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Please Tell Me This Is a Joke....
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Not my thing. Neither is rap or the blues....... probably a lot.
BUT, I like that there is stuff out there that have OTHER people saying that they're awesome! (Pink Floyd - Ummagumma?) Makes me feels that some day, I might have people saying that about the stuff I create. Takes all kinds I guess.
BUT, I like that there is stuff out there that have OTHER people saying that they're awesome! (Pink Floyd - Ummagumma?) Makes me feels that some day, I might have people saying that about the stuff I create. Takes all kinds I guess.
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Pretty bad music.
Clearly a trademark violation ... except Sunn no longer is a company so does anyone own and enforce that trademark.
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This isn't really the kind of music I'm interested in playing, or even listening to often, but I gotta say that I would definitely go to see this with friends, because this is awesome. In a way, it's a culmination of where metal was going when I was growing up in the 80s. Sooner or later, somebody somewhere was going to take it to this extreme.
Not my cup of tea, but who cares. I wouldn't call it a joke at all. If people like them and they have fans and they do their thing and play whatever music they want then more power to them! And by the way Judas Priest "is" Heavy Metal! Sunn O))) is no joke.
I like it for what it is. And if you're willing to destroy your body you could go to one of their live shows, which I haven't, and really feel what the band is trying to elicit in the listener. In matters of taste there is no dispute. You don't like it, someone else does. As long as this is the sound the band intended to make there is no real dispute. It's a non discussion. For the record, this music gets me far more depressed than any of that silly gore metal (which I love btw). If that is their intention, they succeeded in spades with me.
You should read the following wikipedia articles:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbre
Hopefully, this will help you realize that there is more to music than melody, harmony, and rhythm.
Also, "modern" metal? They've been doing this since the 90's, and their stylistic origins can be traced back many thousands of years (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_(music))
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbre
Hopefully, this will help you realize that there is more to music than melody, harmony, and rhythm.
Also, "modern" metal? They've been doing this since the 90's, and their stylistic origins can be traced back many thousands of years (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_(music))
Maybe the reason you don't like them is because you don't really like music other than what you grew up with. Not bands, but the way music is supposed to be from the way you heard it growing up.
Me, I have Great difficulties with microtonality, arab stuff and a lot of other kinds of music simply because in my life I haven't Come to expect music to sound like that.
It's not for you to judge the quality of Sunn))), as you do not understand the music.
So really what I'm saying is you are too ignorant to judge the quality of Sunn))).
Me, I have Great difficulties with microtonality, arab stuff and a lot of other kinds of music simply because in my life I haven't Come to expect music to sound like that.
It's not for you to judge the quality of Sunn))), as you do not understand the music.
So really what I'm saying is you are too ignorant to judge the quality of Sunn))).
I'm hearing some low growls / gritty spoken bits. To be fai, i guess not conventional vocals, but someone is speaking, even if it is unintelligible.
OP, you're trying to hard. First Judas Priest, now this? Get over yourself. Oh, and I think Rush sucks. Must mean they're just a joke, right? Seriously...
Hey now, wait a minute, it's the OP's job to do the hating around here!
Some of us like Rush AND Sunn. (AND Judas Priest, for that matter. You know, the pop band?
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Hey now, wait a minute, it's the OP's job to do the hating around here!
Some of us like Rush AND Sunn. (AND Judas Priest, for that matter. You know, the pop band?
I know, they're like soooo pop...
