Thread of the Dead - The Bear and Badger

regmcfly

afgavinstan wrote:

Horrible news. Hybrid Theory shaped my teenage years. One of the first albums I bought with my own hard earned.

What a shame.

Roujin wrote:

Hybrid Theory was full of absolute bangers back in the day. This is shitty news.

Pretty much. I enjoyed Meteora as well, and seeing them live on the first album tour also got me into see scratching style djing like X-ecutioners and DJ Z Trip. For older people they were always a bit of a joke, but I was like 15 when that first album came out and it had a huge impact on me. Sad news

Djornson

Oh right this is where we talking about it lol i thought music thread was quiet. 3rd CD i ever bought i think. Gateway to basically everything i listen to now, prior to Linkin i was listening to mostly Eminem i think.

Djornson wrote:

First celebrity death i can recall where the celebrity had an affect on my life growing up. Loved Hybrid Theory, helped me not care about fitting in. /emo

davyK

Facewon wrote:

A couple of tracks from the Jay z mash up still reside in my mega hip hop playlist. @davey that twitter thread seems not bad, for Twitter. I never read the threads, and largely use it for woj bombs though.

If that isn't bad then I'm well out of it. I just don't have tolerance for wankery any more.

Brooks

Only Linkin Park thing I've enjoyed is the mashup on the last Neil Cicierega LP.

davyK

Knew nothing of their work but unlike the anonymous heroes in that Twitter thread, I wouldn't snigger at anyone committing suicide and leaving a brood behind. A genuine tragedy.

Webbins

I only bought Hybrid Theory a few months ago, missed it first time around, but was always conscious of The End, Numb, Crawling... this is bad news. I guess Chris Cornell's passing took him to some dark place from which he struggled to return.

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regmcfly wrote:

afgavinstan wrote:

Horrible news. Hybrid Theory shaped my teenage years. One of the first albums I bought with my own hard earned.

What a shame.

Roujin wrote:

Hybrid Theory was full of absolute bangers back in the day. This is shitty news.

Pretty much. I enjoyed Meteora as well, and seeing them live on the first album tour also got me into see scratching style djing like X-ecutioners and DJ Z Trip. For older people they were always a bit of a joke, but I was like 15 when that first album came out and it had a huge impact on me. Sad news

Same.

Listened to Hybrid and Meteora quite recently, actually. While I may not have stuck with them, I didn't start retroactively disliking their music. Nu-metal, for all it's flaws, produced some great tunes.

Sad news.

Facewon

I'm of a vintage where I just thought all of it was poor man's faith no more.

Brooks

That's not very nice to the poor.

Yossarian

Facewon wrote:

I'm of a vintage where I just thought all of it was poor man's faith no more.

Pretty much, although I'd go with a poor man's Korn/Deftones myself.

Diluted Dante

They're definitely better than Korn.

Yossarian

Lols.

regmcfly

I dont like Faith No More at all. Deftones are good tho

Yossarian

Time has not been kind to Mike Payton's rapping.

regmcfly

What about Mike Patton's?

Yossarian

His has aged like a fine wine.

Bloody cockocorrect.

cockbeard

Don't blame me for the fact that you are simply wrong

. Calling Patton's staccato delivery rapping is lazy and certainly not an opinion shared by the man himself. If he really considered himself a rapper than why would he have done so many collabs with actual rappers such as Rahzel, Kool Keith and Odd Nosdam

Bloke still has one of the finest voices to grace the popular airwaves

Yossarian

He's got a great singing voice, yes. The bits which sound like a rubbish attempt at rapping less so.

regmcfly

cockbeard wrote:

Don't blame me for the fact that you are simply wrong . Calling Patton's staccato delivery rapping is lazy and certainly not an opinion shared by the man himself.

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The author

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Djornson

regmcfly wrote:

I dont like Faith No More at all. Deftones are good tho

I struggle to like Faith No More. Deftones are fantastic. Unfortunately plagued by their biggest hit being their shittest song. Surprised you would put them in a similar category/genre to linkin park, they sound completely opposite to my ears.

Yossarian

They're both generally considered nu-metal despite the difference in sound.

cockbeard

Because in the early 2000s Kerrang got a channel and MTV2 also happened, so I think anything that ended up on those two channels was considered nu-metal. People are always too quick to label bands and genres are very restrictive. Strange to think that people would also put Incubus in that same bracket or that people thought of Adequate Seven as a Ska band, but way off topic here

Not a huge Linkin Park fan, but 41 is no age, and depression is a horrible thing, and Linkin Park did enough to draw more people to music that I do like and boosted the genres popularity as a whole so yay, and also feels for Chesters loved ones

MattyJ

Man, sad news. Always loved Chester's voice, and Hybrid Theory was the first 'Nu Metal'/emo/rock type thing I really got into.

41 is young, and another tragic situation.

Tempy

davyK wrote:

Knew nothing of their work but unlike the anonymous heroes in that Twitter thread, I wouldn't snigger at anyone committing suicide and leaving a brood behind. A genuine tragedy.

To be fair it's like judging this place on the folk that have been banned.

All i've seen is an outpouring of understanding and sadness, but you can find anything if you go looking for it.

The best thing someone I follow said was that people who make music that teenagers connect to are important because they let people growing up know that adults have been through and are going through what they are. It validates the feelings they have that are so often dismissed, and being able to connect like that without irony is a gift that's great to have.

Yossarian

cockbeard wrote:

Because in the early 2000s Kerrang got a channel and MTV2 also happened, so I think anything that ended up on those two channels was considered nu-metal. People are always too quick to label bands and genres are very restrictive. Strange to think that people would also put Incubus in that same bracket

I never saw Incubus as nu-metal myself, for me, nu-metal was pretty clearly delineated, metal bands who used hip hop influenced beats and rapping (or staccato vocal styles if you prefer) that appeared between the mid-to-late 90s* and early 00s.

* a couple of bands do hail from a bit earlier, but the majority start from here.

Diluted Dante

I still remember Kerrang!'s cover with Evanescence proclaiming the arrival of Nu Goth.

regmcfly

Yossarian wrote:

cockbeard wrote:

Because in the early 2000s Kerrang got a channel and MTV2 also happened, so I think anything that ended up on those two channels was considered nu-metal. People are always too quick to label bands and genres are very restrictive. Strange to think that people would also put Incubus in that same bracket

I never saw Incubus as nu-metal myself, for me, nu-metal was pretty clearly delineated, metal bands who used hip hop influenced beats and rapping (or staccato vocal styles if you prefer) that appeared between the mid-to-late 90s* and early 00s.

* a couple of bands do hail from a bit earlier, but the majority start from here.

Incubus do use hip hop beats and rapping but okay.

regmcfly

A decade ago
I never thought I would be
At twenty-three
On the verge of spontaneous combustion
Wo-is-me
But I guess that it comes with the territory
An ominous landscape of never ending calamity
I need you to hear
I need you to see that I have had all that I can take
And exploding seems like a definite possibility to me

regmcfly

But this is also the stupidest conversation to have.

I like incubus btw. I also liked linkin park. Perhaps we should spend this time thinking about his family

Yossarian

TBF, I mostly ignored Incubus, but I think for me they were always rock rather than metal.

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