When I was growing up, my mum displayed her Judas Priest and Black Sabbath LPs with pride and had fabulous liquid eyeliner and a love for the Rocky Horror Show that knew no bounds.
That sort of thing is cool, but it has its downside - what was I meant to rebel against?! Now the same feeling must be sweeping the nation with the revelation that the inhabitants of Number Ten are metal fans.
Imagine if you will, after a hard day in Prime Minister's Questions, Gordo posing with a hairbrush and screeching along to Iron Maiden in the cabinet room. It puts a smile on my face, anyway. I think he should start throwing the horns for photo ops.
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Run to the Hills indeed...
Brown would so have been an emo kid. ;)
The official way of rebelling against metal head parents is to invest in a twin-set and pearls!
run to the hills!! lol
Could be worse... Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter, anyone?
LOL!
I wonder is either of the Broons suffers from Fear of the Dark?
It makes a change from fuckwits like Cameron liking the same "indie" shite as every other vapid twat out there.
The best Iron Maiden album is Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son, imho.
Having said that, these Anvil do sound fairly shite.
Seventh Son is OK, but my favourite is Fear.... or possibly Brave New World. I overplayed Number too much as a teenager and therefore never get the urge to listen to it any more.
I Do Not Talk about the Blaze Bayley years.
I personally have a very high regard for The X Factor. I dislike Virtual XI, but I'm more inclined to blame 'Arry than Blaze for that.
FOTD never really reaches the pinnacle, imho.
A generally excellent idea is to listen to some blues. Many of the artists have got infinity's worth of albums & it's hard to get into them. But Blind Willie Johnson & Robvert Johnson, 2 of the very best, have very slim recorded outputs & in both cases their entire recorded work is available on a double album.
"The Complete Blind Willie Johnson" & "Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings" contain literally every last track these feckers laid down. The former in particular is a delight & has some staggering vocals.
At least Nick Clegg has reasonable taste in music.
I don't really agree with these people who say it all started with classical. The various forms of folk, & the music with which the African slaves expressed themselves, owe nothing to the forebears of what is now "classical".
All generations of musicians should have to go back to the blues. The problem with these nu "metal" fuckwits is that they've never nourished themselves from the roots.
& no, Led Zeppelin don't count. Though, if you want to know where they got the groove from & why you haven't got the groove (despite there being a laughable trend called groove "metal"), the blues will tell you.
The return to the roots, for me, was started by Elvis Costello, who is one of my favourite artists. He recorded 2 covers albums & a soul album, so I got into his influences. Additionally, he has always referred to the people who influenced him, so I dug them up.
You can express yourself in music, which is why people have got strong views on it.
I am fully aware of the works of Robert Johnson, as are lots of other metalheads.
Especially where music is concerned, one's own taste =/= right or wrong, but merely one's own taste.
I get really cross with people who denigrate other people's taste in music. It is the worst form of egotism. My other half claims that I have "crap taste in music" because I like everything he likes, plus some other stuff as well and it's one of the few things about him that really, really annoys me. That and his habit of calling buns "cakes". A person's taste in music is a part of them, and saying that it is bad is saying that THEY are bad, whether what you are denigrating is a love of nu-metal or anything non-classical.
All styles of music have some great performers and writers, and some less great ones. Condemning an entire style, however, is short-sighted at best.
'Brown is the new Black'
a different type of rat
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