Great post Metaphor. Someone had to say it

Tool, Led Zeppelin, those classic rock bands, "mainstream" punk bands,for the most they're good bands, Tool is a great band, use to listen to them frequently when I was younger.

It's just when you start to limit yourself to these bands that you submit to the power of the mainstream. To a lesser degree, it's like watching MTV to influence your choice. Same with rap, electronica, and every genre.

Not everyone has the same tastes, but that's exactly why there so music out there. There's something for everyone. You have to do yourself a favor and start expanding your horizons. Out there are music that's just unbelieveable. It might not fit to your tastes, at first, but you have to give it a chance.

There's different ways to listen to music. There's music that immediately catches on, and there's music you have to listen to a few times to soak the complexity of the sound, to age like wine.

To counter your quote slip

"that'd be like going to one of those idiot pop singer's movies.. you know you don't like that person, you know you don't like what you've seen of it so far (previews) but you go anyways..."

You can't always judge a book by it's cover. There is so many choices out there, but you can d/l everything for free these days, no one has an excuse to not go beyond their horizons. Perhaps one day you d/led a song that you didn't think much at first, but one day you're sitting back and the song hits you out of the blue. You wouldn't know if you didn't at least reach out for it. I'm aware of the bias within everyone that prevents them from expands their tastes because of preconceptions. You gotta battle it, because if I didn't, I'd still be thinking Kurt Cobain is the ONLY god.

You gotta check some of their b-sides, metaphor, it's pretty damn rockin'.
thcbongman Reviewed by thcbongman on . Starting to loose hope I get so disapointed when i count the classic rock, punk rock, and yes even TOOL threads. There are so many of these and everyones listening to their bands thinking that Pink Floyd is the definition of psychedelic rock. Anyone who likes them would love many of the bands i listen too, but you all have such thick skulls, imediatley dismissing any music that wasnt made in the 70's. As for all you in the "punk rock", emo, indie, all those various rock genres are missing out on all the good Rating: 5