What's your opinion on "Heavy Metal" music?

Um, not personally into a lot of metal, especially not anymore, but we do enjoy Metallica, especially the S & M album, occasionally. We usually listen to classical or Catholic music now.

Not much of a heavy metal fan. Not because of content, but that I consider them 'loud' to begin with. I never really had a chance to digest the lyrics coz the noise turned me off :/

Does that bring back memories.

[roar]I AM IRON MAN[/ROAR]....


I won't get into my chequered past...but...I was officially classed with the 'metalheads' in school. Of course, the 'metal' was interchangeable with another word that would have been closer to the mark. If you catch my drift...

I got away from it after I married, and now I am more of an 'alternative music' fan.

However I hold to the belief that it's not what goes in but what comes out. So crank it up.


God bless...


Sandy

I never got into metal---too loud, too raucous, too noisy, and the sophomoric antics of the band members always turned me off. (I always used to wonder what those clowns would do if they were suddenly thrust into combat. My guess is they'd magically have been transformed into corpses within the first ten minutes.) The closest I ever got to metal was the acid-rock bands of the late 60's; I liked the psychedelic sounds.

Being of considerably older parents, I grew up listening to 40's swing being played in the house, and even stuff going back to before World War I on old 78-rpm records. From may mid-teens to my mid 30's I went through my 60's phase, and my country phase, and my Top-40 phase. Nowadays I tend to listen predominantly to classical and to alternative artists like Enya, but I also can get into blues, folk, reggae, and even country, provided it was written well before the garbage presently found on country stations nowadays---say anything recorded before 1975.

But metal? Can't stand it. I'd sooner listen to cats mate. If I want that much racket, I'll go back to work in a stamping factory.

I'd sooner listen to cats mate.

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:lol:

It does sound similar doesn't it?

All in all, I'd have to say that I much preferred the Stones, Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Hendrix...much easier to sing along to.

Although there was that embarrassing year of being a Duran Duran groupie. <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/embarassed.gif ALT=":o"> I wonder if any of that memorabilia would be worth anything now.


God bless...


Sandy

Well..I am kind of eclectic....

My first love is JOURNEY...

Laugh all you want....I love them, love the music and I always wanted to be Steve Perry...

I also enjoy the "Big 80's" music (although I do get concerned with the lyrics),
Heavy Metal Hair Bands,
Classic Rock,
Hard Rock,
Classical music,
Blues, Jazz....

BUT NO RAP!!!!!!!!!! And Death and Speed Metal gets to be too much.

I agree its what comes out of your mouth not necessarily what you hear...


ROCK ON!

"Oh, Sherry.....hold on! Hold on!" :lol:

Always liked that tune----the tinkly intro always reminded me of the theme song to "St. Elsewhere", one of my favorite TV shows of the same general period.

TOTAL agreement when it comes to rap. All rap recordings should be burned, and all practicioners should be shot. It should be utterly eradicated from the surface of the earth.

When I was younger (grade school, mostly 7th and 8th) I listened to a lot of Heavy Metal. Iron Maiden, Metallica, Judas Priest, Ozzy Osborne, KISS and MegaDeth mostly. That is, until my mom saw a show on satanic music and threw out all of my cassettes except for Iron Maiden (they weren't mentioned on the tv show - something I'm still hacked off about, especially because I bought all that music with my own money that I earned from working weddings and funerals as an altar boy, which is semi-ironic in and of itself).

When I got to college (High School was odd, because I listened to everything from M.O.D. (Method of Destruction), to Guns-n-Roses to De La Soul) my freshman year I went through my sixties phase (Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, Cream, moody Blues), after that I moved into the alternative phase when it was still alternative and not the mainstream (Nirvana, Sound Garden, Liz Phair, Connells) and that phase stayed with me mostly until recently.

But as to the original question, I must say that I am quite shocked by your music selection Gate, I never expected you for a metalhead. But I don't think it matters as to what sort of music you listen to as long as you remain faithful to the Gospel. Rock on!
When I started work on my PhD a guy in the lab with me listened to what I called "Jesus Loves Me" music (all Christian, all the time) but eventually it started to stick and now that is really all I listen to. Smalltown Poets, Jars of Clay, The Waiting, Whiteheart, Audio Adrenaline, Switchfoot, Burlap to Cashmere, etc.

Ooh, ooh, I love the late 80s music. Stuff Dh thinks is crap. He likes early 80s. At least we agree on classic rock now. I used to hate it, but now, I really like it and appreciate it for its genius and innovation (or at least I think it sounds good! ) Pink Floyd, the Doors, Peter Frampton, some older metal/hard rock (early AC/DC, ZZ Top, etc.), you know the stuff....

