Metal-Hard Rock Train Survey
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Topic: Metal-Hard Rock Train Survey
Posted By: WaywardSon
Subject: Metal-Hard Rock Train Survey
Date Posted: January 10 2007 at 17:26
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A lot of people get off the metal/hard rock train between 20 and 30 years of age and start listening to more mellow music.
At what age did you stop listening to loud hard rock/metal?
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: January 10 2007 at 17:32
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Hmmm probably 35-40..though still listen to stuff like UFO,Purple,Lizzy etc. Not as much as I used to do though and prefer my music generally more subtle and sophisticated these days though.
Might not be a permanent state for me though I suspect it is. |
Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: January 10 2007 at 17:42
It's difficult. There was a point where I could have gone more to metal, but I got into Genesis. It goes in and out with me. My late 20s, and early 30s were mellower times. I have started listening to heavier stuff more in recent years. There's nothing like cranking it up, and riding my bicycle hard.  ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: January 10 2007 at 17:46
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Never really liked hard rock/metal but I think I've grown more accepting of it as I got older -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 10 2007 at 17:46
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I still listen to a lot of progressive metal, although its really the only sort I enjoy... I couldn't put on any Ac/Dc these days, although loved them when I was 16.
This year, I've listened to a lot of Pagan's Mind and Beyond Twilight especially, which suggests I'll probably never get off... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: January 10 2007 at 17:47
| I stopped listening to it every day around 30...but I never stopped altogether-- how can you when bands like Sabbath, AC/DC, Maiden and Priest are such excellent artists? |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: January 10 2007 at 17:48
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what I do is get on and off every available train with a handful of essential bands from each. Most heavy music sounded fairly comical to my ears in the first place, but so far I still greatly enjoy the slower doom and traditional heavy metal bands. I can't predict if this will always be the case so I simply didn't vote. I'm sure that one day my interest in prog will diminish and I'll decide instead to explore funk or electronica or whatever else takes my fancy - but I doubt I'd cast the whole genre aside, for all its faults. ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: January 10 2007 at 17:53
| 15-20. I had a brief Metal period about a year ago. It ended as soon as it started. I do enjoy Progressive Metal bands Tool and Opeth though, aswell as System of a Down's Toxicity album, but other than that, Metal doesn't interest me at all any more. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: January 10 2007 at 18:09
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I still listen to Megadeth, Judas Priest etc. and I like Prog Metal. But I also like a lot of other stuff too. Even "quiet" stuff. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: January 10 2007 at 18:15
I never got on. My dad used to be a music fan in the 70's and he instantly got me into prog like Floyd, Tull, Yes and sophisticated hard rock like Zeppelin and Purple, I'm still a fan of them and will always be. I had a short metalhead period before seriously getting into prog, but it passed quickly. I made some stupid purchases then(Kiss, Accept, etc...) but it wasn't for long. I still appreciate metal but usually the more complex and extreme forms of it, like Black and melodic Death. I remember I totally couldn't get into that stuff back then. Prog helps get into extreme genres. Now I'm getting into Black metal and extreme avant/noise and it's all miles more challenging and rewarding than the music my peers listen to ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: January 10 2007 at 18:43
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Well I'm only 28 but I don't see any "getting off the train" anytime soon... It's true that now I enjoy a lot of more mellow music (even some poppy here band there) but I've been listening tomclassical music since I was 6, and what can be more melodic and musical than that? So I think prog-rock and prog-metal are just another part of my musical taste, and I think I'll always need some violence and high-decibel-energy in my life. ------------- 
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: January 11 2007 at 00:25
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I will be 41 in Feb and still listen to it every day. -------------  |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: January 11 2007 at 06:03
| Hard for me to say... When in my early 20s I used to listen to lots of hard rock and heavy metal - even the really heavy stuff like Slayer and other thrash/speed metal. Then, after a few years in which I had to take a break from serious music listening due to changes in my lifestyle, I drifted off from the harder stuff and got into mellower kinds of music. Nowadays, I still listen to quite a lot of hard rock and classic heavy metal, but the newer metal bands I've listened to don't do very much for me. |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: January 11 2007 at 06:08
Yeah but Jody you're the only one here who is literally a metal head..... 
The Progtologist could play The Terminator in T4 with very little make up.... 
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TheProgtologist wrote:Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: January 11 2007 at 07:30
Good thread, WS! 
I voted 25/30, although it's not quite so clear cut as that; in the late 1970's I was already (partially) into prog (Heep/Purple), but when punk came along, I discovered the aggression in 'hard' guitars I liked, but there was something missing... then I started hearing bands like Priest, Sabbath, AC/DC, UFO, Lizzy etc etc etc, grew my hair, bought a leather jacket & started virtually living at Hammersmith Odeon in London. Since age 25, I've got more into (out of?) more sophisticated (for want of a far better word) music, started listening to jazz, electronica (old and new), classical, world & folk music, but every now and again... ...on go the metal albums, up goes the volume (not to mention, at my age, my blood pressure) & very occasionally (if no-one is looking), out comes the air guitar... or air drum-kit...  ------------- 
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: January 12 2007 at 20:27
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Im getting heavier and heavier as I get progressier and progressier
------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: January 12 2007 at 20:31
Pretty much the same thing with me...except I did not buy Kiss albums... ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Posted By: Bastille Dude
Date Posted: January 12 2007 at 20:31
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30-35, I'm not quite sure exactly when I started to mellow. I still enjoy a slice of Hard-Rock/Heavy Metal now and then, I just can't take the really extreme stuff anymore.
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Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: January 14 2007 at 00:20
  Yeah, He's metal inside out alright.
Me, I have no plans of alighting the Big Ol Metal Train.
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Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: January 14 2007 at 04:03
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I still listen to it, but knowing the direction my tastes are going, I'd say in 10 years I will not be listening to the genre anymore besides maybe the most intimate of albums tagged as "metal". ------------- sig |
Posted By: Australian
Date Posted: January 14 2007 at 04:08
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I don’t listen to metal unless there is something interesting about it, like most prog metal as well as bands like Blind Guardian.
I’ve always preferred mellower music though. ------------- 
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Posted By: Palette
Date Posted: January 14 2007 at 15:10
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I got off only a few months ago, when I was 16 but I still listen to some metal bands occasionally. The lyrical themes in some of its sub-genres became so generic or tasteless, as did a lot of the composition techniques. |
Posted By: magnus
Date Posted: January 14 2007 at 17:29
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when did I get off? I'm still on it! Metallica became my favourite band in 3rd or fourth grade(around 97-98) and still is way up there, along with DT, Tool and Opeth! Most of the songs I play on my guitar are Metallica, and I'm not planning on giving them up for a loooooooong time! ------------- The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie 
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