Music Discussion thread

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Oh yeah regarding that other topic

Punk has never been about how many notes you can hit, or how technical you are, or how much musicality your stuff has, nah. Punks all about the emotions and energy and always has been, even if you look back to the bands who helped popularize it like the clash and the sex pistols (note popularize, punk didn't start with the British wave of punk bands and if you think that you need to sit down) their entire mindset behind making music was to make something raw and dirty going against the government. It wasn't cause they wanted to make a musical masterpiece or be some incredibly technical progressive band, no, it was cause they were pissed off at the government and wanted to express it through music.

That's what I love about it I guess, the fact that it's based off something like that that's so raw and real. With that said, that sort of mindset like you said can lead to some very chaotic and noisey music, but like I said it's never been about sounding pretty or organized. That characteristic of it has always contributed to the emotion of it and energy imo, which is why I love it so much.

I get how that chaotic and messy approach to things can be a turn off to a lot of people, but if anything it's just let me connect with it even stronger on an emotional level, more than any other genre or art form ever has for me.

Yeah I know what you mean. Like punk most rock and metal is also about expressing feelings of oppresion and discontet with life and government. This is because they developed from "working class music" blues which also started the same way. That's why I like it, I don't really like listening to songs about love and friendship all day (which is why what used to be my favourite band Aerosmith now bores me), I want my music to have more of a meaning, a message; if not a clear one then at least something which allows my mind to drift away so to speak.
But these feelings are really what these genres are about. And something that has been bothering me to the extreme is that many times when I've said that I like rock or metal without specifying which subgenre most of the people not familiar with the genres has said that it's bad music; just some guy screaming at you while someone tortures a guitar in the background. And I've tried to explain that there's so much more to the music but they keep calling it bad music that just makes you angry. Then I watched Metal: A Headbangers Journey and I can't understand why I hadn't thought of it before but I realised that yes, it is angry music, and do you know what? I really am pissed! I guess it's because I've always tried to look beyond the music and never really taken it for what it is: people singing about the struggles in life for us ordinary people.