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#1  Edited By SmugDarkLoser

*** why does, not why is.  originally i was going to say why is everyone gay for acdc, but I didn't want to offend anyone.


why does everyone like acdc exactly?  Am I the only one who thinks that they're medicore?  Seriously, they have their own section of stuff at walmart even and I just don't get it.
And the people who like them think your crazy for not liking them.
Is it just me, or does ACDC work on the "we're awesome  because we were pretty good back in the day" principle?


Because if this is still the popular thing

  



then why exactly don't the majority of people still like glam rock?


Why exactly isn't Alice Cooper as popular as them? Some of their songs
  

sound quite the same


and in general, if people still like classic rock, why is there no love for lordi? they're like a modern, slightly modernized, classic rock band.
  







And  Nirvana?  Seriously, what's special about this band?
  


"this revolutionized the music"
Yea... sure.  how exactly?

And the biggest sell out ever.  Linkin Park was one of my favorite bands.  the 3rd album sucks balls
  



no, I'm sorry.  This is not linkin park.  At least change your name to Lincoln Parque to show the complete style change.  This is linkin park and why I'm a fan of the first 2:
  





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#2  Edited By weltal

Clearly it's a plot against you. Stage one is complete.

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#4  Edited By jimbojones

they have some good songs. they're just a classic. they aren't like bad but they aren't like the greatest. 

They don't deserve all the publicity compared to all the other amazing bands but what can you do. it's americanized

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#5  Edited By TheGreatGuero

'Cause we're on a highway to Hell.

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#6  Edited By Rowr

Personally i dont like them much.

But as an Australian i have to represent.

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#7  Edited By Systech

AC/DC is pretty good. Shut up.

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It`s the first rock band I started listening to, hell it`s the first band I listened to since I was 2 years old, they pretty much got me into metal.

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#9  Edited By HandsomeDead

That song they had on THPS3 was OK but the rest is so annoying. Their lead singer has the most annoying voice this side of Serj Tankian.

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#10  Edited By SmugDarkLoser

^ so would you say it's basically what your parents liked? 
First rock band I was into when I was so little was kiss.  Looking on it now they're just meh.

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#11  Edited By Claude

I saw them live in 85 and it was awesome, great show, maybe that's why.

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#12  Edited By jakob187

Here are three good reasons:

A.  Pub rock rules.
B.  They wrote the perfect song...and just kept writing it.
C.  Because they could kick all of our asses while drinking a pint
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#13  Edited By StaticFalconar

The thing is, even if you think they are mediocre, the modern day bands that you listen to now probably listened to them back when they where in their prime. Same thing applies to all the other old bands you listed (linkin Park doesn't count, thir shit hasn't been tested by time liike the other bands you have said. )

Overall, you are just proving how young you are since unless you have lived it, you just wouldn't understand. I personally don't get all the hype over Michael fucking Jackson or the Beatles, or even Elvis; But all of them also still have a following. They must have really touched the hearts of the generation before us if it means there is still a market for the same audience today.

Remember, you cannot see the revolutionary music be revolutionary unless you had lived through that time.

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#15  Edited By zityz

AC/DC is one of the best bands that started in their time period. A lot of their songs are samey but they are still good to listen to.
Alice cooper's School's out is one of the most known AC if not one of the most known songs around.
Never heard of Lordi, they sound cool, but I wouldn't say modern classic rock, more modern hard rock.

Nirvana was one of the first bands to start the whole Grunge phase, more commonly now known as EMO.

Linken Park wasn't too bad when they started out, decent if you will, but I could care less for them. Techincally it's their "5th" album, 3rd with actual new songs, the other two were remixes and another cd with remixes.

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#16  Edited By ZombiePie

Nostalgia is a weird thing, but then again I should admit that I'm not badshit crazy for AC/DC either.

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#17  Edited By OroJackson

ACDC wrote great high-energy rock songs, and while they aren't the greatest ever, they fill their niche very well

And Nirvana revolutionized music because they started the most popular type of music of a decade (90s) and displaced the "Micheal Jackson" Pop of the 80s

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#18  Edited By SmugDarkLoser

^It's not that, don't get me wrong.  I'm fine with people who grew up in that time.  It's people my age liking these bands that confuses me (18). 

zityz said:

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AC/DC is one of the best bands that started in their time period. A lot of their songs are samey but they are still good to listen to.
Alice cooper's School's out is one of the most known AC if not one of the most known songs around.
Never heard of Lordi, they sound cool, but I wouldn't say modern classic rock, more modern hard rock.

