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PostSubject: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeThu Jul 30, 2009 5:35 pm

Metal falling in popularity? Black_metal-trends

http://www.google.com/trends?q="black+metal"

Metal falling in popularity? Death_metal-trends

http://www.google.com/trends?q="death+metal"

Metal falling in popularity? Underground_metal-trends

http://www.google.com/trends?q="underground+metal"

Metal falling in popularity? Heavy_metal-trends

http://www.google.com/trends?q="heavy+metal"

It could be we're going to finally get a break from the crowd. When there's too many metalheads, quality material gets drowned out by the herd, and most of those "metalheads" are johnny-come-lately kids hiding Nas CDs under the Blasphemy. As they all fade away, the times of qualtiy metal return -- which you can see by the resurgence in the old school death metal and black metal bands now touring and releasing new albums.

http://metal-blogs.com/death/2009/07/31/public-interest-in-metal-falls/
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeThu Jul 30, 2009 5:40 pm

In the 80s metal had the most popularity, the most money, the best songs, and the best musicians.
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeThu Jul 30, 2009 5:46 pm

If it is? so what? There will always be crappy bands and their will always be decent bands. Popularity doesn't make a whole lot of difference.
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeThu Jul 30, 2009 6:02 pm

sam wrote:
If it is? so what? There will always be crappy bands and their will always be decent bands. Popularity doesn't make a whole lot of difference.

I agree.
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeThu Jul 30, 2009 6:08 pm

Temple of Blood wrote:
In the 80s metal had the most popularity, the most money, the best songs, and the best musicians.
Now on this we can agree!!! headbanger
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeThu Jul 30, 2009 6:31 pm

nevermore wrote:
sam wrote:
If it is? so what? There will always be crappy bands and their will always be decent bands. Popularity doesn't make a whole lot of difference.

I agree.

As do I.
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeThu Jul 30, 2009 6:32 pm

I love those graphs, like they really know what millions of people are doing all at the same time...lol. Just like the Nielsons, a bunch of horseshirt!!!

With that said, I really don't care, because bands don't breakup like TV
shows get canceled when they claim nobody is supposenly watching them.

I HATE STATS!!!!

I HATE POLLS!!!!!!

All a bunch of factless bullshirt, that somebody does to make money.
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeThu Jul 30, 2009 7:48 pm

7thSecond wrote:
Temple of Blood wrote:
In the 80s metal had the most popularity, the most money, the best songs, and the best musicians.
Now on this we can agree!!! headbanger

yes, we can.
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeThu Jul 30, 2009 8:47 pm

No.
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeThu Jul 30, 2009 8:56 pm

If you think you're going to get a meaningful idea of how popular metal is from Google search statistics...you're not.

Plus, people that are convinced all the good bands/players/albums and songs are from the 80's...need to maybe take a reality check.
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeThu Jul 30, 2009 9:26 pm

Who said all of the good ones were from the 80s?

The reality check needs to go to those failing in reading comprehension and/or setting up straw man arguments. Razz
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeThu Jul 30, 2009 9:30 pm

This thread gets a thumbs down from me.

Also, most popular does NOT equal best.
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeThu Jul 30, 2009 9:35 pm

Those charts are funny to look at Laughing very hard

It looks like something you'd see in Office Space.
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeThu Jul 30, 2009 9:40 pm

Are they sure they're even tracking bands that are real metal to begin with? Linkin Park etc... is not metal. Metallica is still popular and Megadeth and Iron Maiden still sell tons of albums. That last Lamb of God dvd just went platinum.
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeThu Jul 30, 2009 10:18 pm

Good, then I can feel superior to the unmetal masses.
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeThu Jul 30, 2009 10:32 pm

shamgar75 wrote:
Those charts are funny to look at Laughing very hard

It looks like something you'd see in Office Space.

"Umm...yeah...shamgar75, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Saturday. There's been some problems with your TPS reports."

Laughing
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeThu Jul 30, 2009 10:36 pm

Troublezone wrote:
Are they sure they're even tracking bands that are real metal to begin with? Linkin Park etc... is not metal. Metallica is still popular and Megadeth and Iron Maiden still sell tons of albums. That last Lamb of God dvd just went platinum.


I hate going into a store and seeing Linkin Park in the "metal" section and then Motorhead in the "rock/pop"section.
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeFri Jul 31, 2009 1:21 pm

I agree shapoopy. I've been hunting around for bands before and found out they weren't in the metal section. Then I see mudhoney or something in there and it sort of makes my skull pop.
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeFri Jul 31, 2009 2:01 pm

I miss having a decent record store with a metal section in town. We used to have a Tower which was a bit pricey, but had the best selection. I discovered so much great metal there from browsing and reading stickers on the cases or just thinking a band name sounded cool. I miss those days.... It's so hit or miss at Best Buy. I buy the majority of my cd's on Amazon these days...

I'm not too concerned with the popularity of metal. No matter what has been going on over the years, there are always great metal releases. It's fairly easy to avoid the crap. Just listen to what you like.
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeFri Jul 31, 2009 2:04 pm

Metal is popular?
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeFri Jul 31, 2009 2:14 pm

About 90% of my purchases are also purchased from Amazon now adays, as for the popularity of metal in general, I would say that it is in healthier shape then it has been in years, but who knows really, when bands such as Linkin Park and Soundgarden are sometimes classified as metal bands at other times alternative, I suppose its the perceptation of its popularity depends on who is doing the survey and what bands they feel should be included or left out.
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeFri Jul 31, 2009 2:15 pm

So let it get un-popular. I'm too old to care anymore. I like what I like, trends be damned. Who knows, maybe if it gets un-popular again, it's will get rid of some trend-hopping posuers.

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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeFri Jul 31, 2009 10:51 pm

MetalGuy71 wrote:
So let it get un-popular. I'm too old to care anymore. I like what I like, trends be damned. Who knows, maybe if it gets un-popular again, it's will get rid of some trend-hopping posuers.

Heck, I'm too old to care and I'm not even 30 yet.
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeSat Aug 01, 2009 1:41 am

Graphs and charts like this can be manipulated to present whatever data the originator has came up with. This is why I hate Stats.
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PostSubject: Re: Metal falling in popularity?   Metal falling in popularity? Icon_minitimeSat Aug 01, 2009 3:48 am

Metal has indeed lost popularity. It's a bad thing.
In my country for example, and under the Church's pressure, metal was "banned" as of the beginning of the nineties. Slowly, people ended up losing interest and new generations barely know something about it now. I miss meeting metalheads around here. Luckily i have the internet to stay updated.
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