What is heavy metal?

January 29, 201016 yr

Dave's topic on the Scorps breaking up caused me to break out some of my old lps (yep, lps) and to do some searching on youtube for old rock favorites. Everyone has a different opinion on what heavy metal, hair, arena rock really stands for. Here are a few of the songs that come to mind when I think of this genre. Please post your own favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glJve8dDwfI

Oh my god, ozzie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtqy4DTHGqg

Jason

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January 29, 201016 yr

Hmm.

So what do heavy metal groups all have in common?

Lots of guitar

Heavy drums

Piercing lead vocals, the higher-pitched the better

Of course there are exceptions, like Van Halen.

Or, TWISTED SISTER?!?!?!

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January 29, 201016 yr

here is a list

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heavy_metal_bands

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January 29, 201016 yr

Here is a 1 1/2 hr film on the only heavy metal band in Iraq.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfd5UXFGbE4

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January 29, 201016 yr

Here is a 1 1/2 hr film on the only heavy metal band in Iraq.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfd5UXFGbE4

tHAT IS A VERY INCLUSIVE LIST . . . .

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January 29, 201016 yr

And of course there is ANVIL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGoDixk8VB4

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January 29, 201016 yr

Dave's topic on the Scorps breaking up caused me to break out some of my old lps (yep, lps) and to do some searching on youtube for old rock favorites. Everyone has a different opinion on what heavy metal, hair, arena rock really stands for. Here are a few of the songs that come to mind when I think of this genre. Please post your own favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glJve8dDwfI

Oh my god, ozzie!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtqy4DTHGqg

My wife is not happy with you Tank, I've been singing (screeching more like it) War Pigs for the last fifteen minutes. That is some good stuff.

Matt in Temecula, CA

Hot and dry in the summer, cold with light frost in the winter. Halfway between the desert and ocean

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January 29, 201016 yr

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January 29, 201016 yr

I always thought Jimi considered himself an Electronic Blues man although he could dynamite with the best.

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January 29, 201016 yr

jimi? metal? i dont agree with that. :rolleyes:

the "prince of snarkness."

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January 29, 201016 yr

Bubbalouie is hard of hearing...too much Tom Petty when he was a kid.

The weight of lies will bring you down / And follow you to every town / Cause nothin happens here

That doesn't happen there / So when you run make sure you run / To something and not away from

Cause lies don't need an aero plane / To chase you anywhere

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January 29, 201016 yr

Jimi Durante was heavy metal ? :blink:

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Wal

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January 29, 201016 yr

jimi? metal? i dont agree with that.

Jimi did some metal, some blues, and everything in between. Hard to put any label on him.

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January 29, 201016 yr

i dont think i have ever heard of his music described as "metal" before.can you give an example of a song of his that is typical of the genre?

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January 29, 201016 yr

what song by him are refering to as "metal?"

I would call his rendition of the National Anthem at Woodstock, heavy metal.

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January 29, 201016 yr

i dont agree.sure it uses heavily distorted guitar but not the wailing vocals or rapid tempos.not typical of the genre.

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January 29, 201016 yr

i dont agree.sure it uses heavily distorted guitar but not the wailing vocals or rapid tempos.not typical of the genre.

I can accept that you would not. I, unfortunately, am old enough to have been through the whole evolution of metal, so metal to me does not necessary have to be head banging (Twisted Sister), or high pitched screaming vocals "Hell bent for leather" stuff. Metal to me definitely encompases some blues. Maybe call it blues metal or metal blues, but to me metal is encompassed by the metal sounding guitar than anything else, distorted or not.

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January 29, 201016 yr

i dont agree.sure it uses heavily distorted guitar but not the wailing vocals or rapid tempos.not typical of the genre.

Not heavy metal. So, by the heading of the thread, you are correct. I can accept that you would not think of JH as heavy metal. I, unfortunately, am old enough to have been through the whole evolution of metal, so metal to me does not necessary have to be head banging (Twisted Sister), or high pitched screaming vocals "Hell bent for leather" stuff. I just think of metal bands, not necessarily heavy metal. Metal to me definitely encompases some blues. Maybe call it blues metal or metal blues, but to me metal is encompassed by the metal sounding guitar than anything else, distorted or not.

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January 30, 201016 yr

your definition is much broader than mine.i find hendrix WAY too psychedelic in the lyrics dept. to be considered metal so we will have to agree to disagree,but remember,musicians always think they know more about music than everyone else. :winkie:

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January 30, 201016 yr

i had always heard that the 1st heavy metal song was blue cheers cover of "summertime blues."

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January 30, 201016 yr

Oh it's a long long way, from May to December

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Wal

Queensland, Australia.

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January 30, 201016 yr

Hmm.

So what do heavy metal groups all have in common?

Lots of guitar
Heavy drums
Piercing lead vocals, the higher-pitched the better

Of course there are exceptions, like Van Halen.

Or, TWISTED SISTER?!?!?!

Well Said Dave

Yes,we indians think of heavy bands with the above mentioned qualities only..And by the way metallica i do not find any mention of their band here.And metallica's Metallica album is my favouriate,white snake's slide it in,slip of the tongue...

Iron median's wasted years..

Motor head,judas priest,Ac/Dc..are nice but not while driving vehicles...they tend to aggrivate the speed or the driving mood. :mrlooney:

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kris

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January 30, 201016 yr

The term heavy metal supposedly came about from a line in the Steppenwolf song Born to be Wild "I like smoke and lightning, heavy metal thunder". Does that then mean it was the first metal song and as such anything earlier isn't meta?.

My personal all time favourite is that well known headbanger -- Jackson Browne.

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January 30, 201016 yr

its possible that metal existed before the term to describe it did :mrlooney:

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January 30, 201016 yr

What about Tin Tin, they're not heavy metal.

Has anybody seen where I left my harmonica case ?

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Wal

Queensland, Australia.

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January 30, 201016 yr

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Its hard for me to see how you would classify Jimi as metal. You've got to draw a line somewhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqIFxArPdFY&feature=related

Haha, then there's Sinister, fitting nicely into the "Barked" vocal category of metal. Don't forget the double kick. I'm going to avoid posting any Nordic devil metal.

And one of my favorite bands of all time, with a little known song of theirs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daul0azpltQ

Jason

Gainesville, Florida

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January 30, 201016 yr

Hmm.

So what do heavy metal groups all have in common?

Lots of guitar
Heavy drums
Piercing lead vocals, the higher-pitched the better

Of course there are exceptions, like Van Halen.

Or, TWISTED SISTER?!?!?!

Well Said Dave

Yes,we indians think of heavy bands with the above mentioned qualities only..And by the way metallica i do not find any mention of their band here.And metallica's Metallica album is my favouriate,white snake's slide it in,slip of the tongue...
Iron median's wasted years..
Motor head,judas priest,Ac/Dc..are nice but not while driving vehicles...they tend to aggrivate the speed or the driving mood.

love,
kris

Dang, you'd be a trip to drive with . . . .

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January 30, 201016 yr

TWISTED SISTER?

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