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Re: Favourite place to listen to metal I've never cared for Pandora, the recommendations are often erroneous based on what I ask it to play, and most of the time they don't even play the band that I request, just a couple of contemporaries and then some unrelated stuff.

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Re: Favourite place to listen to metal It was surreal for me the first time I was able to blast my own music out the windows of my truck, so I certainly appreciate that there are others of you that are doing it as well. Not sure what kind of reaction we would invoke in passerby's though...

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Re: Favourite place to listen to metal well when I played The Fading for my younger brother he said it was the most depressing thing he ever heard, and not in a good way, in a the next day my parents voiced their concerns about the music I was listening to fearing I might commit suicide kind of way, kinda weird but based on that it'd really mess up a whole heap of people

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Re: Favourite place to listen to metal It's a good thing they didn't understand the lyrics then, I wrote them in a way that they could be interpreted as suicidal, but could be seen in different ways by different people. "The Fading" was the point, but I didn't build in a direction for it to come from, so maybe if anybody understood what Rick was saying it could be experienced more personally that way.

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well when I played The Fading for my younger brother he said it was the most depressing thing he ever heard' date=' and not in a good way, in a the next day my parents voiced their concerns about the music I was listening to fearing I might commit suicide kind of way, kinda weird but based on that it'd really mess up a whole heap of people[/quote'] :lol: Ignorance FTW
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That's the beauty of the car. Loud as you like and f*ck the world.
Which is why I can't wait to get my own. O, how I wish I could get my hands on an '05 Pontiac GTO LS2... Listening in these apartments is great too, especially when your neighbor plays his rap loud.
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Re: Favourite place to listen to metal funny I thought that as well, no my parents are cool with his taste in music even want him playing it around my seven year old brother but they refuse point blank to let him anywhere near me when I have my music on or when I wear one of my band t-shirts, I think they still hope it's only a "phase" I'm going through and that I will "mature" and "grow out of it"

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