The Music Thread

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Originally posted by jucklesjenk
I don't get metal. Just everything about it seems un-musical to me. I've seen the tabs to a lot of metal stuff and it's basically something easy played very very fast, and the lyrics are meaningless.
I'm probably sounding incredibly stubborn and closed-minded and metal lovers are going to hate me, but I see no music in metal at all.

While I'm not a huge fan of metal, there are some metal bands that have a huge amount of musical content within their songs. Dio and Sabbath spring to mind.

For some more recent stuff, Rage Against the Machine have some very well put together songs, especially on their earlier albums

I've only ever really listened to American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown, but recently I got Dookie and International Superhits and I realise how good they've been for a long time. I have to say that if I had to pick Green Day's best song, though, for me it'd be Holiday. Class!

I'm not sure if I've got a favourite Green Day song. I tend to prefer their more recent stuff, though, just because the quality and tone of Billy Joe Armstrong's voice is so much better than their earlier stuff. They tend to have a couple more unexpected twists in their later songs, too.