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well yeah i mean im not saying im an authority on the genre or anything, im just going on what i have listened to (ie. pantera, slayer, metallica and some children of bodom and lamb of god etc)

Grudge wrote:there are waaay more extreme stuff out there than Slayer

extreme as in faster and garbled vocals perhaps, but none of that makes it any heavier.

does anyone here ever listen to any Black Metal? I dont, but im just wondering what its like

Well i'm not really embarrased to admit that I like any song. It's just music, kay?

OK... I'm mildly embarrased to admit i like that justin timberlake song.. sexy back.. dunno the actual title. I thought a chick sang it though

There's something about that distorted track mixed with the bass line that comes out really well.

But like others in this thread, I'm not really embarrased because I listen to absolutely everything.

diamonds and rust by joan baez. the song just takes me away... like a drug.

When I was in my coverband, we played all kinds of music and songs: Tom Jones, Neil Young, Olivia Newton-John, Madonna and 70s Easy Listening-stuff à la Burt Bacharach. It was awesome to meddle with these cool songs and make them kinda Your own.

So, in conclusion - I never found any music to be embarassing. Maybe apart fom "Why can't I be You?" by the Cure. Which I like, but won't admit I do.

sing it with me now....
Bawitdaba da bang da bang diggy diggy diggy said the boogy said up jump the boogy.

yes, I like a Kid Rock song

lotsa good tunes in here :icon19:

looks like poeple cant resist the pop

i kinda like that song SOS by Rihanna, even tho it is just a blatant rip off of tainted love with worse lyrics... its good in a club tho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN2c-xMQGQM

funny the memories that come back when you hear some of these tunes from the early to mid 90s.

"Close to You" by the Carpenters. I know, I know.

The entire Def Leppard Hysteria album. ;(

Fender wrote:The entire Def Leppard Hysteria album. ;(

hiss

Not embarassed at this one...the last solo by slash in this is one of my all time favorite guitar bits. Would it be hard to play it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPYkn82nz18

tnf wrote:Not embarassed at this one...the last solo by slash in this is one of my all time favorite guitar bits. Would it be hard to play it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPYkn82nz18

nah, no metal solos are hard to play really, once youve got ur head around one u can play em all. seriously its just pentatonic/harmonic minor scales played really really fast, thats all. do u play guitar?

CitizenKane wrote:

tnf wrote:Not embarassed at this one...the last solo by slash in this is one of my all time favorite guitar bits. Would it be hard to play it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPYkn82nz18

nah, no metal solos are hard to play really, once youve got ur head around one u can play em all. seriously its just pentatonic/harmonic minor scales played really really fast, thats all. do u play guitar?

NO metal solos are hard to play? None? Nada?

I would think that some of what those guys do isn't easy.

We've already talked several times here about all time great guitarists, so I don't want to go down that road again though.

tnf wrote:

CitizenKane wrote:

tnf wrote:Not embarassed at this one...the last solo by slash in this is one of my all time favorite guitar bits. Would it be hard to play it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPYkn82nz18

nah, no metal solos are hard to play really, once youve got ur head around one u can play em all. seriously its just pentatonic/harmonic minor scales played really really fast, thats all. do u play guitar?

NO metal solos are hard to play? None? Nada?

I would think that some of what those guys do isn't easy.

We've already talked several times here about all time great guitarists, so I don't want to go down that road again though.

Some are hard, yes. Hardness of a guitar solo is totally relative obviously. But generally, solos from bands like GnR or some Metallica shit (some of Kirk's solos off AJFA are pretty fucked up, that's about it though) are fairly simple. Just pentatonic wanking as Kane said. Some of Megadeth's solos are a bit harder actually... the solo from Tornado of Souls is pretty fuckin' nutty (yea I know there is crazier shit out there, blow me). I don't think you play guitar so I won't go into it, but check it out if you haven't heard it before.

@Kane: Slayer doesn't play scales. They play chromatic and atonal shredfests.

Also, not all metal solos are pentatonic wankery. That's just an elitist snob remark from jazz-types, of which Kane appears to be. Not to bash you Kane, but jazz people are renowned for being stuck up fagets

tnf, check out some songs from a band called Dream Theater... it's progressive stuff. Not sure if you're into any of that stuff, but the lead guitarist for that band is regarded in many guitar circles as one of the best, if not the best, guitarists of our age.

mrd wrote:

tnf wrote:

CitizenKane wrote: nah, no metal solos are hard to play really, once youve got ur head around one u can play em all. seriously its just pentatonic/harmonic minor scales played really really fast, thats all. do u play guitar?

NO metal solos are hard to play? None? Nada?

I would think that some of what those guys do isn't easy.

We've already talked several times here about all time great guitarists, so I don't want to go down that road again though.

Some are hard, yes. Hardness of a guitar solo is totally relative obviously. But generally, solos from bands like GnR or some Metallica shit (some of Kirk's solos off AJFA are pretty fucked up, that's about it though) are fairly simple. Just pentatonic wanking as Kane said. Some of Megadeth's solos are a bit harder actually... the solo from Tornado of Souls is pretty fuckin' nutty (yea I know there is crazier shit out there, blow me). I don't think you play guitar so I won't go into it, but check it out if you haven't heard it before.

@Kane: Slayer doesn't play scales. They play chromatic and atonal shredfests.

that's because it's Friedman's solo. most of his aren't easy to play, and if someone says they are, they're lying.

tnf wrote:Not embarassed at this one...the last solo by slash in this is one of my all time favorite guitar bits. Would it be hard to play it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPYkn82nz18

yep, that's a fucking classic. and it's also one of my favorite solos (he's got a couple that i love). technically challenging? nope, but nobody here would be able to pull off that feel.

+JuggerNaut+ wrote: that's because it's Friedman's solo. most of his aren't easy to play, and if someone says they are, they're lying.

Yep. I believe actually that solo is in two parts, Mustaine wrote the second part. You can tell Mustaine is picking cuz he has an extremely aggressive picking style. When he's alternate picking them notes it sounds like he's just ripping the string in half with his pick.

But yeah, Friedman writes some pretty slick sound shit I must say :icon32:

I like a lot of George Michael tracks, but for some reason people automatically assume you're gay just for listening to them. I was watching the most recent episode of Nip/Tuck the other day, and that has "Jesus To A Child" as the end song.... even my own mother called me a homo when she heard it from my speakers! Disgraceful.

brisk wrote:I like a lot of George Michael tracks, but for some reason people automatically assume you're gay just for listening to them. I was watching the most recent episode of Nip/Tuck the other day, and that has "Jesus To A Child" as the end song.... even my own mother called me a homo when she heard it from my speakers! Disgraceful.

i like "Freedom". yes, how's that.