i’m now thinking you have a proper job in the press.
nice.
i’ll not spend time with the guess.
someone i admire greatly as a journalist and i had a very interesting
rollercoaster of ideas a few years ago.
and the wife was not so kind.to him.
ain’t sayin’ it’s you, jizzwad, but the mind wanders.
get over yourself.doesn’t take much.
Tony Hawk has some cool t-shirt designs.
jizzwad.
we’re even.
About Slayer -
Reign In Blood is if not the best metal record ever, then pretty damn close. For that alone they deserve to be praised, even if their latest record is shit, which it is…
They kill live though, and most of their recorded output is tolerable at worst.
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Do NOT understand what the big deal is about THAT album.
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Hmm, dont really know how to reply to that. Its just a supremely concise and focused extreme metal album. It invented most, if not all death metal and extreme thrash metal cliches there are… Performed really well, great production (especially the remaster). Not a wasted note in its 28 minute flurry of blows. Silly evil lyrics seem to be the only downside but that was the point back then. Basically, this is one of those albums that are capable of staying interesting despite the single-minded attitude. Non stop intensity from beginning to end but done so well its a pleasure to listen to.
I have a few albums, um, God Hates Us All (good stuff), Divine Intervention and Diabolus In Musica or whatever its called… they are ok, a bit samey, love what I’ve heard of Seasons In The Abyss, never heard Reign…
I had Undisputed Attitude, thought it was a bit crap so I sold it… must have been some deleted import version though because I got heaps for it on ebay makes me wonder if I should have kept it! lol.
Um… did I have a point? maybe, Slayer a good, yeah a bit samey sometimes, but the good songs, are REALLY good.
I prefer Whitehouse…if I’m going to listen to something ‘aggressive’.
I find Slayer to be too trite and teenage-y.
Also, their fans are dicks.
Whereas Whitehouse are simply fans of their dicks. (drumroll please)
I’ll agree about majority of Slayer fans being dicks, I have their Live Agression vhs, the fans in that… oh boy.
On the contrary, most fans of whitehouse/merzbow/fennesz etc seem to pretentious coffee house wanks who only listen to “underground” music.
“Unless it sounds like a fridge and a washing machine fucking I don’t like it”
Shit, I like most of these bands!!!
How can you diss led Zepelin? Jimmy Page fucking invented guitar soundscaping (backwards echo, meshing guitars overdubs into something more complex than the sum of their parts) and making live drums sound like LIVE drums on recordings.
I get sick of Robert Plant’s signature voice, but at least he has some integrity in pursuing diverse musical genres in his solo career.
Any musician–no mater what their tastes–could learn something from listening to their records.
And that band has never cashed-in, like these revivals of acts or 'supergroups" that should just stay retired (Motley Crue, Van Halen, velvet revolver).
I used to think The '70’s produced some truly awful music (Mellow music, folk music, etc.), but it also fostered and gave birth to a lot things that influenced '80’s/'90’s bands to go in a creative direction.
I certainly don’t see that now–especially when it is much easier to DIY with the electronic availlable. Back then they didn’t have all that, and it took actual human skilland talent to make sounds that were interesting. Today anyone with a computerand a simple sequencing/sampling program can churn something out, cheaply.
It seems now that a band has to have enough appeal to attract respectable concert sales to stay alive, while back then,it was more important to work on the actual music (the LP’s)–which either stood on their own or fell flat on its face due to its content.
Now, you can be a “performance” artist (I’ll bring up a really bad example–brittney spears), and not have a shred of musical talent; but if you put on a good show and have a great producer and junk-food/tabloid public image, you get recognized.
There is no big deal these days about securing a record contract. You can sell your own CD’s and eliminate the middle man.
I guess I’m going off in a tangent, but some of those acts actually did something musically meaningful.