I've enever actually heard any folk metal that I'm aware of.

[QUOTE=thickasabrick]
edit- and your usertitle is misleading.[/QUOTE]
How is it misleading?

:smoke:

[QUOTE=thickasabrick]I'm really freakin pissed off about this so called folk-metal. Not because I don't like metal, but because I like folk music and I don't like to see the word misused. People seems to think if a metal band throws in an occasional acoustic guitar and the odd flutes or violins they are suddenly a folk metal band.

Folk music isn't even about the music, it's purely about the words. I was reading in the FG about folk-metal and I even downloaded a few songs and I have no clue why in the hell this is considered "folk" metal. Just because they dress up like Robin Hood doesn't mean they are at all similar to folk. Does Woody Guthrie dress up like someone from The Legend of Zelda, wear a sword, and sing about enchanced forests and crap like that.

It's not bad music at all, I actually liked the songs...I just don't see how it is (in any sense) tied in with folk music.

edit- Of course I'm saying this in Classic Rock, not because I'm hoping you guys will all agree with me and say metals dumb and stuff, just because most of you are the people I normally talk to...and no one would really care if I posted this in the folk-metal thread. They would just tell me to shut up.[/QUOTE]
You are thinking strictly American Folk. Those bands are for the most part Scandinavian/Nordic where the culture and folk mythology are much different. Norse folk tales very much deal with enchanted forests and vikings.

[QUOTE=brettberry]How is it misleading?

:smoke:[/QUOTE]
I really, really hope that was a rhetorical joke of a question.

[QUOTE=jpj]You are thinking strictly American Folk. Those bands are for the most part Scandinavian/Nordic where the culture and folk mythology are much different. Norse folk tales very much deal with enchanted forests and vikings.[/QUOTE]

Way to repeat what I just posted.

[QUOTE=Lunch]Way to repeat what I just posted.[/QUOTE]
I felt the need to say something since I'm very much a fan of Folk Metal.

[QUOTE=RockAndRoll]I really, really hope that was a rhetorical joke of a question.[/QUOTE]
???

[QUOTE=Jam2Me]???[/QUOTE]
what do you not understand?

I have been making an effort to expand my musical horizons beyond classic rock. I started this a while ago after buying Kanye Wests "The College Dropout", but since getting into some rap, my musical tastes have remained relatively the same...classic rock, blues, mellow acoustic stuff, indie, some rap, some rock. Well I realized that not one genre cannot have one good song in it. So now I officially like TOby Keiths "Stays in Mexico" and Justin Timberlakes "Rock Your Body". I feel not straight. Not literally, just musically.

[QUOTE=i am miik]I have been making an effort to expand my musical horizons beyond classic rock. I started this a while ago after buying Kanye Wests "The College Dropout", but since getting into some rap, my musical tastes have remained relatively the same...classic rock, blues, mellow acoustic stuff, indie, some rap, some rock. Well I realized that not one genre cannot have one good song in it. So now I officially like TOby Keiths "Stays in Mexico" and Justin Timberlakes "Rock Your Body". I feel not straight. Not literally, just musically.[/QUOTE]
Go Home

:smoke:

Miik:

Good job :thumb: I've been trying to listen to newer stuff as well. Hope it's working out for you.

:lol: Miik's a musical homosexual.


I diaganosed myself with Bon Jovi-itis. I can't stop listening to them. :upset:


/puts on Beatles.


Ahhh.....

I have tried "branching out" before, but I find often it doesn't work because it was really just forced. Don't get me wrong I like various styles of music, but I find letting my my tastes develop naturally works much much better than trying to make them develop.

[QUOTE]I diaganosed myself with Bon Jovi-itis. I can't stop listening to them. [/QUOTE]

"Livin' on a Prayer" is an amazing song.

Yeah, I've mostly stayed with Classic Rock, don't really like too many other 'genres' as a whole, except for classic rock. There's songs out there that I absolutly love, like Losing My Religion by REM and Other Side by RHCP. I also tend to like older metal, like pre-Load Metallica and Iron Maiden (your typical metal n00b bands :P ), but generally I don't enjoy very much music beyond classic rock.

Of course, I can stand plenty of music, like when my friend blasts metal in the car, yeah sure I can listen to it and maybe enjoy it, but I won't actually go out of my own way to listen to it. And sorry, I just can't stand rap. Honestly, I've yet to find one song I like.......

[QUOTE=Badmoon]"Livin' on a Prayer" is an amazing song.[/QUOTE]

Do you know what scary 'Moon?


That's the exact song I've been listening to.

:eek:

I diagnosed myself with Gonarea.
I got it from listening to Metallica.

Everyone got a name change!

Who's who?

[QUOTE=brettberry]I diagnosed myself with Gonarea.
I got it from listening to Metallica.[/QUOTE]

No Metallica bashing in the CR thread por favor.

Edit:

Lunch - Lunch998 (Duh.)

jpj - johnpauljonesrulestheworld (Duh.)

Slug - Arrest This Man (Not duh.)

Mister Blue Sky - MalcolmYoungRock (Also not duh.)

That's all I can think of at the moment.

[QUOTE=Mister Blue Sky]No Metallica bashing in the CR thread por favor.[/QUOTE]
I am a big fan of Metallica so I can thrash them a little joking around.
Actually I think that is the first time I have EVER said anything bad about them.

So, who's listened to All Things Must Pass (the album)?


NP: My Sweet Lord - George Harrison

[QUOTE=Mister Blue Sky]So, who's listened to All Things Must Pass (the album)?


NP: My Sweet Lord - George Harrison[/QUOTE]
by who?

[QUOTE=brettberry]by who?[/QUOTE]

George Harrison

[QUOTE=Mister Blue Sky]:lol: Miik's a musical homosexual.


I diaganosed myself with Bon Jovi-itis. I can't stop listening to them. :upset:


/puts on Beatles.


Ahhh.....[/QUOTE]

Bon Jovi may not exactly be classic rock, but they're fun. "You Give Love A Bad Name" is such a great song.

As is My Sweet Lord.

Mister Blue Sky wanna upload that on YSI?

:)

EDIT

Wtf you're MYR?

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[QUOTE=Canadian_Guy]Bon Jovi may not exactly be classic rock, but they're fun. "You Give Love A Bad Name" is such a great song.

As is My Sweet Lord.[/QUOTE]
How come BJ wouldnt be classic rock?

[QUOTE=JonG]Mister Blue Sky wanna upload that on YSI?

:)

EDIT

Wtf you're MYR?

:\[/QUOTE]


Yeah, haha.

It's in m4a format, do you have iTunes or Quicktime or a converter?

I have iTunes and it plays in Winamp :)

[QUOTE=JonG]I have iTunes and it plays in Winamp :)[/QUOTE]

My Sweet Lord or All Things Must Pass?

All Things Must Pass.