minute, saying he didn't want to listen to "church music."
Of course, hardly anyone I know is as big into music as I am. I can't really blame them for not being as open if they really aren't too passionate about music, but I don't think it would hurt for them to broaden their horizons a bit.
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