Gemmill

It's not so much that I think it's all thrash metal or cock rock, just that it's all noisy shit. I hate the fact it is so hackneyed and cliched. The guitars are used to ridiculous excess, killing the melody in the process, and the lyrics are banal and almost always stereotyped (can't think of a single good lyrical song). Then there's the utterly ridiculous 'look' that accompanies it. Ironically, metal fans also tend to be hugely arrogant about the value their music has, which is close to zero for most people. And before anyone starts, I do not rate goth stuff now either, it's equally bollocks! That is ridiculous. A truly uninformed comment. There are a lot of shit metal bands that do things badly, but thats the same for any genre of music. When metal is done well not only is it melodic, but some of the most amazingly technical music you'll get. Dismissing metal as having 'zero value' and 'stereotyped' is poor IMO. Ridiculous. Really? OK, the melody is a moot point, if you like it, that's up to you. But I think we can be more objective on the banality of the lyrics of these bands. Why don't you point me in the direction of a Metallica song that has deep and meaningful lyrics then? I mean, even the names of metal bands tend to be stereotyped, I mean Metallica ffs. Iron Maiden. Slayer. Poison etc. I know I know very little about the genre now, especially how it has progressed over the last 10 years (although a lot of my friends tried to convince me it was quality in the 80s and 90s, none of them are really into it now), so point me to some stuff which isn't about drug taking, war, violence, shagging, or the Occult etc and maybe I'll think differently. System Of A Down Syndrome Of A Down more like.

How is that even open to debate? The ball is clearly in the net ffs.

True, he is an awful left-back. It;s surprising though, that most of his big kicks were with his left foot though, even if he is considred very right-footed. His "big kicks"?? Are you American?

When it first started, I had numbers I used to put on every week. I still know them now, and if they ever came up and I didn't have a ticket on........well I would be slightly annoyed.

Do these math-rockers give any consideration to having decent tunes or is it all a matter of how clever you can be with time signatures, key changes etc?

I've been given a reprieve as my boss is too busy to see me this afternoon. Time to put the feet up again.

Aye, 60 odd million on the Euromillions tonight. And whilst I know some of you knobheads like to quote the odds and witter on about how you're more likely to be struck by lightning, SOMEONE'S gonna win it.

Aye, I LOVE Fridays. On a less positive note, my non-working may be about to be partially exposed. I'm busy trying to knock some stuff together that looks like several months worth of work.

Do they do guitar solos that sound like this: widdlywiddlywiddlywiddlywiddlywiddlywwooooOOoOoooooowiddlywiddlywiddlywiddlywiddly Like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani's cobblers that everyone tries to tell me are masterpieces. If I could play the guitar that well, I'd do something other than fit as many notes into a minute as possible. Shut up! Fuck you! You fuckin dick! Always ney saying everything I create! You piece of shit, you create something like inward singing! You fucking shit you fucking sit in your tower... ...and fucking nap. Fuckin, fuck out fuckin... cock a-ass. widdlywiddlyWOO!

Do they do guitar solos that sound like this: widdlywiddlywiddlywiddlywiddlywiddlywwooooOOoOoooooowiddlywiddlywiddlywiddlywiddly Like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani's cobblers that everyone tries to tell me are masterpieces. If I could play the guitar that well, I'd do something other than fit as many notes into a minute as possible.

It's not so much that I think it's all thrash metal or cock rock, just that it's all noisy shit. Then listen to metallica's fade to black, Sanatarium or the Unforgiven. NO.

The hum of the printer to the right of me. Office chatter. Keys being struck on a keyboard.

I might have to dig out my Howay 5-Oh video like. Yes, I am sad enough to own it.

Eejit!

A lad at my school was a stinky metaller, and he had two friends. Their names? Animal and Slayer.

I remember listening to an interview with Philippe Albert on Radio 5 the day England played Germany in Charleroi - that's where Albert is from which was where they got the link from. Anyway, Adrian Chiles (who is class btw) kept going on about how much he loved Albert, not only for that goal, but for the fact that in the interview after the game he mentions how he saw "Schmickel" (pronounced as spelt) off his line etc. Chiles was going on saying not only did he make him look a tit with the chip, but then went on to take the piss out of him by getting his name wrong. I'm sure he asked Albert if he'd done it deliberately as a pisstake.

It's not so much that I think it's all thrash metal or cock rock, just that it's all noisy shit. Oh baby, pleeeeeease... give a little respe-eeeecct... tooooooo-oooooo heavy metal There's something not quite right about a gay man taking the piss out of me about Erasure. While defending heavy metal? I'll admit it's not your everyday scenario... You'll be talking about football next.

It's not so much that I think it's all thrash metal or cock rock, just that it's all noisy shit. Oh baby, pleeeeeease... give a little respe-eeeecct... tooooooo-oooooo heavy metal There's something not quite right about a gay man taking the piss out of me about Erasure.

It's not so much that I think it's all thrash metal or cock rock, just that it's all noisy shit.

You are a MAJOR nerd.

Aye I picture Brock in Herman Munster boots with lots of buckles too.

Torrentspy will probably have it. You'd need to load a Bittorrent client onto your work computer though.....something which I would have thought is frowned upon?

Aye it's fucking awful at the minute. We've got 5 months of this to look forward to, only it's gonna get a lot colder. Happy happy days. Hope it smartens itself up for the wedding anyway.

But.......Nigel Kennedy???

Good answer. If you were a footballer you'd be a right lazy twat though - Robert perhaps? Robert? I thought the rules were that I was at the top of my game. More like Ginola.