System of a Down (SOAD) - Any fans there???

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  • SOAD RULES!

  • SOAD SUCKS!

  • I don't like metal

  • Never heard about this band

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they suck, they sound like crazy idiots singing
 
this generation of music pretty much sucks, its all a bunch of crazy idiots screaming....
 
The Knight said:
this generation of music pretty much sucks, its all a bunch of crazy idiots screaming....
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Here's a pic of The Knight for the curious.

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The Knight said:
this generation of music pretty much sucks, its all a bunch of crazy idiots screaming....
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If you are very familiar with Rock (especially Hard Rock and Metal) music, "crazy idiots screaming" is not limited to this generation alone.

What kind of music do you listen to? Smooth Jazz?
 
System Of A Down's music is dreadful. I find it to be the most loud, over the top, bombastic form of music I've ever heard. I absolutely despise their music. Thank you and have a nice day.
 
farmerfran said:
I like them mostly for their guitar and bass riffs. Mostly because I think any song of theirs could be in "Guitar Hero" :up:.

Although they hate our American guts, as does Jourmugand, I still enjoy listening to them.

Except for Jourmugand.
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I couldn't agree more. GH needs some SOAD and Linkin Park songs.
 
DBella said:
If you are very familiar with Rock (especially Hard Rock and Metal) music, "crazy idiots screaming" is not limited to this generation alone.

What kind of music do you listen to? Soft Jazz?
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:heart:
 
they're all really talented musicians, but there's only so much you can do with metal that hasn't already been done.
 
photojones2 said:
they're all really talented musicians, but there's only so much you can do with metal that hasn't already been done.
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I consider myself a public servant, so it always fills my heart with pride when I turn someone away from their ****ty taste. Unfortunately, this article can't do that. Metal fans are simply too entrenched in their own art-killing quagmire to be swayed by any rational argument. Their synapses are too brutalized by bluntness to recognize subtlety ever again; real music may be forever useless to them. I'm not asking them to stop listening to metal. I'm asking them to shut the **** up about it forever.

Stop tainting our discussions. When the grown-ups are talking about real music, stay the **** out of it. If we're talking about our favorite singers, we don't care about how low your Christ-slaughtering Norwegian boyfriend can croak. If we're talking about our favorite guitarists, zip up your stupid ****ing mouth, because nobody gives a **** how fast your favorite metal guitar-secretary can type gibberish on a fretboard. "Pretend" that metal isn't music. "Pretend" that metal is something else altogether, and that you have nothing to add to a discussion about music, because we're talking about something entirely ****ing different.

I only say "pretend" because "realize" might be too strong a word for these hopeless dorks.

Anyway: just leave us alone, weirdoes. Don't even e-mail me to complain about this article. In fact, let me deflect some points you'll try to make:

Millions of people in around the world love metal.

Billions of people think those millions of people are either insane or stupid. Shall we take a vote?
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You just don't understand the appeal of metal.

No, I don't, and I've become content with that. I don't understand the appeal of dressing up like a baby and pooping on oneself, either, but tons of people love it, and I don't give a Texas **** why they love it, and their explanations will fall on deaf ears. Like metalheads, adult baby dudes are just plain broken in the head, and I don't need them spreading their creepy pathology.
​

The metal genre is home to some technically talented musical virtuosos.

I have to laugh when I hear metalheads complain that some of the best pure musicians of our time are being ignored and neglected by the ivory-tower establishment just because they play in the metal genre. Here, it's simple: imagine if William Butler Yeats only wrote poems about dogs eating peanut butter, and if he used only the same fifteen or twenty words in every single poem. People who espouse the shredding merits of metal guitarists and the double-bass technique of metal drummers crack me the **** up. Maybe they also think books are better when they have lots of pages.
​

Symphonic metal is extremely sophisticated and carries on the tradition of classical music.

