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like "Fault", "Thaw", "Distance and Meaning" and maybe "Homewrecker".

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ewwy really wide page

Neutral: In other words, all of them.

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and @Sniper. Maybe angrier from Bannon's usually epic RAWRARWRARWRARS (he IS one of my favorite hardcore vocalists) and based on the lyrical content but most powerful? Not a fucking chance.

Then you haven't listened enough.

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The Broken Vow needs more love.

Absolutely. The "I'll take my love to the grave" part is seriously shiver-inducing.

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If we are speaking of emotional power, and can include vocal melodies, I'd say that Frightened Rabbit- The Midnight Organ Flight is a much more beautiful album, through melody and lyrics. Now thats indie though, and completely different than Jane Doe, but an example of something more emotionally moving that RARWRARAWRARWRARWRARWRARRRRRRRARRARRARARAAR THAW THAW THAW PHOENIX'S THAW RARWRWRWRWRWRRWRARWWWWWWWWWWWR.

fuck yeah elitist attitude

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MJ, you have barely any diversity in your music taste. I love the early metalcore, screamo, indie, classical, ambient, and electronic.

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and @Michael that was a nicely worded pile of shit. Sorry lol. Metalcore/Screamo can be pretty epic if one finds the right band, and Indie is exceptional a well when one finds the right band. Fuck Joy Division. And most of ambient techno is kinda meh and stupid except for the amazing- Kashiwa Daisuke's "Program Music I". Michael, as obviously intelligent as you are, I don't think you know anything about modern music.

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i mean, for the most part i have an aversion to heavy music. i think it's mindless.

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@Neutral, I would put Elliott Smith, Brand New, early Nine Inch Nails, and many more as similarly emotional, even if they sound completely different.

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Michael enjoys giving a blow to 300 year old composers in his free time while explaining that modern music is utter shit. How he does this with three century old cock in his mouth at the same time is simply baffling.

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What one has to realize is that MJ actually doesn't like this kind of music. His opinions are that of someone who doesn't feel this brand of music. (Unless I'm wrong. But, uh, I've checked and it looks like this genre doesn't work for him from what I've seen.)



And unlike an individual who discovers they dislike, say, chocolate and decides to not eat it and let others enjoy it......... He mistakes his feelings for the album being bad and people needing to hear about it. "I KEEP EATING THIS CHOCOLATE AND IT'S SO BAD. ALL CHOCOLATE EATERS. GROW OUT OF YOUR CHOCOLATE. ........ No need to get offended."



So, ultimately, I think it IS best to ignore him and not get offended. It's what I've started trying to do.

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I agree with Elliot Smith yeah, but not Brand New. As 'emotional' as this album is, the folk genres and indie genres are generally based around emotion through arrangements and lyrics, metal isn't usually a lyrically based genre.

Everyone is an elitist, they just happen to fall in love with different things. MJ, I think your distaste of the scenes you mentioned and your loyalty to your own preferred genres is just as much a trendy wave or movement mentality as movements you hold in so much contempt, or at at least just as reactionary and baseless. I'm not saying anything about the quality of the art you prefer vs. the art the rest of us enjoy, but really every social circle is part of a larger whole, no one is better just because their own circle is smaller. If I make sense at all, I'm never sure.

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100% objectivity...what the..

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Every genre has its gold. Metalcore has Converge, screamo has CTTS, indie has Elliott Smith, death metal has Opeth, country has Johnny Cash, blues has Robert Johnson, jazz has Miles Davis, alt rock has Radiohead, alt metal has Deftones, rap has ATCQ, and I don't feel like naming anymore. And I'm not saying that those are the only gold bands in the respected genres.

You get the point.

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For classical, which I haven't studied as much as Jazz, I'd say the most interesting/intelligent composers were Igor Stravinsky, Joseph Haydn and Antonio Vivaldi.