2006 vs 1981

[Mr. Vengeance]

I mean....why listen to Pink when you can CRANK THE FUCK OUTTA VAN HALEN II????!!!!

TESTIFY!!!!!!

[mako_kimura]

You don't listen to much modern hard rock/metal, do you? Cause what you're identifying is mostly pop or hip hop

[Mr. Vengeance]

There is no modern metal...well, there is but no one plays it. And what I hear sucks major ASS!

[mako_kimura]

Dude, watch some MTV 2. Or at least catch Headbanger's Ball (yes, it's back). Not all new bands/groups suck

[BALLYJUNKIE]

to be acurate with the starter of this thread .... there were remote controls in 1981 ...... acuatlly i heard and interview with paul mccartney and he said the 1st time the beatles met elvis ,wich was in 1965 .he saw elviswatching tv with a remote control..... now i never had a remote control until the late 80"s but in im almost positive remote controls were available to the public sometime in the 70 "s

[binnie]

There is some good modern metal out there, you just have to search for it.

There aren't any bands I see with Maiden/ Priest/ Metallica potential tho, I don't see any of these guys selling 20 million records....

[Vinnie Velvet]

Originally posted by mako_kimura
Dude, watch some MTV 2. Or at least catch Headbanger's Ball (yes, it's back). Not all new bands/groups suck

Most do.

I often see them TRYING to play a riff that comes accross as boring, strumming, crap.

And then when its time to rip into a solo, these cats stay away from doing one. Almost as if they're 'afraid' to see what more an electric guitar can do.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

For many of nowadays bands, it's all about the big sound: switch it off and then what is left?

[Unchainme]

Some bands are slowy starting to realize that they need to change their style. My Buddy played me this one Band, called Avenged Sevenfold, And this one song sounded like a Nu Metal/Use Your Illusion Era GN'R hybred. Auctually did sound quite well.

The Good Stuff is slowy starting to wedge itself back into Rock, It will take a while though, thanks to Clear Channel and MTV.

[Susie Q]

Originally posted by frets5150
I just had to take it out of the closet


:D

I had one of those! I had a Colecovision too when they first came out. Hell, I MADE the damn things. Coleco had their company here in town.

[ace diamond]

hey,i'm 29, but sure as shit remember those days.i still have my atari
800.i love pitfall and pac-man.i am laughing my head off.

i just wish time travel was possible so we could take some of these spoiled little bastards back in time to the heydays of our youth and show them just how much they don't know shit.

[ace diamond]

Originally posted by Mr. Vengeance
There is no modern metal...well, there is but no one plays it. And what I hear sucks major ASS!

https://www.myspace.com/acediamondexperience

check it out. i am trying to bring back metal done the old way,with the human factor left in. not only does today's stuff suck shit,it's too perfect.

the 2 songs on the page are me,i recorded 15 songs all by myself in 2 days. nice and sloppy.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Originally posted by binnie
Worse than rap is RnB, IMO, you know girls singing a chorus with a really weak melody in hushed voice in a really high pitch.

Souless

ARRRRRRRRRRHGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!

That shite is NOT R&B.

Its got very little proper rhythm and its got no blues feel. Where does it earn the right to be called R&B? And the singers sing with no soul.


R&B/soul is Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Aretha Franklin (when she's not "singing the phone book"), Ray Charles (when he's not doing CUNTry music) etc etc. I'll stop now before this becomes a full-on rant.

[Seshmeister]

I was talking to my folks about this just last night.

I think the difference between the kids now and us is every bit as big as us and our parents.

My Dad in 1946 would get a banana and a pencil for Christmas, in 1976 I would get maybe a couple of toys in 2006 it takes 2 fucking hours to unwrap them.

On soft toys I had a panda and a share of a bear, my 3 year old has around 50.

My folks had good jobs and we had a much lower standard of living than people on welfare now.

I was talking to friends with older kids and they were saying that they have noticed their kids always ring door bells with their thumbs rather than their index fingers and they put this down to texting on cell phones. I think for kids though that cell phones or mobiles as we call them are a double edged sword. How many times did you say 'sorry I forgot the time' or 'I would have called but there was no payphone' or 'I didn't have any change'.

It must suck these days as a teenager that you can't disappear...

Cheers!

[Seshmeister]

Originally posted by frets5150
I just had to take it out of the closet


:D

A game had to last you maybe six months until it reached Xmas or your birthday.

I would play Pac Man on the Atari with a game lasting 4 hours holding the joystick upside down so up was down and left was right...