music thread

Juno Reactor – God is God  
With a trippy Soviet Armenian film to serve as the background MV.

Yuimetal has left Babymetal
 
:’(

Friend: What’s your favorite metal subgenre?
 
Me: Kawaii metal.
 
Friend: Uhhhh… *backs away slowly*

@TheHappySpaceman  
Kawaii metal isn’t a subgenre, Baby Metal is actually alternative metal with elements of power metal, trance metal, melodic death metal, and j-pop.
 
I’m just nitpicking

@Lord Hypno  
Hah! See, I’d normally be willing to believe you, except there are several other bands that take after Babymetal in the whole “clean J-pop vocals and cutesy style over brutal metal instrumentation” thing. So I think it officially counts as a subgenre now. :P

@TheHappySpaceman  
Eh, alright. I’ll take your word for it. No reason why it couldn’t become a new subgenre.

When a music genre “dies,” I’ve noticed that people always seem to overestimate how fast it takes. For example, people always cite the 1979 Disco Demolition at the White Sox game as “the end of the disco era,” but even in 1981, disco was still on the Billboard Hot 100, with Earth, Wind & Fire scoring the #3 hit “Let’s Groove.”
 
Similarly, everyone likes to point to the success of Nirvana’s Nevermind (1991) as killing hair metal, like an overnight thing, but bands like Def Leppard and Bon Jovi were scoring top 40 hits as late as 1994.

@TheHappySpaceman  
You forgot that the last disco song to hit number one, “Stars On 45” by Stars On 45, reached the top spot in June of 1981, showing that the genre was still on its last legs.
 
@TheHappySpaceman  
About the hair metal thing, by that point, those bands basically moved on from hair metal and started experimenting with alt rock or more mellow rock.

@ILoveMyoozik  
My point is that a music genre or subgenre rarely ever dies overnight. It’s not like everyone immediately stopped listening to hair metal after 1991, or like there was never another disco hit on the charts again after the White Sox game.
 
(Admittedly, the disco one hurt black R&B performers the hardest, though the mid-’80s success of Michael Jackson and Prince helped to undo some of the damage.)

Ever have that one band or artist you feel ashamed for liking unironically?

@TheHappySpaceman  
Whenever their’s a black metal band that sounds good musically, but they’re NSBM. (National socialist black metal, Nazi black metal basically.)

@Lord Hypno  
…Okay, admittedly, that makes me feel a lot less ashamed for liking R.E.O. Speedwagon.

@TheHappySpaceman  
Yes: Creed

Dream Weaver by Gary Wright  
Blocked by: “December 1963 (Oh What A Night)” by The Four Seasons & “Disco Lady” by Johnnie Taylor

@ILoveMyoozik  
Damn.

@TheHappySpaceman  
I dont feel ashamed for liking anything I like but I have a few guilty pleasure Scenecore bands, most of them being obscure forgotten ones from like 2007 that were more raw but a few bigger ones are a bit entertaining once in a blue moon.
 
The Devil Wears Prada (Though they did mature themselves later on in their career the first few albums were scene as fuck)  
Woe, Is Me (Number[s] only, second album was boring as all fuck)  
Issues
 
I also like some Mall Goth stuffs  
H.I.M (Only their debut though, everything after it was bland)  
Lacrimas Profundere  
Poisonblack  
Sentenced
 

 
I also sometimes like diving into some cliche edgy pop melodeath bands like Sonic Syndicate (First two albums only tho) and The Blinded

@MoogSourceVermona  
I loved The Devil Wears Prada in my middle school days. lol I considered them my favorite band at some point.

@Lord Hypno  
I never knew of them in my middle school days but I would of loved the shit out of them if I knew about them back then too.
 
But I liked them a lot in high school mostly I like the later stuff since they upped the heaviness a bit and toned down the autotune. Dead Throne rips hard. Theyre the only band I listed on there that I can listen to consistently.

A very happy birthday to a living legend, the Thunder God himself, Mr. Rick Allen!  

@TheHappySpaceman  
God bless this old British dude who can play the drums with only one of his arms.

@ILoveMyoozik  
Hell yeah.

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” has re-entered the top 100 on US iTunes.
 

@TheHappySpaceman
 
It’s not even November….

@Mildgyth  
It is where I live, but still. It’s too damn early.