Nirvana was one of the first bands to start the whole Grunge phase, more commonly now known as EMO.

Linken Park wasn't too bad when they started out, decent if you will, but I could care less for them. Techincally it's their "5th" album, 3rd with actual new songs, the other two were remixes and another cd with remixes.

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1.  I doubt they were.  I'd imagine that they were just like any other band but people piggybacked on it, much like mainstream artists of today. 

2.  Nirvana isn't emo.  Emo is something completely different.  Emo is like a woosified goth made from the preppy teen culture wanting to be badass

3.  linkin park was fucking awesome when they came out.  


But what I'm really focusing on is, why is it that people are so gay for this band when they weren't born in this time?  Music is heavily subjunctive, I shouldknowthat but seriously, the concept of everyone liking the same band and them being more popular than they ever were (yea, it's true) when they don't even do much new shit is very awkward.
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#19  Edited By c1337us
Rowr said:
"Personally i dont like them much.

But as an Australian i have to represent."
Well I think AC/DC is awesome. And like half the band immigrated from Scotland anyway.
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#20  Edited By SmugDarkLoser
OroJackson said:
"ACDC wrote great high-energy rock songs, and while they aren't the greatest ever, they fill their niche very well

And Nirvana revolutionized music because they started the most popular type of music of a decade (90s) and displaced the "Micheal Jackson" Pop of the 80s"
Umm... rock was popular during the 80s.  Hear of the offpring?  
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#21  Edited By TheFreeMan

I'm 16 and I thoroughly enjoy ACDC. Honestly, that's all there is to it. I just like their music......songs like Money Talks and Back In Black are essentially the incarnation  for normal rock n roll in my eyes.

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#22  Edited By jakob187
zityz said:
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AC/DC is one of the best bands that started in their time period. A lot of their songs are samey but they are still good to listen to.
Alice cooper's School's out is one of the most known AC if not one of the most known songs around.
Never heard of Lordi, they sound cool, but I wouldn't say modern classic rock, more modern hard rock.

Nirvana was one of the first bands to start the whole Grunge phase, more commonly now known as EMO.

Linken Park wasn't too bad when they started out, decent if you will, but I could care less for them. Techincally it's their "5th" album, 3rd with actual new songs, the other two were remixes and another cd with remixes.

"
I...am amazed by how boldly untrue so many of these statements are.  =  /

1.  Lordi sucks fucking balls.  For anyone to actually like their music, you would need to be both tone-deaf and have a death wish.  Most people will end up agreeing with said statement, and if you don't...then you are going to be the reason for the de-evolution of our world.

2.  AC/DC is kick ass because of the fact that they just kick ass.  They are kick ass doods that always, ALWAYS,   A  L  W  A  Y  S  puts on a kick ass show.  They write songs about kick ass stuff, like kicking ass and fucking.  Frankly, they can do no wrong...even if they are 60 years old and running around in school boy outfits.

3.  Nirvana was a "for the times" thing.  They weren't one of the first bands to "start" the Grunge phase.  They were simply the ones that became mainstreamed.  Meat Puppets and a dozen others were doing it long before Nirvana.  The record label just found them to be marketable, and the cover for Nevermind helped throw the controversy out there.  Mix that with the reaction of the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" music video launching a new "look" for people to follow, and BAM!  Otherwise, their music for the most part is absolutely nothing special unless you lived through it all (which I did).

4.  "School's Out" may be the most known AC song in your book, but it doesn't mean he's any good.  Actually, he's nothing but a personality and that's it.  He's even admitted that himself.  I've even told him that face to face (as I met him and sold him Mudvayne's L.D. 50 when I worked at the Best Buy on Camelback and 26th in Phoenix AZ), and he doesn't mind.  He knows it.  It doesn't mean I hate him for it, because the dood knew how to sell shock culture well.  Despite that, he's not a musician.  He's simply a dood that knows how to stir up some shit.  Unfortunately, he hasn't been able to do that for a while, and the last possible "quality" song he put out was probably "Feed my Frankenstein", which is only really known because of its ties to the Wayne's World movie.  Without Guitar Hero featuring his music, I doubt most young people would even care about who he is.

