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Re: GUILTY PLEASURES?!! the middle brother (yeah my poor mum has me and three younger ones to worry about) takes it pretty well but doesn't like metal although he respects the musicianship, the one below him is obssessed with hip hop and periodically asks me for some cool metal bands to listen to, checks them out, likes them then the next day says all metal is garbage and I'm currently unable to convert the youngest one for reasons stated above

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gus66 do you remember Motorhead on the Young ones?
How could I forget that, Satan! Utter class! Apparently they knew Philthy was leaving and this was his last hurrah with the band. May have been the only televised appearance with that line-up (1st time around, anyway). Plus it was a specially recorded version of Ace if I remember correctly-all the other bands that appeared on the show mimed to a single or album track. Some of the other bands on it were good-Madness, and the Damned.
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my step dad despises metal' date=' he constantly tells me it isn't music, hell a couple years back he threatened to literally cut me off from my friends, no phone, no computer, not allowed to go anywhere, if I didn't get over this "rebellious phase" and start listening to "proper music" right then and there, needless to say I challenged him on it, there is still total disdain for metal fans out there[/quote'] Your step dad needs set fire to, Murph. I have a theory about why people hate metal so much-they don't understand it. Most of it requires listening to. You don't just hear it and say 'oh that's catchy'. If you take the average pop/rock band and remove the melody/singing, you're left with, err, not a lot! If you took the average metal song and took away the melody/singing you'd still be left with something worth listening to. There's so much depth to it. And the biggest factor of all is that they (journalists especially) are jealous of it. Too easy to hate and too lazy to like (as King Prawn sang).
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Loved the show way back then and posting.php?mode=quote&f=27&p=25362#still do. Lol
It's not aged in the slightest mate! Still has me hooting and hollering with laughter when its on!! Talking about TV shows with bands, do you remember 'The Word' years back? If my memory hasn't been pickled by ale, I think Sepultura were on it, Faith No More, Nirvana and Dog Eat Dog. For a rubbish show that was some seriously decent bands!
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Re: GUILTY PLEASURES?!! It's funny, in our house I never had any problems with metal. But my brother did have a few problems with his Hip-Hop for exactly the reasons you pointed out, though he's by no means an obsessive and indeed is disgusted by many of the attitudes. Your middle brother sounds a bit strange though, why do you think he keeps dumpin' 'em if he says he likes them? Strange...

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purely because of what his fiends say about it' date=' that simple his mates don/t like metal by and large so he perceives it as necessary to his social survival to also not like metal[/quote'] And that's why I don't really have a social life. :lol: The only group of people who can spend an entire conversation telling the other person how stupid they are without the person getting up and leaving are hipsters. PS, I love how you forgot the r in friends. Perhaps it was intentional, perhaps not... :shock:
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Re: Guilty pleasures Everybody's heard that song, glam garbage. My guilty pleasure would probably have to be Dragonforce. Totally cheesy, lame Euro power/speed metal with ridiculous solos, but repetitive as they are, I still enjoy the speed and intensity of the riffs. The vocals and lyrics suck, and I can get annoyed by the length of the solos and songs, but the riffs usually make up for it.

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Yep, still junk. Oh, and I doubt that it was artificially sped up, as I have seen the band live, and they do in fact perform at those speeds. Their stage presence made them almost unbearable though, what a bunch of fucking clowns.
Haha, well i like leppard, theyre cool, they may sound glammy but dont use the shitty image of dressing up like messed up women, dragonforce are ok, but very cheesy, another guilty pleasure for me is a bit of judas priests turbo album, 'Hot for love, hot for loove!'
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Would that be Def Leppard from Sheffield USA? lol Joe sings with such a heavy US accent but when he talks it's so Yorkshire. Never liked anything of theirs, ever. Far too nice and clean for the US MTV market.
I think theyre great for the first 3 albums and the rest, some of it can be ok
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Would that be Def Leppard from Sheffield USA? lol Joe sings with such a heavy US accent but when he talks it's so Yorkshire. Never liked anything of theirs, ever. Far too nice and clean for the US MTV market.
I think theyre great for the first 3 albums and the rest, some of it can be ok 7jt64KI6EOc that is their first and best album, i have the t shirt of the cover, just listen to it once you might like it.
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