NU-Metal. Has it become Classic Rock?

I ignored nu-metal when it was current, and I have no plans to change that all these years later.

UNCLE SAXON'S KICKASS CDS wrote:

And Guns n Roses is STILL the most overrated mountain of crap ever recorded, btw.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks that.

Maybe, but i'll take November Rain over rap rock anyday.

I liked alot of those bands, but after awhile they started sounding the same, I liked K orn, when they came out, Marilyn Manson, System of the Down, etc, but always went back to my old favorites and still do.

I listened to Slipknot a couple of days ago, I enjoyed it but I did not love it, and still feel that those jackhammers are waaaaaay overrated.

I also felt that alot of these bands tagged nu metal where posers just as big as the hair metal bands they accussed of commiting this sin.

The media/record companies shining the "look! It's old!" light on it isn't going to make the genre any less of a turd. I'm sure they can still milk more cash out of the older waves of 'classic' bands, both deserving and undeserving of the label. It seems desperate to do it with nu-metal.

I saw K-orn once.....it was in my after a BBQ

James B. wrote:

I saw K-orn once.....it was in my after a BBQ

and your Corn had just as much talent as \"thebandthatshallneverbementionedagain\".

SpectreFate wrote:

and your Corn had just as much talent as \"thebandthatshallneverbementionedagain\".

Didn't they have a song called "cobb on a stick" ?

James B. wrote:

SpectreFate wrote:

and your Corn had just as much talent as \"thebandthatshallneverbementionedagain\".

Didn't they have a song called "cobb on a stick" ?

Yeah the lyrics are

"Cobb On A Stick, suck it down
Cobb on a stick, long and brown"

or something to that effect.

I can't even keep up with labels anymore. I like Shinedown and Sevendust, what genre do they fall in?

\"thebandthatshallneverbementionedagain\" I've never gotten. Even before they got big and everyone acted like they were some great new act I still didn't see it. I did think the first Limp Bizkit album was alright. But man was Fred Durst the worst guy to be the face of a genre. With him as the de facto spokesperson you knew it had a short self life. I think, like all things that catch on in music, it got too same-y and way over-exposed. And it managed to do so quicker than most genres. I'd even guess there are probably some "nu-metal" acts that deserved attention and who put out good records that got drowned in the hype then backlash.

I'll also say that the Judgement Night soundtrack may have influenced a ton of these groups that are hated, but I still think it is a killer record.

On the classic rock front we had in Indiana a classic rock station (WAOR out of Niles, MI) that was using that format to play seventies stuff in 1982. In fact they claim they were the first to do so. I loved it. Turned me onto a lot of cool stuff.

During the nu-metal days, the radio station only played the good nu-metal bands between the hours of 12:00 A.M. to 6:00 A.M. Everything after that was the same old corporate crap.

I never have really understood labels. I thought that Marilyn Manson and System of a Down were great, Slipknot and Linkin Park kinda had their interesting moments and \"thebandthatshallneverbementionedagain\" and Limp Bizkit were the biggest pile of crap I'd ever heard. The important thing though is that they were actually all very different bands with different sounds, I didn't and still don't understand why people lumped it all together and labelled it I think that music has to try different things, some of it you are going to like some you will hate so don't buy it.

For me Nu Metal had a lot more about it than Grunge!! That had Nirvana and dozens of bands that wanted to be Nirvana.

Boris2008 wrote:

The important thing though is that they were actually all very different bands with different sounds, I didn't and still don't understand why people lumped it all together and labelled it

This is the fatal flaw with creating sub-genres in the first place.

Boris2008 wrote:

For me Nu Metal had a lot more about it than Grunge!! That had Nirvana and dozens of bands that wanted to be Nirvana.

Boris2008 wrote:

For me Nu Metal had a lot more about it than Grunge!! That had Nirvana and dozens of bands that wanted to be Nirvana.

With vocalists that wanted to be Eddie Vedder.

I really enjoy Disturbed - are they considered Nu-Metal?

Yes they are, poser.

Dark Horseman wrote:

Yes they are, poser.

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still don't understand why people lumped it all together and labelled it

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That had Nirvana and dozens of bands that wanted to be Nirvana.

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With vocalists that wanted to be Eddie Vedder.

I get what you guys are saying but there was a whole lot more going on in that scene than Nirvana/Pearl Jam clones. Just too bad the labels/radio didn't push beyond the obvious (and isn't that always the way with trends). Groups like Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, Gruntruck, The Nymphs, The Gits, and Tad all put out amazing records in that era. While the Fastbacks and Dead Moon continued to be ignored. I highly recommend the documentary Hype! even if you hate "grunge".

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For me Nu Metal had a lot more about it than Grunge!!

Kinda hard to downplay grunge cause that scene was mostly rehashed 70's rock. Without 70's rock, there is not much afterwards to influence.

I consider it mostly CRAPATOLLA!

Metalwargod

Fat Freddy wrote:

I ignored nu-metal when it was current, and I have no plans to change that all these years later.

Yep. Angsty garbage for mallrats. I think I was just too old for it. Nothing about it spoke to me at all.

Sword Of The Heretic wrote:

During the nu-metal days, the radio station only played the good nu-metal bands between the hours of 12:00 A.M. to 6:00 A.M. Everything after that was the same old corporate crap.

My local radio station wouldn't touch anything nu-metal back when it was all the rage. They also refused to play Creed until they couldn't ignore them anymore (their second album had been out for almost a year at this point).

I can understand why they wouldn't play nu-metal (despite its popularity) to an extent. But the fact they refused to play Creed until they couldn't ignore them anymore is rather disturbing.

I must've missed some earlier topics - is the \"thebandthatshallneverbementionedagain\".
particular way?

Aside from that, I did enjoy some grunge back in the day, I had the first 2 Pearl Jam albums, Soundgarden's BadMotorFinger and Superunknown, and Temple of the Dog.