It is convenient for you that you can indicate thatt it is the musical content which you meantand then justify it by saying, "I consider metal to be my favorite kind of music, and always have!"
LOL! Tadowe is now an e-psychologist...
Moving goalposts alert!!! TadFly is going to now argue that my preference for metal is a post-hoc confabulation...???
No...I do think it's just your particular selections which *objectively* suck!
I enjoy metal; specifically, those bands which play metal who aren't filled with non-musical idiots. I'd recommend the following groups, both past and present, off the top of my head: In Flames, Iron Maiden, Kyuss, Marilyn Manson, Megadeth, Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stoneage, and System of a Down - to name a few.
I maintain that raw, undifferentiated, often STUPID anger is a part of metal; nevertheless, I embrace it above all others. It's a great style to keep one motivated for running 4-5 miles - without stopping - up and down hills!
(By the way, "TOOL" is the name of the band. "Hush" is the song. There is no "hidden" meaning there, if that's what you are attempting to insinuate. Pretty much all I was going for was the big "fuck you" in the beginning of that song, which still applies.)
OTOH, I've seen plenty of terrible acts LIVE - Mudvayne, Slipknot, Limp Bizkit - all of these are simply awful. They can't effectively play their own music, much less make it work for the venue in which they are currently playing.
The band that performed "Traitor" is at least as bad as Slipknot and all the other highschool-aged emo bullshit bands that the store "Hot Topic" wholeheartedly endorses.
Are you emo, Tadders?? That would explain a lot. Perhaps you, in your old age, are Nu-metal (umlauts over the "u" don't come through)??? Maybe you should be headbanging next to the rest of the metalheads? Or perhaps your preference is "hardcore"??? How would you fare in a mosh-pit, old geezer?
I'm sorry if you can't own up to the fact that you posted a crappy song by an even crappier band. Check out some of the links I've posted instead. Those will set you on your way. Don't feel ashamed to admit that you like them, given your musical proclivities.
If you perceive this as an issue of musical preferences, please don't conflate it into "traitorous leftism". I realize that attacking the (myriad) inconsistencies of the Democratic platform is all you have left after the VietNam war, but please realize that your predetermined political bifurcations don't necessarily apply to me.
Getting back to the music - which is what this was about, right - the selections you've made indicate that you value raw, stupid, diffuse anger above any and all else. That's all I'm saying. As a corollary, your taste in music sucks. If you want to argue that point, please indicate that's what you intend. Otherwise, your blusterings will go unnoticed.
Face it: the songs you posted just plain suck. Be done with the faux political indignation and just admit that you've bristled because I accused you of having crappy taste in music! LOL
*SMILEY*
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Zeitzmeist
it's a "g", not an "m"...Wouldn't a self-declared "genius" have figured this out, along with many other points?
"What 'lead' is that, chochem?"
Ah, Yiddish...you have succeeded in making me feel intellectually inferior!
PS: the "Electric Universe" is bullshit and can't hang with modern cosmology, since it cannot even account for predictions made by mainstream cosmology.
But, I'm sure you will continue to believe that Einstein's relativity is pure bullshit....
"Tadowe: 1.........Einstein: 0"
LOL!!!!!!!!