|
|
Post by astrumx on May 22, 2015 6:49:20 GMT -7
Wow. That chart is amazing, and about 30 bands I listen to are on there. Except for Breaking Benjamin and Three Days Grace- I kind of feel like they belong in there somewhere- in the rock categories, not metal. Also, if anyone has heard of a band called Eluveitie, they're kind of like.... Irish Folk Metal? It's all getting kind of weird. Eluveitie is a pretty good band. And folk metal describes them perfectly. I didn't look at the pic, but is alestorm on there? They're pirate metal. And that is as awesome as it sounds. |
|
|
|
Post by chocobochica on May 22, 2015 7:21:26 GMT -7
Haha Alestorm- they're pretty good, got a ton of energy. I'd love to see them live.
For a second I thought it said Halestorm- which is another band I thoroughly enjoy. Gotta look and see if they're on there.
I hope I don't upset anyone with this, but...I don't trust people that listen to country music.
*shifty eyes*
|
|
|
|
Post by oxbellows on May 22, 2015 9:14:23 GMT -7
Haha Alestorm- they're pretty good, got a ton of energy. I'd love to see them live. For a second I thought it said Halestorm- which is another band I thoroughly enjoy. Gotta look and see if they're on there. I hope I don't upset anyone with this, but...I don't trust people that listen to country music. *shifty eyes* I used to think all country music was bad until I discovered southern gothic and artists like 16 Horsepower, Slim Cessna's Auto Club and Jay Munly. But yeah, the other 98% of it is pretty terrible. |
|
|
|
Post by Shinryu on May 23, 2015 2:37:52 GMT -7
Its funny how in all the music threads that come up here the majority of all users can agree on one thing... most of us don't really like country music at all lol.
|
|
|
|
Post by crimsoncommand on May 28, 2015 4:15:34 GMT -7
Haha Alestorm- they're pretty good, got a ton of energy. I'd love to see them live. For a second I thought it said Halestorm- which is another band I thoroughly enjoy. Gotta look and see if they're on there. I hope I don't upset anyone with this, but...I don't trust people that listen to country music. *shifty eyes* I used to think all country music was bad until I discovered southern gothic and artists like 16 Horsepower, Slim Cessna's Auto Club and Jay Munly. But yeah, the other 98% of it is pretty terrible. It's all copy and paste for the most part. I've heard the same type of music over and over by just another artist. I believe a country singer said the exact same thing. The industry had gotten saturated with a type of song writing. I believe rap is the same way, but they are much better with changing the sound. Country has the same winey guitar opening for every...single...song. I have a lot of problems with country music that I won't touch on here... |
|
|
|
Post by husk on May 28, 2015 15:49:38 GMT -7
Touch on it!!!! Lol.
|
|
|
|
Post by crimsoncommand on May 29, 2015 4:02:30 GMT -7
You asked for it. I grew up in southern Virginia after I moved from New York and it's all I heard. It was the stereotypical white guy in a confederate flag shirt driving a massive pick up truck. Everytime they passed and I heard the music, I would cringe. I was not well liked by the "good Ole country boy" because I was from the north. Seriously. It's a culture infested with sexism and racism at every corner. They keep saying it's not there but it so is. The music is bland with the same whiny guitar they were using in the 80s and it touches on the same topics over and over again. All it does is reach for a stereotype that's not true. There may be one or two classic good ole southern boys, but in reality most of them were assholes who never grew up. The music is a bunch of lies that try to shine a purely positive light on southern culture that isn't there. Unless you are a white male with deep roots in the community, you are going to have problems. The music rarely touches on any sort of issue because it doesn't know how to. There are probably a few more points, but this is getting long, haha. With that being said, let me have my PC moment. I like the south for all of its faults. It's beautiful down in Virginia. There are still remnants of Southern hospitality that is really nice. Virginia is south but there are far deeper souths than this. I moved further up north because the mind set down there is backwards and even though you don't have city problems, you still have a good amount of problems. I mean no ill will toward anyone who likes it, but I can't speak beyond my experiences with the culture and the music. |
|
|
|
Post by chocobochica on May 29, 2015 4:58:05 GMT -7
You asked for it. I grew up in southern Virginia after I moved from New York and it's all I heard. It was the stereotypical white guy in a confederate flag shirt driving a massive pick up truck. Everytime they passed and I heard the music, I would cringe. I was not well liked by the "good Ole country boy" because I was from the north. Seriously. It's a culture infested with sexism and racism at every corner. They keep saying it's not there but it so is. The music is bland with the same whiny guitar they were using in the 80s and it touches on the same topics over and over again. All it does is reach for a stereotype that's not true. There may be one or two classic good ole southern boys, but in reality most of them were assholes who never grew up. The music is a bunch of lies that try to shine a purely positive light on southern culture that isn't