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Unpopular Rock and Metal Opinions?

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    #92
    Kess73
    Registered Users Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    Lithium93_ wrote: »
    THE BIG 4 of thrash metal should've been THE BIG 5

    Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Exodus Testament, Anthrax




    :pac::pac:


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    #93
    Lithium93_
    Registered Users Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    I'll revise it, THE BIG 4 should've been The BIG 6.

    Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Testament, Exodus


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    #94
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    Lithium93_ wrote: »
    I'll revise it, THE BIG 4 should've been The BIG 6.

    Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Testament, Exodus

    The Real Big 5

    Slayer, Death Angel, Metallica, BabyMetal, Megadeth.


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    #95
    Lithium93_
    Registered Users Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    stefan idiot jones wrote: »
    The Real Big 5

    Slayer, Death Angel, Metallica, BabyMetal, Megadeth.


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    #96
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,208 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    I prefer The Call of Ktulu over Orion

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    #97
    Motley Crue
    Registered Users Posts: 6,382 ✭✭✭Motley Crue


    I've never liked Nirvana

    I believe Jerry Cantrell is the brains behind Alice In Chains and that Layne Staley, a few noteable songs aside, was overrated in comparison to the likes of Andrew Wood and Mike Morris


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    #98
    DazMarz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    Glam metal is awesome; yes, it did decline towards the end of the 1980's (sticking to a formula that became stale), but for a lot of the time it was good-time, rabble-rousing, FUN music. At the end of it, isn't that what most of us listen to music for? For a bit of fun??? Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that some musicians take themselves a bit too seriously and the odd song about fast cars or tits ain't a bad thing.

    Turbo by Judas Priest is a cracking album (but Ram It Down is pretty shítty)

    I find that a lot of Metallica's 1980's works are a bit too masturbatory and don't really "get" them. I much prefer Megadeth.

    Megadeth's 1980's output (Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good, Peace Sells... But Who's Buying??? and So Far... So Good... So What???) is superior (in my own opinion, of course!) to Metallica's output of the same era. Similarly, Rust In Peace pisses all over Black Album. As does Countdown To Extinction.

    Operation: Mindcrime is the best metal concept album ever. Ever.

    W.A.S.P. are criminally underrated; The Headless Children and The Crimson Idol are two incredible albums that do not get as much praise as they are due.

    Dokken are one of the best bands to come out of Los Angeles in the 1980's and never got the recognition or praise they deserved. George Lynch is a guitar god.

    British Steel is a very overrated album.

    Michael Schenker's solo output is vastly superior to anything he did with UFO.

    Europe are a brilliant band with some excellent albums, including the (in)famous The Final Countdown; the title track alone makes me wish I had Clearasil-clear vocals and a fluffy blond perm...

    Yngwie Malmsteen is overrated in the extreme. Technically brilliant and visually spectacular, but lacking soul and cannot write a song to save his fúcking life.

    Autograph are one of the most underrated bands of the 1980's.

    EZO from Japan deserved to break big. Cracking albums released in 1987 and 1989, but never broke into the market.

    While a great album, Appetite For Destruction is so overrated. Sure, it was a groundbreaking moment, but at the same time it has dated pretty badly and there are much better, grimier albums out there.

    On that point, the L.A. Guns were better than Guns N Roses.

    White Lion are a class band with Vito Bratta being one of the best guitarists of the 1980's.

    Winger are a good band with some cracking pop-metal tunes.




    yes, I'm biased towards anything from the 1980's... :o


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    #99
    Mar Mar Marmalade
    Registered Users Posts: 140 ✭✭Mar Mar Marmalade


    Ramones are overrated.

    Clash are better than The Sex Pistols.

    Rock music is too mainstream/clean/poppy/soft nowadays

    I like and hate Billy Corgan at the same time.

    The Strypes (as much as I love the whole 'mod' look brought back) are a Rolling Stones rip off.

    Emo music died in the 90's.

    (And speaking of) Sunny Day Real Estate are one of the most underrated bands of the 90's.

    My Bloody Valentine and the 'shoegaze' scene is underrated.

    'The Hunter' by Mastodon is a boring album.

    I find James Hetfield's singing whiny and annoying on Metallica's recent albums.

    And Blur is better than Oasis ;) .


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    #100
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users Posts: 17,512 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    I think Primordial are highly overrated :o They have a great frontman and an interesting sound... but that's it. Once you have heard one 'song' you have heard them all.


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    #101
    Lithium93_
    Registered Users Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    Mick Mars doesn't get the recognition he deserves as a guitar player..


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    #102
    Lithium93_
    Registered Users Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    Here's a really unpopular opinion that'll grind some gears,


    Dragonforce are a great band


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    #103
    buck65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,969 ✭✭✭buck65


    Deafheaven's album "Sunbather" is fantastic.


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    #104
    adox
    Registered Users Posts: 19,017 ✭✭✭✭adox


    DazMarz wrote: »
    Operation: Mindcrime is the best metal concept album ever. Ever.

    Wouldnt say there are too many that would disagree.

    DazMarz wrote: »
    Dokken are one of the best bands to come out of Los Angeles in the 1980's and never got the recognition or praise they deserved. George Lynch is a guitar god.
    Agree totally.

    DazMarz wrote: »
    Michael Schenker's solo output is vastly superior to anything he did with UFO.
    Again agree.


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    #105
    Lithium93_
    Registered Users Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    Say Your Number wrote: »
    Stone Sour are far superior to Slipknot.

    Risk by Megadeth isn't a bad album.

    Airbourne are one of the best bands of this generation.



    I'll agree with Stone Sour > Slipknot, Slipknot were good when they first burst onto the scene, but with Paul's death (His 4 year anniversary this Saturday) & Joey's departure, Slipknot won't sound the same ever again.