5.  Linkin Park has three albums, period.  Remix albums do not count, whether you'd like them to or not.  If you talk about White Zombie's chronology, you don't include Supersexy Swingin' Sounds.  It's a remix album.  The same goes for Reanimation and the LP/Jay-Z hybrid.  You also don't include any forms of EPs or singles w/ rare b-sides.  They were on a good run with the first two albums, as they didn't stray too far from what they did but were still able to appeal to the mainstream.  I saw them long before the release of Hybrid Theory at the Celebrity in Phoenix, and it was an absolutely incredible show.  Saw them again after the release of Meteora, and they were better than the first time.  Unfortunately, the moment I heard the entirety of the new album, I wanted to puke.  I don't know what happened to those guys, but it was literally painful to see a band make that drastic of a change.  It was like watching Silverchair go from Diorama to Young Modern.  Absolute waste of potential.  =  /

Now, getting back to topic:  AC/DC is the greatest band of all time.  Why?  Because they wrote the greatest song of all time.
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#23  Edited By OroJackson
SmugDarkLoser said:
the concept of everyone liking the same band and them being more popular than they ever were (yea, it's true) when they don't even do much new shit is very awkward."
lol, Back in Black is the SECOND most selling album ever, so no they aren't


Umm... rock was popular during the 80s.  Hear of the offpring?  
Popular and mainstream are very different, and Nirvana took an underground sound and blew the doors open to bands like Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam

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#24  Edited By StaticFalconar
zityz said:
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Nirvana was one of the first bands to start the whole Grunge phase, more commonly now known as EMO.

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So when Kurt saw that his work was going to become EMO; thats why he shot himself.......

Seriously EMO kids don't have actual problems; the toilet could be backed up and they could feel that is bad enough to sing their hearts out about how cruel life is. Cobain had real problems, his feelings was genuine.
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#25  Edited By Woffls

You're imagining it, not that many people actually like AC/DC.

The few awesome people that do just like rock n' roll... you know rock n roll don't you?

About their music specifically, they wrote some of the most monumentally powerful riffs in rock history. Timeless riffs that will shake floors forever. It's high voltage rock n roll.

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#26  Edited By Black_Raven

I can't stand their music.

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#27  Edited By SmugDarkLoser
jakob187 said:
"zityz said:
2.  AC/DC is kick ass because of the fact that they just kick ass.  They are kick ass doods that always, ALWAYS,   A  L  W  A  Y  S  puts on a kick ass show.  They write songs about kick ass stuff, like kicking ass and fucking.  Frankly, they can do no wrong...even if they are 60 years old and running around in school boy outfits.

 

"

If you're really crazy about them putting on a kick ass show, I suggest Mindless Self Indulgence.  So fucking fun. 
Favorite topics in their songs, in favor of: sex, porn, masturbation, little girlies,screwing around, being egoistic, making fun of emo kids.

  


not even a good example
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#28  Edited By jakob187
StaticFalconar said:
"zityz said:
"Nirvana was one of the first bands to start the whole Grunge phase, more commonly now known as EMO."
So when Kurt saw that his work was going to become EMO; thats why he shot himself.......
Nope.  Gobang just realized how bad his music was.  That's why Dave was happy to move on to Foo Fighters.
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#29  Edited By CreamyGoodness
sarkeen said:
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AC/DC SUCKS

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no they dont,

they suck big donkey scrotum while jerking off a cow

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#30  Edited By SmugDarkLoser
StaticFalconar said:
"zityz said:
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Nirvana was one of the first bands to start the whole Grunge phase, more commonly now known as EMO.

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So when Kurt saw that his work was going to become EMO; thats why he shot himself.......

Seriously EMO kids don't have actual problems; the toilet could be backed up and they could feel that is bad enough to sing their hearts out about how cruel life is. Cobain had real problems, his feelings was genuine."

He didn't have real problems, lol.
His parents divorced (omg! just like so many other people's), he used drugs, and married a dumbshit wife.

Wow, he got it bad.  It's so totally society's fault. Besides his parents, it's like saying stabbing yourself repeatedly with a knife every week and having to go to the hospital every weak as a result of it isn't your fault.
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#31  Edited By OroJackson
SmugDarkLoser said:
"StaticFalconar said:

He didn't have real problems, lol.
His parents divorced (omg! just like so many other people's), he used drugs, and married a dumbshit wife.