there. Unless you are a white male with deep roots in the community, you are going to have problems. The music rarely touches on any sort of issue because it doesn't know how to. There are probably a few more points, but this is getting long, haha. With that being said, let me have my PC moment. I like the south for all of its faults. It's beautiful down in Virginia. There are still remnants of Southern hospitality that is really nice. Virginia is south but there are far deeper souths than this. I moved further up north because the mind set down there is backwards and even though you don't have city problems, you still have a good amount of problems. I mean no ill will toward anyone who likes it, but I can't speak beyond my experiences with the culture and the music. Virginia IS gorgeous- so is West Virginia, although some of those highway mountain paths are horrifying once the fog settles in. I've never lived in the south, and would never judge the lifestyle/mentality of those that do...but your summary is basically the same thing I've heard from a few other people I know that lived down south for a bit. On a similar note- while I live in Pennsylvania, which is technically "the North", I went to high school in one of those little delightful pockets of what we refer to as "Pennsyltucky." Kids used chew starting in about 8th grade, drove their tractors to school in the spring, and came in on Monday and talked about what they shot and skinned over the weekend. I did not fit in. Pennsylvania has so many closet hicks running around. This weekend, Kenny Chesney is coming to Pittsburgh, so the entire city is about to be engulfed in Pabst and broken dreams of life on the farm. Good thing I'm leaving for the weekend! Btw Crimsoncommand, where are you at if you don't mind my asking? We're probably pretty close distance wise, or at least in the same time zone. I think quite a few people on here are out west. |
|
|
|
Post by crimsoncommand on May 29, 2015 5:03:43 GMT -7
You asked for it. I grew up in southern Virginia after I moved from New York and it's all I heard. It was the stereotypical white guy in a confederate flag shirt driving a massive pick up truck. Everytime they passed and I heard the music, I would cringe. I was not well liked by the "good Ole country boy" because I was from the north. Seriously. It's a culture infested with sexism and racism at every corner. They keep saying it's not there but it so is. The music is bland with the same whiny guitar they were using in the 80s and it touches on the same topics over and over again. All it does is reach for a stereotype that's not true. There may be one or two classic good ole southern boys, but in reality most of them were assholes who never grew up. The music is a bunch of lies that try to shine a purely positive light on southern culture that isn't there. Unless you are a white male with deep roots in the community, you are going to have problems. The music rarely touches on any sort of issue because it doesn't know how to. There are probably a few more points, but this is getting long, haha. With that being said, let me have my PC moment. I like the south for all of its faults. It's beautiful down in Virginia. There are still remnants of Southern hospitality that is really nice. Virginia is south but there are far deeper souths than this. I moved further up north because the mind set down there is backwards and even though you don't have city problems, you still have a good amount of problems. I mean no ill will toward anyone who likes it, but I can't speak beyond my experiences with the culture and the music. Virginia IS gorgeous- so is West Virginia, although some of those highway mountain paths are horrifying once the fog settles in. I've never lived in the south, and would never judge the lifestyle/mentality of those that do...but your summary is basically the same thing I've heard from a few other people I know that lived down south for a bit. On a similar note- while I live in Pennsylvania, which is technically "the North", I went to high school in one of those little delightful pockets of what we refer to as "Pennsyltucky." Kids used chew starting in about 8th grade, drove their tractors to school in the spring, and came in on Monday and talked about what they shot and skinned over the weekend. I did not fit in. Pennsylvania has so many closet hicks running around. This weekend, Kenny Chesney is coming to Pittsburgh, so the entire city is about to be engulfed in Pabst and broken dreams of life on the farm. Good thing I'm leaving for the weekend! Btw Crimsoncommand, where are you at if you don't mind my asking? We're probably pretty close distance wise, or at least in the same time zone. I think quite a few people on here are out west. West Virginia is very pretty. I had to go through there on my way to Indiana for grad school. I made the mistake of going off the interstate because of tolls and found myself taking hairpin turns around a mountain face. Yeah, I have friends in the culture that are cool guys, but generally speaking it's all the same. I think there are pockets everywhere. There were some in New York as well. I'm in Baltimore right now, it's cool to see an East coast person here. I know there are a couple more on here somewhere. I had a chance to move to the west, but my wife and I love the east coast too much to leave it. |
|
|
|
Post by chocobochica on May 29, 2015 5:11:25 GMT -7
East coast ftw.
