Yay, Matty's back!
If you confine yourself to one style of music, you're bound to never accomplish anything worthwhile in your musical career. You need to explore every genre of music you can get your hands on, and give each style an honest, sincere go. If you like something, you like it... if you lie to yourself about the music you like, you may as well quit while you're ahead. I'm a pretty good songwriter I think, and I'm extremely eclectic. My music collection ranges from Frank Sinatra to The Roots, Chuck Berry to The Stranglers
. But that's just it... if I like something I hear, I like it, and there's no debate. Not enough people do that these days.
[rant]If you want to write good music, you have to go learn your roots. You just referred to Stairway to Heaven as "soft rock." If you were standing in front of me, I'd have slapped you just then! Kidding of course... well, I
think I'm kidding anyway
.
The "old" definition of "heavy" was (fullness + raw emotional power + musical mastery = heavy). The modern definition is (loudness + speed + scary = heavy). It's all rubbish imo. The only metal band I've heard that has the goods really is
System of a Down, but even they are too watered down for my tastes. If I want heavy, I'll go listen to Led Zeppelin, or The Who, or Radiohead, or Queen. You can't name a single metal song that's even remotely as heavy as "Death on Two Legs."
. [/rant]
