Octavio Sherbakov":2p3lzmcr said:
This thread reflects exactly what I dislike about genres.
Sure, you can classify music and style all you want, but good music goes beyond a genre....
Well said. Pioneers and their craft are ageless, timeless, and always fresh. I am not a floor licking fan of Page, but a decent one nonetheless, and what gets me about his music with Zep is that what I heard when I listened to it 'back then' is different than the nuances and the cool little details he put into it that I hear 'today'. The music is the same - it hasn't changed, just my appreciation for how it was designed and crafted has changed. Same goes for Zappa - ya ya, the guy was a maniac nuisance when it came to impossible time signatures - but - the detail in his music when I hear it today? Holy shit man, I don't think anything compares...it was,
perfect!! Then I look at Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Ministry, Helmet, Priest, Ozzy, man - I hear their oldies today and the playing was tight, it was bang-yer-head material, and to this day, most of it still feels fresh in a old-new kinda way.
Sorry for the tangent. I just think there's way too much commercialism in today's metal. And further to that, a lot of bullshit post production fine tuning - timing, vox, everything. If it weren't for the videos, would this stuff still sell? Metal/Thrash is the 'most popular music listened to world wide' out of all genres (Dr. D. Levitin, Berkley) but is it because of talent or is it because they've pin pointed the timbre in most of the newer stuff which attracts the budding testosterone fueled pre-teen and teen lads to loving it before understanding it??
"This Is Your Brain On Music" - talks a lot about the sound of 'metal' and 'thrash' and what it is that actually attracts people to it at the neurological level... Awesome read, written by D. Levitin.
Peace,
V.