What bands do you like outside the J-music scene??

Japanimaniac said:

::arghh:: This is what pisses me off. Just because something is simple does not mean it's trash. Flight Of The Bumblebee is a way more complicated piece than Chopsticks, but I'd much rather listen to someone play Chopsticks on the piano. If you don't care for something, say so. Don't bash it. There's plenty of people who do like it. I happen to love Monster Magnet's song Unbroken (Hotel Baby), from their new CD, but I also like Ozium, from their first CD.

Manson's musical style is metal/goth. It may be mainstream, but that's still his style. Dir en grey is mainstream, but I don't see them singing next to Utada Hikaru. My point? Something doesn't suck if it's mainstream, and doesn't sound like it was produced in a garage. If you don't like it, fine. But guess what? They're selling records, so they must be doing something right.

Lots of bands have major talent, but sometimes that makes them so unique that they only appeal to a very select audience, and therefore stay smalltime. For example, lots of the "underground" metal bands nowadays, to me, sounds like a jumble of guitars and drums, and a guy puking onto the microphone. It really doesn't appeal to me. Does that mean I have no musical taste? No. It means I have different tastes in music than the next person. But I do acknowledge the band's talent.

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Japanimaniac said:

I will agree with you that Metallica's newest album, St. Anger, is very disappointing, but not because their message changed. It's because as soon as they got rid of Jason Newstead, they lost their Metallica sound. Their music is very generic now. You used to be able to tell a Metallica song was coming on by like, the first three seconds.

And band's messages change because they mature, not because they sell out. Songs about rebelling against parents and authority are great when you're in school, but hopefully, the band's listeners will mature with them. Staind is a really good example. And if not, there's either a whole new group of people that they appeal to, or the band goes under. "Selling out" is the term a person uses to describe someone or something that has finally reached their goal doing something that person doesn't like.

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