    Airbourne though they sound like AC/DC (Seeing as they are both Australian, comparisons were inevitable) are a fantastic band, definitely have to see them live next time their in Ireland.


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    #106
    blastman
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    Mar Mar Marmalade wrote: »

    The Strypes (as much as I love the whole 'mod' look brought back) are a Rolling Stones rip off.

    Think you picked the wrong band to compare them to, there... :)


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    #107
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users Posts: 10,799 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    buck65 wrote: »
    Deafheaven's album "Sunbather" is fantastic.

    Sunbather itself is probably the best death metal song in years. Absolutely amazing album.

    I think Gary Holt is as good a replacement for Jeff as your going to get (though I'd prefer if he replaced Kerry and kept jeff).


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    #108
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,846 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Led Zeppelin weren't that great and Robert Plant is an awful vocalist.

    Be Here Now isn't that bad of an album. Although I will agree with the general consensus that it's overblown and most of the songs are too long.

    The whole Oasis-Beatles thing is vastly overstated as I don't think they sound that much like them at all.

    Pablo Honey is underrated

    Screaming Trees were one of the best bands of the grunge era. They were a lot better than Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice In Chains. I think AIC are very overrated and I don't think of Layne Staley as being a great singer at all. Although I do like Jar Of Flies.

    Neil Young's 80's stuff isn't that bad. I actually think Trans was particularly interesting.

    Ringo was/is a good drummer. I love the drumming on Rain and Tomorrow Never Knows.

    Stephen Morris is one of the best drummers I've ever heard.


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    #109
    Lithium93_
    Registered Users Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    Buckethead & Robin Finck were two of the best guitarists Axl had play under the GN'R banner after the original line up went belly up.


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    #110
    Wrongway1985
    Registered Users Posts: 6,350 ✭✭✭Wrongway1985


    Lithium93_ wrote: »
    I'll agree with Stone Sour > Slipknot, Slipknot were good when they first burst onto the scene, but with Paul's death (His 4 year anniversary this Saturday) & Joey's departure, Slipknot won't sound the same ever again.

    On Record SS>Slipknot , Live Slipknot>SS
    Lithium93_ wrote: »
    Airbourne though they sound like AC/DC (Seeing as they are both Australian, comparisons were inevitable) are a fantastic band, definitely have to see them live next time their in Ireland.

    The singers in AC/DC are/were from the UK though, Silverchair are from Austrailia too but I never heard people draw comparisons for that reason alone the comparisons are made because they clearly have a serious obsession with AC/DC but results have shown its no bad thing.


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    #111
    Lyaiera
    Registered Users Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    I don't know if this is a popular or unpopular opinion but I'll throw it out there anyway... Metal is the funniest genre of music going.


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    #112
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    Lyaiera wrote: »
    I don't know if this is a popular or unpopular opinion but I'll throw it out there anyway... Metal is the funniest genre of music going.

    Some of the artwork on some recent thrash albums are hysterical. It's like going back thirty years and not in a retro ironic way either.

    And song titles.

    And studded wristbands.

    And bullet belts.

    And comedy black and white make up.

    And as for black metal band's logos? The more indistinguishable the better?

    Yes Metal is funny. (And fcukin' awesome too)


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    #113
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Lyaiera wrote: »
    Metal is the funniest genre of music going.

    Don't think that's unpopular at all ;)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piyZBoHaHDI


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    #114
    slavetothegrind
    Registered Users Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭slavetothegrind


    DazMarz wrote: »

    White Lion are a class band with Vito Bratta being one of the best guitarists of the 1980's.

    best guitarists full stop, that man wrote the most melodic solo's i've ever heard!
    then he fecked off to mind his parents never to play again :-(


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    #115
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Metallica's Kill Em All is sh!te

    Mastadon bore me

    A lot of Slayer's stuff is basically noise, how they know what they're playing is beyond me

    Most albums coming out these days are starting to sound the same. I haven't been genuinely excited about an album in an age.

    There's a huge amount of blandness in the sound of a lot of bands


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    #116
    Lithium93_
    Registered Users Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    People who bitch about bands that aren't metal are definitely the most annoying, case in point when A7X land on the cover of Metal Hammer UK, the keyboard warriors come out in full force. If ya don't like the band don't buy the magazine, simple as.


    So much for Rock/Metal being one united fanbase.


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    #117
    King George VI
    Registered Users Posts: 4,346 ✭✭✭King George VI


    Djent is not a thing. It never was a thing and it never will be a thing. It's barely even a word.


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    #118
    The Wild Bunch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,855 ✭✭✭The Wild Bunch


    Having worked in 2 rock/metal bars, the opinion that metalheads are notoriously stingy and tight with their money is a valid one :)


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    #119
    King George VI
    Registered Users Posts: 4,346 ✭✭✭King George VI


    The Wild Bunch wrote: »
    Having worked in 2 rock/metal bars, the opinion that metalheads are notoriously stingy and tight with their money is a valid one :)

    Never heard anyone say that about metal heads before.


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    #120
    The Wild Bunch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,855 ✭✭✭The Wild Bunch


    St. Jimmy wrote: »
    Never heard anyone say that about metal heads before.

    First time for everything, eh?


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    #121
    Angron
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Music Moderators, Regional Midlands Moderators Posts: 24,124 Mod ✭✭✭✭Angron


    The Wild Bunch wrote: »
    Having worked in 2 rock/metal bars, the opinion that metalheads are notoriously stingy and tight with their money is a valid one :)
    That's not an unpopular opinion about rock and metal music, that's just insulting its fans.


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