>You said earlier you like surf rock and know your stuff referencing itMy knowledge is actually pretty limited, like having heard Dick Dale and some of the usual songs like "Walk, Don't Run" by The Ventures. I listened to the first Man or Astroman? album a long time ago too. I guess I was pretty into Link Wray for a while, whose '60s material was kind of adjacent to that ("Jack the Ripper" and "Ace of Spades" sound like surf rock to me). Duane Eddy was kind of proto-surf, and I heard a compilation of his at one point.
>Do you like Ohio Players? One of my all time favorite bands.I don't really know much about them. I feel like I might have heard one of their songs, but I'm not sure of even that.
>I strongly dislike ZappaI like a few songs off Freak Out!, but I agree. He was a self-satisfied knob who seemed deathly afraid of sincerity. If he'd been any further up his own ass, he would have been drowning in his own digestive juices. I've always been under the impression that a lot of his output was just him jerking himself off. It's like he was a strange blend of pretension and (mostly lame) humor.
>>178842>Lester Bangs has been around forever, is he still alive?He died back in the '80s. From my limited knowledge of him, he was a total dillhole who slammed Black Sabbath as a Cream ripoff and whined about Nazi imagery being used by trolls in the punk scene. As far as I can tell, he was just another pompous music critic. I think I might take him over that smug windbag Robert Christgau though.
>everyone wanking over the gear and soying out over gear instead of just playing good music that exasperated me.I have to admit that I'm a gear addict myself. But I'm more concerned about what it does in terms of sound than wanking over name-brand equipment. A while ago I switched out my Epiphone Les Paul for a '90s Korean knockoff and have no interest in ever playing a real Gibson. I really like my acoustic Yamaha too. I don't think a more expensive Martin or Taylor would trip my trigger at all. At this point I've got most of the stuff I want though, and I'm kind of old fashioned in my tastes. No Axe-FX or BigSky for me.
Gear that inspires you keeps you playing, but it's not a cure for a lack of ability. If you're really dedicated, you'll put up with crappy equipment if you have to. And using exactly the same equipment and recording techniques as everyone else can make you sound like a cookie cutter.
>The whole Western culture at large is just people checking out old stuff and tuning out from the new because everything is rehashes of rehashes and creatively bereft.Yeah, if you're going to be doing a rehash, you need to bring something of value to the table. Personally, I don't necessarily even ask for originality as long as the end result is well executed. It's kind of hard to appeal to me aesthetically at the point I'm at though. I want media that seems vintage in terms of production values.
>Hell yeah! I love all those one-man bedroom bands, all that DSBM. Do you like Xasthur? Leviathan? Lurker of Chalice? Tsalal? Some dude messing around in his bedroom making trve kvlt shit is more heavy and more the spirit of metal than anything out right now and its been like this for a long time by now.I remember liking Xasthur when I was a teenager, but I don't recall what it was I heard now. The other guys I haven't heard. I should really get back into this sort of thing though.
I did listen to my first Branikald album the other night, so that's something. I also listened to Mysterious Semblance by Striborg after you brought him up. Too bad I can't even find that one on Soulseek.
>>178843>Yes and by fashion. They hated the glam fashion styles. It was stupid scene slapfight shit.I get not liking the party-animal lifestyle so many of those guys embraced, but frankly the glam metal guys seem to me like they'd be a lot easier to get along with than the grunge ones. I might be temperamentally closer to the latter, but they also came across as being more snooty, whiny, and "socially conscious."
>He was highly commercial and a proto-SJW. If he was alive today, he'd be marching with the Lindsey Clancy women in a pink shirt like the fag he is!Jim Goad really had him pegged.
>I love that meme you posted that says "metal is for children" and shows a bunch of soyboys dressed like women. Anytime something tries to say metal is childish, they always inevitably are huge redditard manchildren like that "exposed brick wall bar-cade cereal bar" copypasta. Dude! I'm about to slam this IPA! And afterwards we can watch Adult Swim in my exposed brick apartment in the big city! After Tyrone's done with my girl, we can play DK Bananza together!One of the things I've always appreciated about underground metal is how often it repels "respectable" people or those concerned about winning social brownie points. Hell, even the mainstream stuff does. The music press hated bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, and metalheads tended to be portrayed as burnouts and knuckle-dragging retards (nowadays the stereotype is more related to social rejection). That Bill Hicks bit about the Judas Priest fan killing himself always pissed me off. I'd take Screaming for Vengeance over the addle-daddle Jimi Hendrix stuff he worshiped any day.
>You didn't see him soy out over Trump using his song as a walk-out song? He didn't used to be a bitch, but he's turned into one now.I just meant that he hasn't been afraid to embrace metal. I know he appeared in the Lemmy documentary and collaborated with Cronos in that Probot project of his.
>Yeah Alice in Chains rules I love themI consider Dirt one of the great '90s metal albums.
>Dude, imagine going up at a crowded protest with a megahorn and talking about black dicks, lmao. Somebody take the mic away from unc..I sure hope Louis C.K. doesn't stumble across this post.
>I looked it up from my test results screencap its called politiscales.party. I've also got a screencap in my folder from IDRLabs 8Values test. I know the NeoValues test you linked to, have taken it before, don't have a screencap in my folder of it though. Will take it and screencap results. I've got a bunch of random test results in a folder, there are philosophy tests too, I score high with Nietzsche and Diogenes.Thanks, I took the Politiscales test and got "Fatherland - Work - Justice" this time.
The Neovalues quiz is one I like, but I feel like it could use some work. It calls me a distributist just because I want ownership of property to be spread as widely as possible. That might be the main trait of distributism, but I don't think I'd identify one based solely on believing in that as an ideal. I don't think having a guild-based society of mom-and-pop operations like distributists want is possible.
>There was one called something like "mental age quiz" I took once that scored me as being 15 years older mentally than my physical age, lul. Nothing wrong with that. If you mentally are like a 85 year old at 23 y.o. though thats weird.As a kid I always thought old people were more interesting than young ones and liked them more.