ramsamsam wrote:
Depeche Mode consistantly chart in the top fourty in the UK, so they don't need our help... My dad went to (I think it's) basildon college around the time as one of the guys in Depeche Mode.
Depeche Mode loosely translaes as ''Fast Fashion'', however it comes from a French magazine by the same name which means ''Fashion Update''.
I think it's selfish to think that groups that deserve sucess should be denied it by ignorant fans.
The only reason I want these groups to be a bit more sucesful is because they make a change from the drab and uninteresting McFly or Will Young.
I have the impression that most groups would love to achieve mainstream sucess but also remain with a degree of artistic integrity.
Viking, don't you want people to listen to the same groups as you? Music can change people in such a fashion, just imagine if a pure (I am aware that both the terms 'pure' and 'death metal' present a paradox) death metal in the top forty and on Top Of The Pops. It'd either p*ss off a load of bigots or cause a revolution (of some kind). It'd also be a huge step forward for most of the metal genre, and perhaps metal would eventually be considered seriously as a musical genre.
So right. This is why it sucks when all these metalheads diss all these numetal bands because they actually have come the closest to what was achieved up there so far. But you people would rather look the other way and say that they're watering down metal as opposed to heavying up the mainstream. Which sometimes is true, such as bands like Sevendust, but in other cases like Linkin Park or Korn or Marilyn Manson or Slipknot etc. they're doing the opposite, contrary to what many metal magazines say. I mean, really, what have they done at the expense of real metal? They're not stopping you from making the music you make. These sort of metalheads claim to be open minded and then put down anyone whos a fan of numetal because they think they can get away with it because they're really looking for an excuse to put people down, making them just as bad as the jocks they stereotype. They're just jealous, really.
But yeah, it'd be cool to see some 'real metal' in the charts.
Viking, you'd be doing these bands a big favour to make them big, it wouldn't be diluting the reputation of metal bands, but rather, it would heavy up the mainstream. I mean really, if you actually care about the bands themselves, wouldn't you rather them be successful than the mainstream bands that you don't like? Wouldn't you want your favourite bands to be rich and famous instead of the ones you don't like? Anyone who only cares about whether an artist is mainstream or not over the actual music content is just stupid.
Anyway, I think Lacuna Coil is an underrated band that deserves to make it big. I could also name a whole heap of nobody underground bands that I've heard only one or two songs from, but there's too many to mention.
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12 Dec 2005, 8:22 am
He's also the mandolin player/songwriter/singer for Nickel Creek. http://www.nickelcreek.com