You can't tell Frank Frazetta from William Blake. Congratulations, you're stupid.
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I enjoy metal because of its dark, creepy, intense aesthetic.

You have a mental age of thirteen. If your brain doesn't process metal aesthetics as purely comical, then you're truly beyond intervention. If you have even the smallest scrap of respect for any aspect of metal music, lyrics, fashion, or album cover art, you are so aesthetically stunted that you might as well be a spotty junior high kid drawing barbarian dudes with battle axes and huge **** on your trapper keeper. If you love metal for its capacity to shock old people and oversensitive Christians, you're an immature halfwit who thinks that offending people is the same as making a point.
​

I just like the way it sounds. You can't say your taste is better than mine, because it's subjective.

Metal is so awful that it goes far beyond questions of taste. Liking metal is a mental illness, although I'm sure you'll wear that accusation with pride (don't). It makes me wonder what the **** your parents did to you. You're sick and I can't cure you, so don't waste my time.
​

I don't take metal seriously, I just think it's fun.

Search deep within your soul. Is there any part of you that takes metal seriously, even a little bit? Have you ever purchased a metal album with real money for any reason other than to laugh at it? Is more than 20% of the music you listen to metal? Is there any metal band in this world that you care enough about that you'd be sad if they broke up or died in a fiery car crash? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, please reevaluate your taste before it's too late.
​

As a frustrated and troubled youth, the metal community gave me a place to fit in.

Most of the worst subcultures in the world (gangs, cults, internet forums) thrive on accepting the lowest members of the social food chain. The fact that you were insufferable to anyone but metalheads doesn't mean that there's anything good about metal, it just means that dweebs tolerate other dweebs out of necessity.
​

I like metal, but I'm not a nerd or an idiot.

In fact, you are the worst kind of nerd or idiot: the kind that doesn't know he or she is a nerd or idiot.
​

But here, listen to THIS metal song. It'll change your mind.

No, ********, it won't, and I resent the very fact that you think I might enjoy it.
​

What about Ronnie James ****in Dio? You can't deny the ROCK.

No. Stop. You're embarrassing yourself.
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:yay: :up:
 
I love SOAD.
Hypnotize is my favorite album of theres, because it's great and has a nice flow.

I am not a huge fan of all modern metal.
I can't stand too much screaming, the "Go and kill yourself" lyrics (Black and Death metal), and the stupid pieces of shyit that call themselves Slipknot and Mudvayne, (etc.).

My friend got me into SOAD, though.
I'm a fan.

:)
 
My ex-girlfriend liked this band.
It was one ofthe reasons I dumped her.
 
Mr Sparkle said:
I consider myself a public servant, so it always fills my heart with pride when I turn someone away from their ****ty taste. Unfortunately, this article can't do that. Metal fans are simply too entrenched in their own art-killing quagmire to be swayed by any rational argument. Their synapses are too brutalized by bluntness to recognize subtlety ever again; real music may be forever useless to them. I'm not asking them to stop listening to metal. I'm asking them to shut the **** up about it forever.

Stop tainting our discussions. When the grown-ups are talking about real music, stay the **** out of it. If we're talking about our favorite singers, we don't care about how low your Christ-slaughtering Norwegian boyfriend can croak. If we're talking about our favorite guitarists, zip up your stupid ****ing mouth, because nobody gives a **** how fast your favorite metal guitar-secretary can type gibberish on a fretboard. "Pretend" that metal isn't music. "Pretend" that metal is something else altogether, and that you have nothing to add to a discussion about music, because we're talking about something entirely ****ing different.

I only say "pretend" because "realize" might be too strong a word for these hopeless dorks.

Anyway: just leave us alone, weirdoes. Don't even e-mail me to complain about this article. In fact, let me deflect some points you'll try to make:

Millions of people in around the world love metal.

Billions of people think those millions of people are either insane or stupid. Shall we take a vote?

You just don't understand the appeal of metal.

