Tragedy said:
Psycho-Toaster said:
I'm going to continue with my list format because there are so many things wrong with your post.
1: I never said Nightwish and CoB's music were at all similar(Though they are, they both have clear, strong power metal influence), I simply said there's no way to objectively say one is "better"
2: Why are we arguing about CoB and Nightwish anyway? Your original point was that I am impossible because I listen to stuff other than metal and listen to metal as well.
3: "Smeared with mediocrity"? What does that even mean?
4: I'm willing to bet you know jack shit about music theory, and are just saying you do because you think metal is music for intelligent people therefore you must be intelligent and know everything about music because you listen to the best music in the world! I used to be like you, but then I grew up. By what metric are you measuring musical value?
I'm actually a professional pianist, so i know a thing or two about theory ;P I'm not trying to insult you or anyone else. If you want to listen to every genre ever, then all the power to you, just don't be all smug and act like that's a good thing, because it's not.
About your other points, if you can't understand what i mean then you just can't understand, nothing wrong with that.
Being competent with an instrument - nay, being a master of an instrument does not qualify you in any way whatsoever to actually comment on musical theory. Yes, you can comment on specific pieces of individual music but I would only trust someone who is, for example, a master composer to comment on the merits of musical value. Even then, their ideals are skewed towards what they believe is pleasing. Hell, a lot of the best musical theorists were mathematicians who simply used maths to create high quality music. I won't deny you might know a little thing here and there but unless you were a child prodigy or some other such nonsense then generally a person can't comment on the merit of music. It's such a subjective art as to make commenting on whole genres impossible. Yes, you might dislike a band over another. But someone else might find them the perfect match.
That being said, I know Toaster. You claimed that people who claim to like different genres are trying to be "cool".
I can say with all certainty that he is not, will not and never has tried to be cool. Many people like him simply like, as he said, a variety of music. He never took the high ground in your argument, you did. You claimed he could not listen to both without trying to achieve something.
As for not understanding what you mean? Well, you are pretty damned vague. You have no actual metrics for measuring "merit". Also, how can someone be smeared in mediocrity? I am curious. As far as I knew that word was not capable of being used in the place of an object as it is a quality. That's like saying you are smeared in averageness.
