Forum Overview :: No Stairway to Heaven :: I don't listen to any music ironically. But I like some "bad" music sometimes.

[quote name="FSBT"]So you're suggesting I could only like Babymetal ironically? No. Looking back at this thread I see that's maybe impossible for you to believe because there is a tremendous gulf between the Apple television ad music you like and my immature music. But to attempt the easiest explanation, Babymetal is something new to my ears. Violently new! Lots of people don't value that at all, and I never understand how people aren't bored with everything already, and that's part of my "joke" about not wanting to associate with people who don't like Babymetal. What's a person who isn't amazed by this sound going to tell me about the world that interests me? Lil B the Based God understands: [twitter id="365162068950777856"] <b>Everything new, nothing same.</b> That said, 2013 was a throwback metal year for me so I'll now quickly do my top picks list just to add to this Babymetal section of the music thread. Nothing new, everything same: <table cellpadding="8"><tr class="post"><td> [youtube id="5KKYJD09qCk"] Carcass reunited after 15 years and made the best metal album of 2013 PSH, no big thing. The pathologist in that video is their original drummer and childhood friend who had an aneurysm and now can't drum anymore. Or talk, really. :(</td> <td> [youtube id="UeBFEanVsp4"] What's a year end list without the perpetual Dillinger Escape Plan track? This album is maybe their best in years, which is nearly unfathomable to me that they can keep putting out such good stuff.</td> </tr><tr class="post"> <td> [youtube id="Vk_s9-xMC4w"] Some Baltimore teenagers came along and made late 80s thrash well beyond their years and location.</td> <td> [youtube id="JoI5wbedzRw"] The two dudes in Big Business are the reason why the previous few Melvins albums were so good. And why the new one without them sucks.</td> </tr><tr class="post"> <td> [youtube id="IIHH9THNRQA"] Pitchfork makes it embarrassing to like this band, but it's an undeniably great idea, "what if black metal was in a major key and triumphant?" Unlike most of my list, this is ear fresh.</td> <td> [youtube id="RbfieYwl4aQ"] Black metal from Ireland set to interpretive dance. Perfect.</td> </tr></table> <b>BONUS LIST: Things I learned in 2013 about old music.</b> I looked for two songs from my childhood on a whim, and was blown away by what I learned. Of the first I only remembered the chorus vividly, "I'm a... HOMO SAPIEN TOO! I'm a... HOMO SAPIEN LIKE YOU!" and I remember my older cousin telling me I shouldn't sing it around the house, so I thought homosapien was a bad word for a while. [youtube id="2HwmO_GZfzI"] And when I finally search for it one day I see it's by fucking Pete Shelley! Of the Buzzcocks! He had a Gary Numan phase?!?! And listen to how awesome and current that sounds, now that current music sounds old. I cranked the fuck out of this song in the car throughout the summer. And all signs point to me doing it again. Much like my cousin banning it from the house, this song was banned from the BBC for promoting homosapienality. The next song I looked for was the eastern European cover of Money... [youtube id="E-P2qL3qkzk"] ...which I discovered is not Eastern European, but British and features Robert Fripp (!!!!!), who of course is famous for making the Windows Vista melody. [/quote]