EdIT to my post. It’s all good and if we we’re sitting around having a beer and talking about this it would come across better. Basically someone would find a band that I liked that they thought was gay, bash them and we’d move on.
I don’t think the crowd determines the quality of the music but the only people I have met that really like these bands is in the uber-helmet category.
[quote]storey420 wrote:
EdIT to my post. It’s all good and if we we’re sitting around having a beer and talking about this it would come across better. Basically someone would find a band that I liked that they thought was gay, bash them and we’d move on.
I don’t think the crowd determines the quality of the music but the only people I have met that really like these bands is in the uber-helmet category. [/quote]
I find your post incredibly insensitive to uber-helmet types. 
Not your helmet of course Lord Vader.
What???You went over my helmet???
[quote]storey420 wrote:
Not your helmet of course Lord Vader.
What???You went over my helmet???[/quote]
Just don’t let me catch you trying to give me the raspberry.
Just heard the album today. Kickass.
‘Inside The Fire’ is amazing.
Good music is good music period.
Their cover of “Shout” is cool, too. I have always loved Disturbed, they are great musicians, very tight. If you have ever seen a band try to cover one of their songs, you can appreciate that no one can do it like them. The double bass drum is intense.
[quote]storey420 wrote:
Himora22 wrote:
There are only 3 bands Ill buy a CD for any more and thats Shinedown, Godsmack and Disturbed. Shinedown and Disturbed both have CDs comeing out in June =)
That pretty much sums it up except usually people that like this crap throw in Saliva also. Don’t get me wrong in each of those bands there are some talented players (new drummer for Godsmack=awesome) but man that is like the ultimate helmet-rock hoedown band list. Everyone in the audience will be either monster truck fanatic or aggro white dude with shaved head and goatee.[/quote]
Now note that I said that this is all i would go out and bye I never said that this is all i lisen too
[quote]rsg wrote:
The music is not half bad.[/quote]
Yeah…thats giving them too much credit. Its more like 15/16 bad.
[quote]BigKDawg wrote:
Good music is good music period.[/quote]
I fail to see how this statement pertains to Disturbed.
[quote]Cat Nip wrote:
The double bass drum is intense.[/quote]
Is double bass all it takes to be brutal nowadays? Im going to go back to my metal ivory tower and sulk because that is sad indeed.
I find it amusing that once a band gains a certain level of success, some people will go out of their way to criticize them.
[quote]Djwlfpack wrote:
I find it amusing that once a band gains a certain level of success, some people will go out of their way to criticize them.[/quote]
Yeah, like they “sold out” by becoming famous.
“I used to listen to [so and so] before they got too big and sold out.”
[quote]Stronghold wrote:
rsg wrote:
The music is not half bad.
Yeah…thats giving them too much credit. Its more like 15/16 bad.
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What exactly is so bad about their music?
I’m looking forward to the new album, I have a couple of their others and I like them.
I could care less what others think.
[quote]Djwlfpack wrote:
I find it amusing that once a band gains a certain level of success, some people will go out of their way to criticize them.[/quote]
In case this is directed at me, I just want to clarify that they have always sucked.
[quote]rsg wrote:
What exactly is so bad about their music?[/quote]
You know how there is that guy that hangs out with every group of friends that one one really likes and it is really really obvious that he is trying as hard as he can to fit in but doesnt simply because everything he does is very contrived?
Theyre like that. You know how in the 80’s there were a couple of (decent) bands from the sunset strip that did the hair metal thing and by the early 90’s there were hundreds over other dime a dozen bands coming out looking and doing the exact same thing? Disturbed is just like them except they are riding the coattails of the whole Nu-metal movement (which, by the way, sucked to begin with) by making shitty, commercial, contrived, angst-filled music. They are trend chasers. They were amongst the numerous hair band knock offs in the early 90’s and they went from singing about fast cars and strippers to singing about how their parents abused them and how they hated everyone.
Sure, I guess you could still classify it as metal, but why have bubba burger when you can have filet mignon?
[quote]Stronghold wrote:
…by making shitty, commercial, contrived, angst-filled music. They are trend chasers. They were amongst the numerous hair band knock offs in the early 90’s and they went from singing about fast cars and strippers to singing about how their parents abused them and how they hated everyone.
Sure, I guess you could still classify it as metal, but why have bubba burger when you can have filet mignon?[/quote]
It’s just mindless aggressive rock to me - I don’t think they’re metal, but it’s the kind of music I prefer listening to when driving or what I would jump around to at a house party as a teen.
As for commercial trend chasers; I never ever hear their music on any radio stations (I suppose you have 100x the choice we do here), nor do I hear many other bands that they would be trying to imitate (at least not any good ones).
Each to their own I suppose.
[quote]Djwlfpack wrote:
I find it amusing that once a band gains a certain level of success, some people will go out of their way to criticize them.[/quote]
I think many of these “critics” just like pretending that they’re soooo badass that nothing is worthy of their attention.
Down With The Sickness (LIVE) best song out of them for the gym, next to Dropping Plates, of course
I finally listened to the entire album and I like it. There are a few songs on there that I will be adding to my workout mix. That’s all I care about.
[quote]rsg wrote:
It’s just mindless aggressive rock to me
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I guess we can agree on that point.
[quote]Kruiser wrote:
Djwlfpack wrote:
I find it amusing that once a band gains a certain level of success, some people will go out of their way to criticize them.
I think many of these “critics” just like pretending that they’re soooo badass that nothing is worthy of their attention.
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No, the critics are calling shit what it is- shit. I mean…I enjoy going out for a fancy meal at McDonalds…anyone who likes their food fresh, nutritious, and delicious…well…theyre just snobs. Are you guys seriously trying to justify listening to shitty music with “well, youre all just snobs”?
[quote]rsg wrote:
Djwlfpack wrote:
I find it amusing that once a band gains a certain level of success, some people will go out of their way to criticize them.
Yeah, like they “sold out” by becoming famous.
“I used to listen to [so and so] before they got too big and sold out.”[/quote]
I’m guilty of this to some extent, but it has more to do with their dipshit fans than anything. Case in point, I heard Maroon 5 years before they caught on. A friend of mine was a studio drummer in LA at the time and was friends with the band when they were still called Kara’s Flowers. I have some of their demos and what would later become their first album under the name Maroon 5 on a burned CD-R that came out of the studio. While I was listening to it with some friends I told everyone they would be huge some day and they all said that the tunes sucked(keep in mind I had more or less the finished album, with all the hits on it). Fast forward about 5 years and they get big and you can’t turn the radio on without hearing Harder to Breath or This Love. One of my friends that I played the album for back in high school, bought Songs About Jane, and now thinks they are the greatest thing ever. Maybe not so much the band’s fault I guess, but people sure are weird.