I'm a later in life child; my parents got the "Holy Ghost" sometime before I was born, so I grew up with only the hokie Protestant "praise" music and classical. Needless to say, I'm much fonder of classical music than anything, really. On another note, all music that isn't praise music or classical is satanic (even Christian rock), and almost all movies are satanic, and

nyj~Smalltown Poets, Jars of Clay, The Waiting, Whiteheart, Audio Adrenaline, Switchfoot, Burlap to Cashmere, etc. - all are pretty good. I'll still listen to those, most quite readily, even though I listened to them in my "younger" days. Not my faves anymore, but I have the CDs and get the bug to listen to them from time to time.

dood, <--- sets the personality right there

Im all about it. not a day goes by that i dont listen to trance/house/euro/hard house/speed metal/death metal/industrial/disco.


YES DISCO OWNS YOU. hehehheh

but huge megadeath fan, testament, rob zombie, ministry, floyd, yes, motley crue, pantera.... the list goes on and on. Music does not shape you. People who clame music shapes you its the same thing as saying music guides your life. This is false take responsibility for your own actions, dont give in to stero types.

If it effects you so much that it distracts you from Christs path - its not the fault of the music, it's your own.

ROCK ON

KC: True.. true. Actually, whatever the person does that leads him/her away from Christ is their own doing, really. Maybe its weak spiritual convictions, peer pressure, etc, but I hardly think it can be majorly attributed to heavy metal. Sure, the music may be 'loud', the lyrics may be too 'controversial' for some, but its the person's own actions, eh?

My son loves heavy metal. I tolerate a lot, because my folks tolerated my Beatles' albums, LOL. Hubster is into C&W and Golden Oldies, so that is what my son was raised on. He doesn't whine when his dad cranks up his classics, and as long as he keeps his "music" confined to his room, I've got no complaints.

The ONLY clash that he and I have had is when he was taping some songs for his friends, and I saw one of the lists. "Incubus" sorta popped out at me. I asked him if he even KNEW what the word meant. He shrugged, and said, "no." I made him look it up in the dictionary, and read the definition out loud to me. Well, he started reading it, and got so embarassed he couldn't continue. He even had the decency to blush. My unspoken lesson: pay ATTENTION to what you're listening to! And I'm pretty sure he got the message!

As an aside, he wears his "droopy drawers" in the fashion of today. Drives his Daddy NUTS. They yell at each other over it. I leave him alone. I remember when I was a teen, the point of irritation was long hair on boys. I'm not going to bug my son about his pants. All I ask is that he covers his backside so I don't have to look at either his underwear or his butt.

Does that make me a "cool mom"?


Peace be with you,
~VOW

Yes, VOW, you are cool, at least in my book. My 'rents are fuddie-duddies. :lol:

Personally, it may even result in you introducing him to the occult if he starts an interest at this very point (especially because of the sex aspect). Although this VERY, VERY doubtful, it's still possible.

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Gate, I doubt that LOOKING UP a word in the dictionary would introduce my son to the occult. The occult is everywhere, and my son understands how I feel about it. I'm adamant about anything even remotely related to it, and the kids know I forbid it in my house.

Regardless, if you even bothered to sit down with your son to listen to Incubus

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No can do. I'm hearing-impaired. If I wanted the lyrics, I'm sure my son could provide them. I made my point with him. He was welcome to go ahead and listen to the song in question, I merely wanted to make him THINK.


Peace be with you,
~VOW

Unfortunately, you're doing exactly what my parents did - you're judging a book by it's cover. "What's in a name" I must say. I agree that ONE of the "definitions" of Incubus is not exactly innocent (it could ALSO mean 'a nightmare' or 'an oppressive or nightmarish burden'), but your son didn't even know what it meant until YOU introduced him to it.

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Well, while I agree that rock bands may be a bigger irritant than a threat, many things are not so innocuous----and it should be the job of the parent to know what type of material is going into their kid's head. Just allowing them exposure to anything, even if "they don't know what it means" can be the most dangerous thing you can do. Even with rock bands---depends on the kid. For a suceptible individual, they can be unhealthily influenced by some of the bilge out there today, even the "innocent" groups. Simply shrugging it off as being of no consequense because the kid "doesn't know what it means anyway" is both reckless and irresponsible, IMHO.

As for books and covers, I recall one from my military days, which was DA Field Manual 531; it had a pretty inncuous-looking cover----kind of a bright vanilla color with black lettering. But it was what was inside that was dangerous. It told you how to construct ****y traps, and if you didn't know what you were doing, you could end up with your head blown off in a big hurry.

Know what your kid is watching/reading/listening to.
Know what your kid is suceptible to, and what influences him/her.
Know what's inside the book, regardless of whether the cover is innocent-looking or threatening.
Take appropriate measures. The situation is not always the same for every individual kid.

My 2 cent's worth.