No, I don't, and I've become content with that. I don't understand the appeal of dressing up like a baby and pooping on oneself, either, but tons of people love it, and I don't give a Texas **** why they love it, and their explanations will fall on deaf ears. Like metalheads, adult baby dudes are just plain broken in the head, and I don't need them spreading their creepy pathology.

The metal genre is home to some technically talented musical virtuosos.

I have to laugh when I hear metalheads complain that some of the best pure musicians of our time are being ignored and neglected by the ivory-tower establishment just because they play in the metal genre. Here, it's simple: imagine if William Butler Yeats only wrote poems about dogs eating peanut butter, and if he used only the same fifteen or twenty words in every single poem. People who espouse the shredding merits of metal guitarists and the double-bass technique of metal drummers crack me the **** up. Maybe they also think books are better when they have lots of pages.

Symphonic metal is extremely sophisticated and carries on the tradition of classical music.

You can't tell Frank Frazetta from William Blake. Congratulations, you're stupid.

I enjoy metal because of its dark, creepy, intense aesthetic.

You have a mental age of thirteen. If your brain doesn't process metal aesthetics as purely comical, then you're truly beyond intervention. If you have even the smallest scrap of respect for any aspect of metal music, lyrics, fashion, or album cover art, you are so aesthetically stunted that you might as well be a spotty junior high kid drawing barbarian dudes with battle axes and huge **** on your trapper keeper. If you love metal for its capacity to shock old people and oversensitive Christians, you're an immature halfwit who thinks that offending people is the same as making a point.

I just like the way it sounds. You can't say your taste is better than mine, because it's subjective.

Metal is so awful that it goes far beyond questions of taste. Liking metal is a mental illness, although I'm sure you'll wear that accusation with pride (don't). It makes me wonder what the **** your parents did to you. You're sick and I can't cure you, so don't waste my time.

I don't take metal seriously, I just think it's fun.

Search deep within your soul. Is there any part of you that takes metal seriously, even a little bit? Have you ever purchased a metal album with real money for any reason other than to laugh at it? Is more than 20% of the music you listen to metal? Is there any metal band in this world that you care enough about that you'd be sad if they broke up or died in a fiery car crash? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, please reevaluate your taste before it's too late.

As a frustrated and troubled youth, the metal community gave me a place to fit in.

Most of the worst subcultures in the world (gangs, cults, internet forums) thrive on accepting the lowest members of the social food chain. The fact that you were insufferable to anyone but metalheads doesn't mean that there's anything good about metal, it just means that dweebs tolerate other dweebs out of necessity.

I like metal, but I'm not a nerd or an idiot.

In fact, you are the worst kind of nerd or idiot: the kind that doesn't know he or she is a nerd or idiot.

But here, listen to THIS metal song. It'll change your mind.

No, ********, it won't, and I resent the very fact that you think I might enjoy it.

What about Ronnie James ****in Dio? You can't deny the ROCK.

No. Stop. You're embarrassing yourself.
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so...are you agreeing with me...or not agreeing with me...?
 
ANTHONYNASTI said:
System Of A Down's music is dreadful. I find it to be the most loud, over the top, bombastic form of music I've ever heard. I absolutely despise their music. Thank you and have a nice day.
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*heart starts to flutter* :heart:

And you have a nice day too, sweetheart.
 
SOAD sucks harder than a well-trained ****e. :heart:
 
Cinemaman said:
System of a Down (also referred to as SOAD or System) is a four-piece Grammy-award winning Avant-gard metal band, formed in 1995 in Los Angeless, California. All four members are Armenian-americans, grandsons of Armenian Genocide survivors, and are widely known for their outspoken views found in many of their songs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_of_a_down

So what you think about this band? :)
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theyre ok,i dont really like them but i dont hate them im just sick of the fact that practically all of there songs go like,fast fast fast..slow....fast fast fast..slow.......its annoying but they got some good songs
 
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