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CarlosDanger said:
This will probably get me shit but Iron Maiden's 7th Son of a 7th Son is fucking boring.
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That's the album where they started bloating their songs with repetition. Not bad but kind of "burnt out" sounding.

All the albums after it are worse, in that way and others, so it's the last one a lot of fans are really attached to. It was the last album by the exact lineup that people think of as Iron Maiden.

My Maiden shit take: Adrian Smith is as necessary to the band as Steve Harris is. He doesn't seem to do much (except write "Wasted Years," the one song history might remember them for) but without him they don't sound right at all.
 
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No-Eyed Square Guy said:
All the albums after it are worse, in that way and others, so it's the last one a lot of fans are really attached to. It was the last album by the exact lineup that people think of as Iron Maiden.
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Yet another band that, like Metallica, started out really strong but has now sucked much longer than it was good.
 
AnOminous said:
Yet another band that, like Metallica, started out really strong but has now sucked much longer than it was good.
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That’s every band that puts out more than zero good albums. The only reason the first album of a lot of bands are ever any good is more because they’re pressured to filter out their own shit output in a way that doesn’t exist when your contracted to make the next album.
 
No-Eyed Square Guy said:
My Maiden shit take: Adrian Smith is as necessary to the band as Steve Harris is.
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Absolutely. I saw them without Adrian in the 90s, with everyone's favorite replacement - Janick. Just didn't sound the same, the energy on the stage was different, too. The next time I saw them was the reunion tour with Bruce and Adrian. It felt and sounded like a true Maiden show again. I do think the 3 guitar set up works well for them.
 
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Stevie Wonder’s Songs In The Key of Life was pretty much him doing psychedelics while doing his best impression of both Elton John and The Beatles mixed together.
 
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finallyfalling said:
Good lyrics doesn't mean big words or figurative language or anything highbrow. Lyrics are about conveying a message, image, or feeling impactfully. Fuck ur metaphors.
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Lyrics should be like the text of an instruction manual and would be as emotionally compelling that way.
 
finallyfalling said:
Good lyrics doesn't mean big words or figurative language or anything highbrow. Lyrics are about conveying a message, image, or feeling impactfully. Fuck ur metaphors.
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If a song is truly good it could have gibberish for lyrics and still sound good, as the voice is just another instrument. Kind of like when you listen to foreign language songs and they could be singing about anything at all. Good lyrics just make it even better. I do admit that metaphors in music are really nice when you can discern them. Nobody actually thought that one Offspring song "Come Out and Play" was about chemical reactions or whatever.
 
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WSPWSPWSPWSP said:
Aphex Twin fell off after his The Tuss project and his new fans are unbareable pretentious faggots.
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This and him (more specifically) becoming set dressing for online aesthetic posturing makes me sort of glad Squarepusher never seemed to catch on with those types in the same way, unless I've been graced by ignorance and he has somewhere.
 
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AnOminous said:
"Smack My Bitch Up" was genius lyrics. Also the official video is perfect.
The lyrics don't actually mean what you think they do.
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Considering all the trash they've aired since then, it's kinda funny that this was too raunchy for MTV to air back in the day unless it was really late at night.
 
Trap beats ruined hip hop. I like the jazzy/fusion-esque beats of old hip hop and some of the electronic beats before and up to the mid 2000s, but every time I hear the painfully fake 808 drum loop (which is very often, because music with this garbage gets played everywhere), I want to go full ape mode and destroy every speaker within earshot.
The electronic reverb effect is really annoying. If you want reverb, record yourself/your instrument/your speaker in an area with naturally high reverb, it will always sound better this way. Even if you fuck it up, you will at least get a unique sound.
 
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AnOminous said:
"Smack My Bitch Up" was genius lyrics. Also the official video is perfect.
The lyrics don't actually mean what you think they do.
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The vocal sample is originally from a song by Ultramagnetic MCs with their member Kool Keith being the main lyricist and who is by far the most eccentric and fascinatingly in-your-face rapper out there. Also someone MF Doom wished to, but could have never become.
 
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K-pop is alright. I used to think K-pop was extremely bland, derivative, and almost like a parody of Western pop. I'd only heard the big groups like BTS and Blackpink, and I still agree with my assessment of them. But after listening to a few other groups I've started to kind of like it, particularly the production. K-pop has heavy electronic/EDM influence which I like, and I enjoy how it combines many different genres. There's also a magic about live K-pop performances (particularly 1st gen) that I'm sad I'll never get to experience.
 
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