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I liked their song 'Powertrip' for many years ago now. I especially liked it when I was on holidays with the "I'm never gonna work another day in my life" line. Overall though I just can't get excited by this sort of thing. 

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Always weird coming on those ancient threads, this one started by a dude with 6 posts who hasn't been back to visit since 12 days after he made this thread 6 years ago. Creepy seeing names of users who don't post anymore. Like being in a cemetery and reading the names off old tombstones like my kid likes to do.

I fucking love Monster Magnet and I'm very disappointed at the piss poor response they got here. Although I don't see much point in having threads for individual bands, I listen to a lot of different stuff and I don't like to be limited to just talking about one specific band. Even if it's a band I love like MM. Dave's 65 now so not I'm sure how many more MM albums he'll be able to get it up for. His last one was an album of covers last year and I got bored halfway through. I love most of the others though up to 2010's Mastermind and MM was definitely the #1 band of the 90's and early 2000's for me back then at the time. My tastes have since shifted in a more extreme direction but I'll always love Monster Magnet. They're hard rock, stoner rock, space rock, and punk rock all at the same time.

 

Monolithic 2004

 

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6 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Always weird coming on those ancient threads, this one started by a dude with 6 posts who hasn't been back to visit since 12 days after he made this thread 6 years ago. Creepy seeing names of users who don't post anymore. Like being in a cemetery and reading the names off old tombstones like my kid likes to do.

I fucking love Monster Magnet and I'm very disappointed at the piss poor response they got here. Although I don't see much point in having threads for individual bands, I listen to a lot of different stuff and I don't like to be limited to just talking about one specific band. Even if it's a band I love like MM. Dave's 65 now so not I'm sure how many more MM albums he'll be able to get it up for. His last one was an album of covers last year and I got bored halfway through. I love most of the others though up to 2010's Mastermind and MM was definitely the #1 band of the 90's and early 2000's for me back then at the time. My tastes have since shifted in a more extreme direction but I'll always love Monster Magnet.

 

Monolithic 2004

 

First, you should write a song about seeing old posts being like a cemetery.  Second, I'm a bit of a fan, too.  I haven't heard the covers album, butthe thing about Monster Magnet is that they aren't entirely metal.  Still, they have more spunk than most stoner artists and their obnoxiousness constantly drives their lyrics and their deeper instrumentation.

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1 minute ago, Rexorcist said:

First, you should write a song about seeing old posts being like a cemetery.  Second, I'm a bit of a fan, too.  I haven't heard the covers album, but the thing about Monster Magnet is that they aren't entirely metal.  Still, they have more spunk than most stoner artists and their obnoxiousness constantly drives their lyrics and their deeper instrumentation.

You quoted me before I edited my post to add they're hard rock, stoner rock, space rock and punk rock all at the same time. I wouldn't argue with someone who thinks they're a heavy metal band too, but that's not really how I think of them. Dave was heavily influenced by Hawkwind and he had a punk rock background before he started MM so to me they're a punk rock band at heart who've just masquerading as a commercial hard rock band with psychedelic overtones for the last 30 years.

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