Bands like Dalriada and Dragonforce may be cheesy, but at least they’re catchy and got hART, soul and testicles, whereas bands like Animals As Leaders and Meshuggah are meandering and bloodless.
I’m all for experimentation, whether it’s blending different instruments and (sub)genres together, or time signatures, etcetera, but not while forgetting everything else that makes music great in the process.
Aimlessly wandering and schizotypal Animals, droning Meshuggah and 97% of prog and especially math metal out there sound like they were produced by an artificial intelligence or soulless alien attempting to mimic and improve upon what we humans refer to as music and hopelessly failing miserably.
Too much math, not enough meaning.
They sound just like what the dehumanized, totalitarian monstrosity the NWO is trying to socially construct would sound like if it could be put to music.
Of the two tho I have to say, I like Animals better, because at least there’s lots of stuff happening, even if that stuff has ADD and note salad; not bad, but Meshuggah has got to be one of my all time least favorite metal bands; total shit; horrendously overrated.
As for musical virtuosity, from what I’ve heard and to my admittedly untrained ear, while Animals may have more variation in time signatures, etcetera, note for note Dragonforce seems to have more variation in the notes they play and the speed at which they play them.
That being said, Animals couldn’t write a catchy tune to save their lives.
I don’t think playing your instruments in unusual time signatures and so on prevents you from writing a catchy tune, it’s just they haven’t figured out how to do it.
Shouldn’t be hard, different genes produce different traits, and different traits make it easier/harder to absorb different memes.
If you have say, more naturally competitive individuals within a race for instance, it’s going to be harder for a culture that values (competitive) collaboration to socialize them into being collaborative.
And if you have more naturally competitive individuals within a race, they’re less likely to produce a culture that values collaboration, altho they may still produce one, if it’s in the interests of their survival or another one of their values to, and they have enough intellect to see that and enough freewill/willpower to overcome their biological hardwiring, but it’s going to be more of an uphill battle than it otherwise would be, if they were less naturally competitive.
Of course the races differ in how many competitive (or insert any trait here) individuals they have, the only question is by how many.
And of course competitive is relative, if a race is more competitive than another, it may be because a few individuals are a lot more comparatively competitive, or it may be because almost all individuals are a little or a lot more comparatively competitive.
Now we may find some outliers, some collaborative individuals in a competitive race, but that doesn’t mean those individuals are just like our race, because we’re dealing with thousands-millions of traits here.
While there may be a few exceptions, whites share more neuropsychological traits with each other than with other races.
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyDUpTd4J1w[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EplEsr5IVj0[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wspAlDjSjAA[/youtube]
… but as the immigrant european imperialist aggression wiped out the native americans and laid claim to a land these new tyrannical hypocrites would ruthlessly defend centuries later from all other immigrants (who aren’t carrying muskets and come in peace) attempting to come to uhmerica, they had their own tyrants to contend with, first…
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnNQkMxtKSU[/youtube]
That was 100s of years ago.
Quit living in the past, man, stay progressive.
We shouldn’t let what happened in the past limit what we can do to improve our country today.
Are you a pragmatic consequentialist or hopeless sentimentalist?
I’m nothing if not an ironist, first. There’s just too much irony in the world to not do anything with it.
Nightcore - I Want It That Way (Switching Vocals) - (Lyrics)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zfyBl6dcNw[/youtube]
Cool tune…
The intro… like the track finding its beat/its self, coming to life… in musical terms.
Bokusatsu tenshi dokuro-chan My new op [mini amv] an cafe - nori nori nori
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImGVeIUwcuo[/youtube]
The Lion King 2 He Lives in You (Instrumental)
No words needed. The music is awesome. This music compels me to want to run out into the rain and dance. lol Gorgeous.