When MW first started listening to bands like Nickelback or even 3 Doors Down, to me that sounded like just so much noise. *g* I loved Nickelback's How You Remind Me and Too Bad, but the rest of their music, especially the earlier CDs, sounded like so much pounding and screeching. After a couple of years *g* of listening to it, though, it was as though suddenly it all became clear to me, and I could hear the music in there. (I will confess that I was not into popular music for a *long* time. I rarely even listened to my classic rock. I was more into folk music at the time.)
Now I listen to Nickelback and it's all melody and guitar to me, and I wonder why I couldn't hear it before. But of course, by the time I got into Nickelback, MW had already moved on to Alice in Chains. My MIL described them thus: "These guys sound like they're drunk." *g* Then it was Metallica and then the bands he's into now that sound like so much drum-pounding, really, really fast guitar with very little melody, and then singers who don't scream...they...what is that? LOL I heard it once described as "cookie monster vocals" and that's it exactly! LOL
So...somehow Alice in Chains wormed their way into my mind and then my heart and now their music is so familiar to me, that it's like home and comfort and everything good even when they're singing something bad. Then Metallica... Who wouldn't like Enter Sandmand? *g* It's such a cool song, but it was impossible for me to escape them, and now I like nearly everything by them.
And now...Sepultura, Pantera, and a few other bands. And...this is the music that MW writes and plays and records.
I love Refuse/Resist by Sepultura and overall I like their sound, but sometimes I just can't listen to it. The same for Pantera. They have two pretty songs: Cemetary Gates which is epic and Hollow which is sad (and both lack the cookie monster vocals...mostly) and one song with a good groove (Walk), and I love them all, but...the rest of it mostly still sounds like a bunch of pounding and screaming/cookie monster and guitar solos. I often can't tell one song from another, except when I can. But still, I do like it sometimes. I went through a phase where that was all I was listening to, and I loved it, but it still hasn't invaded me totally yet. *g*
I'm sure they'll all be my new favorite bands in a year or two when MW has moved on to something else. *g*
But poor D. I can understand his feelings. I love some rap music, but I have a problem with loud bass... It hurts my ears. When there is a loud bass, it becomes all fuzzy and it's painful and I can't hear anything else. The static of that invades my consciousness and jars my spine.
In my car, I usually have the bass turned way low and the treble up much higher. *g* I cannot stand it when other people have that LOUD bass thing on their cars. I was out today driving in traffic, and some guy near me had the bass in his car so loud I could hear it over my music, and it wasn't just annoying, it was ruining my life! LOL I wish I were kidding. I just cannot stand it. I am not upset about it now, but at the time, I can remember thinking about how when I got home, I was going to post in LJ about how I'm against the death penalty, but I'd be in favor of it for anyone who has that loud bass thing on his/her car... I don't really think that, but it was an attractive thought until I finally got back on the highway and left that guy in the dust. hehe
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Date: 2007-05-25 02:26 am (UTC)When MW first started listening to bands like Nickelback or even 3 Doors Down, to me that sounded like just so much noise. *g* I loved Nickelback's How You Remind Me and Too Bad, but the rest of their music, especially the earlier CDs, sounded like so much pounding and screeching. After a couple of years *g* of listening to it, though, it was as though suddenly it all became clear to me, and I could hear the music in there. (I will confess that I was not into popular music for a *long* time. I rarely even listened to my classic rock. I was more into folk music at the time.)
Now I listen to Nickelback and it's all melody and guitar to me, and I wonder why I couldn't hear it before. But of course, by the time I got into Nickelback, MW had already moved on to Alice in Chains. My MIL described them thus: "These guys sound like they're drunk." *g* Then it was Metallica and then the bands he's into now that sound like so much drum-pounding, really, really fast guitar with very little melody, and then singers who don't scream...they...what is that? LOL I heard it once described as "cookie monster vocals" and that's it exactly! LOL
So...somehow Alice in Chains wormed their way into my mind and then my heart and now their music is so familiar to me, that it's like home and comfort and everything good even when they're singing something bad. Then Metallica... Who wouldn't like Enter Sandmand? *g* It's such a cool song, but it was impossible for me to escape them, and now I like nearly everything by them.
And now...Sepultura, Pantera, and a few other bands. And...this is the music that MW writes and plays and records.
I love Refuse/Resist by Sepultura and overall I like their sound, but sometimes I just can't listen to it. The same for Pantera. They have two pretty songs: Cemetary Gates which is epic and Hollow which is sad (and both lack the cookie monster vocals...mostly) and one song with a good groove (Walk), and I love them all, but...the rest of it mostly still sounds like a bunch of pounding and screaming/cookie monster and guitar solos. I often can't tell one song from another, except when I can. But still, I do like it sometimes. I went through a phase where that was all I was listening to, and I loved it, but it still hasn't invaded me totally yet. *g*
I'm sure they'll all be my new favorite bands in a year or two when MW has moved on to something else. *g*
But poor D. I can understand his feelings. I love some rap music, but I have a problem with loud bass... It hurts my ears. When there is a loud bass, it becomes all fuzzy and it's painful and I can't hear anything else. The static of that invades my consciousness and jars my spine.
In my car, I usually have the bass turned way low and the treble up much higher. *g* I cannot stand it when other people have that LOUD bass thing on their cars. I was out today driving in traffic, and some guy near me had the bass in his car so loud I could hear it over my music, and it wasn't just annoying, it was ruining my life! LOL I wish I were kidding. I just cannot stand it. I am not upset about it now, but at the time, I can remember thinking about how when I got home, I was going to post in LJ about how I'm against the death penalty, but I'd be in favor of it for anyone who has that loud bass thing on his/her car... I don't really think that, but it was an attractive thought until I finally got back on the highway and left that guy in the dust. hehe
And...LOL Did you even read all this? LOL