Replacements and Royal Trux are soft ass bullshit for wanna be trust fund punks.

Give me the Butthole Surfers and Big Black ANY DAY

Didn’t realize an either/or choice was required. I’ll take both/all.

;) haahah!

At least you are not trying to sell me on The Dead South or Fleet Foxes!

imma pass on the band with the boring-ass drum machine :P

boring!

Big Black

BIG BLACK


https://youtu.be/vSivVYwKwZc BAD PENNY "I always come back to you..."

BIG BLACK!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqww-dIya2Q

coolness!

gordon lightfoot!

they should have been named BIG PUSSY hahahahahaha

now this:

https://youtu.be/Ol87N0nxfVs

HAS DRUMS!!!

Cannot take metal seriously. And I prefer Roland to Lombardo.

ETA: Anyway, you're both crazy wrong about The Replacements. "You know you really need some help. A regular psychiatrist couldn't even help you. You need to go to like Vienna or something. You know what I mean? You need to get involved at the University level. Like where Freud studied and have all those people looking at you and checking up on you. That's the kind of help you need. Not the once a week for eighty bucks. No. You need a team. A team of psychiatrists working round the clock thinking about you, having conferences, observing you, like the way they did with the Elephant Man. That's what I'm talking about because that's the only way you're going to get better."

PPPPPPPFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHH

cartoon answer from a cartoon! :D

albini wanted to make "intense" music but it's just some skinny white dudes with screechy guitars and a crap rhytm.

i mean it's okay i guess for some.

but slayer, like a lot of thrash metal, truly gets the blood going. sounds like the franks assaulting late roman troops with their franziskas. fucking beautiful.

big black does not hold a candle to any of them in the "intensity" department. they were thoroughly blown out of the water by their contemporaries.

as for lyrics, i can't tell what anybody fucking says and do not care.

it's the adrenaline kick in the chest that counts.

everything else is bla bla bla bla bla

"vienna", lol.

Don't hate the player.


Christ on a stick, I'm on the polar opposite of the quote above. Well, except for the relevance of the "adrenaline kick", but I never have and never will get it from thrash metal, which is ASS.

i like ass!

albini does too: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1208451

hey, he's not so bad after all...

mmm, ASS!!

LOVE IT

slayer is the cartoon.

Big Black is the true horror

boooooooooring! hahahahahaa. big pussy is a boring sound. boredom is horrible. yeah. the horror of boredom.

and of course slayer is a cartoon-- but an extremely fun cartoon.

i mean, you can't take its violent impulses with any seriousness. it's play. it's like sports. it's just a game. it sounds like war but it's not actual war. whoever takes it literally is a stupid dolt (and yeah, those people exist).

but fuck, for me it is so much fun, hahahahaha. FUN!

When Albini was creating his first band he wanted to name it the most scaryu thing for AMERICANS, andhe realized that what white people are most scared of is anything BIG and BLACK.

It's still true.

Slayer is fun, but I preferred Megadeth.

after a while though too many metal bands seemed liken corny jokes.

i guess i missed the joke because there is nothing scary about the big black name for me. maybe it was scary in his suburb. "americans" are not just whitey & co.

i loved living in black neighborhoods in black cities. what's scary about that? i had to move out when shit got gentrified and rich white people moved in. now THAT sucked.

for a truly scary name, think more like "whitey" or "texas smile". you know that fake smile, like a grimace of death, right? the smile the white supremacists have right before they shoot you over your land or your human rights or their bible or something? and they're showing their friendly teeth? like a dallas televangelist? that's scary as fuck. THE true horror.

but anyway, back to music, what i would do with the big black sound is i'd keep the noisy guitars (great) and erase everything else, the shitty drum machine and the shit singing.

megadeth, love the guitar speed, but it's more "wordy" (i wish it weren't, i don"t like "words" unless they are really good) but it's' not as heavy a sound as slayer. it's more like iron maiden (i like iron maiden--the trooper!!) but it does not get me going the same way. too high-pitched maybe? the singing sounds like the great cornholio.

but slayer is in another category for me. hanneman and king are great but it's lombardo and araya that add sabor latino jajajajajaaaaaaaa. have you noticed that instead of whitey intensified guitar solos they do almost a descarga with the percussion in front? in their most frenetic spasms, they talk to each other rather than follow a leader.

and yeah it's a heavier more lowpitched sound, a deeper growl, more chaotic than the rest. a lot more happens in the low frequencies with them. and you get more howls than well-formed "words" in the singing. howls > words. metal is better as grunts and growls and screams, and not literature.

Megadeth is terrible. The worst Slayer shits blood on the best Megadeth, sorry to say

Motörhead circa 1980 destroys them both just by showing up.

You’re not wrong in the slightest

but children, you can't really compare the chaos and brutality of slayer with the fast and fun songs about fucking of motörhead.

if you had said something like napalm death... then we'd have a true contest about who gets to hell better.

bur remove the pedals and scratchy vocals from motörhead and you just have the structure and melody and basic beat of simple rocknröll tunes.

and those tunes are nice and fun, and they're faster than the usual, but they are something else altogether.

anyway sorry also about your hearing loss in the low spectrum frequencies lol.

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i should add, to keep the discussion honest, and not make it a win at all costs thing, that i only introduced thrash metal in comparison to albini on the basis of his own stated desire for "intensity". so in the intensity department, i was saying, many of his contemporaries beat him handily (they all used real drums btw). and sure big black did make good guitar noise, but one swallow does not a summer make lol.


after than i don't know what potatoes and apples are being compared anymore. but like albini, and rob, i also do like ass. mmmm, sweet sweet ass.

and apple ass >> potato ass, for sure.