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Everyone needs some Minor Threat
Slayer did
Not need to get cross / make people cross.
It's a thread about power violence the genre, not about being power violent!
in 30 years you will be here Black Flag.
If he saw napalm death in 86 I reckon he’s one of us old gits 😂
I certainly am. Just turned 50 this month.
Do you need more than Minor Threat?
In most instances, no. Minor Threat will cure many of life's ills.
and @ehrob - your band sound ace - "shredding is our business" lol
I'm in the metal old man gang here, and these type of threads make me smile. There is a certain type of Radio-6-Q-Mojo-magazine-indie music fan who thinks they know it all about music, but only really listen to a narrow selection. Similarly, older fans of genres do it too as they've heard it all before.
That's fine really, and with the sheer amount of music available, it's inevitable that you can't listen to everything, and stuff does sound like it's "influenced" by previous artists.
I too like to think I know a bit about music, worked in a record shop for many years, still try and keep up to date, but truthfully I'm well out of touch. There's so much music available now and I'm not young enough to just absorb stuff anymore. I also had to admit that young people aren't making music for me anymore, the rotters.
I like to think I've grown out of dismissing genres of music just because I don't like them. Partly that's growing up listening to music that people take the piss out of or don't understand, so I don't really care what you're into, and partly trying to be more open to new stuff. Apart from indie, which is just for bedwetting creeps.
Post from the 90s just appeared. How odd.
Ok, it was 2000 when Alan McGee said " Coldplay: bedwetters' music." 😛 but, can Coldplay be considered indie?!
Interesting post tbh, so how can you be
trying to be more open to new stuff.. if you think...
that young people aren’t making music for me anymore ?
Interesting post tbh
Nah, contradictory bollocks innit. I don't really think indie is for bedwetters, but did when I was younger. I don' t really think anything about bands like Coldplay, they're not for me. Fine.
To quote myself
young people aren’t making music for me anymore
, just to clarify - up to my mid 20's I worked in a record shop, knew people in bands, went to gigs regardless of who was playing. I was, I suppose, part of a scene and felt like the bands I listened to (who were my age) wrote music that reflected my life. Obviously not everything - I could like US hip hop despite having a very different background. But it gave me an identity, made me feel cool and part of something.
But now I'm a middle-aged-middle class Dad, angry young people aren't writing music for me, its quite rightly protesting against me and my planet-destroying property-owning mates. Drill and grime isn't made for me, doesn't mean I can't listen to it.
I appreciate this isn't a unique insight, it's just growing up. A lot of my mates seemed to stop listening to new music when they left Uni, and seem happy being stuck in some nostalgic "things were better in my day rut". I'm old enough now not to worry about trying to be cool or keep up with the latest music, but still like hearing new stuff. Even if it sounds like Napalm death from when I was 13.
That makes far more sense 🙂
i definitely find being involved in the scene helps keep up the motivation to find and listen to new stuff - without that, as you get older its easy to stick with what you know and love. it's a commitment though. even though i play in a metal band, i can happily admit that powerviolence isn't my number one choice, though i do enjoy the odd gig. so on that basis its clearly not for everyone.
in "metal" (its a broad church), i have noticed there's been a pattern over the last decade or more of stuff getting more and more technical and heavy - modern instruments, other tech (e.g. cheap drum triggers, plus excellent and cheap kit samples and software), playing and recording techniques have enabled it. i think that this doesn't appeal so much to older fans, as stuff is even heavier than they remembered it being when they were younger! at some point they'll be a shift in fashion back towards an older school, more groove based style i'd expect. cycles innit.
thanks for the kind words on Anomos - i play bass and do backing vocals, and i mixed the records too. we've just got back to practicing after a year off or whatever, looking to be back gigging by September with a bit of luck, but who knows.