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[caddyman]

Will someone please tell me what the fek nu-metal is, and what's so different about it from heavy metal?

Given that nu-prog isn't that different from mainstream prog, I'm guessing it's another marketing ploy.

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I bleieve you have the right of it, sir...

[maleghast.livejournal.com]

Like most pigeon-holing when it comes to music, I fear that nu-metal is more a marketing ploy than a real movement within contemporary music.

The suggestion is (as I understand it) that is a meeting of "Sport Metal" (as once defined by early Limp Bizkit and other Basketball Short, Shirt and Cap wearing white boyz rapping to guitars instead of break-beats alone) and hard-rock/soft metal. Whether this means anything, or is just yet another example of as you put it "marketing" is a matter for conjecture - it does allow one to be able to say either "I hate that Nu-Metal crap!", or "Yay Linkin Park!" as you see fit, so perhaps not all bad....

[pax-draconis.livejournal.com]

Beards without moustaches.

I dread to think what "nu-prog" is.

Haven't had any q's off you yet, either.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Beards without moustaches.

Amish-metal? That is wrong on so many levels.

I wasn't aware that you were awaiting questions from me, but if you must:

1 Given that writing them knackers you, and running them gives you a near-aneurysm, why bother with the non-playing side of RPGs?

2 What deity do you think you offended to cause Burton-on-Trent turn into Royston Vasey, and having lived in Newport immediately before hand, why did you miss the warning signs?

3 Other than 'malleable aluminium' what single phrase annoys you most?

4 Sylvan glades or wide, panoramic vistas?

5 If you could be the hero, or at least main protagonist from any story in any genre, who would it be and why?

[captainweasel.livejournal.com]

I think 'Nu Metal' is more short hair, baseball caps and wide trousers to heavy metal's big hair,leather and tight trousers.

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

Speaking only as a distant observer, nu-metal is post-Nirvana metal, i.e., metal that thinks it's deep and alternative and socially relevant in some way, rather than merely excessive and antisocial (i.e., fun) like regular metal. Tends to be depressing and makes you hate teenagers for pretending to be so depressed, as if being unhappy makes you special or something (which is how you can tell that they're actually perfectly happy suburban teenagers). A good representation of the appropriate (American) mental attitude fostered by the metal of my own youth is found at Rocksnobs.

[keresaspa.livejournal.com]

Nu-metal is the modern stuff that sounds like rap with guitars in it. It's more a pejorative term as it's devotees (usually about 12 years old) prefer to see it as punk. Different to Heavy Metal, a catch-all term from the 1980's that has now been more or less superseded by more specific differences eg doom metal, death metal, black metal etc.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I am beginning to feel very old. Time to break out the slippers and pipe and start playing me Mum's old Perry Como records.

Grumble.

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

So is there a whole 'nother word for all those bands with the vomit-colored videos, a definitely grungier sound than 70's & 80's metal, and the self-serious attitude?

I thought this was included in nu-metal too, but admittedly I tend to use the word mostly pejoratively.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I don't know....

I'm clearly more out of touch than I thought.

From now on when I buy music I shall walk and poiunt but not refer to it by name for fear of the faux pas which would have all the spotty oiks giggling like girlies, and pointing at grandad.

I shall have to commission modern pap appreciation lessons from my 16 year old niece, so I can at least nod with distain rather than bewilderment when I'm talking about this stuff.

It is to weep.

[keresaspa.livejournal.com]

I think that's emo-core. I could be wrong mind you. I'm not as "with it" as I thought I was.

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

Given that I barely understood what plain old emo was the last time someone tried to explain it to me, I think I'm just going to give up now.

[keresaspa.livejournal.com]

Dont actually really know what emo is myself. I just read emo-core in somewhere unfathomably hip like teletext or the Sun or somesuch popular youth periodical.