Wow, he got it bad.  It's so totally society's fault. "
 the reason he got addicted to drugs was because of his chronic bronchitis and intense  pain due to an undiagnosed chronic stomach condition

he did have his demons but it still doen't excuse suicide


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#33  Edited By RHCPfan24

AC/DC and Nirvana are both awesome. The first band was a beginning of heavy metal and specialized in hard rock for the young and, not old, but middle aged. It was a lot of influences and the feeling was very fresh. That is also why Nirvana is awesome. They are the band that revolutionized popular music, making grunge more mainstream while maintaining the unique aspects of avant garde. Songs like "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "All Apologies" and "Come As You Are" are all truly original. They are both excellent bands.

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#34  Edited By Bulldog19892

AC/DC have been writing the same shallow, repetitive album over and over again for the past like, 30 years. Yeah sure it was fun back then, but you need to change it up a bit, jesus.

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#35  Edited By Jayge_

The reasons everyone likes ACDC are simple. They write easy to follow, violently energetic, fun songs. They play catchy (if repetitive) music along with those songs. And they do it well. It's not that hard to figure out.

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The concept of quality is far from universal. Most peoples arguments when concerning music are flawed. You can't bring objectivity into something so fundamentally subjective. Personally, I like AC/DC. And Lordi. And Bach. I liked Linkin Park when I was an angsty teenager, as well, but now it sounds like infantile whining to me. Either way, quality isn't a concept that can be objectively applied, so it's a pointless argument. Make your flawed assertions to someone else, I don't need your acceptance to enjoy my music, just as you don't need mine to enjoy that trash, Halo.

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#37  Edited By Gizmo

Hard Rock Hallelujah was the best Eurovision song ever, by a mile. I'm OK with them being a 1-hit wonder band, and I think everybody else is.

I remember when they performed at the end of Eurovision, I cranked the volume up to max and I nearly whiplashed myself with headbanging and air-guitar.
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#38  Edited By Jayge_
Gizmo said:
"Hard Rock Hallelujah was the best Eurovision song ever, by a mile. I'm OK with them being a 1-hit wonder band, and I think everybody else is.
I remember when they performed at the end of Eurovision, I cranked the volume up to max and I nearly whiplashed myself with headbanging and air-guitar.
"
ACDC is far from a 1-hit wonder, if their own "All ACDC, all the time" Serius/XM radio channel is to be believed.
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#39  Edited By bjorno

people like powerchords

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#40  Edited By Gizmo
Jayge said:
"Gizmo said:
"Hard Rock Hallelujah was the best Eurovision song ever, by a mile. I'm OK with them being a 1-hit wonder band, and I think everybody else is.
I remember when they performed at the end of Eurovision, I cranked the volume up to max and I nearly whiplashed myself with headbanging and air-guitar.
"
ACDC is far from a 1-hit wonder, if their own "All ACDC, all the time" Serius/XM radio channel is to be believed."
2 hit wonder then :)
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#41  Edited By Woffls
Bellum said:
" You can't bring objectivity into something so fundamentally subjective. Personally,...
 Either way, quality isn't a concept that can be objectively applied."
I actually disagree with this. Music is based on objective fundementals, like scales and chords. There is actually science behind music, so i'm not going to accept that it'sentirely subjective. I think that there is good music and there is bad music. However, there is absolutely nothing wrong with liking objectively bad music, and you shouldn't feel superior for liking ojectively good music. I know these are unpopular opinions, but I figured i'd share them anyway.

Back to AC/DC. Yeh, their music hasn't changed in the last 30 years, how is that a bad thing? If you want a different sound you can go listen to a different band, but If you want to listen to that distinctive AC/DC sound, you know where to find it. Some of the best 'classic rock' bands have seen critical success by simply going back to basics. For example, I thought the Scorpions going back to heavy riffs with Unbreakable resulted in the best album they're written for probably a decade. Whitesnake did a good job of using old sounds, and Metallica have gone back to what made the Black Album so great.

