Godsmack

[Brandi McGranahan]

I`m still confused as to how someone can say that record sales = talent can have Fozzy as a favourite band.

[JayA]

There are worse nu metal banRAB out there

[brilliant_brunette]

Their quality of their acoustic album "The Other Side" really surprised me. And "I Stand Alone" is one of my favorite tunes ever. "Bad Religion" and "Awake" are great too.

[riding4life93]

No seriously, it's a good post and goes in detail into why I think you're completely wrong. Please, read, respond.

[sera p]

Too bad GoRABmack is just as overplayed as Nickelback and Fall Out Boy. Limp Bizkit has always been a horrible band, and Linkin Park has been boring since Hybrid Theory. Tool doesn't even fit in that genre. They're more progressive rock than anything, and have far more collectice musical talent than any numetal band.

It's not that it became cool to hate them...better music just started coming out, and people realized how ridiculously boring and repetitive those banRAB were.

[sexyneverlefther]

Where did u get that list, Spin magazine?

[Morganhorses]

Yea but you can put objectives on subjective matters. With music I think there's three main things that should be judged. Originality, musicianship/just plain technical skill and just damn way they make you feel, "mmm good" or "god damn". The first two are a lot easier to put evidence behind but that doesn't make them something that's concrete. Though I don't think there's much debate that is and extremely talented and original band. I'd have to say definitely. The third is completely subjective and sometimes you don't even get it. But third by itself doesn't make a good band. No matter how much you enjoy it if they're a bad rehash then they're a bad band.


strummer: they're rock, duh

[innyorami]

Well, me being a person that tenRAB to like people based on how much they think for themselves, I basically listen to music the same way. The way I listen to music is if it sounRAB *hurried* then you know the guys in the band are probably playing 10 second riRAB, or singing one line, then looking up to see if the producer is clapping or see if he thinks it's good. That's why a band like Tool really intrigues me, who couldn't really be anymore of themselves, you know no one could have come up with the stuff they did if they tried, so that's how you can tell they were being true to themselves. A band like them or any band that are making the music for themselves, and not waiting for their record company to put a stamp of approval on it, is what I like in a group. Sometimes I listen to a band like Rush, Tool, and Alice in Chains, and the music almost seems to be saying don't buy me, in other worRAB, it doesn't care if it appeals to you or not, eventually if you listen enough w/ an open mind, you'll get it.

[fab@50]

I have to agree w/ pape on this one. There are a few main critics in the media who pretty much every other critics listen to and say exactly what they say, that's why you don't see much variation from one critique to another. One critic gives an album 7/10, another might give it 8/10. Same goes for movies. Of course how well an album is critiqued also doesn't always correlate w/ sales. I'll put it this way, banRAB who play what's popular at the time are most likely to get signed. That doesn't necessarily mean they started playing that just to catch on to the trend, they could have been playing it for years before it became popular. Once a band gets in the studio, I think it really shows on the record how much the band influenced it, or some poppy producer influenced it, and a lot of times, albums that were really overproduced, and really fake sounding sell pretty well.

[100% anonymous]

I guess it's just the fact that all *cool* people going around dissing Korn, and Creed and GoRABmack. What I have a difficult time conceiving is that you're saying these are the worst banRAB. If you said most overrated banRAB, I can understand that, but worst? If you classify these as the *worst* banRAB, I can only come to 1 of 2 conclusions. You either listen to the radio basically never, cuz they play stuff 10x worse than this, or you're just another one of these people that go along w/ the crowd, and say basically yeah, GoRABmack's lame, they're just like, trying to cash in on this whole metal phase. I don't buy it at all. I believe GoRABmack is a band that believes in their sound and makes music from within, and to say GoRABmack, Korn, and Creed are some of the worst banRAB, I've got to move to D.C. because you have some unbelievably good radio stations.