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"Fed up of all this rock..."

I mean, firstly it's American, and i'm downright fed up with us Brits trying to copy everything American.
It's just a fad, something the likes of Kerrang! have been trying to push on us literally since Rob Zombie first came onto the scene absolutely aeons ago,
This music has more name than a Brazilian footballer has on his birth certificate, it's been 'New Rock, New Metal, Rap Metal, etc...and so on'
It's a deeply unprogressive music where people with no brains think they can be inventive...I mean 'Hey i know, lets make a rock record!' 'Dude, thats ooo old hat' 'Yeah, but what if i Rap instead of singing?'....please...help me.
The music is unprogressive in the extreme and you would be hard pushed to find any kind of advance from one song to the next, it's just all so samey...
Skate Punks? I had a skatebaord in the 80s when they were big first time around. Just cos you have a new way of dressing to ride your skatboard does not make it original!
Finally and most damningly, perfectly attractive women get into this music and ugly themselves up with weird hair colorings, over the top piercings and wearing black...come on goth-chic is NEVER going to happen...it's like expecting a mullet to become fashionable. I for one can't wait for this obvious fad to pass over and our youth to return to normailty.

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First off, just to say that Staind are not Emo.

Second of all, who cares, most people know it is just a fad for most people, so let them carry on posing, but there's no point thinking 'Ha! He/She looks a total fool!' Maybe that's just how they want to look. As far as I'm concerned people can dress/look however they want. Dressing up and posing as some kind of alternative kid doesn't mean anything. Many (probably most in fact) will just stop when it is no longer cool or their friends no longer dress that way, or listen to those bands. But those who are not wrapped up in the fad and are in it for the music will stay. Carry on dressing how they like. And I'll respect that. Maybe I'll think they look a bit odd, but if they feel comfortable looking that way, all the more power to them.

The Nu-Metal thing does have a lot of bands jumping on the bandwagon for a quick buck. I'm sure some are 'real' and do it for the music and all that, but I'm also sure many are just hoping to get big in this metal boom.

I personally like Punk Rock, and feel people are pretty much thinking all punk bands now are like nice radio friendly Blink and Sum41. They're not. There are very intelligent bands out there, pushing boundries, breaking misconceptions, and just making damn good music, but these aren't the ones who are going to get big. And they know it. Bad Religion have been around since the early 80's and have become legendary, but your average Sum182 fan will just stare blankly when you utter that bands name.

Political bands like Anti-Flag have a cause. Listen to any song of theirs and you'll hear the conviction of the political lyrics. They don't want to get big. They want to spread their political message to as many people as possible, however possible.

So let the posers have their few minutes. Hopefully a few will scratch the surface and discover some of the music that will stand the test of time, but many others will just go off onto the next fad. Only time will tell.

and Green Day ?

the only good rock bands are blink 182, red hot chili peppers, stereophonics + oasis etc. (but they're not really this type of rock) and offspring, who've really disapeared now.....

Oh yeah, I personally like P.O.D, they're the one exception! And Slipknot & System Of A DOwn SUCK!!!

There is such thing as good rock music. I personally can't stand old rock like Iron Maiden, it just sucks. And I totally agree that all these "Nu-Metal" and American rock bands DO get VERY annoying! They're so big headed and constantly shout out their own name on stage, and eventually sell-out to pop. Same old, same old. But good rock music does still exist, and it's our very own Brittish Rock that are supplying. Band like My Vitriol have been around for a couple of years and are absolutely great. Their music varies from heavy to slow to grunge, and they are fantastic live. Skindive, Feeder and Consumed all add to the list. There is great Rock music out there, and it's all Brittish.

I like metal, but one thing that's always made me laugh is the fake macho posturing. How many times have I heard 'Our new album is heavier than the last one' (though 'heavier' is usually replaced by 'phatter' nowadays), or seen a picture of a band with Permafrown (TM) sprayed on their faces? And before anyone says anything, there are equally sad stereotypes in all the main music genres.

There is good 'metal' out there. Deftones are great, as are bands like At the Drive In, Fu Manchu, Boyhitscar, Pitchshifter, and the now sadly defunct Workhorse Movement.

Looking at the first post, I have to agree with the thing about goths!! I can't stand it, who'd wanna look like Marilyn Manson??? One of the biggest retards the world has ever seen! I like some of the nu-metal bands, but prefer some of the other metal bands. But I hate POD, and especially hate Slipknot!!! What's the point in 9 people in masks, trying to look hard, sounding crap, with 4 drummers????? How can ANYONE like them??

Decent bands are people like System of a Down, who don't go "YEAH! Look at me i'm solid, i'm famous, I can swear and growl!!" Other bands should take notes from them!

Ah, the Temple of Rock.
Thing is, music comes in cycles and right now it's the turn of "rock".
Except it's not rock, it's pantywaist bandwagon riders that won't be here in 2 months time.
Happened before and it'll happen again.
Just breathe in and exhale calmly, and let it go by you.
Trust me.

"Nu-Metal" is amusing, I can't take it seriously.
Limp Bizkit. Please...I saw them support Soulfly a few years back and Faith was quite a funny song, and now they're desperately gasping as their 15 mins draw to an end.
They'll go back to serving burgers in Florida and all will be well again in the world.

POD "Feel so alive".
Christian Nu-Metal.
Bwahahahahahahahaha.
That's the sound of the final nail being driven into the coffin of shouty-big-short-wearing sulky teens.
I like rock.
But the bands I like have been doing it for years, regardless of trends and fads.
So you can have your Nu-Whatever and I'll sit here with Slayer, Soulfly, Clutch, Nailbomb, Fudge Tunnel and Pantera playing and chuckle as I see blue-haired 14yr olds skate past my house with those massive key-chains.

"I'm alternative man, I won't fit into a box"
Yes you will.
You look just the same as 40,000 other alternatives out there.
Enjoy your time, but realise you will get a haircut and you will get a job and you will look back on these days with a rueful smile.
At college I was a metaller.
Had long hair (shaved at the sides a-la Jason Newstead in cool-era Metallica).
I was the nuts.
Except I looked stupid, didn't think so at the time though.

XFM had a very valid point about nu-metal.
A guy from America was saying "Well nu-metal is dead over here, that's why they all come over to England, because you guys are a few months behind us".
It's now something called "Emo" music.
Stained etc.
For me, ALL music is emo(tional). That's why I listen to it.

This post has gone on far too long now.
If you like Limp Bizkit etc, go check out Public Enemy & Anthrax with "Bring The Noise" and Senser to see where this all started from.
But better.

there is way to much american rock around at the mo. My weird friends who can't stop watching kerrang are always saying things like "have you heard the new P.O.D song", and i have no idea of who the hell they are talking about! There's a new band each week with them.

Hmmm...give me a quality piece of dance music any day...not this cheesy stuff, something with a bit of intelligence in it, something that uses the technolodgy to the full rather than for the sake of it...like The Chemical Brothers