Metal 101

Well, I have a weird way of listening to music, specially if it is recommended to me. My best friend sends me band and album names all the time but he never tells me "this is death metal" "this is power Metal" "this is Jazz" "this is rock" etc. Just names... So since I know he has good taste in music I blindly go and purchase said band or album. One of the was Opeth's Deliverance (before I got into death metal) and I just remember thinking "what the fuck is this?" I tried listening to it for a couple of days but put it away for six months wondering why the hell would my friend recomended  such weird shit. Six months later I pick it up again and it just "clicked" and since then absolutely love it. Images and Words was the same way even though i already loved Scences from a Memory. I never give up or pass up music easily. I listen to it once, then again later down the road and again. I might never like it, but then again, I might just "get it" and it is worth it.
 
If there was anything from Opeth I would recommend it would be Damnation, but that would be a different story...

On topic: I think you were too onward to getting her into METAL when you should've been content with just getting her into GOOD MUSIC (no, the above mentioned are not the same thing... they intersect, but they don't overlap). You should just try to get her into softer rock, maybe some fast paced, melodic stuff, and then try to give her the heavy artillery :D

The girl who sits next to me in class got closer to metal when i was listening to my CD player and she wanted to see what I was listening to. It was System of a Down and she loved it... since then I got her into Lake of Tears, some Anathema, a little bit of Porcupine Tree, some Red Hot Chilli Peppers, and I'm pretty pleased with what I've done, considering the music she was listening to before...
 
AH! but you said it yourself, she WANTED to know what you were listening to, she was open to it from the start. But yes, I figure might as well go back to square one and go with some Bon Jovi and the like hahaha
 
Well, I suppose it's really a dead issue now, but I figured I put my ideas in anyway ;) At least it'll bump the topic ^_^

I'd start with music they might recognise, like some ZZ Top and AC/DC, some IM of course, Run to the hills is a song most people have heard at one time or another, and Hallowed... to get them to understand that lyrics are important in metal. Some Scorpions can be "easy" for a newbie, I think and some of the very early Judas Priest. A band that I think are really good, and still easy on the non-metal freak, is D.A.D - a Danish country-metal band with a few brilliant songs behind them, like "Sleeping my day away", "Jihad" and "Laugh and a half". If I can get someone to listen to a complete CD compilation of music like this, I think I'd put the rougher stuff on a next one. Rome wasn't built in one day, after all ;)
 
Conor, you're really starting to get on my nerves. Anomica contributed with a good, well-written, intelligent post ... and all you can do is be a smartass?!? This is the reason your karma is negative. Stop being such an immature ass.
 
SMX, I thought you of all people would realise that most of my posts should be taken with a pinch of salt.
 
Conor said:
most of my posts should be taken with a pinch of salt.
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That they should, but as Anomica is quite new, I think he will need a bit of time to get used to your humour. And I'm with SMX on this, all of Anomica's posts thus far have been well written and deserve a decent response.
 
Thanks for coming to my defense, but I've already figured out that some people here prefer a smart-alecky remark instead of reading the post properly, right Conor ;) :wacko:
Besides, as I said in an earlier post, if I find a topic to be interesting I really don't look at posting dates and such. If I feel I might have something to add, I will :-[ but that's just the kind of person I am ^_^
 
I'd just like to add my story of 'conversion' to the collection here...

The first ever metal track I heard was Blood Brothers by Maiden, and you know what my reaction was?...This is AWESOME...Then again, I suppose I wasn't hard to convert because I like classical music, and classical is in many ways very similar to metal. I find that the hardest people to convert are those who are floundering in the mire of R&B and Hip Hop style music. I don't mean to say they can't be made to listen to metal AT ALL, but it is very rare that they will even give metal (or classical music for that matter) a chance. I find myself pitying these people who think that Check On It is a good song, but I am resolved to shake my head and continue on my own path of musical appreciation, because I have learned that it is a waste of time to try to convert them.
Anyway, after Blood Brothers I heard Dance of Death and ever since then I've been a fan of metal, and especially of Iron Maiden. I've worked my way backwards through Maiden's studio albums, and found the creed of giving everything a chance and being open-minded useful, especially since I didn't take to their earliest albums right away. Now I can hardly stop listening to Phantom of the Opera. Although it's too late now to suggest what songs are good for inducting people into metal, I would suggest the later albums of Maiden, Apocalyptica's covering of Nothing Else Matters and Fade To Black, as well as Breaking The Law and Ram It Down, and some Bruce Dickinson stuff like Navigate the Seas of the Sun or Man of Sorrows, not to mention Eagleheart, Black Diamonds and Paradise from Stratovarius as well as some Hammerfall (Secrets or Dragon Lies Bleeding).
 
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