Shame On You!!!!????

I'm not really ashamed of any of my musical preferences - I listen to metal, jazz, prog, classical, rap, and everything inbetween. If I were to cater to each of those groups, I wouldn't be proud of anything I listen to. "I like what I like" is the best way to put it. 

That being said, considering how much most metal fans seem to despise rap music, it might be best to keep my love for Wu-Tang Clan, Big Pun, Nas, NWA, Bone Thugs N Harmony, etc... in the closet.

I also like Disturbed quite a bit and I am a HUGE Cradle of Filth fan (nobody seems to like them anymore).

I hate metal purists, though, and my typical response to most of their elitist bullshit is "fuck you!"

Well, I don't really have any metalhead friends (aside from you guys, of course), and I gave up caring about what people think of the music I listen to a long time ago.  I would have to say that few of you would care for the '90s pop music I have on my computer, but I don't listen to it that much, really.

Korn?  Soulfly?  Deftones?  I'm really not ashamed at any of these.

I am in the same situation of Diogenes, today I don't care what the people think about my musical preferences.

I don't listen much things outside the metal/prog/jazz/post-rock realm, anyway. Maybe some brazilian rock from the 80's and 90's (Legi�o Urbana, Raimundos, Marcelo Nova, etc). But I consider none of them being a "guilty pleasure".

Time Signature wrote: and if people get all wound up because I like Saint Anger and The End of Heartache or Invisible Touch or 90125, then they can take their corpse paint and silver capes and stuff 'em up their asses.

I guess everyone has some music that we really like because of one thing or another and it's considered 'crap'.

But that's the magic, don't give a damn and keep going hehehe

I also like Abba and Bee Gees, I even have 1 of Bee Gees Live album from their Disco era, and it's good!

I don't have too many metalhead friends outside MMA, and those who listen to metal are quite open-minded. So telling them that I listen to Grizzly Bear or Bj�rk would not bring any shame upon my head. I think metalheads are more open-minded in general these days, mostly due to unlimited and easy access to music regardless of genre 

^Good point, Bartosso. People is not that intolerant anymore (although I don't know if this happens due to the easy access to music!).

DragonForce. Used to hate them, I am now currently obsessed with them.

Do I feel any shame for music that I like or have liked? No, never. Rather, very sadly, the feeling that I have more and more often is disappointment. For example when I listen to some music I liked in my younger years in the late eighties - early nineties, or if I listen to some music that's said to be fantastic or cult or a mile-stone mandatory in metal circles then I don't like them at all. There are certainly some things with me that people might raise their eyebrow to for example, my favourite Genesis album is From Genesis To Revelation and I really can't stand Dark Side Of The Moon, I am digusted by Neal Morse's music, I have never liked James Hatfield's or Steven Wilson's voice or bands Guns 'N' Roses, Deep Purple, my favourite Iron Maiden album is The X Factor etc etc, and I really like glam metal, progressive metal, jazz fusion and classical music, the Icelandic electronic/experimental band M�m and the Italian pop singer Rino Gaetano at the same time but I am never ashamed of anything, moreover, I'm proud of my ramifying and unopportunistic taste


Edited by Lynx33 - 22 Oct 2012 at 7:22pm

Lynx33 wrote:   have never liked James Hatfield's or Steven Wilson's voice

Not really that ludicrous of an opinion IMO.