Ultimately, I'd rather listen to a new AC/DC album every 5 years and know what i'm getting than see them rise and fall.
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#42  Edited By forgottensolider
CreamyGoodness said:
"sarkeen said:
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AC/DC SUCKS

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no they dont,

they suck big donkey scrotum while jerking off a cow

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ok dude seriosly that is just wrong i meanyou just get your kicks on pissing ppl off or something i mean come on nobody has the *F*ing right to do that and you wll pay for it in the en you wtch just watch you wll be punished by the almighty one day just wtch
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#43  Edited By Jayge_
Woffls said:
"Bellum said:
" You can't bring objectivity into something so fundamentally subjective. Personally,...
 Either way, quality isn't a concept that can be objectively applied."
I actually disagree with this. Music is based on objective fundementals, like scales and chords. There is actually science behind music, so i'm not going to accept that it'sentirely subjective. I think that there is good music and there is bad music. However, there is absolutely nothing wrong with liking objectively bad music, and you shouldn't feel superior for liking ojectively good music. I know these are unpopular opinions, but I figured i'd share them anyway.

Back to AC/DC. Yeh, their music hasn't changed in the last 30 years, how is that a bad thing? If you want a different sound you can go listen to a different band, but If you want to listen to that distinctive AC/DC sound, you know where to find it. Some of the best 'classic rock' bands have seen critical success by simply going back to basics. For example, I thought the Scorpions going back to heavy riffs with Unbreakable resulted in the best album they're written for probably a decade. Whitesnake did a good job of using old sounds, and Metallica have gone back to what made the Black Album so great.

Ultimately, I'd rather listen to a new AC/DC album every 5 years and know what i'm getting than see them rise and fall."
There is no "objective" measurement of music, there are simply objective measurements of the most stable subjective sympathies. There is a large difference.
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#44  Edited By Optiow

I hate them, they just scream into the microphone.

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Woffls said:
"Bellum said:
" You can't bring objectivity into something so fundamentally subjective. Personally,...
 Either way, quality isn't a concept that can be objectively applied."
I actually disagree with this. Music is based on objective fundementals, like scales and chords. There is actually science behind music, so i'm not going to accept that it'sentirely subjective. I think that there is good music and there is bad music. However, there is absolutely nothing wrong with liking objectively bad music, and you shouldn't feel superior for liking ojectively good music. I know these are unpopular opinions, but I figured i'd share them anyway."

For this to be the case, you have to define "good music" as sound following a certain standard. Such a definition requires subjectivity. I could rely on a completely different standard to call music good. That "There is science behind music", while true, says nothing of it's objectivity. Emotion, for instance, can be explained in technical terms. There is a tendency for humans to be attracted to a mix of certain sounds, which can be explained by science, but it's never as simple as it seems. The sheer volume of musical taste is an indication, same goes for sexual attraction or morality (which is a superstition, but there you go). The idea of objectively good music requires belief in the concept of objective value, something that does not exist.  :)
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#46  Edited By SmugDarkLoser
Bellum said: it more so equates to liking something like Golden Axe when they started gaming this generation
"The concept of quality is far from universal. Most peoples arguments when concerning music are flawed. You can't bring objectivity into something so fundamentally subjective. Personally, I like AC/DC. And Lordi. And Bach. I liked Linkin Park when I was an angsty teenager, as well, but now it sounds like infantile whining to me. Either way, quality isn't a concept that can be objectively applied, so it's a pointless argument. Make your flawed assertions to someone else, I don't need your acceptance to enjoy my music, just as you don't need mine to enjoy that trash, Halo."

but my problem isn't that people like Golden Axe, so to speak, it's that these people who are too young to have played it in its time worship it like it's the best band ever.  I don't care if you think it is or if the far majority did, it's the fact that it's all these people who are way younger liking this.  Older people don't seem to be as into it even
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Yes, young people have opinions, too.

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#48  Edited By Woffls

I think it's perfectly fine for kids to worship Golden Axe, just as long as they play it a lot and understand why they like it.
Us older folk don't like Golden Axe anymore because we played it so much when we were kids.

I sincerely hope I interpretted that correctly.

I might have a completely different interprettation of this situation to the rest of you as I'm in the UK, where nobody likes AC/DC anymore....

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I sincerely hope I interpretted that correctly.


Heh, same here. :P
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#50  Edited By SmugDarkLoser
Bellum said:
"Yes, young people have opinions, too."

But lots of these young people just like golden axe because they think they're suppose to like it
Would you happen to fall into this category?

You do know that music shouldn't be a "that's a good song" type thing but a "i fucking love this song" thing.
And also, not completely going with the stream of this thread, but open up to all kinds of music.  I was into really only rock before.... then I opened up.  I'll even listen to a good rap song

  
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hey!  I said a good rap song!!!