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listening to power metal should keep you from wanting to hear power metal ever again

ideally yes but some misguided poor souls need extra assistance

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unlock your soul and you'll want power metal everyday sometimes 24/7

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Walls of Jericho rules and power metal has like 15 good albums so i'll defend it here

agreed 100% that musicianship stems from discrete aspects of skill and technique and can definitely be pinned down in objective language

it is subjective in that the aspects of craft that make person A rate musician A highly might not be as important to person B who rates musician B slightly higher for entirely different reasons - who's the better musician between Robbie Basho and John Petrucci? there are ways to try to answer this openly stupid question, but it revolves around a subjective hierarchy of objective techniques (and that's setting aside stylistic preferences entirely)

agreed 101% that the field of qualities that make up musicianship are much broader than what people imply when they discuss technically-oriented guitar music and that their impact is so far-reaching that it probably does have a correlation with what a lot of us consider 'quality' in music

agreed 1000% that musicianship is a dogshit basis to determine album quality in and of itself and that that argument should never have made it out of the '00s (and neither should this band)

robbie basho

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what are those things

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"who's the better musician between Robbie Basho and John Petrucci?"

That's easy to answer. Basho is dead :p

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104% agree that some people are intimidated by technical proficiency.

“ Basho is dead :p”

and hes still better

fawning over technical proficiency is cope-in-denial 101

"Basho is dead :p"

agreed 102%

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Individual acts of iconoclasm are usually associated with a mental disturbance.

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he is not dead



he is alive



in your heart

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"fawning over technical proficiency is cope-in-denial 101"

How come? How do you derive the insincerity?



Have you not seen/spoken to Jazz school people?

"How do you derive the insincerity?"

however many years on this site watching idiots dance around the fact that BTBAM is an awful band that cannot write a coherent song for shit

"Have you not seen/spoken to Jazz school people?"

...on which basis, not in this ballpark! where are the sput jazz-tech entryists?

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Ah I didn't consider that you are only talking about sputnik. Even then, I think that's a crazy claim to make. You think people are necessarily coping because they are impressed by the technical proficiency of progmetal players? You think they are pretending to like technicality for technicalities sake? I'm confused.

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Another fact is that mediocrity copes by projecting.

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Johnny hates Tool. There, does it make sense now?

i think that if the discourse was allowed to settle on the aspects of songcraft that technical mastery are ideally used in service to, then the result would be a neverending cope

talk up the wank = deny the cope

props to egarran for the first ever use of Another so stretched that i'm having trouble suppressing a belly laugh. get either a new psychology manual or a new armchair if you're going to stick with this immensely tired shitbit

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Don't let your feeling stand in the way of truth.