OOo Baltimore, I haven't been there yet. I also had the chance to move out west, to California- I've been to Colorado, California, and parts of Nevada, but I definitely prefer this coast as well. I think EyesonMe or GantyRose are also on this coast, in Ohio.
Totally off topic- have things calmed down a bit in Baltimore?
|
|
|
|
Post by crimsoncommand on May 29, 2015 5:27:14 GMT -7
East coast ftw. OOo Baltimore, I haven't been there yet. I also had the chance to move out west, to California- I've been to Colorado, California, and parts of Nevada, but I definitely prefer this coast as well. I think EyesonMe or GantyRose are also on this coast, in Ohio. Totally off topic- have things calmed down a bit in Baltimore? I haven't gone that far west, unfortunately I only went as far west as Indiana...which was not that great, haha. Ohio is cool, my best friend lives there, doing some cool stuff. I have been up and down the east coast, just trying to get further north past New York. I hope my car can last for that. As far as Baltimore; I love it, it's a great city, despite what the media likes to portray. It got rough and this weekend wasn't the greatest. The city is still trying to come to grips with what is happening. I won't get far into the politics of everything or recap, but the city started tearing itself apart. Not because of the residents, but mostly because of people coming in to join the protest in a less than legitimate way. After everything happened, I went downtown and it looked like nothing happened. It was eerily quite, but people were still outside. I helped clean up a little bit, it was just sad to see the residents who were caught in the cross fire really. Other than that, we will see what happens when the final verdict comes out on the six cops. I know I have less than popular opinions on all of this which align with the residents of that community and less than what the media is saying. I'm just hoping that this is a wake up call for not only Baltimore, but for all cities. I constantly say that this could have happened anywhere, it just so happens it happened here. Hopefully other cities will take note to prevent this from happening there. |
|
|
|
Post by Gilgamesh on May 29, 2015 7:37:08 GMT -7
 This Album all day every day non stop 24/7. Just kidding, but seriously, if any of you haven't heard this you should check it out. Its awesome. You can listen here: Black Materia Album |
|
|
|
Post by amoreline1 on May 29, 2015 12:02:45 GMT -7
Virginia IS gorgeous- so is West Virginia, although some of those highway mountain paths are horrifying once the fog settles in. I've never lived in the south, and would never judge the lifestyle/mentality of those that do...but your summary is basically the same thing I've heard from a few other people I know that lived down south for a bit. On a similar note- while I live in Pennsylvania, which is technically "the North", I went to high school in one of those little delightful pockets of what we refer to as "Pennsyltucky." Kids used chew starting in about 8th grade, drove their tractors to school in the spring, and came in on Monday and talked about what they shot and skinned over the weekend. I did not fit in. Pennsylvania has so many closet hicks running around. This weekend, Kenny Chesney is coming to Pittsburgh, so the entire city is about to be engulfed in Pabst and broken dreams of life on the farm. Good thing I'm leaving for the weekend! Btw Crimsoncommand, where are you at if you don't mind my asking? We're probably pretty close distance wise, or at least in the same time zone. I think quite a few people on here are out west. West Virginia is very pretty. I had to go through there on my way to Indiana for grad school. I made the mistake of going off the interstate because of tolls and found myself taking hairpin turns around a mountain face. Yeah, I have friends in the culture that are cool guys, but generally speaking it's all the same. I think there are pockets everywhere. There were some in New York as well. I'm in Baltimore right now, it's cool to see an East coast person here. I know there are a couple more on here somewhere. I had a chance to move to the west, but my wife and I love the east coast too much to leave it. Hey i am in Baltimore as well. Well Maryland at least. |
|
|
|
Post by crimsoncommand on May 29, 2015 12:46:32 GMT -7
West Virginia is very pretty. I had to go through there on my way to Indiana for grad school. I made the mistake of going off the interstate because of tolls and found myself taking hairpin turns around a mountain face. Yeah, I have friends in the culture that are cool guys, but generally speaking it's all the same. I think there are pockets everywhere. There were some in New York as well. I'm in Baltimore right now, it's cool to see an East coast person here. I know there are a couple more on here somewhere. I had a chance to move to the west, but my wife and I love the east coast too much to leave it. Hey i am in Baltimore as well. Well Maryland at least. Metropolitan area or greater state if you don't mind me asking? |
|
|
|
Post by amoreline1 on May 29, 2015 13:02:06 GMT -7
Hey i am in Baltimore as well. Well Maryland at least. Metropolitan area or greater state if you don't mind me asking? Greater state i think. Like in a county called Carroll County |
|
