What is most important to you?

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I know alot of people will say "All" or "Total Package", but if ya had to choose just one....

Bukkake Tsunami Number of posts : 25557 Age : 52

No matter how good the music may be, if I can't get into the vocals, I'm not interested. Not everyone has to be Rob Halford, but cookie-monster growls or hard-core shouting turns me off.

Roo Jockey Number of posts : 4601 Age : 46

I can stand some pretty sub-par vocalists. For me, it's got to have some interesting guitar work. Doesn't have to be flashy, technical, or over-the-top. Just has to have some hook!

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Heart of Metal Number of posts : 1786 Age : 36

If I had to pick only one (although you did this survey in the way that we can choose all 5 Smile

), I'd go with guitars.

Only the best bands have "all"!

Metal is my Life Number of posts : 28430 Age : 38

Guitars.

The best way to tell if it is good metal is if it has good riffs.

Metal, Movies, Beer Number of posts : 37640 Age : 53

Guitars and vocals are equally important to me, but since I could only pick one, I had to go with "vocals." I can't tell you how many times I've heard a new band and thought "Wow, this sounds pretty good" until the singer opens his mouth and the whole thing turns to crap.

Subject: Re: What is most important to you? Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:07 am

yeah,I went with vocals too.I can stand alot of things in the music but vocally if it doesnt click with me,I wont even give it a second chance.

Metal master Number of posts : 937 Age : 39

guitars are the most important thing...

i have just recently got the Rusty Cooley instrumental CD and it's the best guitar driven album i've ever heard....

That guy is a genious

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Metal master Number of posts : 590

Guitars and vocals, I can't choose which one is more important to me.

Heart of Metal Number of posts : 1510 Age : 41

Agree 100% with MetalGuy71

Metal is my Life Number of posts : 13862 Age : 49

Vocals, but I'm more tolerant than most

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Subject: Re: What is most important to you? Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:35 pm

I voted vocals with of course guitars a close second. A good vocalist can bring up almost anything while great guitar work can still be bogged down by a strained or just horrible vocalist....it's distracting to hear great music partnered with bad vocals...

Metal master Number of posts : 688 Age : 34

Vocals and guitar, are very important!! Im gonna have to go with guitars though.

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went for Vocals myself, no matter how good Megadeth's music is, I just get turned off buy Mustaine's vocals.

Master Sailboat Number of posts : 9301 Age : 45

the guitar is key to metal, so i'd go with that. appearance has nothing to do with anything imho.

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Metal master Number of posts : 828 Age : 51

Being a Bassist & sometime drummer, If the band does'nt have legs, it cant stand. I've heard some great guitarist & singers with some really crappy rhythm sections that ruin the whole band.

Metal graduate Number of posts : 450 Age : 42

I agree with Hamer12. I'm a guitarist. But if a band has a great singer and guitarist but a lame rhythm section, the band's gonna sound terrible.

Scarred But Smarter Number of posts : 3487 Age : 53

Vox for me...I have had loads of cds that would have been incredible had the vocals not sucked so badly.

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Since there's no Good Songs option, I went with Vocals. A bad vocalist can ruin an otherwise great song.

Metal is my Life Number of posts : 39514 Age : 55

MetalGuy71 wrote:: No matter how good the music may be, if I can't get into the vocals, I'm not interested. Not everyone has to be Rob Halford, but cookie-monster growls or hard-core shouting turns me off.

Agreed 100 % . Horrible vocals just ruin a song,no matter how good the music.

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Guitar can make or break it for me

Metal student Number of posts : 204 Age : 52

MetalGuy71 wrote:: No matter how good the music may be, if I can't get into the vocals, I'm not interested. Not everyone has to be Rob Halford, but cookie-monster growls or hard-core shouting turns me off.

100% agree with this statement.

Metal master Number of posts : 975 Age : 57

It seems to me that this is almost a backwards poll. It seems like you're asking what is most important TO BE GOOD. But in actuality, forcing people to pick one of those is making them decide what is most important NOT TO SUCK. In other words, which thing, if it sucks too much, makes a band unlistenable.

But I have to agree with Eyesore, what IS most important is "Good Songs".

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Metal student Number of posts : 204 Age : 52

Quote :: But I have to agree with Eyesore, what IS most important is "Good Songs".

Yes this is true, but I have yet to hear a good song with cookie monster vocals.

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Good guitars. Without good riffs, a metal band has absolutely nothing.

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